Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure Architect - Santander Digital Services

Country: Spain

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**

**SANTANDER TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS is looking for an Infrastructure Architect **based in Madrid**

**WHY YOU SHOULD JOIN US**

At Santander, you can be part of one of the largest transformations the World is experiencing in the past several decades. The emergence of disruptive platforms as a business model has reshaped other industries and is poised to do the same in financial services.

We are looking for professionals like you, with the skills and competencies required for the development of digital solutions for the creation, implementation and evolution of the new Global Platforms required for Santander Group all over the world.

And on top of a meaningful job, we care about you. At Santander, this means creating a workplace that respects your individuality and supports you to enjoy life outside work. You will enjoy flexible working conditions, a global well-being program, BeHealthy, and will be entitled to spend a certain number of hours each month volunteering.

**WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING**

As an **Infrastructure Architect **your mission will be consult and designing information systems to support the enterprise infrastructure of an organization, ensuring that all systems are working at optimal levels and supporting the development of new technologies and system requirements.

We need somebody like you to help us in different fronts to:

- Model the hardware and base software elements across an enterprise and the relationship between them, considering resilience, capacity, performance, manageability and some others capabilities.
- Explaining architectures and solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.

**WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING**

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION
- Degree in computer science, information sciences engineering or equivalent technical discipline. MBA a plus.
- +4 years’ experience as an Infrastructure Architect or similar.
- Be used to the Agile ways of working.
- Fluent in English and Spanish written and spoken.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

**Knowledge Required**

Knowledge of:

- Evaluate technology, market trends and industry plus identify prospective impact on business. Main focus on Compute, Storage and Network areas, mainly on-prem environments, private cloud included.
- Analyze System Requirements.
- Recommend Alternative Technologies and Improvements.
- Lead Design and Review of New Systems.
- Plan for Integration.
- Evaluate Projects.
- Methods and tools to develop a blueprint for the future state of IT; ability to develop the roadmap of it, while aligning the architecture and processes with business strategies and objectives.
- Tools, methods, and techniques of requirement analysis; ability to elicit, analyse and record required business functionality and non-functionality requirements to ensure the success of a system or software development project.
- Knowledge of and the ability to design and improve organizational IT structures in order to better support business operations, for example, by providing data in a more expedient manner.
- Knowledge of and experience with developing and supporting software for a distributed environment.
- Knowledge of and the ability to design, implement and integrate IT hardware for its use in business environments.
- Strong Technical & Software Architecture background, including backend technologies in some of the following:

- Virtual Environments, operating systems.
- Virtual appliances and hardware solutions (compute, storage and network).
- Storage and backup solutions.
- Wireline, wireless and hybrid network infrastructure
- Resiliency, DR, capacity planning and performance.
- Monitoring and Observability tools and environments.

**Other skills required**
- Flexibility and adaptability.
- Analytical Thinking.
- Decision making and critical thinking.
- Communicating Complex Concepts.
- Planning: Tactical and Strategic.
- Continuous Transformation.

**ABOUT US**

At Santander you will enjoy **#TheSantanderEffect **. Here, with only a small action or a simple idea, you can do great things. We offer you the advantages and the means to contribute to the progress of more than 150 million people around the world. These are the key factors that multiply the actions of all our employees:

- Meaningful Impact - Where the effect of your work makes a difference and helps people to prosper.
- Personal and Professional Growth - The chance to develop through world-class training, challenging work, and different roles.
- Respect - Be part of an organization that cares - about its people, its wider community, and the environment.
- Co-worker quality - Work with inspiring professionals who are leaders in their field.
- Global stability - Work for a solid global organization that has successfully reinvented itself many times in its 160- year history.