This is an exciting opportunity to join our Originations team which is the front door of Nationwide. The Originations team is responsible for the design, build, test and support of the origination journeys across Retail products. Our objective is to deliver a suite of origination services on common cloud technology to our customers and colleagues.
As a DevOps engineer in Core Banking Originations you’ll be working in our Platform Team supporting agile scrum teams to build and enhance the Originations journeys our customers use to open new accounts with Nationwide. Our applications are the first thing many of our customers see, so to work in this role it is vital you have a keen eye for detail and you won’t be afraid to speak up with suggestions and/or improvements. In return, we offer the opportunity to work in a wide variety of technology stacks and tooling areas, enabling you to progress your skills and career.
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.
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.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing
Harnessing your experience in modern DevOps practices, cloud platforms, and automation, you’ll work as part of an agile, product‑focused team to design, build, and operate the platforms and services that power our customer‑facing applications.
You’ll collaborate closely with software engineers, engineering leads, security specialists, and reliability experts to deliver secure, scalable, and resilient digital journeys—ensuring our customers can seamlessly apply for products such as current accounts.
You’ll provide guidance and direction to less experienced engineers, helping them create high quality, fit for purpose artefacts that align with organisational requirements and engineering strategy. Throughout the delivery lifecycle, you will offer technical input and consultancy to stakeholders, and you lead or perform technical quality reviews within your squad or hub to ensure robust engineering standards are maintained.
In this role, you’ll use industry‑leading tools and technologies to create automated, repeatable, and observable delivery pipelines and infrastructure.
About you
You bring experience with:
- AWS and cloud‑native architectures
- Kubernetes for deploying and running containerised workloads
- Terraform for managing infrastructure as code
- Experience working with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) With GitHub Actions and GitOps principles
- Dynatrace or similar tools for observability and performance monitoring
An understanding of modern API driven web application architecture
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
Qualifications
The extras you’ll get
There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:
25 days holiday, pro rata
Access to private medical insurance
A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement
Access to an annual performance-related bonus
Training and development to help you progress your career
A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death
Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness
Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
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.
The hiring manager for this role is Naweed Jaulim, and the main recruitment contact is Nathan Richens.
Contact Details:
Nationwide Building Society Recruitment Team
