Overview

Position Title: Digital Certificate Team Leader

Company: Santander UK

Location: Dagenham, UK

Job Description:

Here at Santander Global Technology & Operations we push the boundaries and create innovative, customer centric tech solutions for Santander. We collaborate to provide these world-class technical solutions and are adopting Agile across our business as we digitally transform our platforms and services to create the bank of the future.

Responsibilities:

  • Managing the definition and the technical direction, roadmap, and technical solutions for the product(s) implementation as well as collaborating with the different Design Authorities to identify, define, and reuse Design Patterns, best practices, and architectural decisions. You’ll feel the impact of your work across our organization
  • Delivering implementing APIs best practices in the products
  • Reporting to senior management at several levels
  • Providing steer to the the adoption of the Santander Cloud strategy for the products that you will support
  • Ensuring that you lead from the front and mentor a team of engineers to further their technical prowess. You succeed when your team does

Requirements:

  • Technical leadership position within the Cyber Protect Network Security team
  • The role will be a mixture of Technical leadership, designing new solutions and services, as well as owning the operational aspects across the whole HSM and PKI Security Infrastructure across the Santander UK Group.
  • Responsible for the Technical leadership of a small team of digital certificate engineers.
  • Responsible for the management and support of the HSM/PKI security infrastructure ensuring 24/7/365 availability covering all levels of support (1st/2nd/3rdLine).
  • Ensure the integrity and availability of cryptographic and key management services to business functions and applications.
  • Communicate with stake holders on complex cryptography solutions/products.
  • Deep understanding of change disciplines including change and release management and track record of delivering change projects in a timely manner with high quality.
  • Drive the enhancement of Third party and Supplier products/solutions to meet requirements.
  • Maintain an awareness of industry ‘state of the art’ and apply that knowledge when consulting on new concepts/products such as Cloud technologies
  • Ensuring any issues are dealt with within the business recovery timeframes and frameworks.
  • Responsible for the on-going maintenance/upgrade/documentation of all infrastructure components.
  • Perform on-going audits/vulnerability analysis on key components and ensuring compliance against regulatory requirements.
  • Developing other team members through mentoring and skills/knowledge transfer.
  • Design and develop quality standards and policies relating to all products within the specific technical area of expertise
  • Report and escalate to management as needed.
  • Use and continually develop leadership skills

About Santander UK

Our purpose at Santander UK is to help people and businesses prosper. We are a leading financial services provider, offering a wide range of personal and commercial financial products and services, with around 15 million customers across our Retail and Corporate Businesses.