Senior Data Architect

Nationwide Building Society; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000

Job description

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Data Architect

London or Swindon office

Hybrid Working - x2 days in office / x3 work from home

This role is within our Customer Experience Platforms team, responsible for ensuring our colleagues can make best use of the applications in their day to day, ensuring business systems are fit for purpose.

You will be responsible for the design, implementation, upgrades and enhancements of technology solutions across the data domain. You will provide technology and data leadership and management, growing our engineering and data capabilities to deliver our technology and data strategy.

Our Data Architects are player-coaches, so you’ll be comfortable setting goals and line managing the senior engineers within the team, be they on or offshore. You’ll work with colleagues across the Society to improve the functionality and reliability of the technology stack at a reduced cost.

We’re looking for technology leaders with passion, creativity, determination and enthusiasm that will help us uncover the best ways of delivering value in the future.

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.

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 have an exciting and extensive portfolio of change to manage over the coming years including but not limited to: implementation of data-led solutions using data bricks & Azure, automation of business processes, integration with the data Lakehouse architecture, and supporting changes to regulatory reporting. In addition, you will also be actively involved in delivering our integration with Virgin Money.

From the outset you will ensure the quality and service performance of the estate with a focus on strengthening data quality controls.

You will work with the Data Platform team, engineers, architects, business stakeholders and project teams to provide data and engineering input to inflight and upcoming projects. This will include:

• Leading the design, test, implementation and on-going changes required for data and technology solutions in the Data domain.
• Supporting the on-going delivery of the Data business and technology roadmap.
• Driving adherence to the domain data architecture and engineering principles, patterns, and standards, to ensure best practice and effective use within the organisation.
• Strengthening the control environment for Data applications and data.

You will use your leadership skills and Subject Matter Expertise knowledge to work with stakeholders and peers to understand and influence how the Data solutions support operational activities.

About you

We're looking for someone with a proven track record in providing engineering leadership, technical design and delivery of secure solutions. You will have in-depth knowledge & experience of the following:

• Strong technical background with extensive experience in data and application engineering.
• Line Management and engineering team leadership and development (including 3rd parties).
• Proven experience in Data and working with Data stakeholders.
• Knowledge and understanding of Data Management principles, including Data Design & Governance, Data Quality, Master and Reference Data Management, Metadata Management, Security and Compliance.
• Demonstrable experience of pragmatic approaches to Data engineering across data and reporting technologies including: Data Lake, Data Bricks, DBT, cloud platforms such as Azure and AWS.

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.

• 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.

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

What makes us different

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.