Santander Corporate & Investment Banking US Executive Director

Company: Santander Holdings USA Inc
Location: New York
Posted on: May 17, 2022

Job Description:

New York, United States of America

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Join Santander Corporate & Investment Banking US (CIB US) as the Executive Director - Head of Digital Transformation Technology. You will transform manual processes into simplified, intuitive, and digitized user experience. Successful candidate would be responsible for acting as a "process owner" in agile-like process design and implementation, and requires process leadership, identifying process user stories, prioritizing the backlog, success metric reporting, and user testing and feedback. This position entails leading discussions and priorities with Technical and Business teams, facilitating design-thinking workshops to co-create automation solutions with end-users and driving process automation impact for identified area.

Responsibilities:
Designs, analyzes and supports the company's information technology structure, systems and processes. Acquires, designs, implements and operates the company's information technology resources (e.g., computer hardware, operating systems, communications, software applications, data, databases, etc.). Deploys, acquires, maintains and ensures security of information technology assets. Plans and tests processes to ensure compliance with system requirements, business objectives, security standards and other technical requirements.
The ideal candidate would come from Black Belt or Lean Six Sigma background, has demonstrated strategic business acumen, innovation and success with multiple examples of managing process automation initiatives and / or teams.
Leading POC's, and spearheading implementation efforts with engineering and application product teams.

Qualifications:
Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Work Experience Required. Computer Science Engineering Degree preferred

Skills:
Bilingual (Spanish and English)
Hands-on experience with leading process automation technologies such as Business Process Management, Robotic Process Automation, Robotic Desktop Automation. Experience with Appian is preferred.
Solution design experience with capability to recommend which tool to use in the typical business situation.
Trained practitioner of lean with experience of using value stream mapping, process orchestration, or process mining techniques.
Prior experience planning and facilitating workshops.
Knowledgeable application of agile with experience acting as Product Owner during development.
Superb business acumen with ability to translate business requirements into technical designs.
Deep understanding of the market best practices for enabling operational efficiencies with automation (tools and processes)
Technical knowledge of Workfusion, UIPath, Appian and other similar tech stack.
Leads and promotes strategic direction of IT Infrastructure Technologies based on business requirements.
Serves as a point cross-functional technical leader on various projects.
Develops and maintains solution architecture blueprints. Envisions, develops, proves and articulates innovative solutions to business requirements.
Defines systems/platforms architecture and integration strategy and recommend design solutions. Evaluates and recommends technology acquisitions and alternative solutions/methodologies/strategies.
Minimum of 10 years of experience driving process automations organizational transformation, process redesign, or/and process improvements

Diversity & EEO Statements: At Santander, we value and respect differences in our workforce and strive to increase the diversity of our teams. We actively encourage everyone to apply.

Santander is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Working Conditions: Frequent Minimal physical effort such as sitting, standing and walking. Occasional moving and lifting equipment and furniture is required to support onsite and offsite meeting setup and teardown. Physically capable of lifting up to fifty pounds, able to bend, kneel, climb ladders.

Employer Rights: Employer Rights: This job description does not list all of the job duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You may be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment and either you or the employer may terminate at any time for any reason.

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WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

EXPERIENCE

EDUCATION Bachelor of Science (BS), Masters of Science (MS)

COMPETENCIES Masters of Science (MS) English

Primary Location: New York, New York, United States of America

Other Locations: New York-New York

Organization: Banco Santander S.A.

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