Lead Engineer E4 - Finance Lakehouse in London

Join us as an E4 Lead Engineer – Finance Lakehouse and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of finance technology at Nationwide Building Society. As part of our Finance and Treasury Value Stream, you’ll be at the heart of designing and delivering technology solutions that enable our Finance function to operate efficiently, accurately, and with agility.

The E4 Lead Engineer for Finance Federated Engineering will provide strategic, technical and people leadership for Nationwide's Finance Data Lakehouse capability, a critical component of the Finance Data Modernisation programme. The role is accountable for the engineering delivery, operation and continual evolution of the Finance Data Lakehouse platform, ensuring it delivers secure, scalable and resilient data products that support financial reporting, regulatory reporting, analytics and AI-driven decision making.

As the senior engineering leader for the platform, the role combines deep technical expertise with organisational leadership, overseeing a multidisciplinary team of permanent engineers and strategic suppliers. The role will establish engineering standards, drive adoption of modern engineering practices, and ensure solutions are delivered in accordance with architecture principles, security requirements and regulatory controls.

At Nationwide, we value diversity, innovation, and collaboration. We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where your ideas can make a real difference. If you’re passionate about technology and want to help shape the future of finance for one of the UK’s largest building societies, this is your chance to make an 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 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.

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.

Responsibilities

You’ll lead and develop the Finance Federated Engineering capability for the Finance Data Lakehouse, defining and executing the engineering roadmap and operating the platform. This will include providing technical leadership across Finance data products to ensure solutions are secure, scalable and maintainable, while building a high-performing engineering team focused on quality, automation and continuous improvement. You’ll establish engineering standards, governance and control frameworks suitable for a regulated financial services environment. As the senior engineering authority, you’ll coach and develop engineering talent, support succession planning, act as an escalation point for complex technical, operational and delivery challenges, and partner with senior Finance, Data and Technology stakeholders to deliver Finance Data Modernisation outcomes.

About you

Essential skills for this role include:

• Proven experience leading and developing large-scale engineering teams delivering enterprise data platform solutions including supplier teams
• Strong technical leadership with experience governing complex data platforms and driving strategic technology decisions.
• Solid understanding of modern data engineering, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD and engineering automation practices.
• Experienced with Databricks, Azure Data Platform and data engineering concepts, SQL, and integration patterns.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience working across senior Technology, Data and Finance leadership teams.
• Strong understanding of risk, security, compliance and audit requirements within a regulated environment.
• Proven ability to balance business priorities, delivery outcomes, operational resilience and long-term platform sustainability.
• Experience within Financial Services or other highly regulated industries.

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:

• 30 days holiday, pro rata
• 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.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be E4 Engineer.