Data Engineer Collections

Data Engineer Collections | Santander Consumer Finance SA

Are you an ambitious data professional with a drive to improve, innovate and take ownership? Do you combine technical skills with a hands-on mentality and a strong focus on data quality and performance? Then we’ve got a great opportunity for you!

We’re expanding the Data & Analytics Team within our Collections department, and we’re looking for a Data Engineer who’s ready to take the next step in building a reliable, secure and future-proof data landscape.

What will you do?

  • Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines and data warehouse tables
  • Migrate SAS scripts to SQL and Python — including developing custom functions and packages
  • Optimize pipelines to enhance performance, stability and data quality — monitor performance, create alerts, and implement validation checks
  • Simplify and restructure data flows to improve readability and maintainability
  • Work closely with data analysts, business analysts, collections teams and external parties to understand data needs and deliver real value.
  • Based on the data you deliver, dashboards and performance reports are created, supporting operational teams and enabling data-driven decisions.
  • You also collaborate with our external parties, like call centers, in data-related optimization projects.

You have

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree
  • Minimum of 2 years building and maintaining data pipelines and validating data quality
  • Strong analytical and organizational skills
  • Strong communication skills to understand the business context and collaborate with both internal and external stakeholders
  • You are fluent in English, with excellent communication skills
  • Proficient in SQL, DBT, SAS and Python and solid software engineering practices like version-control, CI/CD, code review

We offer 

  • A personalized induction program
  • A unique international working environment where you will work with different nationalities both internally and externally
  • A laptop
  • In addition to a competitive salary, you can count on a 13th month, annual performance bonus of up to 10% of your annual salary, 27 days of leave and a collective pension plan with 5% own contribution.
  • Travel allowance EUR 0.23 per km with a maximum of 30 km one way or reimbursement of the entire journey by using an NS Business Card
  • We encourage development and growth and offer various training opportunities.
  • The possibility to work partly from home with a home office allowance (€3,35) for the days you work from home.

About us

We are
Santander Consumer Finance. We have been active in the consumer finance market in the Netherlands since 1985 (car financing, personal loans and stock financing). In the Netherlands, we serve our customers from our office in Utrecht, and since 1992 also in Belgium from our office in Merelbeke (near Ghent). The leasing company Santander Leasing is also part of Santander (in the Netherlands with offices in Den Bosch, and in Belgium from Merelbeke). Our Benelux team consists of approximately 350 colleagues. Together, we are part of the Santander Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the world.

What makes Santander Santander?
We work with many different nationalities. Showing initiative is appreciated by us, just like humor. We stimulate creativity and spar with each other about new ideas. We have an open corporate culture with an informal working atmosphere.

What sets us apart:

  • We have an open-plan office with several bigger or smaller meeting rooms and focus rooms if you have the need for more privacy and focus.
  • We know how important mobile work is. Where it can be reconciled with the job, employees can work from home two or three days a week and are still connected to colleagues and customers via MS Teams.
  • For 7 years, we have been receiving the Top Employer Netherlands, Belgium and  Europe award.
  • The health and wellbeing of our professionals are a priority and a fundamental pillar of Santander's value proposition, which is communicated internally and globally under the name Behealthy.
    At Santander, we believe that the wellbeing of our employees is key to creating a positive, dynamic and innovative work environment. When people feel good, they have greater energy, creativity, and commitment, thus driving the success of the entire organization. In times of change and great challenges to achieve together, it is even more important to adopt healthy habits that help us prevent diseases and maintain physical and mental balance.
  • Our employees can get a sports subscription and Bicycle plan via our FiscFree offer.
  • Our Evermood programme offers a platform free of charge for employees about various matters – from support in the form of tips on financial problems to advice on childcare issues and help with conflict resolution at work.

Want to apply?

This is your chance to showcase your talent in a dynamic, international organization. Are you enthusiastic and the perfect candidate for this position? Then apply via the link:https://santander.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SantanderCareers/job/Utrecht/Data-Engineer-Collections_Req1469966-1

* Screening is part of the application process. We check, based on the screening procedures in place within Santander, whether new employees are sufficiently reliable to perform work at Santander.

* We have a strong risk culture and expect all our professionals, regardless of their position, to have a proactive and responsible attitude towards risk management.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not desired.