We’re looking for a hands-on Feature .Net Team Lead to join our Credit Risk engineering team. You’ll lead a feature team delivering high-quality, cloud-native services that support credit decisioning across a range of products, while ensuring strong engineering standards and alignment with platform guardrails.
You’ll be part of our Credit Risk engineering team, working on a strategic platform that enables responsible lending decisions across mortgages, credit cards, current accounts, loans, and emerging business banking capabilities.
In this role, you’ll combine hands-on development with feature team leadership. You’ll be responsible for ensuring your team delivers well-designed, scalable and high-quality solutions aligned with enterprise architecture and engineering standards. You’ll play a key role in translating technical designs into working software, driving engineering best practices, and maintaining delivery momentum within your feature area.
You will work closely with other engineers, architects, and product teams, contributing to a collaborative environment that supports continuous improvement and reliable delivery
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 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.
Responsibilities
What you’ll be doing
A typical day involves leading your feature team to design and build services that support the Credit Risk platform while also contributing hands-on to development work. You will turn solution designs into working software, making sure the code is well structured, reliable, and performs well. Throughout the day, you will review code, support team members with technical challenges, and ensure everyone follows agreed standards and ways of working. You will also work with data systems and make sure changes are delivered smoothly through the release process. Alongside this, you will stay in close contact with stakeholders to keep work on track and deliver features on time.
About you
- Hands-on experience building applications using .NET Core (APIs)
- Experience working with document-based/NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB or equivalent)
- Solid understanding of API design principles and microservices-based architectures
- Experience contributing to production-grade systems with a focus on quality and reliability
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar) and their importance in delivery
- Experience leading a feature team or workstream, ensuring alignment to standards and timelines
- Ability to enforce engineering guardrails and ensure consistent implementation across the team
- Experience problem-solving skills and attention to detail in design and implementation
- Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across engineering and product team
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 Amardeep Gawri, and the main recruitment contact is Nathan Richens.
Contact Details:
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