Virtually 1,000 engineers have joined BBVA within the first half of 2022, a determine that the Spanish monetary establishment expects to double by the top of this yr.
As a part of this construction, the financial institution has launched into a worldwide hiring spree for each junior and senior positions, with backgrounds in engineering and knowledge science
“On the finish of June, we had recruited 935 engineers in all of the international locations the place we function. Our purpose is to rent round 2,000 engineers throughout our footprint by 2022,” explains José Luis Elechiguerra, world head of engineering at BBVA.
He says the financial institution plans to recruit folks with a excessive technical profile, primarily software program builders and knowledge specialists who will work on accelerating the digital transformation of the financial institution’s channels by the design, improvement and deployment of worldwide and reusable parts.
“Our forecast is that, along with these technical profiles, additional recruitments can be made because the wants of the tasks, the completely different enterprise and know-how areas are analysed, in order that the overall variety of new hires this yr may attain 400 folks in Spain,” says Elechiguerra.
This determine consists of the 100 positions introduced for the 2 new know-how facilities that the financial institution has created in Bilbao to accommodate its BBVA IT and BBVA Subsequent Applied sciences divisions.