Platform Engineer Delivery Lead | S4 | Product & IT Project Management

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An exciting opportunity has been made available to join the bank as Platform Engineer Delivery Lead within the Infrastructure and Service Operations organisation of Santander UK.

Here you’ll provide technical management and coordination of staff and services within the IT Lifecycle (Obsolescence) Management Team.

We need your skills and expertise to ensure the risks associated with obsolete hardware & software components are well understood, reported and managed to limit any associated risks to Bank-wide operations and capabilities.

You’ll be responsible for driving the analysis and development of strategies and solutions to successfully upgrade technology and develop remediation solutions, monitor and control initiatives progress to plan, whilst identifying any risks and issues. You’ll also provide technical and architectural leadership ensuring strategies & roadmaps are optimised and aligned to the Santander UK architectural goals, in order to reduce risks associated with obsolete software & hardware components.

The difference you’ll make:

• Providing technical coordination and delivery of obsolescence management projects

• Coordinating and facilitating with application/asset owners to ensure stakeholder management

• Tracking and reporting of all obsolescence projects at all levels of managements with correct KPIs

• Ensuring risks and issues associated with delivery are identified and communicated appropriately to reduce the risk of delayed delivery or additional budget

• Liaising with and handing over the remediation execution to the delivery team efficiently, to ensure obsolescence remediations are delivered on time

• Tracking projects which are impacting Obsolescence objectives and KPIs and providing coordination for asset decommissioning, updating CMDB and reflecting on KRI reporting

What you’ll bring:

• Previous experience in large scale Operating Systems, databases, or Application server Upgrade
  projects

• Ability to identify obsolescence risk and remediation requirements using data analytics

• Extensive IT technical knowledge & experience including architectural concepts, design and implementation approaches

• Detailed understanding of typical software and hardware layers (e.g. servers, storage, hypervisors, networks, operating systems, databases and Web Application servers’ technology) and their interdependencies, along with mechanisms for suitably addressing associated obsolescence

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Experience in either data centre migration or large-scale cloud migration projects to include strategy development, planning and actual execution of those migrations

• Experience of managing cross-functional technical teams in a matrixed organisation

What else you need to know:

This is a permanent role to be based in Milton Keynes.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.

We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.

If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

Application process

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :–

1st Stage – A short 30 min virtual conversation with the Hiring person to discuss the requirement

2nd stage – A formal 60 min face to face interview in our Unity Place office, Milton Keynes consisting of technical questions and with presentation element (content to be shared ahead of the session)

3rd stage – A final 60 min virtual interview consisting of competency style questions

Inclusion

At Santander we’re creating a thriving workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.  We all help to make Santander a workplace that celebrates diversity and attracts, retains and develops the most talented and committed people through living our values of Simple, Personal, and Fair.

How we’ll reward you.

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll enjoy a benefits package that you can tailor to your needs.

• Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus.

• We put 8% of salary into your pension, even if you don’t contribute yourself. We’ll pay in up to 12.5% of salary, if you contribute as well, and you can take some of our contribution in cash if you prefer.

• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 31 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year.

• £6,000 car allowance per year.

• Company funded individual private medical insurance.

• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates such as private medical insurance for your family, dental insurance, and health assessments.

• Protection for you and your family, with company-funded death-in-service benefit and income protection insurance, and the option to take advantage of discounted rates for additional life assurance and critical illness cover.

• Share in Santander’s success by saving or investing in our share plans. 

• As a Santander UK employee, you are able to request staff versions of our products like our Edge Current Accounts and Credit Cards with no fees, as well as apply to many other deals and discounts in Santander products and services.

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What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you’re interested in, then please apply.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, get in touch. Whether it’s a copy of our application form in another format or additional assistance, we’re available through telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.