Infrastructure Architect

Do you want to shape the future of banking?

Santander is developing and changing all the time. This makes us not just one of the biggest financial institutions in Europe, but also maybe the most exciting one. Especially for you as an employee. As a company, we embrace the agility to innovate. Building and adapting to new technology plays a big role in who we are now and what we will be in the future. We know that business runs better when IT runs at its best. That is why we are building a new Nordic IT organization, and we want you to be a part of it.

Since work is a huge part of your life, we want it to be interesting (new technology, subject matter and challenges) and fun (company outings, team sports, catered lunches). We keep up with the latest technologies, tools, and tricks of the trade- we are always refining our approach, and everyone has a seat at the table.

We are looking for you who have a Bachelor degree in Technology or IT, experience from IT operations and/or IT infrastructure and minimum three years work experience.

Being nice is a requirement and as we believe in sustainability, team-based ways of working and accepting and valuing differences between people, so do you.

You will be a part of a strong team with developers, architects, Scrum masters, Product owners, our Nordic IT operation unit, Cyber security teams and our Commercial partners cross Nordic to provide the highest level of availability, service and customer success.

Infrastructure architects provide the leadership, facilitation, analysis and design tasks required for the development of the Nordic Infrastructure architecture. The role create deliverables that help develop target-state guidance (reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts and configurations) for evolving the technical infrastructure across the bank, in order to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes.

Activities

Work with EA peers (e.g., enterprise, business, information and solutions architects) to analyze enterprise business context (business strategy and trends), as well as change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints (such as business, information and solution) to derive the infrastructure architecture future state. This includes defining the requirements, principles and models that guide technology decisions for the bank.

Drive digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate.

Define high-level migration plans to address the gaps between the current and future state, typically in sync with the IT budgeting or other capital planning processes.

Lead the analysis of the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement. In addition, lead the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise as well as on the enterprise technology architecture.

Coach, mentor and collaborate with technical subject matter experts and EA peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models.

Assist with designing the governance, assurance and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance.

Oversee, or consult on, infrastructure implementation and modification activities (for example, projects), particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions. Consult on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture, and identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise technical architecture (ETA) to accommodate immediate or future project needs.

Oversee and facilitate the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards, as well as the design of standard configurations.

Document the Infrastructure architecture design and analysis work

Lead and potentially manage a team of technical architects, while also virtually leveraging subject matter experts from any other needed technical area.

Collaborate with business constituents, other Architect team members, project teams and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above.

Good understanding of IT security, Data protection,

Azure Cloud technologies and platform, Kubernetes and Docker

Solution architecture, design and development

Good understanding of server and network Infrastructure

Microsoft server, SAN technology, Performance tuning, Vmware,

Firewall and network technology

Excellent communication skills, written and oral in English

1+ years working with Azure is beneficial together with certification on relevant technologies

Personal Characteristics

Highly self-motivated and directed

Keen attention to detail

Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities

Strong customer service orientation

Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment