Solution Architect - E3

Description This; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Nationwide is seeking a Solution Architect to join the Customer Servicing Architecture team. You’ll shape the technical direction for Customer Servicing systems, align with CIO strategies, and work across multi-disciplinary teams.

The role emphasises data, resolutions, and migrations related to the Virgin Money integration, with a strong focus on resilience, security and modernisation. Hybrid working is supported with two days on site at Swindon or London.

Qualifications

• Proven track record of architecting solutions for complex domains.
• Hands-on delivery experience across large programmes.
• Strong judgement and knowledge of the customer servicing domain.
• Experience with data, migrations and integration is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical roadmap for Customer Servicing systems.
• Shape solution options and ensure CIO deliveries align to strategy.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver resilient solutions.
• Support data governance, security, and regulatory needs.

Job description

As a Solution Architect, you’ll work as part of a multi-disciplinary architecture team, supporting Customer Servicing CIO strategic programmes and value stream initiatives to shape and assure the technical direction for Nationwide’s Customer Servicing systems. We’re looking for someone with an established track record of architecting solutions, practical delivery experience, sound judgement and applied knowledge of the Customer Servicing domain, especially in Customer Data & Resolutions.

At Nationwide we openly put our 15 million members at the centre of every decision we make as a business. Every role, no matter what it’s doing, is customer focused.

This role sits within the Architecture team in Customer Technology Delivery (COO), aligned to the Customer Servicing CIO. The team is responsible for defining the technical roadmap based on business strategy, shaping solution options and ensuring CIO deliveries align to the agreed strategies, roadmaps, enterprise guardrails and relevant industry standards.

Customer Servicing within Nationwide is entering a period of significant change as we complete our simplification and modernisation roadmap within the existing estate to drive resilience and security, exploit new technology like artificial intelligence to improve customer experience and efficiency, prepare for further change including the technical integration between Nationwide and Virgin Money, while responding to industry and regulatory demands as they emerge. This creates a strong pipeline of meaningful work, with opportunities to transform how Nationwide serves its 24 million customers.

We have an ambitious strategy to transform and simplify our Customer Servicing estate to support our members for the future, with our core focus being:

• Customer Data & Resolutions Architecture: shaping the target and transition architecture for customer data and resolutions capabilities, including the customer system of record, data platforms, complaints management and information rights services.
• Customer Data Lifecycle Management: strengthening how customer data is created, maintained, made accessible to enterprise applications, governed and safely offboarded across the customer lifecycle.
• Customer Data Migration and Integration: supporting customer data migrations and integration activity linked to the Virgin Money acquisition, alongside other strategic customer data change where new propositions or services need to align to the future data architecture.
• Data Quality, Governance and Servicing Outcomes: ensuring customer data designs support operational servicing, regulatory obligations, data quality, lineage, ownership, controls and auditability.

This is an excellent opportunity to join the Customer Servicing Architecture team at a time of meaningful change, helping to shape practical, resilient and future‑ready solutions. The successful candidate will bring a broad base of solution architecture experience, together with hands‑on understanding of customer lifecycle management, operational processes, design patterns/ standards and new emerging technologies.

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. 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.

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. 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.