Software Technical Lead | S3 | Digital Core Banking

Software Technical Lead | S3 | Digital Core Banking

Country: United Kingdom

Software Technical Lead | S3 | Digital Core Banking

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The Core Banking Centre of Excellence is responsible for running, the maintenance and evolution (including technical transformation) of the Santander's Partenon core banking platform within the UK for the Retail and Corporate banks. 

This is a strategic role mainly managing part of the Digital Projects in Core Banking area, Maintenance, new developments, migrations, and integration of new capabilities - the Digital points of access to core banking through APIs and microservices.

The difference you’ll make.

• Being an important part of the team as an Engineer as we strategically land our Digital programmes of work
• Delivering high quality product and services to exceed customers expectation
• Discussing functional and technical solutions with the different stakeholders in the business, UX designers, architecture, and engineering managers to ensure US are refined and understood at the correct level
• Keeping the solutions delivered running healthy in production minimising incidents and maximising quality of service
• Becoming a role model and mentor to the rest of the technical team

What you’ll bring:

• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack SW Developer (AWS Cloud Services and Java)
• Understanding of microservice oriented Architecture running on PaaS infrastructure
• Broad experience of agile software development practices (Unit testing, Test driven development or CI/CD)
• Experience using GitHub, Jira, Jenkins during the development lifecycle as well as using automated tools to evaluate robustness, quality and vulnerabilities of the code developed
• Experience of using agile methodologies, TDD and BDD
• You have previous experience of supporting Production related incidents until resolution

It would also be nice for you to have.

• Capable of leading development team spread across onshore in UK, nearshore & offshore locations
• Adopting Agile engineering processes (Scrum/Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD/TDD test automation)
• Experience with SQL (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Aurora) and NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB, Mongo DB)
• Exposure to DevOps eco-system and automation tools to follow Continuous Integration lifecycle

What else you need to know.

We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.

By working this way, we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we’re happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

This role is based in Milton Keynes and our current expectation is at least 2 days in the office every week.

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 – Technical Interview – this will be a 30/60 min technical interview with one of the team.

2nd Stage – A one-hour formal interview where we will ask both technical and competency-based questions. This can be done virtually or face to face depending on your situation.

If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

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, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans 

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

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.