Application Engineering Lead Engineer - E4.

A fantastic and rare opportunity to lead our Application Engineering function within Payments CIO as an Application Engineering Lead Engineer. The team is responsible for developing, enhancing and supporting a platinum business service payments system, built on cloud-based services and containerised Java microservices. This is a critical payments system which is core to our members’ banking needs.

In this pivotal role you will lead a large application engineering capability of up to 60 Java developers, taking responsibility for day-to-day engineering delivery across mission-critical payments services. Focusing on delivery, quality and service resilience, you will foster a proactive engineering culture and ensure the solutions delivered by the team are of the highest standard.

You will be considered a technical SME and engineering leader with deep experience in Java application engineering, microservices, CI/CD automation, AI-enabled engineering practices and modern software delivery, using your skills and experience to mentor, guide and develop engineers across the team.

You will represent the application engineering team with senior stakeholders across the Society, ensuring engineering decisions consider the wider organisational context and support the strategic direction of Payments technology.

You are tasked with leading the team to ensure the applications being delivered are resilient, secure, performant and aligned to organisational guardrails, while ensuring cost, efficiency and maintainability are considered throughout the engineering lifecycle.

You’ll be at the frontline, delivering our vision to our members by building, Improving, and maintaining a system used to process millions of transactions every day. You’ll be given the opportunity to work with the most up-to-date technologies to deliver real change.

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 Swindon or London 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. 

Whilst these locations are where we are primarily looking to fill the role, if you’re an internal applicant based in a different location we would welcome your application and if successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this could work for this specific role. You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here.

Nationwide is committed to the redeployment of our employees impacted by change, as such applications for redeployment candidates will be prioritised in this recruitment process.
 
If you’re a colleague on long-term absence (for example, on parental leave) or a temporary worker, please use your personal email address to submit an application.