Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

A fantastic and rare opportunity to join our Enterprise Payments Hub platform team within the Payments Modernisation value stream, as a Cloud Infrastructure Lead Engineer. This value stream is responsible for developing and supporting a new Platinum Business Service payments system using cloud-based services. This is a critical Payments system which is core to our member's banking needs.

To build this new vision we are looking to recruit a new Senior Engineer, who has proven experience in platform engineering and DevOps. Someone who is an agile thinker and ready to bring creative ideas to ensure the team is a success.

In this pivotal role you will lead a group of platform engineers taking responsibility for the day-to-day delivery of a new multi-cloud platform which will enhance organisations Enterprise Payments Hub. Focussing on delivery and service, you will lead the team fostering a proactive culture, ensuring the engineering activities being delivered by the team are of the highest standard.

You will be considered an SME in the technologies which the platform is built upon and use your skills to mentor and guide more junior team members.

You are tasked with leading the team ensuring the solutions being delivered are resilient, performant, and meet with our organisational guardrails whilst ensuring cost and efficiency are considered.

You'll be at the frontline, delivering our vision to our members by building, Improving, and maintaining a system used to process millions of transactions every day. You'll be given the opportunity to work with the most up-to-date technologies to deliver real change.

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, at one of our offices. 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

We need an accomplished technical SME, comfortable working across various teams that follow both waterfall as well as agile delivery frameworks. This will include working with the Product Owners, Senior Technology Architects and Technical SMEs. You are well versed with the latest tools and technologies that are used to build automated InfraSecOps pipelines, whilst also covering observability and monitoring aspects of the platforms. You will help to identify the impact of vendor roadmaps and industry trends on the Payments Platforms landscape and ensure that the IT strategy and architecture continues to support the CIOs needs.

You will support the design, build, deployment, and support of the Electronic Payments Hub within the Payments Modernisation preprogramme. You will provide education, advice and guidance to internal resources and to 3rd party suppliers to support a high change cadence and quality outcomes.

We are looking for a Senior Engineer with broad skills in Cloud Platform technologies and strong experience of working in a pressured environment and great leadership skills.

We need someone with expertise including:

• Possess high levels of technical leadership and organisational skills.


• Cloud Platform technologies covering AWS and/or Azure including Terraform, EKS/AKS, Linux, KMS, ISTIO Service Mesh, KAFKA, AWS API Gateway, MongoDB.


• Tooling including Wiremock, Cucumber, Harness, Jenkins, Artifactory, Atlassian Jira & Confluence, Twistlock and Dynatrace.


• An understanding of microservice architectures and event driven architectures.


• An understanding of networking and knowledge of security best practices and techniques.


• Extensive experience in problem solving.


• Good mentoring skills with the ability to inspire other engineers.


• Proven thought leadership to influence the strategy for engineering to challenge and inform the approach for solutions.


• Strong stakeholder management skills with excellent verbal and written communication.


• Ability to work in high pressurised environment., 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.
  
  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.


• 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