Spanish banking giant Santander has increased its IT workforce to 27,500 globally after adding 4,500 in 2023 to support its digital transformation, which has seen 95% of systems moved to the cloud. New recruits include experts in cloud, cyber security, data, DevSecOps, artificial intelligence, software development, enterprise architecture and product management. The recruitment campaign , which includes its UK business, currently has 400 open vacancies. “The main goal of this programme is to attract and recruit the best technology talent to support Santander’s vision of becoming the best open financial services platform and accelerate its digital transformation,” the bank said in a statement. Santander has exceeded previously announced recruitment targets for IT professionals. In June 2020, it announced plans to add 3,000 people to its global IT team as part of its €20bn four-year digital and technology transformation. A key foundation to the bank’s digital transformation is moving all of its systems to the cloud. In May 2022, Santander revealed it had moved 80% to the cloud, and set 2023 as the target to have 100% of its infrastructure cloud-based. At the time, it said it had been moving 200 servers to the cloud every working day. Using its […]
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