Current jobs related to Engineer - E3 - Swindon, Swindon - Nationwide Building Society

Location

Swindon / Wiltshire

Other Locations

London / Greater London

Bournemouth / Dorset

Salary

Up to £75,000

Contract

Permanent (Full Time)

Reference

604

Closing Date

13 November 2025

This role is within Mortgages Chief Information Office (CIO), under Customer Technology, which is responsible for delivering IT solutions which have our customers and colleagues at heart. Sitting 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 space as part of integration.

You will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of the agreed roadmap that supports our integration and migration strategy working closely with the principal engineer and technology lead to provide leadership and support 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 principals.

This role will drive a culture of continuous improvement, with a focus on building technical capability across all disciplines. Across CT (Customer Technology), we have an important journey ahead of us to build and maintain our position in the market and respond to changing customer needs.

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, or Bournemouth 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.

For this role you will be leading a team delivering first-class solutions in an Agile environment, adopting DevOps practices to enable rapid iteration and driving continuous improvements. Working closely with the Lead Engineer and Technology Lead to ensure the quality of your solutions are resilient and stand up to be used by thousands of people every day.

By mentoring and developing your team to help build our development process and strategies, you will nurture and value proactive habits and to develop contacts and relationships, so things are done faster and more efficiently. By providing technical expertise at parts and/or all stages of the delivery lifecycle, including providing technical leadership.

At minimum you will have:

• Functional and technical experience in managing Mortgage Sales & Mortgage Insurance system and processing
• Strong experience in C#, NET framework 4.8 for building modern UIs, APIs using ASP.NET core (MVC and Web API)
• Experience designing and deploying microservices and distributed systems with usage of event streaming such as Kafka.
• Experience in AWS hosting APIs and using IAM, S3, Lambda, EKS, Route53.
• Experience of managing and leading small technical teams, comfortable leading design discussions and technical decision-making
• Knowledge of Dynatrace for monitoring
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization (OAuth2, OpenID Connect, JWT)
• Expertise in SQL Server (schema design, stored procedures, performance tuning). Experience with Entity Framework Core and ORMs

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.

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata
• From January 2026, all colleagues will have access to fully funded private medical insurance
• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16%
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

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.

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.

If you are successful in this role, your internal job title will be E3 – Engineer.