Architect in Swindon

Description

We're looking for an experienced Architect to help shape and evolve the technology and data platform within the Remediation Centre of Excellence. You’ll be at the heart of designing and delivering technology solutions that enable our project and operation teams to operate efficiently, accurately and with agility.

We’re looking for someone who combines deep technical knowledge with strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills. You’ll need to be comfortable operating at both strategic and hands-on levels, influencing senior leaders while working closely with delivery teams. Experience in workflow or cloud-based solutions will be highly valuable.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

This is a 12 month secondment opportunity.

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 Northampton 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

In this role, you’ll define and evolve the target architecture and technology roadmap for the Remediation CoE Tooling team, ensuring solutions align to strategic objectives and deliver measurable business value. Working closely with engineers, operational leaders and delivery teams, you’ll translate business requirements into secure, scalable and resilient technology solutions that modernise our platforms, optimise processes and support the delivery of reliable services to millions of members.

As a trusted technical leader, you’ll shape technology strategy, provide architectural guidance across the organisation, and lead proof-of-concepts to evaluate emerging technologies and validate innovative ideas. You'll collaborate with architects, engineers, testers and delivery leads to ensure solutions are aligned with enterprise standards, regulatory requirements and operational resilience objectives. Through the adoption of cloud technologies and modern engineering practices, you’ll help build scalable, future-ready platforms that support the organisation’s long-term growth and transformation ambitions.

About you

The minimum requirements for this role are:

• Proven experience defining enterprise architecture, technology roadmaps, design standards, and engineering guardrails aligned to business strategy and long-term technology objectives
• Experience governing Power Platform adoption, including environment strategy, Application Lifecycle Management, security models, DLP policies and development standards
• Experience designing and delivering scalable solutions using Power Platform, Azure services, APIs, event-driven architectures, and integrations across systems and data platforms
• Proven ability to design data platform architecture, including data models, data governance, and integration with data lakes, warehouses and reporting
• Proven track record of influencing senior stakeholders, translating complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences, leading technology transformation, and driving adoption of strategic solutions across the organisation

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 Chris Farmer, and the main recruitment contact is Jemma Ives.