Nationwide is a Mutual organisation. This means it is owned by, and run for, our customers who are members of the Nationwide Society, and who have mortgages, savings, or current accounts with us. Nationwide was founded with a strong underlying social purpose, to help people save money and buy homes, and we are still guided by this same social purpose today, as we implement what we call our Blueprint for a Modern Mutual. We express this as "Banking, but fairer, more rewarding and for the good of society."
It's an exciting time of considerable and ambitious change at Nationwide, as we continue to evolve to a new future in which we accelerate delivery of value to our customers, enhance digital journeys and engage with our colleagues around new ways of working. In order to deliver our Business vision, it is critical that our Technology Architecture is aligned with our business and technology strategy.
Working within the Chief Technology Office, this role will be responsible:
- To contribute to the technical architecture for applications across the society on behalf of the Chief Technology Officer.
- To actively champion the creation of any technical architecture assets needed to ensure the effective delivery of strategic change.
- To understand and manage the technical risks across your specialist areas.
- To bring SME knowledge and architectural thinking across application and integration technologies.
- Act as the gateway to the CTO Technical Design Authority (TDA), escalating items that are either of broader enterprise significance and provide clear direction to enable effective delivery.
- To bring strong and effective constructive challenge to pragmatically close outstanding architectural questions.
- To ensure delivery programmes that impact their domains are aware of the relevant CTO owned controls.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an Architect with a keen interest in application technologies who wants to drive transformation through the society. We will need you to be adept and proven at navigating different business and technical domains and influencing through building effective working relationships.
We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.
The working hours (per week) for this role can be between 28-35.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible. More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working. We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time,
based at either our London, Swindon, Bournemouth or Northampton office. Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role, if you're an applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
What you'll be doingAs the Senior Technology Architect, you will play an important role in the leadership of the Chief Technology Office, with a particular focus on technical architecture of applications.
Key responsibilities: - To lead the effective closure of cross cutting technical architecture concerns, through effective collaboration with other architects and engineers across the society.
- Influence and stakeholder manage up to C level to ensure our Application Technology Architecture evolves and is delivered through transformational programmes.
- Maintaining appropriate architectural artefacts which can be consumed across the architecture community.
- Work with the strategic vendors to both plan how to exploit their roadmap and to influence the roadmap to meet our future needs.
About youThe requirements for this role are:
- Expert in application and integration technologies from the Microsoft portfolio such as .NET and AWS and/or Azure managed services.
- Knowledge of application security, e.g., OAUTH, JWTs, Identity Providers, authentication and authorisation approaches.
- Modern application architecture approaches such as event based systems, microservices and containerisation.
- Demonstrable experience as an architect, who can articulate the benefits of taking an 'enterprise' approach and produce required architectural artefacts
- Experience in large scale transformation projects.
- Skilled at building relationships, negotiating, and influencing senior stakeholders from enterprise, business, data and technology architecture.
- Experience of setting a compelling architectural vision and communicating that to team members and other stakeholders.
- Results and goal orientation, the ability to set realistic yet ambitious and measurable goals and objectives.
Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.
- Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
- Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
- Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.
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The extras you'll getThere are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
- A personal pension - if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
- Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
- Life assurance worth 8x your salary
- A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
- Wellhub - Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
- Access to an annual performance related bonus
- Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
- 30 days holiday, pro rata
- Individual healthcare cover
What makes us differentNationwide is the world's largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population. We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.
As a building society, we're owned by our members - that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose - Banking - but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.
What to do nextIf 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.
We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.
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