Engineer (Engineering Lead, Economic Crime)

Technology plays a critical role in combatting economic crime. As a Lead Engineer in our Economic Crime domain, you'll lead the charge in delivering robust, resilient, and high-performing solutions that enhance fraud prevention, reduce operational costs, and minimise financial losses. You will be responsible for the design, implementation, resilience and enhancements of technology solutions across the Economic Crime domain. You will provide technology leadership, growing our engineering and data capabilities to deliver our technology and data strategy.

Your impact:

• Leading a team of skilled engineers across Nationwide and our strategic technology partners in the UK and India.
• Ensure our applications are resilient, scalable, and delivering real value, keeping pace with the evolving threat landscape.
• Drive automation and simplification across the economic crime tech estate, including CI/CD pipelines and data optimisation.
• Help simplify our systems and reduce complexity, ensuring we remain agile, cost-efficient, and compliant with regulations.

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. 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. 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

We have an exciting and extensive Economic Crime technology portfolio to deliver over the coming years, including implementing fraud detection in the Cloud, simplifying our case management, integrating with our strategic data platforms, and ensuring compliance with evolving regulatory requirements. Additionally, you will play a key role in delivering our integration with Virgin Money. From the outset, you will focus on ensuring the quality, resilience, and performance of our Economic Crime application estate, with a strong emphasis on enhancing security, automation, and data integrity. You will collaborate closely with engineers, architects, business stakeholders, and project teams to provide technical leadership and engineering expertise on both inflight and upcoming projects, including:

• Leading the design, testing, implementation, and ongoing improvements of data and technology solutions within Economic Crime.
• Supporting the execution of the Economic Crime technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
• Driving adherence to engineering principles, patterns, and best practices to maximise resilience and efficiency.
• Strengthening security and control measures within Economic Crime applications and data environments.

Using your leadership and subject matter expertise, you will work with stakeholders to shape, influence, and enhance how Economic Crime technology supports and protects the organisation.

About you

• A proven leader with experience in engineering robust, scalable applications within Economic Crime.
• Strong expertise in modern development practices, automation, CI/CD, and cloud technologies.
• Demonstrable experience in supporting the execution of an Economic Crime technology roadmap.
• A strategic thinker who understands the intersection of technology, business value, and risk reduction.
• Passionate about leveraging technology to protect customers and drive operational efficiencies.

Our 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.

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The extras you'll get

• 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
• 30 days holiday, pro rata
• Individual healthcare cover

What makes us different

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.