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Santander

Global retail and commercial banking group

Head of Platform & Enablement - Agentic Organization

Platform Engineering +1Confirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMadrid, Spain

About the Job

Requirements

  • More than 8 years of experience in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including at least 3 years leading engineering teams.
  • Demonstrated experience operating production cloud platforms on AWS, including containers, managed databases, networking, and identity and access management.
  • Strong experience with continuous integration and delivery, infrastructure as code, and observability in regulated environments.
  • Practical knowledge of corporate identity and access management, including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, Microsoft Entra ID, and role-based access control.
  • Experience building or operating applications based on large language models, including retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, and vector databases.
  • Fluency in English and Spanish.
  • Ability to lead and develop teams.
  • Ability to collaborate across functions and provide service-oriented support.
  • Ability to make decisions and drive continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

  • Define the platform vision and roadmap to support agents, skills, and modules across the organization, and document architecture decisions covering cloud, data, large language model providers, and integration patterns while balancing speed and operational excellence.
  • Ensure the platform is reusable, so new modules and agents can be onboarded with standard components rather than custom development.
  • Lead and grow the Infrastructure & DevOps, Systems & Integrations, and Knowledge Base teams.
  • Establish clear ownership for each component, pipeline, and data source.
  • Promote an engineering culture based on automation, peer review, and blameless incident analysis.
  • Own continuous integration and delivery and release management, including automated quality gates for tests, type checking, and security analysis, and controlled, auditable production deployment.
  • Operate production services on AWS with defined service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, and incident management.
  • Ensure secrets management, least privilege, and separation of development, pre-production, and production environments.
  • Work with corporate identity teams to implement role-based access to modules and skills integrated with Microsoft Entra ID.
  • Deliver robust integrations with corporate systems, data platforms, and large language model services such as Amazon Bedrock.
  • Maintain stable, versioned API contracts between backend services and frontend applications.
  • Own the knowledge layer, including ingestion pipelines, embeddings, vector and hybrid retrieval, and content lifecycle.
  • Ensure data freshness and lineage so users and agents can identify the date to which information corresponds.
  • Work with Governance & Orchestration on traceability, data and event logging, and auditability of agent actions.
  • Translate Digital Twin Operations and BI & Value needs into platform capabilities and service levels.
  • Provide documentation, tools, and standards that enable other teams to build autonomously on the platform.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with agentic architectures, multi-agent orchestration, or frameworks for tools and skills.
  • Experience in large financial institutions and in multi-country platform deployments.
  • Knowledge of the Python ecosystem, including FastAPI, and TypeScript/React.
  • Knowledge of banking-relevant AI and data regulatory frameworks, including the AI Act, DORA, and GDPR.

About the Company

Santander

Global retail and commercial banking group

Santander is a global bank focusing on retail and commercial banking in Europe and the Americas, serving individuals and SMEs with regional franchises and a broad consumer finance arm, plus a Corporate & Investment Banking division for multinational clients. It uses its Gravity cloud platform to migrate core banking and rapidly deploy digital services such as Openbank across markets, combining fintech-style agility with a bank's balance sheet. The bank differentiates itself by marrying a large retail footprint with global CIB capabilities under the One Santander verticals model to boost efficiency and cross-border revenue. Its goals include improving returns on tangible equity and financing the green economy through sustainable finance and renewable energy projects.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Founded
1902

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