Mortgages Integration Data Lead

You will be an integration data lead for all initiatives in the integration space for Mortgages supporting strategic roadmap, reliability, best practice adoption and resilience. This role is within our Mortgages CIO function under MTD (Member Technology Delivery), part of the wider COO organisation, which is responsible for delivering IT solutions which have our customers and colleagues at heart.

You will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of the agreed roadmap that supports our Data Integration and Migration Strategy. You will work closely with Principal engineers and the architecture team to provide thought leadership to our Engineering teams.

As a Lead Engineer you will ensure our systems and platforms are designed, developed and tested in a resilient and secure manner, aligned to strategy, ensuring we're applying good engineering practices and principles. This role is within The Mortgages CIO function. Mortgages are primarily provided via brokers, through our online and API channel. We are actively expanding our propositions in both Home and Landlord spaces as part of the integration.

This role will drive a culture of continuous improvement, with a focus on building technical capability (including people) across all disciplines. Across MTD, we have an important journey ahead of us to build and maintain our position in the market and respond to changing customer needs, guided by the strategic pillars of More Rewarding Relationship, Simply Brilliant Service and Focused, Fit and Fast. This is a pivotal role within the MTD Engineering team, who rely on this role for support in planning and strategic thinking to drive forward the delivery agenda.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a 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.

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 Swindon, London, Bournemouth or Northampton office. 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

• Lead and take responsibility of data migration strategy in the mortgages area for the integration programme with a potential to expand the team.
• You will be expected to take accountability for the lifecycle of the data engineering function within the Mortgages area, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and mentoring to technical teams, guiding them on engineering principles, design patterns, and implementation techniques.
• Lead the ongoing evolution of the Data engineering capability, to ensure that it continuously improves and can meet the ongoing needs of the Society.
• Involved in creating technical design documents from the functional specification documents.
• Play a key role in Data discovery from the integration and migration perspective.
• Provide technology and architectural leadership, strategic direction and long-term vision for VM integration.
• Provide guidance and direction to a team of engineers to create fit for purpose artefacts, that meet requirements of the organisation and fit the technology strategy.
• Provide technical expertise at parts and/or all stages of the delivery lifecycle, including providing technical leadership and consultancy to stakeholders.
• Participate in strategic planning, architectural decisions and collaboration opportunities related to Virgin Money integration.
• People manage and nurture a team of engineers to build a strong and high performing team.
• Organise the work of the team relying on technical knowledge to create efficiencies and give appropriate direction.

About you

We need somebody with:

• Hands-on experience and working knowledge on data systems, Extract-Transform-Load tools, and data engineering.
• Extensive experience in Banking and financial industry working across products including mortgages or other lending products.
• Prior experience of delivery in Customer master systems, data migration strategy, secure/ unsecure lending applications, large modernisation programmes, cloud migration and hyper scalar systems.
• Experience of leading data integration or data modelling for integration/ migration strategy across organizations in the merger or acquisition scenario is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated experience in adopting and implementing emerging technologies with a mix of both on-prem and cloud solutions.
• You will have a career background that has evolved through a technical discipline (preferably through implementation and design) in the Data and ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) space towards a leadership role. You will demonstrably have the confidence to make decisions and the humility to change course when needed.
• Deep applied and proven experience in leading complex transformation programmes within a highly regulated environment, preferably in the financial services or banking sector.
• You'll be a constant learner, open to new ideas and new ways of doing things.

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.

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

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.

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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