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Santander

About Us

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.

We have set ourselves an ambitious target - to become one of the best banks in the UK to work for. We’re transforming our business, creating a Simple, Personal and Fair culture in a dynamic and creative environment. We are committed to making a difference.

Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and so do our people. We aim to reflect and celebrate diversity in our workplace in order to create an inclusive culture that adds real value to our business.


We care about you

In Santander, this means creating a workplace that respects your individuality and supports you to enjoy life outside work, from volunteering in the community to more family time.

We care about you and enhancing society and protecting the environment through products and services that enable people and communities to prosper. In short, it means supporting your ambitions and interests at every level.


Emerging Talent

It’s not your background or degree that matters to us. It’s not who you know or how you can blend in. We’re interested in your unique perspective, capacity to be yourself, and drive to take on challenges that will help you discover your career path.

Our programmes have been designed to bring out the best in you, providing you with the training and opportunities to set your potential free.


Our culture

The Santander Way expresses the culture we foster to ensure we deliver on our values ‘Simple, Personal and Fair’. At its core are five simple behaviours (TEAMS) which will fuel our growth, provide a shared focus and help us move faster.

When you become part of Santander you’re joining an incredible community of people with a shared respect, who put our customers at the heart of everything they do. Our behaviours guide us on our transformation journey as we innovate to help people and businesses prosper, both in the UK and globally. 
Think Customer
Embrace Change
Act Now
Move Together
Speak UP
These are the foundations of how we all work and connect with each other day-to-day, and something you’ll learn even more about when you join us..

