BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) is a leading global financial services group and one of the largest financial institutions in the world, with a significant presence in Spain, Mexico, South America, and Turkey. The bank is widely recognized for its pioneering digital transformation, consistently ranking as a global leader in mobile banking and fintech innovation while managing over 120,000 employees worldwide.

Headquartered in Madrid, BBVA is a major employer for international professionals, particularly within its Corporate & Investment Banking (CIB) and Engineering & Data divisions. The company operates out of 'Ciudad BBVA,' a massive, modern campus designed for agile collaboration, and offers a multicultural environment where English is the primary language for many global and technical functions.

BBVA was formed in 1999 through the merger of Banco Bilbao Vizcaya and Argentaria, though its roots date back to 1857 with the founding of Banco de Bilbao. It has evolved from a local Spanish bank into a global financial powerhouse and a digital banking pioneer.

Internship - Quantitative & Business Solutions Department

BBVA

This job was originally posted in Spanish and automatically translated to English.

Requirements

STEM profiles - Undergraduate or Master's students in Physics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
Interest in developing a career in quantitative finance. Passion for technical and scientific work: programming and solving analytical problems and technological challenges.
English level. Essential: B2. Desirable: C1/C2.
IT knowledge: Programming foundation in at least one professional programming language: C++, Python, C, Java, or similar.
Valued knowledge: Software Design and Engineering, Continuous Integration, version control, performance and memory management tools, distributed computing, multithreading, google protobuffer, jupyter notebook, Linux OS.
Ability to work in a team and communication skills. Analytical and logical capacity.
Valued knowledge: knowledge of statistics and probability theory, integral and differential calculus, numerical methods, stochastic calculus.

Benefits

Flexible scheduling. Possibility of full-time (7 hours) or part-time (4 hours).
Location of the internship: Madrid (Ciudad BBVA).
Duration of the internship: 6 months with the possibility of extending for another 6 months.

Job Description

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BBVA is a global company with more than 160 years of history that operates in more than 25 countries where we serve more than 80 million customers. We are more than 121,000 professionals working in multidisciplinary teams with profiles as diverse as financiers, legal experts, data scientists, developers, engineers and designers.

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Area Description

The candidate will join the Quantitative & Business Solutions team, where we develop valuation and risk management solutions for financial products. They will tackle exploratory research projects of interest to the business area:

Development of valuation and risk management tools in prototype or production format.
Development and support of continuous integration and development tools.
Optimization and performance of existing tools.
Proof of concept to evaluate in-house integrations with third-party commercial software.
Proof of concept to deploy tools in the Cloud.
Developments aimed at improving error management and tools oriented toward the detection of programming errors.

The intern will carry out their training period in a CIB-Global Markets business unit, under the supervision of a senior member of BBVA. The training will allow them to acquire technical competencies and theoretical knowledge related to quantitative finance, with the aim of completing their academic training and offering them a global and transversal vision of the markets business. These include:

Financial product valuation theory.
Financial products and markets.
C++ programming language.
Basic knowledge of other scripting or prototyping languages (e.g., Python).
Continuous integration and DevOps tools centered around C++.

Likewise, the training period will allow the intern to get to know BBVA's corporate culture. Finally, the stay at BBVA will provide the intern with their first contact with a real professional environment under controlled conditions, an element that will allow them to embark on a professional career in finance with a greater degree of confidence.
Additional information:

Flexible scheduling. Possibility of full-time (7 hours) or part-time (4 hours).
Location of the internship: Madrid (Ciudad BBVA).
Duration of the internship: 6 months with the possibility of extending for another 6 months.

About the job:

What are we looking for?

STEM profiles - Undergraduate or Master's students in Physics, Mathematics, or Engineering.
Interest in developing a career in quantitative finance. Passion for technical and scientific work: programming and solving analytical problems and technological challenges.
English level. Essential: B2. Desirable: C1/C2.
IT knowledge: Programming foundation in at least one professional programming language: C++, Python, C, Java, or similar.
Valued knowledge: Software Design and Engineering, Continuous Integration, version control, performance and memory management tools, distributed computing, multithreading, google protobuffer, jupyter notebook, Linux OS.
Ability to work in a team and communication skills. Analytical and logical capacity.
Valued knowledge: knowledge of statistics and probability theory, integral and differential calculus, numerical methods, stochastic calculus.

Skills:

C (Programming Language), C++ Programming Language, Java (Programming Language), Programming Languages, Python (Programming Language)

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Descripción del área

La persona se integrará en el equipo de Quantitative & Business Solutions donde desarrollamos soluciones de valoración y gestión del riesgos de productos financieros. Abordará proyectos de investigación de interés para el área de negocio con carácter exploratorio:

Desarrollo de herramientas de valoración y gestión del riesgo en formato prototipo o productivo.
Desarrollo y soporte de herramientas de integración continua y desarrollo.
Optimización y rendimiento de herramientas existentes
Pruebas de concepto para evaluar integraciones in-house con software comercial de terceros.
Pruebas de concepto para desplegar herramientas en Cloud.
Desarrollos orientados a mejorar la gestión de errores y herramientas orientadas a la detección de errores de programación.

El becario desarrollará su período formativo en una unidad de negocio de CIB-Global Markets, bajo la supervisión de un miembro senior de BBVA. La formación le permitirá adquirir competencias técnicas y conocimientos teóricos relacionados con las finanzas cuantitativas, con el objetivo de completar su formación académica y ofrecerle una visión global y transversal del negocio de mercados. Entre ellas:

Teoría de valoración de productos financieros.
Productos y mercados financieros.
Lenguaje de programación C++
Conocimientos básicos de otros lenguajes de scripting o prototipado (por ejemplo Python).
Herramientas de integración continua y DevOps en torno a C++

Así mismo, el período formativo permitirá al becario conocer la cultura corporativa de BBVA. Finalmente, la estancia en BBVA permitirá al becario un primer contacto con un entorno profesional real en condiciones controladas, elemento que le permitirá afrontar con mayor grado de solvencia una carrera profesional en finanzas.
Información adicional:

Flexibilidad horaria. Posibilidad de hacer jornada completa (7 horas) o jornada parcial (4 horas).
Lugar realización de las prácticas: Madrid (Ciudad BBVA).
Duración de las prácticas: 6 meses con posibilidad de prorrogar 6 meses más.

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¿Qué estamos buscando?

Perfiles STEM - Estudiantes de Grado o Máster en Físicas, Matemáticas o Ingenierías.
Interés por desarrollar una carrera en finanzas cuantitativas. Gusto por el trabajo técnico y científico: programación y resolución de problemas de corte analítico y retos tecnológicos.
Nivel de inglés. Imprescindible: B2. Deseable: C1/C2.
Conocimientos informáticos: Base de programación en, al menos, un lenguaje de programación de uso profesional: C++, Python, C o Java o similares.
Conocimientos a valorar: Diseño e Ingeniería del Software, Integración continua, control de versiones, herramientas de rendimiento y gestión de memoria, computación distribuida, multithreading, google protobuffer, jupyter notebook, SO Linux.
Capacidad de trabajo en equipo y habilidades de comunicación. Capacidad analítica y lógica.
Conocimientos a valorar: conocimientos de estadística y teoría de la probabilidad, cálculo integral y diferencial, métodos numéricos, cálculo estocástico.