Technical Engineer - SAP Development Programme - E1

Here at Nationwide we are dedicated to innovation and excellence, and we are excited to offer a unique opportunity for talented software developers to enhance their skills and grow their careers through our SAP Engineering Development Programme.

Programme Overview:

Our 1-year development programme is designed to develop SAP engineering capabilities in a financial services setting. This immersive experience will expose you to a variety of development and projects that are crucial to the strategy and success of our organisation. You will work alongside industry experts and gain hands-on experience in SAP technologies, even if you have no prior SAP experience.

What can you expect:

• Comprehensive training and mentorship from experienced professionals

• Training sessions and workshops to build your SAP expertise

• Opportunities to participate in diverse projects across different business units

• Opportunities to contribute to the continuous improvement of our SAP systems and processes

• Collaboration with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and implement SAP solutions

• Opportunities for career advancement

• A collaborative and inclusive work environment

We are seeking candidates who can start with us in September 2025.

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 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.

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.

What you’ll be doing

Your typical day could consist of:

• Working in an engineering team delivering new capabilities and functionality to our SAP applications.
• Taking ownership of engineering responsibilities to ensure the quality of deliverables.
• Proactively picking up tickets and progressing tickets to completion.
• Present and review technical solutions in peer review forums to ensure high standards are met
• Participation in releases and conducting checks in production
• Problem shooting engineering issues and feedback solutions to team
• Able to analyse any issues by looking for logs, technical errors etc.
• Develop personal skills through self learning and mentoring – document and share learning

Harnessing your experience of software engineering techniques and technologies you’ll be working within a team to design, test and support the SAP applications across the estate, whether that by core banking, payments, customer or data.

As someone who collaborates well with others, you’ll be working with other engineers, experts in experience design, application functionality and security and resilience to create in intuitive and performant experience for our members.

About you

We are seeking someone who is keen to progress their career in Financial Services software engineering and delivery. If you can work under pressure and to tight deadlines; are not afraid to try, willing to go the extra mile and are an active and valued contributor then we are keen to hear from you.

The sort of experience that would make you a good fit for this role is:

• Technology focussed work experience in one of the following areas:

– Solution/Systems Design

– Programming and/or Development (for example: Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript, REST APIs)

– Integration or data migration

– Solution or Business Systems Analysis

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• A keen interest to learn new technologies
• Ability to listen, understand and proactively convert ideas and suggestions to actions and deliverables
• Effective communication and teamwork skills

Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together. You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.

• Say it straight – This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room. It’s also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
• Push for better – This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
• Get it done – This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The extras you’ll get

There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including:

• A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we’ll top up by a further 16%
• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year
• Life assurance worth 8x your salary
• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme
• Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
• Access to an annual performance related bonus
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK’s population. We’ve got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we’re not a bank.

As a building society, we’re owned by our members – that’s our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us. It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.

When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself. You’ll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match. You’ll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK. We want everyone in the UK to know that they don’t have to bank with a bank. They can choose a modern mutual instead.

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 Liz Carter and the main resourcing contact is Sophie McGurn.

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