Architecture & SDLC Metrics Reporting Engineer | S3 | Chief Technology Office | Milton Keynes | Internal Mobility

Architecture & SDLC Metrics Reporting Engineer | S3 | Chief Technology Office | Milton Keynes | Internal Mobility

Country: United Kingdom

IT STARTS HERE

Santander (www.santander.com) is evolving from a global, high-impact brand into a technology-driven organisation, and our people are at the heart of this journey. Together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible.

This is more than a strategic shift. It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference.

Our mission is to contribute to help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

Retail & Commercial Banking is a global business integrating all our retail and commercial banking activities to better serve our customers, improve efficiency and drive value creation.

THE DIFFERENCE YOU MAKE

The Chief Technology Office is looking for an Architecture & SDLC Metrics Reporting Engineer based out of Milton Keynes.

At Santander, we are committed to delivering technology that is resilient, compliant, and strategically aligned with our global architecture principles.
The Architecture & SDLC Metrics Reporting Engineer will play a key role in this by supporting in the definition of strategic reporting for architecture governance adherence, developer performance, and SDLC compliance across our UK Technology organisation.

This role will help ensure that our system development lifecycle controls, design standards, and delivery practices are measurable, transparent, and continuously improved — supporting decision-making for CTO leadership.

We’re shaping the way we work through innovation, cutting-edge technology, collaboration and the freedom to explore new ideas. To succeed in this role, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting controls definition and design, and maintaining automated dashboards that track adherence to Santander’s Architecture Governance Framework,
• Developing, maintaining and supporting the applications and workflows that support our SDLC controls and processes,
• Lead the Development for the existing “SDLC Compliance Platform” and timing to develop it’s capabilities, improve its usability and respond to both business and technology requirements.
• Manage requirements from user stories through to software change implementation.
• Driving increased adoption of automated controls and processes through the development and integration of new API interfaces and supporting upstream application owners with integrating into them.
• Enabling end to end visibility of the status of Santander’s application health through the design and delivery of auditable metrics to demonstrate adherence to policy standards.
• Developing dashboards and portals that measure SDLC governance metrics, aligned to Santander’s Software Development Lifecycle Policy.
• Designing the integration and model data from multiple Santander systems — including, Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub, and architecture repositories (Abacus, AGT, SDLC Compliance Portal, CMDB, etc.) — to create a consolidated view of technology delivery performance and risks.
• Working with Enterprise Architects, Engineering Leads, and Governance Managers to define KPIs, thresholds, and scoring logic that reflect compliance with internal standards and regulatory expectations. Ensuring automated metrics and dashboards comply with data quality, security, and governance controls in line with Santander’s Data Management Policy.
• Developing data models, API interfaces, data transformation jobs and reconciliation processes to ensure the full scope of upstream data has been correctly collected, managed and assessed.
• Oversee and manage technical deployments, software changes, dashboard releases / promotion and access management, within CTO’s reporting suites and applications. Maintaining inventories on data sources, metric definitions, and transformation logic in alignment with Santander’s Data Lineage and Metadata Standards.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING

Our people are our greatest strength. Every individual contributes unique perspectives that make us stronger as a team and as an organisation. We’re enabling teams to go beyond by valuing who they are and empowering what they bring.

The following requirements represent the knowledge, skills, and abilities essential for success in this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Professional Experience

• A working knowledge and understanding of GenAI tools (Devin, & Atlassian AI toolset) (Required)
• Proven experience as a full-stack software engineer working with:
  • Front End: Angular
  • API Layer: IBM V10 REST APIs
  • Backend: Java (Spring Boot)
  • Data: Oracle SQL 19c
  • Hosting: RedHat OpenShift, GitHub and GitHub Actions (Required)

• Experience designing RESTful API interfaces to support both user and system interactions. (Required)
• Working knowledge of ETL and data integration — connecting to structured and unstructured sources via SQL, APIs, or batch transfers. (Required)
• Familiarity with building data ETL processes within Java. (Required)
• Working knowledge of designing integration of data from SDLC and DevOps tools (Azure DevOps, Jira, GitHub, ServiceNow) to monitor delivery governance. (Preferred)
• Knowledge of Python for advanced analytics, data enrichment, or anomaly detection. (Preferred)
• Understanding of Santander’s data security, privacy, and governance controls, with the ability to ensure compliance in BI solutions. (Preferred)

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience). (Required)
• Knowledge of financial services regulation and governance practices. (Preferred)

Hard Skills

• Experience with Santander’s Data Platform, Data Lake, and/or Power Platform ecosystem. (Required)
• Familiarity with internal Santander architecture principles and patterns. (Preferred)
• Exposure to Agile delivery models, particularly within highly regulated financial environments. (Preferred)

Soft Skills

• Ability to translate complex governance data into actionable insights through clear, well-structured visualizations. (Required)
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience working across architecture, engineering, risk, and compliance functions. (Preferred)
• Strong attention to detail, documentation, and presentation standards suitable for audit and regulatory reviews. (Required)

WE VALUE YOUR IMPACT

At Santander, your contribution matters. We recognise the difference you make every day, and we make sure you feel valued, supported and rewarded in return.
Here, recognition goes beyond pay. It’s about the pride you feel in your work, the impact you have on customers and communities, and the opportunities you have to grow and thrive — personally and professionally.

Salary Range:
£61,600.00 - £92,400.00 per annum (depending on experience)

This salary range represents the expected remuneration for the role. Annual salary is based on a standard 35-hour working week. Actual salary offered will depend on skills, experience, qualifications and location.

• Competitive rewards that reflect the real impact you make and the value you bring.
• Wellbeing that goes beyond work — we work with a range of wellbeing partners across our 4 pillars of wellbeing (physical, mental, social and financial) to give you access to a suite of apps, discounted gym and fitness access, weekly online classes, flexible healthcare and mental health support.
• Support for every life stage — from menopause and pregnancy to parenthood and beyond, with enhanced family leave, childcare options and tailored wellbeing support.
• Time to give back through volunteering opportunities that let you make a difference in the communities we serve.
• Global growth opportunities to shape your career, learn new skills and explore what’s possible across our international network.

Ready to be recognised? It starts with you.

LOCAL COMPLIANCE

At Santander, we’re proud to be an inclusive organisation that provides equal opportunities for everyone — regardless of age, gender, disability, civil status, race, religion or sexual orientation.

We’re committed to creating a recruitment experience that’s accessible, fair and welcoming for all candidates.

We want our people to thrive — at work and at home — while delivering the best outcomes for our customers and supporting each other to grow.

To make this possible, our roles are site-based with a hybrid working pattern, where colleagues are expected to attend the office at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).

When applying, please consider the travel distance, time and cost to your chosen office location(s).

We welcome applications on the understanding that, should you be offered this role, there may be no relocation package available. Santander will pay the employer mandatory government fees that are required to pay in connection with visa sponsorship. You may be liable for your own personal employee immigration and relocation costs.

WHAT TO DO NEXT

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

For further Guidance please visit Internal Mobility - Candidate Guidance.

If you want to know more about the opportunity:

Please contact ajay.furber@santander.co.uk

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The Santander Way

Santander is evolving from a global, high-impact brand into a technology-driven organization, and our people are at the heart of this journey. Together, we are driving a customer-centric transformation that values bold thinking, innovation, and the courage to challenge what’s possible.

This is more than a strategic shift. It’s a chance for driven professionals to grow, learn, and make a real difference.

Our mission is to contribute to help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

Ready to make it happen?

It starts with you. It starts here.