Let \({\mathbb {D}}=\{z \in {\mathbb {C}}: |z| < 1 \}\) and \(\alpha >0\) . Let \({\mathcal {F}}_{\alpha }\) be the collection of all holomorphic functions defined for \(z\in {\mathbb {D}}\) by integrating the kernel \((1-\overline{\zeta }z)^{-\alpha }\) against a complex valued measure on the \({\mathbb {T}} = \partial {\mathbb {D}}\) . Considering the generalized Stevic–Sharma type operator on \({\mathcal {F}}_{\alpha }\) , we find an estimate for the essential norm of the operator.