Principal Engineer (E5) - Microsoft Applications
Location: Swindon / London / Northampton
The Retail Products portfolio is at the heart of Nationwide’s banking services, giving Nationwide’s members the banking, savings and lending products they need. We’re looking for a Principal Engineer with skills in Microsoft technologies to help our engineers excel.
As a Principal Engineer, you’ll bring together a diverse team of brilliant colleagues to figure out our systems development strategy over the next few years. This role leads the teams responsible for our Originations services, the first point for members new to Nationwide, and also leads teams that maintain systems for our branch colleagues.
At Nationwide, we offer hybrid working wherever possible. You will spend at least two days per week, or 40% of your working time, based at either our Swindon, Northampton or London office.
What you’ll be doing
With our Principal Architects, you’ll interpret the business and technical strategies for Retail Products and collaborate with your Lead Engineers to deliver improvements. You’ll help your team construct robust plans and shape the budget, being accountable for the quality of the systems created.
You’ll work alongside two other Principal Engineers in the Retail Products leadership team. A background in Microsoft-centric development will help you provide context to your teams.
About you
We use the Microsoft .NET stack for much of our engineering effort, so you’ll have good knowledge of this technology. We would expect:
* Experience leading teams of software engineers
* Skills building relationships with colleagues working in areas outside of technology
* Demonstrable experience setting realistic goals for teams to achieve
* Problem-solving ability, able to bring consensus across disparate disciplines
The extras you’ll get
There are various 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
* Access to health and wellness options
* A broad range of employee networks
* Access to an annual performance-related bonus
* Access to training to help you develop and progress your career
What makes us different
Nationwide is the world’s largest building society. As a building society, we’re owned by our members, allowing us to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
Join us at an important time as we seek to reach more people in the UK.
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Other and Information Technology
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