Senior Technology Architect

You’ll be a Senior Architect working within the Core Banking CIO team. We’re responsible for the systems of record for our retail current account and savings, unsecured lending and business banking accounts. The team is responsible for defining the Core Banking technical roadmap based on business strategy: shaping solution options and design, and ensuring deliveries align to the agreed strategies, roadmaps, enterprise guardrails and relevant industry standards. You’ll be responsible for supporting Core Banking CIO strategic programmes and value stream initiatives to shape and assure the technical direction for Nationwide’s Core Banking systems. The core banking team is at the heart of the change portfolio here at Nationwide. We’re in a period of significant change as we progress our simplification and modernisation roadmap within the existing estate to drive resilience and security. We’re exploiting new technology like artificial intelligence to improve customer experience and improved, more efficient ways of working. We’re preparing 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’re looking for someone who brings thought leadership and strategic vision combined with practical delivery judgement and the confidence to influence senior business and technology stakeholders through clear architecture narratives, data-led insight, and well-structured recommendations. The successful candidate will balance innovation and fast-paced delivery with strong governance, helping us exploit emerging technology safely and pragmatically. This is an excellent opportunity to join the Core Banking 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 senior architecture experience, together with hands-on understanding of customer and colleague experience, operational processes, data, logical modelling, setting design standards and patterns and championing 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, London or Bournemouth 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.