Financial Crime Due Diligence Technical Lead | S3 | CIO Enterprise Services | Milton Keynes

Are you ready for an engaging opportunity that will allow you to make a difference? We are currently seeking a Technical Lead to join the Financial Crime Due Diligence (DD) capability to support the technical design and implementation of a customer KYC solution, ensuring Santander UK continue to operate within it's Financial Crime Board Risk Appetite (BRA). You will work within an Agile environment, engaging and collaborating with Product Owners, Functional/Solution and Technical Architects and across the wider Financial Crime CIO Team and colleagues from Santander Group in Madrid. You will be responsible for driving the solution design and technical implementation of the Financial Crime KYC project. Defining engineering solutions through good leadership and communication with a key area of focus on providing technical and integration leadership to ensure successful adoption and implementation of the KYC solution in Santander UK. The difference you'll make:

• Reviewing and owning Product user stories/Financial Crime business requirements assessing feasibility and defining design solutions/options, working closely with Capability Lead, Product Owners and Architects in an Agile environment
• Leading the Due Diligence KYC adoption/integration squad (including near shore colleagues from Santander Group in Madrid) - providing full product lifecycle support (design, development, Implementation, test & deployment) and post release (KBR/Production) support
• Mentoring and developing individuals across the DD KYC adoption/integration squad on design patterns, solution design, technical integration; using your experience and demonstrating your passion to define fit-for-purpose engineering designs/solutions
  
  These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:
• Functional & technical leadership and the ability to mentor a squad of engineers
• Ability to define, with the passion to 'drive through' design thinking/solution design activity to define scaleable solutions
• Proactive personality bringing a 'can do' attitude with the ability to communicate functional and technical concepts - delivering the correct messages and status updates at the right time to the right people
• Previous experience in a similar solution design/design thinking and squad leadership role
It would also be nice for you to have:
• Experience of working to define solutions, lead squads and deliver project with high visibility among senior stakeholders
• Knowledge of Financial Crime concepts, applications and customer contact/outreach processes and journeys
• Previous experience in the Financial Services Industry
  
  This role is based in Milton Keynes and will be working on a fixed term contract running until 31st December 2025.
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 - 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.

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 in our share plans.
• 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.