Technical Lead | S3 | Capital and Risk Models | Milton Keynes

Santander Bank; Milton Keynes; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Milton Keynes seeks a Technical Lead for Risk to drive the design and delivery of Risk Models and Reporting. This role involves leading a risk team, mentoring colleagues, and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance reporting efficiency. Candidates should have strong AWS expertise, experience in Agile processes, and excellent problem-solving skills. The position offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working pattern.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Discretionary performance bonus

Pension contributions

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Staff product discounts

Qualifications

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and project management skills.
• Strong understanding of AWS services.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ideally Terraform.
• Knowledge of Unix scripting.
• Adopting Agile engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Leading the risk team across multiple locations and managing the full product lifecycle.
• Mentoring and developing team members on design patterns and technical integration.
• Supporting change management, audit and compliance.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to meet business needs.
• Driving quality and adherence to service levels.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Project management

AWS services (EMR, EC2, S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM)

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Unix scripting

Agile engineering processes

ETL

Spark

Analytical SQL

Python

Scala

Control-M scheduler

Job description

As part of the Capital and Risk Models domain, you will be the Technical Lead for Risk responsible for driving the design and delivery of Risk Models and Reporting. This role will drive the Risk product roadmap and the successful delivery of its goals to improve the efficiency, flexibility, and traceability of the common reporting framework for internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Leading the risk team across multiple locations, managing the full product lifecycle (design, development, implementation, testing, deployment), including post-release support.
2. Mentoring and developing team members across multiple squads on design patterns, solution design, and technical integration, demonstrating your experience and passion for fit-for-purpose engineering solutions.
3. Supporting change management, audit, compliance, and design assurance to meet the bank's standards.
4. Collaborating with stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
5. Driving quality and adherence to service levels for month-end execution, with a focus on control, performance, and automation.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and project management skills, with experience supporting production incidents until resolution.
• Strong understanding of AWS services (EMR, EC2, S3, Glue, Lambda, Step Functions, IAM).
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ideally Terraform.
• Knowledge of Unix scripting, including AWS CLI.
• Adopting Agile engineering processes (Scrum/Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD/TDD test automation).

Preferred Skills:

• Knowledge in financial and risk services or information systems, ideally combining regulatory and/or risk models.
• Excellent ETL, Spark, and analytical SQL skills.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and Scala.
• Control-M scheduler knowledge.

Work Environment & Benefits:

• Hybrid working pattern with at least 12 days per month in the office; specific arrangements can be discussed during recruitment.
• Competitive salary and benefits package, including a discretionary performance bonus, pension contributions, holiday entitlement, car allowance, private medical insurance, healthcare benefits, life insurance, share plans, and staff product discounts.

We value diversity and inclusion, striving to create a workplace where all colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. We encourage applications from all backgrounds and experiences.