Engineer (Lakehouse Data Engineer)

To best serve our members and deliver the benefits of mutuality, Nationwide Building Society continues to invest in and accelerate its lakehouse architecture. This role is a key part of the Enterprise-wide data platform team, who are a driving force of enabling the data strategy.

We are happy to consider flexible working approaches to help you perform at your best.

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, Northampton, or Bournemouth office. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.

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

You’ll be managing data ingestion in enterprise scale data platforms and leading a team of engineers in that activity.

Your day to day will be dealing with the challenges and opportunities that handling thousands of different source system data feeds bring, in respect of the need to provide adherence to quality controls, governance and process, which ensures our business stakeholders have access to trusted data, at the right time.

As a senior engineer in the team, you’ll be working with project managers and stakeholders to prioritise & estimate work, as well as supporting team members growth in developing their skills and experiences.

About you

• Experience in end-to-end of solution delivery for data engineering projects and data lifecycle management, particularly where acquiring, ingesting and managing data on an enterprise data platform.
• Demonstrate experience in the operational running & support of enterprise scale data ingestion, supporting new business demand, acting as 3^rd line support for complex issues.
• The expertise and knowledge to identify deficiencies and opportunities to improve processes, data governance and data controls that see guardrails as a minimum requirement.
• Ensuring the creation and maintenance of process documentation that makes the running of the lakehouse ingestion as transparent and understood process by consumers.
• Have knowledge and understanding of data such that you can identify where data content, data structure and data metadata may not align with the documentation.
• Having experience in using these technologies in a Production context: Databricks, dbt, Teradata, Bash, Python, Azure Data Factory, CI/CD pipelines, Data warehousing, GitHub.

Our customer first behaviours put customers and members at the heart of how we work together. They are the set of behaviours that every colleague needs to display, in every role:

• Feel what customers feel - We step into our customers’ shoes, using their feedback and insights to empathise with them and to understand their needs, so that every decision we make starts and finishes with our customers in mind.
• Say it straight - We are brave in speaking out and saying what we think – we’re honest and direct with good intent, openly sharing diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions and using language everyone can understand.
• Push for better - We don’t settle for mediocrity, we challenge the status quo, taking responsibility for continuous improvement and personal development.
• Get it done - We prioritise what will have the greatest impact, we are decisive, and we take accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes.

You can strengthen your application by showing how our customer first behaviours resonate with you, and where you may have already demonstrated these.

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.

Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

As a mutual, we’re owned by our members - those customers who bank, save or have a mortgage with us. We challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We share our profits with them and put their needs first. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

If you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about our customers, you’re one of us.

At Nationwide, you are challenged to grow and rewarded for doing so. Valued. Recognised. Inspired to be your best. As a community we want our working lives to count. As a team, we celebrate what we achieve. As a standard-setter, we work for the good of customers, communities, and broader society.

We are Purpose-driven. Uncompromisingly Customer. Unstoppably Nationwide.

What to do next

If this role is for you, please click the ‘Apply Now’ button. You’ll need to attach your up-to-date CV and answer a few quick questions for us.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.