Senior Solution Architect

A fantastic opportunity is available to join the bank as a Senior Solution Architect in Santander CTO. Here you'll work closely with other architecture teams, eg, Enterprise, Technical, Data & Security Architecture and will collaborate with Business and IT colleagues in Santander UK, as well as Santander Global Architecture. As a Senior Solution Architect you'll be pivotal to the successful initiation and delivery of programmes across Santander UK, helping shape the changes to our technology landscape in line with strategy, setting programmes up for success and ensuring the right architectural resources are aligned throughout the lifecycle of the delivery. You'll provide technical guidance and leadership on an ongoing basis to colleagues across the architecture community and lead a team of Solution Architects, supporting their professional development, as well as day to day management support. The difference you'll make:

• Providing Architectural leadership during the initiation phases of programmes
• Managing a team of Architects aligned to your portfolio
• Taking ownership for the resolution of issues within programmes and ensure alignment to strategy and policy
• Identifying and mitigating risks associated with solution architecture decisions, including performance bottleneck and integration challenges
• Supporting talent development across the architecture community
• Providing mentorship, coaching, and training to less experienced architects to enhance technical skills, foster professional growth and promote a culture of learning and continuous improvement, Experience within Financial Services across one or more of the following business domains:
+ Retail Banking + Corporate Banking + Cards & Payments + Digital Technology + Banking Products (Mortgages, Loans, Accounts etc) + Functions (HR, Procurement etc) + Treasury & Risk
• Team Leadership Experience
• Knowledge of adjacent architectural areas (e.g. Data, Infrastructure, Security architecture)
  
  Experience of leading solution architecture and design for large programmes within a complex organisation
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Demonstrable experience of architecture across a range of domains, technologies or industries
• The ability to anticipate obstacles and make plans accordingly to ensure that stakeholder requirements are fully reflected in data architecture outcomes
• Experience in designing and implementing microservices based architectures for agility and scalability
• A passion for driving change by creating practical, workable architectures aligned to IT principles and following appropriate governance, 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).
  
  1st Stage - A 60 minute virtual interview consisting of a mixture of competency and technical questions
2nd Stage - A 60 minute face to face, or virtual interview (depending on your circumstances), consisting of technical questions and wider team introduction. 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 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.