Technical Lead

Technical Lead (Native Mobile)

Swindon or London

Our Digital Engineering Function are looking for a Tech Lead. As we embark on a new chapter, evolving the way in which we deliver and support first class banking app platform, we’re looking for an experienced Tech Lead to provide technical leadership and direction to a highly motivated team of multi skilled engineers.

At Nationwide we openly put our 15 million members at the centre of every decision we make as a business. Every role, no matter what it’s doing, is member focused.

As a Tech Lead, you’ll be part of a strong technical and delivery team, working closely with the Engineering Leads, Delivery Lead, Chief Product Owner and Architecture. Your primary focus will be on leading and developing engineering teams covering a variety of technologies within Digital Engineering (part of CD&I) however, you’ll frequently collaborate with and contribute to the broader Engineering teams of Cloud, Digital and Integration too.

You will provide technical leadership and oversight of multiple Digital Engineering teams and you will be a member of the Digital Tech Management Team under the Director of Channels Engineering.

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 our Ramsbury House office in Swindon. 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.

What you’ll be doing

In addition to operating at various levels, contributing to the company’s strategic technology direction, defining engineering patterns / standards, leading the delivery of solutions, ensuring quality by demonstrating adherence to governance and guardrails on a day-to-day basis, your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Delivery and Tech Lead in technical decisions/release planning etc
• Leading multiple development teams being the technical authority in the delivery team’s sprints
• Working with the Scrum Masters and Dev Team Leads for relevant deliveries being responsible for technical oversight and where appropriate, product ownership of the delivery team’s dev backlogs
• Review business requirements and the technical artifacts required for delivery, accountably for Identifying and implementing technically complex artefacts (e.g problem solving, software development, automation, code review, model based testing, right test approach, ticket resolution, infrastructure and environment design and build etc) to meet the team objectives.
• Defining and prioritising team backlogs, working closely with other engineering leads, solution engineer, product owners and programme managers
• You’ll be expected to lead/oversee complex solution designs as well as supporting implementation tasks and troubleshooting activities where required.
• Where appropriate you’ll collaborate with architecture, delivery & operational teams to ensure you’re guided by a deep understanding of their challenges, enabling you to deliver quality solutions in line with the Society’s strategy & architecture roadmap.
• Working closely with the Digital Engineering and wider NBS Infrastructure teams in addition to the software development teams
• You'll work in an agile manner with programme managers, while providing technical leadership and guidance to engineers within the Engineering teams.
• It will be necessary to perform direct line management of up to 10 FTE (E1-3), as well as acting as a mentor or coach some of our team members.
• You'll help shape and develop the engineering team to ensure that we are optimally positioned to deliver our vision.

About you

We are looking for someone who has:

• An extensive background of and experience working in digital technologies and deliveries in a senior capacity.
• Experience in development of and troubleshooting complex, large scale, fault tolerant systems.
• Must have a solid background in programming in a modern programming language such as Swift/Kotlin, .Net, React etc.
• Knowledge of Sencha framework or Service Mesh technologies such as Istio or Gloomesh.
• Must have experience in leading technical teams across the IT disciplines of Application, Test and Infrastructure.
• Experience in stakeholder management including influencing external departments and stakeholders.
• SME in mobile applications technologies and patterns
• Demonstrable evidence of Continuous Improvement / Continuous Delivery through Automation.
• Have experience of working in a complex business environment, where there is a requirement to understand the impact of own area on others and inter-dependencies both from a people and technological perspective.

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 get

There 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 different

Nationwide 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.