Senior Architect

4 weeks ago


United Kingdom Nationwide Full time

As a Senior Payments Architect, you will be working in a multi-disciplinary team, informing the technical vision, nurturing technology roadmaps, and defining the transition states to move from the current to the target architecture for the Payments systems used by our members and colleagues. You will collaborate with a wide variety of stakeholders, vendors, and partners from across technology, delivery, and product. This role sits within the Payments Architecture team within the Member Technology Delivery (COO), and reports directly into the Payments Principal Architect. Electronic Payments : Continuing our Payments Modernisation (“Paymod”) journey and simplifying our application estate
ATM : Upgrading our ATM network to enable new functionality and support our members’ continued access to cash
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Payments Architecture team at a time of real change, where you will be at the heart of driving this agenda and able to make a real impact. The successful candidate will have a broad range of senior architecture experience together with a sound understanding of the Payments world.
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, at one of our offices. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .
You will be a key part of the Payments Architecture leadership team. You will play a pivotal role in connecting and facilitating alignment of the Payments CIO to Business and IT Strategies from across the society through working with colleagues from Enterprise Architecture alongside Senior Technology Architects and Engineers from our other functions. You will have one or more Solution Architect line reports and will be responsible for mentoring and developing junior members of the team.
You will be accountable for the end-to-end technology architecture ensuring solution completeness and integrity. You will both develop local and ensure alignment to enterprise: patterns; You will lead on the development of our 18-month technical roadmaps for the Payments sub-portfolio, working closely with the Payments Principal Architect and colleagues in Enterprise Architecture and other sub-portfolios to inform the longer-term vision and 3-5 year roadmaps.
You will provide the point of expertise/consultancy for key strategic technology issues – responding with structured, sound, and informed options to enable change initiatives and their sponsors to make informed decisions.
Senior/Lead Payments Architecture in a Tier 1 UK financial services organisation (or similar regulated environment), covering some or all of Electronic Payments (Faster Payments, Bacs, ICS, CHAPS & International), Card Payments (debit and credit, as merchant and/or issuer), ATMs and Confirmation of Payee
Developing and implementing target state architectures and technology roadmaps
Integrating bespoke software, commercial off-the-shelf packages, and 3 rd party services (including SaaS/PaaS)
Experience of delivering major Payments transformation programmes
Experience working as an architect within agile methodologies
Exposure to industry initiatives within Payments, such as RTGS Renewal, New Payments Architecture, SWIFT CBPR+, Enhanced Fraud Data, Open Finance and ISO 20022
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.
A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
~ Life assurance worth 8x your salary
~ A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
~ Access to an annual performance related bonus
~ Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
~30 days holiday, pro rata
~ Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us.



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