Customer Servicing Solution Architect

As a Customer Servicing Solution Architect, you’ll work as part of a multi-disciplinary architecture team, supporting Customer Servicing strategic programmes and value stream initiatives to shape and assure the technical direction for Nationwide’s Customer Servicing systems. We’re looking for someone with an established track record of architecting solutions, practical delivery experience, sound judgement and applied knowledge of the Customer Servicing domain, especially in Colleague servicing. 

This role sits within the Customer Servicing Architecture team in Customer Technology Delivery. The team is responsible for defining the Customer Servicing technical roadmap based on business strategy, shaping solution options and ensuring the deliveries align to the agreed strategies, roadmaps, enterprise guardrails and relevant industry standards.

Customer Servicing within Nationwide is entering a period of significant change as we complete our simplification and modernisation roadmap within the existing estate to drive resilience and security, exploit new technology like artificial intelligence to improve customer experience and efficiency, prepare for further change including the technical integration between Nationwide and Virgin Money, while responding to industry and regulatory demands as they emerge. 

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

You’ll be a key part of the Customer Servicing Architecture team, supporting the Customer Servicing change portfolio by working alongside Customer Servicing value streams, product and delivery colleagues, engineers, vendors, partners and architects from across Nationwide.

A key part of the role is ensuring the end-to-end completeness and integrity of Customer Servicing solutions, making sure designs are secure, resilient, supportable and aligned to the relevant governance, patterns, standards and guardrails.

You’ll own and deliver solution design to enable fast delivery of business values, while supporting the development of our 2-year technical roadmaps for the CIO and work with Senior Customer Servicing Architects to inform the longer-term vision.

The role includes providing practical architecture advice on strategic technology issues, setting out clear options, trade-offs and recommendations so that change initiatives and sponsors can make informed decisions.

About you

As a minimum requirement, you’ll have:

• Experience applying architecture thinking to real Customer Servicing change, balancing strategy, delivery, resilience, regulation and colleague and member outcomes

• Designing and delivering Customer Servicing solutions in a UK financial services organisation or similarly regulated environment

• Applying practical knowledge of channel technologies, design standards and end-to-end processing across some or all of our self-service and mediated channels, including contact centre, chat and branch networks 

• Producing and assuring solution designs for technical changes, including logical architecture, integration, data flows, non-functional requirements and operational considerations

• Working with suppliers providing the channel technologies and platforms and product owners to drive product development, including Amazon, Microsoft, Pega and other bespoke applications 

• Providing insights on future technologies, including conversational and agentic AI, and how they could unlock business value at pace 

• Providing architecture guidance to engineers and delivery teams, helping them create fit-for-purpose artefacts that meet business needs, technology strategy and governance expectations

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:

• 25 days holiday, pro rata

• Private medical insurance

• A highly competitive pension to help you build a strong foundation for retirement

• Access to an annual performance-related bonus

• Training and development to help you progress your career

• A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme

• Life assurance to provide peace of mind for you and your loved ones in the event of your death

• Wellhub – access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness

• Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year

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.

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Disability Confident 

We’re not just guided by data, we’re driven by the real experiences of our people. We’re a Disability Confident Level 3 Leader, the highest level. 

That’s why we’re constantly evolving our policies and practices to make sure everyone feels genuinely supported, valued, and empowered to champion inclusion. Whatever your needs, we’re here to support you. If you need any additional support throughout your application journey, email our team at Recruitment Support. 

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Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be EN03 - Engineer E3.