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Responsibilities

What you’ll be doing

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Payments Architecture team at a time of meaningful change, helping to shape practical, resilient and future-ready solutions. You will bring a broad base of solution architecture experience, together with hands-on understanding of payments schemes, standards, processes and technologies.

You’ll be a key part of the Payments Architecture team, supporting the Payments change portfolio by working alongside Payments feature teams, product and delivery colleagues, engineers, vendors, partners and architects from across Nationwide.

The role includes providing practical architecture advice on strategic technology issues, setting out clear options, trade-offs and recommendations so that change initiatives and sponsors can make informed decisions.

About you

As a minimum requirement, you’ll have:

• Experience applying architecture thinking to real payments change, balancing strategy, delivery, resilience, regulation and member outcomes
• Experience designing and delivering payments solutions in a UK financial services organisation or similarly regulated environment
• Applying practical knowledge of payment schemes, standards and end-to-end processing across some or all of Faster Payments, Bacs, CHAPS, international payments, debit and credit cards, ATMs and Open Banking
• Producing and assuring solution designs for large-scale technical change, including logical architecture, integration, data flows, non-functional requirements and operational considerations
• Working with payments technologies and platforms, including payment gateways, payment engines, APIs, message flows, third-party services, SaaS/PaaS capabilities, bespoke software and commercial off-the-shelf packages
• Applying payments standards and industry change, such as ISO 20022, scheme rule changes, message standards, settlement, reconciliation, exception handling and operational resilience considerations
• Providing architecture guidance to engineers and delivery teams, helping them create fit-for-purpose artefacts that meet business needs, technology strategy and governance expectations

Qualifications

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata
• Private medical insurance
• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
• Access to an annual performance-related bonus
• Training and development to help you progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community, we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

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