Data & IA Manager

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.

• 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.)

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.