Req1420259 Lead Software Engineer | S3 | T&D

Job title:

Req1420259 Lead Software Engineer | S3 | T&D

Company

Santander

Job description

Req1420259 Lead Software Engineer | S3 | T&DCountry: United KingdomInterested in part-time, job-share or flexible working? We want to talk to you!Join our community.A fantastic opportunity has become available to join the API centre of excellence team as a Lead software engineer – this role sits within a fast paced, exciting team within the bank and working on some fantastic projects!The ideal candidate should have a vast experience in developing and building software solutions end to end through the whole software life cycle, high-skilled in Cloud technologies, autonomous, flexible, and committed.The difference you’ll make:

• Being an important part of the team as an Engineer as we strategically land our Digital programmes of work
• Delivering high quality product and services to exceed customers expectation
• Driving our data approach is at the heart of our transformation through the application of Cloud-Native and Open-source technologies
• Discussing functional and technical solutions with the different stakeholders in the business, architecture, and engineering managers to ensure US are refined and understood at the correct level
• Keeping the solutions delivered running healthy in production minimising incidents and maximising quality of service
• Becoming a role model and mentor to the rest of the technical team

What you’ll bring:These are the essential requirements you need to be successful in this role:

• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack SW Developer (AWS Cloud Services and Java)
• Understanding of microservice oriented Architecture running on PaaS infrastructure
• 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
• Experience working with Ping Federate
• You have previous experience of supporting Production related incidents until resolution

It would also be nice for you to have:

• Understanding of The AWS services and Well-Architected framework, event-driven architecture
• Adopting Agile engineering processes (Scrum/Kanban, DevOps, CI/CD, BDD/TDD test automation)
• Experience with SQL (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Aurora) and NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB, Mongo DB)
• Exposure to DevOps eco-system and automation tools to follow Continuous Integration lifecycle

What else you need to know:This is a permanent role and is based in 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.Application processIf 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 team2nd 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 situationIf there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.InclusionAt 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

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.

Expected salary

Location

Milton Keynes

Job date

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 03:55:30 GMT

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