29 Nov, 2023
Full time
Technical Project Manager
Santander Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Solution Architect | S3 | Architecture | Milton Keynes/Hybrid Join our community. Come and join us on our journey of transformation as a Solutions Architect within Santander Services. You'll work closely with other architecture teams, eg, Enterprise, Technical, Data & Security Architecture and will collaborate with Business and IT colleagues in Santander UK, as well as Santander Global Architecture. The team concentrates on the functional architecture of applications and how they interact with other systems in the Architecture Landscape of Santander UK, Group and 3rd Parties. The team effectively works as an Architecture Community across domains sharing reusable patterns and solutions learnt on projects, independently of projects and domains. The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of the capabilities for: Corporate Banking: All aspects of the Corporate Products Sales & Servicing for medium to large enterprises e.g., Invoice Financing, Supplier...
29 Nov, 2023
Full time
Solution Architect
Santander Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Solution Architect | S3 | Architecture | Milton Keynes/Hybrid Join our community. Come and join us on our journey of transformation as a Solutions Architect within Santander Services. You'll work closely with other architecture teams, eg, Enterprise, Technical, Data & Security Architecture and will collaborate with Business and IT colleagues in Santander UK, as well as Santander Global Architecture. The team concentrates on the functional architecture of applications and how they interact with other systems in the Architecture Landscape of Santander UK, Group and 3rd Parties. The team effectively works as an Architecture Community across domains sharing reusable patterns and solutions learnt on projects, independently of projects and domains. The successful candidate will have strong knowledge of the capabilities for: Corporate Banking: All aspects of the Corporate Products Sales & Servicing for medium to large enterprises e.g., Invoice Financing, Supplier...
02 Nov, 2023
Full time
Technical Specialist
Santander Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Join our community. This is an exciting opportunity to work in an agile environment as part of a technical team to deliver on behalf of the banks marketing requirements. It's an engaging opportunity to work as a Technical Specialist within the Marketing / CRM function of the bank. The NEOBrain technical team are responsible for ensuring that the platform is maintained and continually runs as expected to deliver key communications to our customers. Additionally, we support business change across the platform to improve processes, increase revenue and critically keep the platform running. The difference you'll make. Problem solving / Troubleshooting for the Technical Team & Business Managing risk to the bank, the platform, and the success of the team Presenting and communicating at all levels Working independently and be self-motivated. What you'll bring. Experience of Pega Marketing / Customer Decisioning Hub (CDH) SDA - Senior...
20 Mar, 2023
Full time
Legal Counsel
Santander Hybrid (Milton Keynes, UK)
This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which can be discussed with the recruitment team during the hiring process. Join our community We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Lawyer to join our Retail, Wealth & Business Banking legal team to support our wealth division. This role would be suited to a qualified solicitor who is seeking the opportunity to deliver expert, accurate, and cost-effective legal advice in relation to wealth issues. As part of the wider retail, business banking and wealth legal team you will be the lead lawyer on investments and private banking working closely with the very strong wealth compliance team on matters such as conduct risk. We’re looking for someone experienced in MiFID II and other relevant regulations who can work on investments and structured products and deal with the relevant commercial issues. The difference you’ll make Providing high quality legal support for Santander UK’s retail banking business on...
20 Mar, 2023
Full time
Legal Counsel
Santander Hybrid (Milton Keynes, UK)
This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which can be discussed with the recruitment team during the hiring process. Join our community We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced legal counsel to join our highly successful and renowned in-house recoveries financial support litigation team.  This role would be suited to a qualified solicitor who is seeking the opportunity to deliver expert, accurate, and cost-effective legal advice in relation to litigation and litigation avoidance issues.  Reporting into the Head of Legal within Everyday Banking, Homes, and Financial Support. You’ll be working within an extraordinary environment where you will learn from others and be able to share your knowledge and experience. Legal and Compliance are a diverse team of professionals working together for the best interest of our customers, employees, shareholders, and communities. The difference you’ll make Providing high quality, concise and pragmatic SME legal...
20 Mar, 2023
Full time
Legal Counsel
Santander Hybrid (Milton Keynes, UK)
This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which can be discussed with the recruitment team during the hiring process. Join our community We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Lawyer to join our highly successful Retail, Wealth & Business Banking legal team to support our mortgage division. This role would be suited to a qualified solicitor who is seeking the opportunity to deliver expert, accurate, and cost-effective legal advice in relation to mortgage issues. Reporting into the Head of Legal within mortgages, you’ll be providing high quality legal support for Santander’s UK retail banking businesses on mortgage matters. You will be support through communicating in a way which will build effective and lasting relationships with all stakeholders. The difference you’ll make. Providing high quality legal advice to stakeholders on all mortgage matters. Reporting to the Head of Legal, Retail, Wealth & Business Banking team within the...
20 Mar, 2023
Full time
Legal Counsel
Santander Hybrid (Milton Keynes, UK)
This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which can be discussed with the recruitment team during the hiring process. Join our community We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Legal Counsel to join our employment team. Within the legal team, you will have the opportunity to grow in one of most international functions at Santander, having the possibility to develop your career and work with a diverse group of legal and compliance professionals.  Reporting to our Managing Legal Counsel within employment. You’ll have the opportunity to deliver technically sound, business focused, concise and cost-effective employment legal advice. Working with multiple functions across Santander you’ll support in communicating in a way which is readily understandable to non-lawyers operating in the UK financial services sector.  This role plays a key part in mitigating employment risk across Santander. The difference you’ll make Managing of employment litigation matters...
20 Mar, 2023
Full time
Legal Counsel
Santander Hybrid (Milton Keynes, UK)
This role is offered on a hybrid basis, which can be discussed with the recruitment team during the hiring process. Join our community We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Lawyer to join our highly successful Corporate Banking legal team.  You’ll play a key role in supporting our transaction banking and payments division by delivering expert, accurate, concise, and cost-effective legal advice. Working with multiple functions across Santander you’ll support in communicating in a way which is readily understandable to non-lawyers operating in the UK financial services sector.  The successful candidate will manage & mitigate risk in a commercially appropriate way to the legal and regulatory frameworks within which the business operates. You’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate creativity and innovation in reaching practical solutions on complex subject matters. This role could be suited to you if you are comfortable challenging the status quo when...