IT Engineer Expert Country: Brazil #WHO WE ARE F1RST is the future—and your career starts here! Our culture is built on “People, Innovation, and Results.” Here, we deliver services and experiences to over 60 million customers across the entire Santander ecosystem. Join the team whose purpose is to support people and help businesses thrive. **In this role, you will:** * Provide technical leadership, guiding architectural decisions, engineering standards, and technological vision—ensuring alignment with business objectives. * Lead complex technical solutions, defining guidelines, best practices, and frameworks that support scalable, high-performance, and secure systems. * Serve as a technical reference point, offering technology-focused support and mentoring—without involvement in evaluations, career development, performance management, or people management. * Ensure quality, security, observability, and technical governance, embedding them from design through software delivery. * Contribute to incident and resilience processes, supporting technical diagnosis, decision-making, and continuous improvement of solution reliability. * Act as a bridge between engineering, product, and business—translating technical challenges into strategic guidance and informed decisions. * Drive continuous improvements in productivity, architecture, automation, and technical excellence. **Essential Requirements:** * Strong expertise in technical leadership within software engineering—including architecture, standard definition, technical prioritization, and leading complex decisions. * Proven experience as a software engineer or technical manager—preferably with JVM-based languages—and solid background in software engineering, along with the ability to make strategic decisions grounded in technical fundamentals. * Ability to translate technical complexity into strategic direction—facilitating effective communication between technology and business. * Experience managing engineering performance metrics (e.g., DORA Metrics, Lead Time, throughput, delivery quality). * Advanced English proficiency. **Desirable Requirements:** * Practical knowledge of modern tech stack components (e.g., JVM, Kafka, AWS, Postgres, Kubernetes) for effective technical dialogue with teams. * Experience working in agile and scalable environments—with emphasis on technical governance and improving developer experience (DevEx). * Experience in incident management and reliability (SRE), and in evolving large-scale architectures. **Work Location:** Hybrid Model – Santander Geração Digital: São Paulo/SP #BENEFITS Meal Allowance; Health Insurance; Dental Insurance: Basic and Intermediate Plans; Transportation Voucher; Flexible Vacation; Birthday Day Off; Profit Sharing Plan (PPG); Gym Partnerships: WellHub and TotalPass; Flexible Working: Hybrid work model—2 days remote and 3 days onsite; Training Platforms with over 100,000 courses; Career Paths for professional development; Flexible Learning: Exclusive study incentive for High-Performance employees; Childcare/Babysitter Allowance; Nascer Program and Extended Paternity Leave. Life Insurance; Nascer Program; Be Healthy—Program encouraging healthier habits for all; PAPE—Specialized Personal Support Program; #LI-DNI