Head of Run

2 months ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom Santander Full time

Head of Run & Maintenance | S4 | Core Banking

Country: United Kingdom

**Interested in part-time, job-share or flexible working? We want to talk to you**

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The Core Banking Centre of Excellence is responsible for running, the maintenance and evolution (including technical transformation) of the Santander's Partenon core banking platform within the UK for the Retail and Corporate banks.

This is a strategic role mainly responsible for keeping the Core Banking Platform running by managing a team of qualified professionals, nurturing the interaction with the software vendors and keeping the relationship with the broader IT and business community in the bank.

**The difference you’ll make**
- Managing of the core platform. The role holder also responsible for managing Dashboard KPis for the area and identifying resources for further maintenance needs
- Delivering on all core Partenon service delivery including the incident and maintenance lifecycle in line with Santander UK’s strategic business priorities and Santander Digital Services technical roadmap
- Providing leadership for the maintenance of Gravity suite, managing interactions with stakeholders from both technology and the business (Retail, Business Banking and Corporate) as well the rest of the domain CIOs and Centre of Excellence leaders
- Establishing, maintaining and maturing the relationship with the Partenon
software supplier (Santander Digital Services) to ensure excellent two way communications, feedback and mutual understanding
- Being a Subject Matter Expert for Gravity technical knowledge to guide and support teams working on the maintenance of the platform - this may also
include providing expertise to stakeholders outside of Core Banking or other Santander Group entities

**What you’ll bring**:

- Budget planning, control and execution with a focus on cost-effectiveness
- Assess the quality of the services offered and identify areas that need
improvement, proactively identifying potential issues and mitigating business risks
- Stakeholder management - interface, develop and manage relationships with the stakeholders for the services within the scope of responsibility, like
business owners, customers, suppliers, build and operational representatives
- Designs work methodology for teams to maximize output with lean resources Monitors teamwork to ensure the execution of simple processes and ensures they are applied in projects in an efficient and effective manner
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**It would also be nice for you to have.**
- Knowledge of the future, digital technology, and ability to think big and listen to the market and customers, challenging ideas and taking actions fast to improve and doing things in a simple way

**What else you need to know
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and we recognise that many people benefit from flexible arrangements. To enable us to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop we understand the importance of having the right balance of spending time together in an office while maintaining flexibility.

By working this way, we can continue to create moments that matter for everyone. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and we’re happy to discuss specific requirements throughout the recruitment process.

This role is based in Milton Keynes and our current expectation is at least 2 days in the office every week.

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
1st Stage - Technical Interview - this will be a 30 min 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.

**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 5years 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 healthc


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