Solutions Architect | S3 | CTO

Banco Santander SA; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank is seeking a Solutions Architect to join their team in Milton Keynes. The successful candidate will work on defining architectural solutions for core banking systems, collaborating with various teams to ensure alignment with business strategies. This role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package, including a pension scheme, medical insurance, and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Discretionary performance-related annual bonus

8% employer pension contribution

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

£6,000 car allowance per year

Company funded individual private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experience defining and documenting As-Is & Target Architecture.
• Experience defining and evolving RESTful APIs.
• Expertise in authorization and security protocols.

Responsibilities

• Providing essential services to Core Banking.
• Producing functional architecture for projects.
• Reviewing designs from Engineering Teams.

Skills

Domain driven design

Problem-Solving Skills

Event-driven architectures

Tools

C4 Model

Avolution Abacus

Job description

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Solutions Architect | S3 | CTO

Apply locations Milton Keynes time type Full time posted on Posted Yesterday job requisition id Req1453134 Solutions Architect | S3 | CTOCountry: United Kingdom

Interested in part-time, job-share or flexible working? We want to talk to you!

Join our community.

Come and join us on our journey of transformation as a Solutions Architect within Santander Services. 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.

The team concentrates on the functional architecture of applications and how they interact with other systems in the Architecture Landscape of Santander UK, Group and 3rd Parties. The team effectively works as an Architecture Community across domains sharing reusable patterns and solutions learnt on projects, independently of projects and domains.

If you are interested in helping shape the design of future Santander UK systems, then Solutions Architecture could be the choice for you.

The difference you’ll make:

• Providing essential services to Core Banking, as well as products for the bank to manage customers, accounts, pricing, transactions, etc. Core banking systems are crucial for the day-to-day operations of Santander, enabling us to serve our customers effectively

• Producing functional architecture for project(s)
• Reviewing the designs that have been produced by Engineering Teams using guidance and patterns that have been provided to them by Architecture
• Validating that solutions align to the strategies of Santander UK (e.g. Retail & Corporate Bank & Group)
• Working with the engineering community to deliver solutions primarily in an agile way

What you’ll bring:

These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Domain driven design, with working knowledge of the BIAN framework, TOGAF, ArchiMate
• Proven experience in defining & documenting As-Is & Target Architecture, working with stakeholders to help define & deliver strategic objectives & roadmaps, being embedded into the functional domain, balancing business requirements with functional & technical strategy
• Experience defining and evolving RESTful APIs following best practices for scalability, versioning and documentation
• Experience with event-driven architectures
• Expertise in authorisation and security protocols, secure architecture practices, threat modelling
• Problem-Solving Skills and an effective approach to tacking complex challenges

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Understanding and practical experience with C4 Model for software architecture documentation and Architecture tools (e.g., Avolution Abacus)
• Knowledge & experience with cloud-native Architectures
• Experience in Microservices and Container Architectures
• Experience with event streaming platforms

What else you need to know:

This is a permanent role to be based at our Unity Place office, 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 60 min virtual interview covering a range of technical questions.

2nd Stage – A 60 min face to face (or virtual interview, depending on your situation), covering a range of competency based questions.

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, 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 telephone, email, or face to face. You can contact us at [e-mail] or call 0870 414 9080.