Structured Notes Platform Development

Structured Notes Platform Development & Automation Associate / Vice President Country: Spain IT STARTS HERE Santander (www.santander.com) is evolving from a global, high-impact brand into a technology-driven organization, and our people are at the heart of this journey. Together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible. This is more than a strategic shift. It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management. Santander Corporate & Investment Banking (Santander CIB) is Santander's global division that supports some of the world's most complex and sophisticated corporate and institutional clients, offering customized services and value-added wholesale products to best meet their needs. THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE Santander CIB is looking for a Structured Notes Platform Development & Automation Associate / Vice President based in Madrid, Spain. Join X-Asset Investment Solutions within Santander Corporate & Investment Banking in Madrid and help design, industrialise and scale a global structured-notes issuance platform. Working at the intersection of business and technology, you will translate issuance, documentary, regulatory and operational requirements into robust processes, functional designs, technology solutions and external connectivity. Your work will increase automation, resilience and capacity across MTN issuance vehicles, repack structures and open multidealer platforms. We’re shaping the way we work through innovation, cutting-edge technology, collaboration and the freedom to explore new ideas. To succeed in this role, you will be responsible for: Own the functional design and delivery of platform enhancements for structured-notes issuance, translating business requirements into process maps, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria and implementation plans. Design scalable front-to-back processes across MTN issuance vehicles, repack structures and open platforms, covering pre-trade, documentation, issuance, booking, settlement, regulatory reporting and lifecycle events, with clear controls, ownership, exception handling and operational hand-offs. Coordinate technology delivery with Product Owners, Technology, Operations and external providers, managing priorities, backlogs, dependencies, testing, defects, and release planning. Drive market readiness for new products, platform capabilities and distribution channels, coordinating business, technology, operations, controls and external stakeholders to ensure operational readiness, testing, implementation and successful transition into production. Develop document-generation and data-driven workflows for term sheets, legal and issuance documentation, regulatory outputs and management information, improving data quality, traceability, version control and consistency. Define and implement connectivity requirements with distributors, market infrastructures and open multi-dealer platforms, including SPIRE, covering data exchange, system integration, onboarding, testing, controls and operational support. Identify manual tasks, control gaps and operational bottlenecks; redesign processes; and deliver automation that increases straight-through processing, issuance capacity, resilience and control effectiveness. Define platform data requirements, key data elements, validation rules, ownership and quality controls supporting issuance, documentation, regulatory reporting and lifecycle management. Lead business analysis, end-to-end and user-acceptance testing, and the controlled deployment of new capabilities, including implementation governance, production monitoring, issue resolution, remediation and user adoption. WHAT YOU’LL BRING

Our people are our greatest strength. Every individual contributes unique perspectives that make us stronger as a team and as an organization. We’re enabling teams to go beyond by valuing who they are and empowering what they bring. The following requirements represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Professional Experience

Relevant experience in capital markets technology, business analysis, platform development, process transformation, securities issuance or a comparable function (Required) Demonstrated experience translating business requirements into functional specifications and delivering front-to-back technology, workflow or automation initiatives in a regulated financial-services environment (Required) Experience with structured-note issuance, MTN issuance vehicles, repack structures, securities