Oversight Data Management & Governance
Country: Spain
**IT STARTS HERE**
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 help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture, and all our professionals at every level are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.
**THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE**
Within Global Data Tech Platforms, our mission is to define, develop, and enable a modular, scalable, and instantiable Data Tech Platform that can be adopted across Santander’s geographies, accelerating value creation while ensuring consistency, governance and operational robustness.
The Oversight, Adoption & Operating Model area plays a critical transversal role, ensuring that capabilities are effectively adopted by countries, aligned with general product and tech strategies.
As Data Tech Platform Governance & Business Support Manager, you will be a key enabler of the global adoption and sustainable operation of Santander’s Data Tech Platform. You will act as a bridge between global platform teams and local unit organizations, ensuring that platform capabilities are deployed, adopted and evolved in a structured, coordinated and value-driven way across the Group.
**WHAT YOU’LL DO**
**Platform Adoption & Business Support**
- Drive the adoption of Data Tech Platform capabilities across countries.
- Act as a central point of coordination between global platform teams and local units, aligning expectations, timelines and dependencies.
- Support countries throughout their adoption journey, facilitating follow-ups, workshops to ensure smooth integration.
- Facilitate communication across multiple stakeholders, ensuring information flows clearly between global teams, units, and senior management.
**Platform Oversight & Operating Model**
- Contribute to the governance of the Data Tech Platform lifecycle, ensuring that new capabilities change in a controlled and coordinated manner.
- Track platform roadmaps, releases and dependencies, ensuring transparency and alignment across global and local teams.
- Collaborate with product, engineering and architecture to ensure alignment between operating model and platform evolution.
**WHAT YOU’LL BRING**
**Professional Experience**
- 8+ years of experience in technology-driven environments, ideally within large, complex organizations.
- Proven experience working with data platforms and cloud-based ecosystems, supporting global or multi-country initiatives.
- Strong background in platform governance, adoption, operating models or program-level oversight roles.
- Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders across geographies, functions and seniority levels.
**Hard Skills**
- Solid understanding of data platform ecosystems, including cloud environments and data architecture concepts (e.g., Azure, AWS, Databricks or similar).
- Strong experience in backlog coordination, roadmap tracking, dependency management and cross-team alignment. Analytical skills to identify risks, bottlenecks and improvement opportunities across complex initiatives.
- Ability to structure complex information and present it clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Knowledge of operating models for data and technology platforms, including governance structures, roles and responsibilities.
- Familiarity with Agile ways of working and collaboration tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence). Agile certifications are highly valued.
**Soft Skills**
- Strategic mindset with hands-on execution drive.
- Proven ability to collaborate across global teams and manage complex stakeholder ecosystems.
- Passion for technology, experimentation, and continuous learning.
- Fluent Spanish and English (required).
**WHAT WE OFFER**
- **Global impact**:Work with Data & AI leaders across multiple countries to design the future of customer interaction.
- **Continuous learning**:Access to the Santander Open Academy, global community, and specialized upskilling programs.
- **Flexibility & wellbeing**:Hybrid work model, flexible hours, wellness programs, and family-friendly benefits.
- **Competitive rewards**:Competitive salary, performance-based incentives, and exclusive financial advantages.
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