Engineer (Technical Product Owner)

at  Nationwide

The banking services that Nationwide provides and the service we give are unrivalled. We’re on a journey to provide the best banking services for the UK, and as part of this, we are simplifying our systems and streamlining the apps and services our members and colleagues use. For Nationwide has always delivered great service in new ways: for example, we were one of the first UK financial services providers to provide online banking.
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, at our Swindon, London, or Manchester 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.

ABOUT YOU

For the role of Engineer, we are looking for:

• Very strong functional and technical skills experience, to understand business requirements, challenge status quo and translate them into technical specification documents
• Relevant experience in automation tools like MS power platform and Pega workflow.
• Experience in product/technical product management
• Able to demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills, requirement gathering, translating functional requirements to technical specifications and shape solution designs.

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.

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WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

As an Engineer, you will be helping shape the automation use cases for economic crime and retail services. This group is part of the Chief Data & Analytics office (CDAO) and part of the overall COO team in Nationwide.

Your day to day responsibilities will be:

• Use your technical knowledge and experience with automation tools like MS power platform, DocuSign and Pega workflow to design automation use cases
• Lead a team of process analysts and designers to create proposal to automate operational processes.
• Lead the delivery of automation use cases end to end.
• Strong stakeholder management skills as this role with will be techno functional and candidate should be comfortable with engaging with senior business and engineering stakeholders
• Provide project updates.

For the role of Engineer, we are looking for:

• Very strong functional and technical skills experience, to understand business requirements, challenge status quo and translate them into technical specification documents
• Relevant experience in automation tools like MS power platform and Pega workflow.
• Experience in product/technical product management
• Able to demonstrate strong stakeholder management skills, requirement gathering, translating functional requirements to technical specifications and shape solution designs