Senior Consultant

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Within the CIO Operations team you will be developing E2E solutions to streamline through technology and automation some of the most critical operational processes within Santander, leveraging our digital channels to increase efficiency and customer satisfaction.

As part of our different Agile Product Teams, we are looking for team players who understands what Agile means and who understands the importance of continuous integration and delivery. We are a diverse team with a collaborative and positive approach to delivering practical and efficient solutions to complex problems, recognising that our successes are due to the quality of people in the teams that we build.

If you share our passion for technology and are up for the challenge, come join us and deliver! We are looking for great technologists to join our team.

The difference you'll make.

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  Managing tasks end to end from development to release to production.
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  Delivering services aligned to the Bank's business and technical architecture strategies in coloration with technical and business teams.
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  Providing maintenance of services - evolving the software versions and infrastructure, identifying, preventing, and resolving incidents, managing obsolescence and automated monitoring solutions for your portfolio of services.
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  Reporting to a Software engineering manager and interacting with a product owner and business stakeholders.
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  Ensuring software engineers build agreed solution, test, and implement to highest standards besides team sticks to Bank methodology driven scrum practises.
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  Analysing and defining clear and concise requirements through working closely with IT and Business

What you'll bring.

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  Ability to work across multiple activities adjusting to shifting priorities
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  Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication skills with the ability to handle key stakeholders
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  Experience of tools such as Jira and Confluence
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  Knowledge of agile development practices such as Behaviour Driven Development, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and code quality metrics
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  Knowledge of building and maintaining API and Micro Services and applications in cloud environments.
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  Previous experience as a Technical Analyst working in Document Storage domains

It would also be nice for you to have.

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  Experience building/maintain applications in cloud environments.
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  Exposure as a Scrum Master in a software development team
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  Knowledge of working with a framework such as Spring Framework
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  Knowledge of Jenkins, Cucumber, Open Shift, Kubernetes, Dev Ops, Security, is beneficial.

What else you need to know.

This role will be based out of our Milton Keynes office with hybrid working, involves production support of product through on call rota.

How we'll reward you.

As well as a salary, we offer a wide range of benefits that you can choose from and tailor to your needs.

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  Competitive salary plus a £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits.
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  Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
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  Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from Santander, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
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  27 days' holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5yrs service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
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  Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including : Bupa medical insurance, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
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  Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
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  24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more
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  Share in Santander's success by investing in our share plans
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  Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships

#ThePlaceToBeYourself - Everyday Inclusion at Santander

We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our people, so we welcome applications from across society.

A bit more about Santander

At Santander we're driven by our purpose - to help people and businesses prosper. This means we help customers to create change for themselves and those around them, and we champion businesses to grow sustainably. We do this by always living our values of Simple, Personal and Fair.

At Santander, we each take personal responsibility for managing risk by embracing the I AM Risk framework - to Identify, Assess, Manage and Report risks, and to continuously build a deeper understanding of the risks we face. It is an important part of our culture at Santander, and we will provide you with knowledge to help you manage risks in your role.

What to do next:-

If this sounds like a role you're interested in, then please apply.