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Enterprise Architect- Head of Core Architecture

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Posting date: 24 April 2024
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 24 May 2024
Location: Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, MK91AN
Company: Santander UK
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: BMEA_1713949949

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Enterprise Architect- Head of Core Architecture | S4

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We have an amazing opportunity to join the bank as Head of Core Architecture.

Business Platforms Architecture is part of the wider CTO function within Santander UK. It works closely with other architecture teams (Technical, Data & Security Architecture) and liaises with Business and IT colleagues in Santander UK, as well as the wider Santander Group.

You'll use your expertise to look at the application landscape and work with the business, CIO and group colleagues to develop strategic roadmaps and provide solution architecture capabilities enabling successful delivery. As part of the Business Platforms Architecture leadership team, you'll also focus on the tools and processes required to manage a complex application estate effectively, as well as managing cross domain initiatives.

If your skills and experience are aligned to architecture practices across the enterprise and solution domains, with demonstrable experience working within a large and complex organisation, this could be the role for you!

The difference you'll make:

  • Driving the development of strategic plans and roadmaps that will improve Santander UK's ability to manage its architectural landscape & application estate

  • Aligning delivery teams & sub-domain architecture teams to the strategy as it evolves across Santander, working across all business lines to link this to business objectives

  • Reviewing, defining and maintaining complex Strategic and Transitional Architectures, ensuring that architecture is holistic eg. Functional, in order to deliver sustainable and cost-effective solutions

  • Communicating complex concepts and strategies, to drive and influence a diverse set of stakeholders, ensuring consistency and understanding within the organisation - UK & Group - and externally

  • Managing domain Enterprise and Solution Architects to ensure that designs meet the banks strategic needs and goals. Architectures need to consider functional, technical, network, infrastructure, security aspects and cross domain dependencies in order to deliver sustainable and cost-effective solutions

  • Ensuring that key architectural decisions are governed, providing guidance, input and ensuring consistency in deliverables, whilst managing caveats and resolving associated actions

What you'll bring:

  • Comprehensive experience of working as an Architect within a complex organisation with a diverse technical landscape, coupled with pragmatic understanding of how architecture, change delivery and support perspectives interact

  • The ability to communicate complex concepts and influence a diverse set of stakeholders to ensure consistency and alignment of goals, with excellent stakeholder management skills, both within the organisation and externally

  • Experience in planning and organizing concepts, e.g. managing Solution Architects to review solution designs, understanding the key architectural decisions and providing guidance and input, whilst ensuring consistency

  • Knowledge of integration approaches and patterns, particularly as applied to internal shared services

  • Being flexible with a 'can do' attitude and the ability to learn fast - new concepts and skills - and deal calmly with situations under pressure

  • Be passionate about driving change by creating practical, workable architectures aligned to the bank's IT objectives and following the bank's governance processes

It would also be nice for you to have:

  • Previous architecture or delivery experience within the Financial Services Industry

  • Have knowledge and experience of AWS and Cloud Architectures

  • Experience with architecture and service management toolsets (Abacus, ServiceNow, Flexera)

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 is a Permanent position.

The role is based in Milton Keynes and 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 - An hour long virtual interview consisting of technical questions

2nd stage - An hour long virtual, or face to face interview consisting of competency based questions

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.

Learn more about our benefits and family friendly policies

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.

  • 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

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.

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