Internal tech and ops backbone for Santander Consumer Finance across 17 countries
Santander Consumer Finance Global Services is the in-house technology division powering consumer lending operations for Santander across Europe. The stack is enterprise-heavy (Java, Spring Boot, Oracle ERP, SAP, Kubernetes on AWS) with active investment in cloud-native infrastructure and DLP standardization—reflecting both legacy financial-systems integration and a shift toward automated, geographically distributed platforms. Hiring velocity is accelerating in engineering and ops roles, concentrated at manager and mid levels, suggesting a scaling challenge in delivery speed and risk management as payment and accounting systems grow across multiple regions.
Santander Consumer Finance Global Services operates as the technology and operations backbone for the Santander Consumer Finance business unit across 17 countries. Founded in 2017, the division delivers end-to-end technology services—architecture, cloud infrastructure, application design, development, integration, maintenance, and project management—supporting a global consumer financing engine. As of 2023, the organization had deployed over 780 projects and invested approximately 2 million development hours. Operations span Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, and the United Kingdom, with a focus on payments, risk, and accounting platforms that serve as the core financial processing infrastructure.
Primary languages and frameworks: Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot. Infrastructure: AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform. Enterprise systems: Oracle ERP, SAP, NetSuite. Authentication/IAM: Azure Entra ID, Active Directory. CI/CD: Jenkins.
Core initiatives include global software platform rollout, cloud-native AWS backend services, payments/risk/accounting platform scaling, CI/CD pipeline improvements, and data loss prevention (DLP) implementation and standardization across geographies.
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