Data Software Engineer | S2 | CDO | Milton Keynes

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

Site Based Contract with a Hybrid Working Pattern.

Join our community.

We have an exciting opportunity within the Data Acquisition/Ingestion Engineering team for a Senior Data Software Engineer, specialised in AWS Cloud and Big Data technologies, autonomous, flexible, and committed.

You are responsible for the end-to-end Data Ingestion, Acquisition and anonymisation to the Santander AWS and Hadoop lakes (Pipeline configuration, with a big focus on Data ingestion, Streaming, data transformation, integration, data exploitation, data modelling and architecture to data governance).

The difference you’ll make.

• Ensuring our Data Ingestion to lake and Cloud Data Migration journey will be an important cloud data Engineer as we strategically land our Data and Digital programmes of work.
• Solving data engineering challenges, such as ingestion of data to our Cloud and on-prem lakes, Automation of Serverless ETL Data Pipeline.
• Working with Data Lakes to achieve our Data acquisition/Ingestion.
• Delivering high quality product and services to exceed customers expectation.
• Ensuring there is a data driven approach is at the heart of our transformation through the application of Cloud-Native and Open-source technologies.

What you’ll bring.

• Considerable experience in software Engineering, data engineering, or related field with a track record of ingesting, transforming, processing, and extracting value from large volume of datasets.
• Demonstrable experience as a Full Stack SW Developer (AWS Cloud Services and Scala/Java/Spark).
• Considerable experience in contributing to develop and code end-2-end software solutions and analysis solutions.

It would also be nice for you to have.

• Excellent understanding and coding skills 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 using big data technologies (Hadoop, Hive, HBase, Streaming, etc), experience with highly scalable, distributed systems and data processing of large data sets.
• Experience with SQL (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Aurora) and NoSQL (AWS DynamoDB, Hbase, Mongo DB) and Graph Databases (Neo4j, AWS Neptune).

What else you need to know.

We will be conducting all interviews via telephone or video-conference where possible.

This role offers hybrid working with an expectation to travel to the Milton Keynes office as and when required (2-3 days per week)

This is a permanent position.

Everyday 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.

Opportunities to embrace Agile with us as we transform our business, work in an environment with leading edge technology, attend ‘Meet Ups’ and be part of internal and external technology communities and work for an organisation that’s dedicated to your learning and ongoing development.

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

• Competitive salary plus a £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits.
• 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
• 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
• Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including : Bupa medical insurance, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
• Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
• 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more
• Share in Santander’s success by investing in our share plans
• Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships

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.