Estimation Manager - S3 - Demand Management

at  Santander

THE DIFFERENCE YOU’LL MAKE:

• Leading the assessment of all new infrastructure demand to establish desired outcomes, overall scope and sufficient requirement detail to generate the most appropriate and accurate estimates
• Estimating and forecasting the required resources to deliver new demands, factoring for current and future technology choices, with a longer-term cloud-based approach
• Engaging with all required teams and the CIO domains to ensure strategic direction and goals
• Striving to achieve results as expediently as possible in the designs and estimates provided with well grounded, realistic and signed off delivery timeline estimates
• Helping build MI reports and dashboards for executive level reporting using Power BI
• Seeking the most economic and cost-effective solutions to new demands, monitoring potential savings that can be achieved while also meeting the outcomes desired

WHAT ELSE YOU NEED TO KNOW:

This role is a permanent position to be based in Milton Keynes.
We want our people to thrive at work and home, and also be able to deliver the best outcomes for our customers and to help each other develop. To support this, we offer site-based contracts with a hybrid working pattern and our expected level of attendance in an office is at least 12 days per month (pro-rata for part-time roles).
If you apply for this role in this location, it’s important you consider your travelling distance, time and cost from your home to the office location.
We’re happy to discuss specific working patterns and arrangement within this hybrid approach during the recruitment process.
If you’re interested in this role but with part time hours or a job-share we would still love to hear from you and discuss these.

APPLICATION PROCESS

If your application is successful a member of our recruitment team will be in touch. We will arrange a short call with you to learn more about you and what you are looking for from your next career move, as well as answer any questions you have about working in the Santander tech team. If both sides agree we will send your CV to the hiring manager to review. For this position, the interview process will be :–
1st Stage – A 60 minute virtual session consisting of Technical questions
2nd Stage – a 60 minute face to face meeting consisting of Competency and some Technical questions.
If there’s anything we can do in the recruitment process to help you achieve your best, please let us know.

• Extensive knowledge and hands on experience in data modelling and MI dashboard creation using MS power BI
• Extensive experience in building DAX queries and functions in Power BI. Experience in using workspaces and security roles in Power BI
• Broad experience gained within an IT project management discipline across an Infrastructure and Operations domain with successful delivery to timeline and cost estimates
• Demonstrates leadership of the function to act as a go-to person with accountability for how the team operates
• Experience of financial management across budget utilisation and project cost estimation to demonstrate control over the estimation process
• Experience in planning/assessment for complex technology solutions, focused on the underlying infrastructure and services, to support core business critical application