Java Developer

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Within the Document Management team, you will be developing E2E solutions to streamline through technology and automation of some of the most critical operational processes within Santander, leveraging our digital channels to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction.

As part of our different Agile Product Teams, we are looking for team players who understand what Agile means and who understand the importance of continuous integration and delivery. We are a diverse team with a collaborative and positive approach to delivering practical and efficient solutions to complex problems, recognising that our successes are due to the quality of people in the teams that we build.

If you share our passion for technology and are up for the challenge, come join us and deliver! We are looking for great technologists to join our team. Being an important part of the team as an Engineer as we strategically land our Document Management blueprint.

The difference you'll make

• Delivering high quality product and services aligned to the Bank's business and technical architecture strategies in collaboration with technical and business teams
• Providing maintenance of services - evolving the software versions and infrastructure, identifying, preventing, and resolving incidents, managing obsolescence and automated monitoring solutions for your portfolio of services
• Reporting to a Software Engineering Manager and interacting with a product owner and business stakeholders, providing timely estimates for changes
• Ensuring software engineers build agreed solution, rigorously test it, and implement it to the highest standards while adhering to the Bank's methodology driven Scrum practices
• Delivering 5x9's product availability as the default for all critical Document Management services and providing out of hours support on a rota basis

What you'll bring

• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack SW Developer and experience of software Engineering, in Application Development using the most recent versions of Java (8 onwards), Springboot, Kafka, S3, Oracle, PostgreSQL
• Understanding of microservice oriented Architecture running on PaaS infrastructure, Even-Driven Architecture, RESTful API architecture patterns
• Broad experience of agile software development practices (Unit testing, Test driven development or CI/CD)
• Experience using GitHub, Jira, Jenkins during the development lifecycle as well as using automated tools to evaluate robustness, quality and vulnerabilities of the code developed
• Previous experience of supporting Production related incidents until resolution

It would also be nice for you to have

• Adopting Agile engineering processes (Scrum/Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD/TDD test automation)
• Experience with SQL (Oracle, Postgres) and NoSQL (Mongo DB)
• Exposure to DevOps eco-system and automation tools to follow Continuous Integration lifecycle
• Previous experience in Document Management domains

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.

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 - Technical Interview - this will be a 30-60 min 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.

• £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits
• 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
• 27 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including: Bupa medical insurance, 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
• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more
• Share in Santander's success by investing in our share plans
• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships 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 resourcing@santander.co.uk or call 0870 414 9080.