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RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be a key part of the core banking architecture team, supporting both our own change portfolio, and that of other teams across Nationwide. You’ll work with product owners, engineers, suppliers, partners and other architects to shape and define direction, and to ensure delivery stays on track.

You’ll provide thought leadership for core banking, helping the portfolio make confident technology choices that balance innovation, member and colleague outcomes, resilience, cost, risk and governance.

You’ll shape, lead and track the plan for architectural deliverables to define target states and transition states for applications across core banking. You’ll create high-quality architecture artefacts and outputs that influence senior business and technology stakeholders to enable timely, well-informed decisions that lead to strategic and tangible technology outcomes. You’ll ensure designs are secure, resilient, supportable and aligned to relevant governance, patterns, standards and guardrails.

You’ll lead and coach Solution Architects and engineers across the portfolio to produce high-quality design artefacts and deliver within governance. You’ll provide clear direction, practical assurance and constructive coaching so quality improves, rework is minimised and escalations are managed effectively.

You’ll actively support architecture practice improvements, contributing tangible actions that improve productivity, consistency, communication and quality of output across the team.

About you

Core experience for this role includes:

• You’ll have a background of experience working with SAP and SAP Fioneer technologies and applications.
• You’ll have worked in a regulated environment, specifically UK financial services.
• Leading complex portfolios of change, defining direction and providing thought leadership on complex architectural topics, creating clarity where there are competing priorities, incomplete information or differing stakeholder views.
• Using data, insight and structured storytelling to influence senior stakeholders, secure buy-in and enable timely architecture and technology decisions.
• Producing high-quality architecture artefacts, including logical architecture, integration views, data flows, non-functional requirements, options analysis, decision papers, governance submissions and senior stakeholder papers.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

QUALIFICATIONS

The extras you’ll get

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

• 30 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

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

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