RESPONSIBILITIES

What you’ll be doing

You will be architecting and designing technical solutions and platforms and providing technical direction and guidance to engineers across multiple teams. Harnessing your experience of modern engineering techniques, technology, and tooling to define resilient and highly scalable solutions.

You will be helping ensure our solutions align to strategic direction and technology choices and are appropriate to meet the long terms goals of the business strategy, as well as lower-level requirements. You will need to ensure that the solutions meet guardrails and NFRs, as well as aligning to best practice architectures and patterns.

A team player who can lead by example, you will also nurture and develop contacts and relationships to enable things to be done faster and more efficiently. It is about getting stuck in and having a go, knowing that sometimes to fail fast is to learn fast.

About you

We are looking for someone with experience of the following:

• Proven experience designing and delivering end-to-end solution architectures within complex enterprise environments, with ownership of architecture deliverables such as Architecture Definition Documents (ADD), Solution Definition Documents (SDD), Architecture Decision Records (ADR)

• Experience producing and presenting architecture governance artefacts for approval forums, including Technology Design Authority (TDA) submissions, architecture assessments, risk assessments and option papers

• Strong understanding of application, integration, data and cloud architecture, with experience creating logical, physical and end-to-end architecture diagrams, interface specifications and integration designs

• Experience evaluating solution options and producing option assessments, recommendation papers and architecture roadmaps that support business and technology decision making

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience working across engineering, delivery and business teams to ensure architecture deliverables are complete, approved and implemented successfully

• Experience providing architecture assurance throughout delivery, including review and approval of detailed designs, API specifications, data models, deployment designs and operational readiness artefacts

• Architecting / designing and implementing fit for purpose solutions using both on-premises and Cloud platforms

• Designing and developing full stack solutions, with a strong understanding of good development practice on each tier of the stack

• Standard technology governance processes, including evidencing conformance to guardrails

Working with stakeholder/peers to understand the requirements and how the technical artefacts interlock with activities within and outside of the team, and where required negotiating solutions to align with principles and architectural strategy. Working with other stakeholders like Engineering, Architecture, Business Operations, Business Analysts and Service teams

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:

• 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

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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