Project Manager

As a Technical Project Manager, you’ll lead the end-to-end delivery of complex technology and migration projects within the Core Banking Gateway Platform team, helping to build and enhance the regulated banking journeys our customers and members rely on.

This is a hands-on delivery role where you’ll combine strong project leadership with the technical understanding needed to operate confidently within complex engineering environments. You’ll manage multiple concurrent projects spanning AWS cloud platforms, APIs, system integrations and data, working closely with engineers, architects, testers, product owners and third-party delivery partners.

You’ll take ownership of delivery from inception through to implementation and benefits realisation, managing scope, plans, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies and critical-path milestones. You’ll ensure the right governance and controls are in place while maintaining pace, transparency and a clear focus on outcomes.

You’ll bring a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), Agile delivery, DevOps and CI/CD, alongside practical knowledge of modern cloud and engineering technologies which is essential. You won’t need to be an engineer, but you will need the technical confidence to understand complex discussions, ask the right questions, constructively challenge and translate technical issues into clear delivery impacts, decisions and actions.

You’ll lead and influence multidisciplinary and matrix teams, build strong relationships with technology and business stakeholders and create the conditions for teams to deliver successfully. You’ll proactively remove blockers, manage cross-team dependencies and continually look for opportunities to simplify delivery and improve how technology change is managed.

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 our Swindon 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 lead the end-to-end delivery of complex technology and migration projects, managing multiple projects across AWS cloud platforms, APIs, system integrations and data. You’ll take ownership of plans, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies, governance and critical-path milestones, proactively removing blockers and driving delivery through to implementation. Working closely with engineers, architects, testers, product owners and third-party partners, you’ll manage complex technical dependencies and ensure risks and issues are effectively controlled and escalated. You’ll build strong relationships with senior business and technology stakeholders, providing clear reporting, constructive challenge and leadership while continually identifying opportunities to simplify and improve delivery.
 

About you

As a minimum, you must have: 

• Proven experience delivering complex technology and migration projects end-to-end, within financial services.
• Demonstrable experience managing multiple concurrent technology projects, including scope, plans, budgets, resources, risks, dependencies and delivery milestones.
• Experience delivering AWS cloud-based solutions and working with engineering teams across APIs, systems integration and data platforms.
• Essential, strong understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC), Agile delivery, DevOps principles and tools and CI/CD, with exposure to technologies such as GitHub Actions, Dynatrace, Terraform/Infrastructure as Code.
• Knowledge of AWS services - S3, Lamda, IAM roles, billing as well as knowledge of NoSQL databases like Mongo DB
• Proven experience managing complex technical dependencies across systems, teams and third parties, understanding their impact on project plans and the critical path.
• Strong experience of project governance and delivery assurance, including RAID management, change control, financial management, reporting and escalation to senior leadership.
• Demonstrable experience leading multidisciplinary and matrix technology teams, with strong stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation and communication skills.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to quickly understand complex technical information, constructively challenge and translate technical issues into clear delivery impacts, decisions and actions.

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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