Project Manager | S3 | Payments Technology

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Core Payments Technology Team as a Payments Technology Project Manager. This is a very exciting time for the Payments Technology Team as we transform how we operate and our technical landscape to meet evolving customer expectations and industry changes. You will shape and lead deliveries, working closely with the Payments Centre of Excellence and key suppliers such as PagoNxt, in order to make a real difference to our business. You will provide extensive leadership skills combined with ingenuity and drive to deliver quality solutions. We are building a motivated team with big goals across International Payments, Domestic Payments and Open Banking - so we seek individuals who are truly passionate about their work and possess the enthusiasm to make things happen. The difference you'll make:

• Being responsible for delivering E2E technology changes required to support Payments E2E journeys within Santander UK
• Maintaining complex stakeholder relationships - including Payments Centre of Excellence, Architecture, PagoNxt and others to successfully drive the project to completion
• Leading the successful delivery of complex Payments change projects within the bank including managing dependencies across suppliers and other areas of the Bank
• Managing governance deliverables, including impact assessments, implementation plans and RAID log
• Leading teams as required to ensure projects are dealt with on schedule and to budget in alignment with project goals
  
  Broad technology delivery experience with an understanding key technologies from mainframe to cloud, and methodologies including Agile and Waterfall
• Experience managing coaching and developing teams
• Ability and experience of collaborating and managing dependencies across complex organisations
• Experience working with key suppliers and managing budgets
It would also be nice for you to have:
• An understanding of end-to-end payments flows applicable to the UK market (such as Faster Payments, ICS, BACS, Swift, CHAPS) or of Open Banking
• Experience with procurement and third-party management processes
• A high-level understanding of ISO20022 and end to end payment journey implications of using this
• Ability to collect, analyse and condense complex information and summarise
  
  This permanent role is based in Unity Place - Milton Keynes.
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. 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 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.