Lead Software Engineer

ZipRecruiter; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive innovation in the Mortgage sector. This role focuses on delivering top-notch IT solutions, ensuring systems are resilient and secure. You will lead a talented team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement while adopting DevOps practices. With a commitment to customer-centric solutions, this opportunity allows you to impact the financial landscape positively. Join a collaborative environment that values your growth and contribution, and be part of a mission to redefine banking for the better.

Benefits

Personal Pension Scheme

Paid Volunteering Days

Life Assurance

Salary Sacrifice Scheme

Wellness Access

Performance Related Bonus

Career Development Training

25 Days Holiday

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in managing Mortgage Sales systems.
• Proven track record in full-stack solutions with .NET or JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering solutions in an Agile environment.
• Mentor and develop team members to enhance development processes.

Skills

Mortgage Sales System Management

Full-Stack Development

.NET Framework

JavaScript Frameworks

Micro-UI Management

API Engineering

DevOps Principles

Agile Methodologies

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Related Field

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Dynatrace

Artifactory

Job description

Job Description

This role is within Mortgages CIO function under CT (Customer Technology), part of the wider COO organisation, which is responsible for delivering IT solutions which have our customers and colleagues at heart.

You will be accountable for end-to-end delivery of the agreed roadmap that supports our Integration and Migration Strategy. You will work closely with Principal engineer and Technology Lead to provide leadership and support to our Engineering teams.

As a Lead Engineer you will ensure our systems and platforms are designed, developed and tested in a resilient and secure manner, aligned to strategy, ensuring we’re applying good engineering practices and principals. This role is within The Mortgages CIO function. Mortgages are primarily provided via brokers, through our online and API channel. We are actively expanding our propositions in both Home and Landlord space as part of integration.

This role will drive a culture of continuous improvement, with a focus on building technical capability (including people) across all disciplines. Across CT, we have an important journey ahead of us to build and maintain our position in the market and respond to changing customer needs, guided by the strategic pillars of More Rewarding Relationship, Simply Brilliant Service and Focused, Fit and Fast.

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, Northampton, Bournemouth or 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.

What you’ll be doing

• Day-to-day you’ll be leading a team delivering first-class solutions in an Agile environment, adopting DevOps practices to enable rapid iteration and driving continuous improvements.
• You’ll work closely with the Lead Engineer and Technology Lead to ensure the quality of your solutions are resilient and stand up to being used by thousands of people every day.
• You’ll be responsible for mentoring and developing your team to help build our development process and strategies.
• We want you to nurture and value proactive habits and to develop contacts and relationships, so things are done faster and more efficiently.
• We will expect you to get stuck in and have a go, and we will provide any support needed to learn new things in new areas.
• Line Management responsibility within a feature team to include capability development, coaching, nurturing, performance management and pastoral care.
• Involve in the implementation, administration and support of new initiatives as part of VM integration
• Involve in creating technical design documents from the functional specification documents

Provide technical expertise at parts and/or all stages of the delivery lifecycle, including providing technical leadership and consultancy to stakeholders

About you

• Extensive functional and technical experience in managing Mortgage Sales system and processing
• Proven experience of designing and implementing full-stack solutions with knowledge of .NET or JavaScript frameworks.
• Detailed knowledge of creating and managing µ - UIs (Micro-UIs)
• Experience of managing and leading small teams.
• Demonstrated experience in adopting and implementing emerging technologies with a mix of both on-prem and cloud solutions.
• Detailed knowledge of emerging technologies e.g. cloud- architectures, DevOps engineering and container based continuous delivery, cloud automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• API engineering, workflow management tools, Mortgages domain, major application upgrade/ transformation, middleware and integration tools
• Extensive experience in Banking and financial industry working across products including mortgages or other lending products.
• Different delivery methodologies, and hands on experience of DevOps principles and practices, and associated tooling (e.g. Jenkins, Harness, Ansible, Artifactory, Dynatrace etc).

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 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.

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

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.