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A fantastic position has been made available to join the bank as IT Systems Manager you will be responsible for deploying and supporting next generation solutions and strategies with an emphasis on collaboration, Data Management, workflow improvements, performance, availability, and security across cross functional technologies/products stack.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to help Build/transform Processes/Reports/Metrics/KPI's, while ensuring that we're implementing the right thing, at the right time, for everyone who needs it. On any given day you will lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish, communicate with stakeholders to set expectations, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate closely with cross-functional partners across bank. You will rally people together, coordinate players, and keep Senior Stake holders up to date on progress and deadlines.
The difference you'll make.
- Liaising with technology and business partners to determine system needs, enhancements, and changes
- Working with Technical teams to Design, build and launch extremely efficient and reliable data pipelines to move data across several platforms including, Products, Data Warehouse, and real-time systems
- Working with data architecture that is flexible, scalable, and consistent for cross-functional use, and aligned to stakeholder business requirements
- Collaborating with key stakeholders/Product Team to define and agree SLA and acceptable time lags by data source, define QA process, and socialize resolution process to ensure data is flowing accurately from Source to our presentation layers
- Designing and building data strategies and roadmaps necessary to Serve Key Product Teams analytics and data enrichment needs
- Managing team members through the Agile project management life cycle to ensure that overall progress and management of application/Solutions, project tasks are on track
What you'll bring:
- Previous experience building the platform and development using Elasticsearch stack - Elasticsearch, Kibana and Kafka
- Knowledge of emerging data technologies, such as predictive analytics, data Modelling, visualisation, and NoSQL databases
- Experience in SQL in Oracle or MySQL databases and BI Publisher reports
- Working knowledge of large-scale services applications such as RemedyForce or ServiceNow, IBM api's.
- Experience in data engineering, or related field with sound knowledge record of manipulating, processing, and extracting value from large datasets.
- Experience leading a Data Products or Data Engineering Team
It would also be nice for you to have:
- Experience in Distributed computing like Big Data technologies, Hadoop
- Experience extracting/cleansing data and generating insights from large transactional data sets using SQL, R, Python, Spark
- Cloud knowledge (AWS and/or Azure)
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 an office every week.
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 a 30min 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 salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and 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
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.
