This scholarship program offers for 10 outstanding profiles from all around the world the chance to qualify for a full-time, paid, 6-month scholarship at Santander Germany for digital top-talents.

The Santander Digitalization Top-Talent Program offers a 6 month work experience for high-potential graduates in our headquater in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The program is designed for highly motivated individuals with a curious mind, who are willing to develop their career very fast by facing various challenges. They will participate in a structured development program that brings together the best graduates from technical faculties, mostly focused on information systems and data science. The beneficiaries will obtain the foundations and fundamentals of data science and a practical experience in information and data visualization in order to make the best decisions in their day-to-day businesses.

All 10 scholarship grantees will participate in HR interviews for a permanent job position at Santander Germany. A total of 5 scholarship grantees will be given the chance to join the Santander Germany team permanently.

Being part of an inspiring team of experts in different areas as Digital Transformation, Technology, Database Marketing and Santander Consumer Technology Services the scholars will work at the leading edge of the banking revolution by taking new and innovative ideas from pilot to commercially viable reality by showing Data science, data engineering and visual analytics skills.

During this scholarship the participants will develop a set of knowledge and experiences on the digital technologies required in any young professional career and with a wide range of levels and roles. Participants will foster and improve their Data science, data engineering and visual analytics skillset.

All 10 scholarships require an advanced English level (C1) as business communication will be held in English and German. Applicants need to be postgraduates with a Ph.D., master’s or bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Administration or a related quantitative discipline. Furthermore the scholarship requires experience in common coding languages like SQL, JavaScrip, Swift, Phython or R, Spark, Rust, etc. Please upload a letter of motivition and CV with your application within the Becas platform.

Your professional challenges will consist of:

• Communicate and discuss complex analytical and technical concepts to a business audience
• Support the development of productive solutions together with product development, data engineers and data architects.
• Discuss ideas with the business units and proof the feasibility of pilot projects, solving exciting problems to drive improvements to web traffic, conversion, engagement, and retention.
• Deliver on web goals and targets by leveraging a vast array of web data, analyzing customer behavior and developing new and innovative customers ‘analytics methods.
• Develop algorithms for data preparation, feature extraction, data analytics and machine learning.

Your benefits:

• A full-time, 6 month work experience in the areas of Digital Transformation, Technology, Database Marketing and Santander Consumer Technology Services.
• An inspiring learning-by-doing environment.
• From the beginning on you´ll be involved in exciting projects, where you can actively support the transformation process of Santander Germany. Be a part of our new working and technology culture.
• We promote your professional development through a structured mentoring program within each area
• We value your work-life balance, support you with various offers and enable flexible working hours
• Last but not least: take a break with your favorite colleagues and have a tasty and healthy lunch every work day in our staff restaurant

The employment relationship can only be entered into if a work permit and VISA (for non-EU-citizen) are granted by the (German) authorities.