Data & IA Manager

🌍 PagoNxt Payments | ✨ Your talent drives our future

PagoNxt Payments is Santander Group’s global payments platform, focused on providing tailored financial infrastructure for companies, banks, and fintechs — both inside and outside the Santander ecosystem.

With operations in over 10 countries, our mission is clear: to simplify payments and empower businesses through secure, flexible, data-driven technology.

We operate on a cloud-native architecture designed to scale and adapt to the needs of global organizations. Our platform supports international transactions, FX, multi-currency accounts, regulatory compliance, and fraud prevention — all under a unified approach.

PagoNxt Payments combines the agility of a fintech with the reliability of a global bank. With teams across Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, the UK, and Germany, we are building the future of payments at global scale.

✨ If you want to be part of the next generation of financial solutions — this is the place.

Imagine your future. Care for your career. Simplify your journey.

This means you’ll have the opportunity to build impactful solutions, grow with real development opportunities, and thrive in a culture that values well-being, inclusion, and clarity.

We combine flexibility, autonomy, and global collaboration — so you can focus on what matters, connect with purpose, and shape what’s next.

You’ll find space to grow, real opportunities to lead, and a culture where everyone belongs and contributes. Are you ready to be a Nxter?

📌 What you’ll do

Lead data & AI projects across Pagonxt Payments to drive efficiency, transformation, and innovation across the organization

The selected candidate will play a pivotal role in defining/shaping the Data & AI strategy of the company, and in inspiring the organization to ensure a successful execution.

1. Strategy and Leadership

• Define and execute the data and artificial intelligence strategy for PagoNxt Payments, aligned with corporate objectives and business priorities.
• Lead the adoption of Data & AI capabilities across the organization, promoting a data-driven culture and ensuring the responsible and secure use of advanced technologies.

2. Project Management and Execution

• Consolidate, prioritize, and provide end-to-end oversight of Data & AI projects within Payments.
• Ensure the effective execution of projects under their responsibility, guaranteeing tangible results, technical quality, and compliance with deadlines.
• Act as the focal point to coordinate operations, product, technology, finance, and other Payments teams involved in data and AI initiatives.

3. Productivity Improvement, Automation, and Process Redesign

• Lead initiatives to increase productivity of technology and development teams through copilots, intelligent automation, assisted code generation, and advanced engineering practices.
• Design and drive automations and process redesigns using AI, optimizing execution time, reducing errors, and eliminating manual tasks.
• Collaborate with business and operations teams to reimagine end-to-end processes using technologies such as NLP, generative models, automatic classification, computer vision, or intelligent bots.
• Establish efficiency and ROI indicators to measure continuous improvement in productivity and automation.

4. AI-Driven Product Innovation

• Identify opportunities for new products, services, or capabilities powered by AI within the payments domain.
• Collaborate with innovation, product, and technology teams in the ideation, experimentation, and prototyping of AI-based solutions.

5. Data Governance and Data Quality

• Promote the framework for data governance, quality, and management, including standards definition, lineage, metadata, cataloging, and quality controls.
• Ensure regulatory compliance regarding data use, security, privacy, and ethics in model development.

✅ Key Requiremnts

• 5-10 years of experience in roles related to Data & Analytics, Data Engineering, AI/ML, or information technologies.
• Proven experience leading strategic data and AI programs. Experience leading generative AI initiatives or chatgpt adoption
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Telecommunications, Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Quantitative Economics, or similar fields.
• A Master's degree in Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, or an MBA will be a strong advantage.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into data and AI solutions.
• Knowledge of machine learning, predictive models, advanced analytics, and generative AI.
• Familiarity with generative AI tools (ChatGPT, copilots, development assistants such as Devin, etc.).
• Experience with process automation tools (RPA, AI applied to operational workflows, NLP for document automation, etc.)

🎯 What we offer

🩺 Medical insurance

🦷 Dental insurance

💪 Wellhub

🚑 Life insurance

💉 Annual healthcare

🚌 Transportation allowance

🍕 Meal voucher/food voucher

💰 Annual Bonus

📚 Access to self-development programmes

🏢 Hybrid Collaborative environment: Successful candidate must be prepared to work 60% on site