Are you a highly skilled performance tester with a passion for delivering robust, scalable, and high-performing systems? Do you have the expertise to lead a team and drive performance testing strategies for a cutting-edge enterprise event-driven architecture? If so, we want to hear from you!
We are seeking an experienced
Lead Performance Tester to join our team. In this role, you will take ownership of the performance testing strategy for our enterprise event driven platform internally known as 'The Speed Layer', built on
OpenShift,
Kafka, and
MongoDB. You will play a critical role in ensuring the platform's reliability and scalability while leading a high-performing team of performance testers.
Why Join Us? - Be at the forefront of innovation, working on a critical enterprise platform.
- Lead a talented team and make a tangible impact on system performance.
- Enjoy a supportive and collaborative work environment with opportunities for professional growth.
We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.
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 or Bournemouth offices. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. 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 doing - Develop, own, and evolve the performance test strategy for the enterprise event-driven architecture.
- Lead and mentor a team of performance testers to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Collaborate with architects, developers, and other stakeholders to ensure performance is a key consideration in platform design and development.
- Conduct performance testing, analyse results and provide actionable recommendations to improve system performance.
- Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in performance testing and enterprise architecture.
About you - A strong background and extensive experience in performance testing, with strong expertise in Java.
- Deep understanding of enterprise event-driven architectures and technologies such as Kafka, MongoDB, and OpenShift.
- Proven ability to lead and inspire a high-performing team.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a focus on delivering results.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills; you'll be articulating solutions to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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.
We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you're sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.
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
- 25 days holiday, pro rata
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.
