Platform Engineer | S3 | CTO | Global Platform Delivery | Milton Keynes

Santander USA; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Milton Keynes is seeking a Platform Engineer to manage cross-organization initiatives focused on technology alignment and API migration. The ideal candidate will possess strong technical knowledge of APIs, effective stakeholder engagement skills, and a drive for cost savings. This role offers a hybrid working pattern with a competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

Discretionary performance-related annual bonus

8% employer pension contribution

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

£6,000 car allowance

Company funded private medical insurance

Discounted healthcare benefits

Death-in-service benefit

Employee product discounts

Qualifications

• Experience with code deployment and pipeline workflows.
• Understanding of technology within the organization from project delivery.
• Drive to deliver cost savings.

Responsibilities

• Manage cross-organization initiatives aligned to Global Platform Delivery.
• Collaborate with stakeholders on Go To Model alignment.
• Support rationalization of IT spending.

Skills

Technical understanding of APIs

Developer platform systems

Change management governance

Stakeholder engagement

Financial management

Tools

GitHub

Planview

Job description

Platform Engineer | S3 | CTO | Global Platform Delivery | Milton Keynes

Country: United Kingdom

Join our community:

Welcome to the Global Platform Delivery community, part of the Chief Technology Office. We are a growing team responsible for a range of globally aligned transformation and technology change initiatives.

Home of Project Gluon, a cross-domain IT efficiency programme driving significant BAU savings across the organisation with big targets for 2025, 2026 and beyond.

Leading API, repo and Platform strategy, the Global Platform community is driving the adoption of Gluon and a number of API initiatives, including obsolescence remediation.

The difference you’ll make:

• Managing cross organisation initiatives aligned to Global Platform Delivery. These will vary in size and complexity but will have a technology focus against business requirements.

• Collaborating with Domain stakeholders on Go To Model (GTM) alignment including convergence and repo / API migration responsibilities (Project API Migration and Gluon).

• Supporting the rationalisation of the IT BAU spend on Software and SaaS licences across the organisation.

• Creation of business cases and financial management through portfolio management tooling (Planview)

What you’ll bring:

• Technical understanding of how APIs work, developer platform systems such as GitHub.

• Knowledge of how pipeline or workflows work for code deployment across different environments.

• A broad understanding of change management governance, the inputs required, and the tools used.

• A high-level understanding of technology within Santander UK ideally gained from technical project delivery.

• Experience of effective stakeholder engagement across business and technology.

• An understanding of financial management and a drive to deliver cost savings across the IT BAU estate.

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Knowledge of the CIO Domains, key stakeholders and responsibilities as most tasks will be matrix aligned across these entities.

• Proactive nature, work with evolving goals and objectives.

• An understanding of the ‘Go To Model’

What else you need to know:

• This role is 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. For part-time / contract roles, your salary, bonus (where eligible) and certain benefits will be prorated to reflect your working hours / contract duration.

• 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 inour shareplans.

• 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

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 email. You can contact us at [e-mail].