Chief Technology Officer

Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - PagoNxt

Country: Spain

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**

**Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for PagoNxt, based in our Boadilla del Monte (Madrid, Spain) office.**

**WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS OPPORTUNITY**

Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, culture, and disability. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and business prosper.

We embrace a strong risk culture and our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

PagoNxt, a company of Santander Group, is a one-of-a-kind paytech business providing customers with a one-stop shop for innovative payments and integrated solutions.

PagoNxt aims to achieve a global leadership position in payments through our distinctive, holistic, and customer-centric value proposition providing customers with a wide range of innovative payments and integrated value-added services.

Strengthening the architecture function and making Santander an organisation based on a platform model is one of the Santander Group's main priorities and a crucial element to make Santander a Digital Bank with branches. Therefore, we are actively searching for a Chief Technology Officer for PagoNxt, to be the technology architecture authority, to promote the use of global technical platforms and to ensure the alignment of the local architecture solutions to the Group's technology strategy.

If you share our passion for technology and are up for the challenge, come join us

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**

As a PagoNxt CTO, you will lead, coordinate, and take part in the definition of the PagoNxt IT strategy and the technological foundations for our digital transformation. Also, you will be responsible for ensuring the alignment between global strategy and local needs and designing roadmaps, business architecture and artifacts and the technology organization.

We need someone like you to help us in different areas:

- Lead, coordinate and take part in the definition of the PagoNxt technology strategy, following technological trends and the Group's global strategy.
- Oversee global architecture frameworks and policies implementations in PagoNxt lines of business (considering local needs).
- Foster cooperation and reuse of Global Platform assets among PagoNxt lines of business and areas.
- Define PagoNxt common architecture components, projects, and services.
- Build and manage the local CTO organization.
- Work with the PagoNxt CIO, CDO, and CISO to ensure the ongoing implementation of Santander Group IT architecture.
- Support PagoNxt areas in developing and enhancing local Architecture practice.
- Ensure lines of business architecture is aligned with the approved PagoNxt architecture.
- Develop and implement the PagoNxt resourcing strategy for architecture.
- Participate in the development of the Group's global strategy through the stablished mechanisms.

**Requirements**:
**Education, Training and Previous Experience**
- 10+ years of experience in large scale technology environments. Experience in the financial/banking/payments industry.
- Proven track-record of implementing industry leading IT architectures that have a transformational impact on the business.
- Proven experience in providing a competitive strategy with timely priorities and in communicating the strategy convincingly to senior management.
- Proven expertise leading organization transformation and driving significant change particularly with respect to digital and data transformation.
- Degree in technology-related field such as science, math or engineering.

**Knowledge and Skills**
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, interpersonal and collaborative skills, and the ability to communicate technical content to nontechnical audiences at various hierarchical levels, ranging from board members to specialists.
- Strategic leader and builder of both vision and bridges, and able to energize the appropriate teams in the organization.
- Ability to lead and motivate the technology architecture team to achieve tactical and strategic goals.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills.
- Excellent analytical skills, the ability to manage multiple projects under strict timelines, as well as the ability to work well in a demanding, dynamic environment and meet overall objectives.
- Project management skills: financial/budget management, scheduling, and resource management.
- A master of influencing decisions when achieving a desirable outcome is vital.

**Personal Characteristics**
- High degree of initiative, dependability, and ability to work with little supervision while being resilient to change.
- High level of personal integrity, as well as the ability to professionally handle confidential matters and show an appropriate level of judgment and maturity.
- Has good judgment, a sense of urgency and has demonstrated commitment to high standards of ethics, reg