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A fantastic opportunity is available to join the bank as a Senior Solution Architect in Santander CTO.
Here you’ll work closely with other architecture teams, e.g., Enterprise, Technical, Data & Security Architecture and will collaborate with Business and IT colleagues in Santander UK, as well as Santander Global Architecture.
Here you’ll provide functional and technical guidance and leadership on an ongoing basis to colleagues across the architecture community and lead a team of Solution Architects, supporting their professional development, as well as day to day management support.
The difference you’ll make:
Providing Architectural leadership during the initiation phases of programmes.
Managing a team of Solution Architects aligned to your portfolio.
Taking ownership for the resolution of issues within programmes and ensure alignment to strategy and policy.
Identifying and mitigating risks associated with solution architecture decisions, including performance bottleneck and integration challenges.
Supporting talent development across the architecture community.
Providing mentorship, coaching, and training to less experienced architects to enhance technical skills, foster professional growth and promote a culture of learning and continuous improvement.
What you’ll bring:
Experience of leading solution architecture and design for large programmes, in the Corporate banking journeys of channels.
Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with experience and understanding of platform best practices.
The ability to anticipate obstacles and make plans accordingly to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully reflected in data architecture outcomes.
A passion for driving change by creating practical, workable architectures aligned to IT principles and following appropriate governance.
It would also be nice for you to have:
Experience of Corporate Banking area – Online and Mobile Banking, Virtual Accounts, Customer Liquidity Management, Customer FX Booking, Supplier Finance, Trade Finance, multi-factor authentication for Corp customers and security angle.
Team Leadership Experience.
Knowledge of adjacent architectural areas (e.g. Data, Infrastructure, Security architecture).
What else you need to know:
This role is a permanent position 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.
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.
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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 email. You can contact us at resourcing@santander.co.uk.