Lead Software Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in financial services is seeking a Lead Engineer to drive the delivery of innovative IT solutions within their Mortgages CIO function. This role emphasizes collaboration, mentorship, and the adoption of cutting-edge technologies to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency. You will lead a dynamic team in an Agile environment, ensuring systems are resilient and secure while fostering a culture of continuous improvement. With a focus on cloud-native architectures and DevOps practices, this position offers a unique opportunity to influence the future of mortgage services. Join a customer-centric organization dedicated to making a positive societal impact.

Benefits

Personal pension with employer top-up

Paid volunteering days

Life assurance

Salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellness programs

Performance-related bonuses

Training and career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in managing Mortgage Sales systems and processing.
• Proven track record of adopting emerging technologies in cloud and on-premise.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team delivering solutions in an Agile environment.
• Provide technical expertise throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Skills

Mortgage Sales Systems Management

Micro-UIs Development

Team Leadership

Cloud-Native Architectures

API Engineering

DevOps Practices

Automation

Infrastructure-as-Code

Tools

Jenkins

Harness

Ansible

Artifactory

Dynatrace

Job description

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

You will be accountable for the end-to-end delivery of the roadmap supporting our Integration and Migration Strategy. You will collaborate closely with Principal Engineers and the 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 to be resilient and secure, aligned with our strategy, and adhering to good engineering practices and principles. This role is within the Mortgages CIO function, primarily providing mortgages via brokers, online, and API channels. We are expanding our propositions in the Home and Landlord space as part of our integration efforts.

This role promotes a culture of continuous improvement, focusing on building technical capabilities and nurturing talent across disciplines. Our strategic pillars—More Rewarding Relationship, Simply Brilliant Service, and Focused, Fit, and Fast—guide our journey to strengthen our market position and adapt to customer needs.

At Nationwide, we support hybrid working wherever possible, combining office presence with home working to foster collaboration, learning, and connection.

For this role, you will spend at least two days per week, or 40% if part-time, based at our Swindon, Northampton, Bournemouth, or London offices. Further details will be provided upon hiring.

Find out more about our hybrid working approach on our website.

Note: We may close the application process early if we receive a high volume of applications, so we encourage prompt application.

What you’ll be doing

1. Leading a team delivering solutions in an Agile environment, adopting DevOps practices for rapid iteration and continuous improvement.
2. Collaborating with Lead Engineers and the Technology Lead to ensure solutions are resilient and capable of supporting thousands of users daily.
3. Mentoring and developing team members to enhance our development processes and strategies.
4. Fostering proactive habits and building relationships to improve efficiency and speed.
5. Engaging actively in learning new skills and areas with support from the organization.
6. Managing capability development, coaching, performance, and pastoral care within your team.
7. Participating in the implementation, administration, and support of new initiatives, including VM integration.
8. Creating technical design documents from functional specifications.

Provide technical expertise throughout the delivery lifecycle, offering leadership and consultancy to stakeholders.

About you

• Extensive experience managing Mortgage Sales systems and processing.
• Knowledge of creating and managing Micro-UIs.
• Experience leading small teams.
• Proven track record of adopting emerging technologies, both on-premise and cloud-based.
• Deep understanding of cloud-native architectures, DevOps, containerization, automation, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Experience with API engineering, workflow tools, middleware, and mortgage domain applications.
• Background in banking and financial services, especially mortgages or lending products.
• Hands-on experience with delivery methodologies, DevOps tools like Jenkins, Harness, Ansible, Artifactory, Dynatrace, etc.

Our customer-first behaviors emphasize empathy, honesty, continuous improvement, and accountability, which should be reflected in your application.

The extras you’ll get

• A personal pension with employer top-up.
• Paid volunteering days.
• Life assurance.
• Additional benefits via salary sacrifice schemes.
• Access to health and wellness programs.
• Performance-related bonuses.
• Training and career development opportunities.

We are a mutual, customer-focused organization committed to fairer finances and societal impact. If you resonate with these values and want to make a difference, you will find a rewarding environment here.

What to do next

If interested, click ‘Apply Now’ to submit your CV and answer a few questions. We will contact all applicants after the closing date with the outcome.