Technical Engineer - SAP Development Programme

Job Description

Technical Engineer - SAP Development Programme

Location: Swindon

Salary: Between £40,000 - £45,000 per annum

Here at Nationwide we are dedicated to innovation and excellence, and we are excited to offer a unique opportunity for talented software developers to enhance their skills and grow their careers through our SAP Engineering Development Programme.

We are seeking candidates who can start with us on the 12th of May 2025.

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.

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

This is an amazing opportunity for budding engineers to join Nationwide. We are seeking people who are keen to progress their career in Financial Services Software Engineering and delivery. If you can work under pressure and to tight deadlines; are not afraid to try, willing to go the extra mile and are an active and valued contributor then we are keen to hear from you.

Our 1-year development programme is designed to develop SAP engineering capabilities in a financial services setting. This immersive experience will expose you to a variety of development and projects that are crucial to the strategy and success of our organisation. You will work alongside industry experts and gain hands-on experience in SAP technologies, even if you have no prior SAP experience.

Your typical day could consist of:

• Working in an engineering team delivering new capabilities and functionality to our SAP applications.
• Taking ownership of engineering responsibilities to ensure the quality of deliverables.
• Proactively picking up tickets and progressing tickets to completion.
• Present and review technical solutions in peer review forums to ensure high standards are met.
• Participation in releases and conducting checks in production.
• Problem shoot engineering issues and feedback solutions to team.
• Able to analyse any issues by looking for logs, technical errors etc.
• Develop personal skills through self learning and mentoring - document and share learning.

As someone who collaborates well with others, you’ll be working with other engineers, experts in experience design, application functionality and security and resilience to create an intuitive and performant experience for our members.

About you

The sort of experience that would make you a good fit for this role is:

• Some experience in a technology focussed role, for example programming or development – Areas such as Eclipse, VSCode, JSON, REST APIs
• Data, Data Modelling and/or Database Management
• Reporting and Analytics
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities
• A keen interest to learn new technologies
• Ability to listen, understand and proactively convert ideas and suggestions to actions and deliverables
• Effective communication and teamwork skills to liaise with stakeholders across the business

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.
• 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
• 25 days holiday, pro rata

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.

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.