Technology Industrial Placement - Swindon

Job Details

Technology Industrial Placement

About the Placement

As part of the Technology Industrial Placement, you’ll develop the knowledge, skills and behaviours to inform your career choices and contribute to the development and improvement of Nationwide’s processes, products and services in your department.

Our 12-month placement gives you a valuable first look at what it’s like to work here, with real responsibility and accountability. We’re looking for undergraduates to join our Technology Industrial Placement where you’ll be aligned to one of our key technical areas. We are offering placements within Security & Resilience and Data & Analytics.

We’ll need you to build rewarding relationships across the organisation and externally to understand customer needs, resolve problems and support the delivery of the Society blueprint.

You’ll receive upfront training with a focus on specific core tech skills and individual projects. You will also receive soft skills training to ensure you develop a rounded skillset. You will receive an individual learning pathway when you join your teams to ensure you are able to continuously develop your skills. You’ll also attend development workshops and complete a project with other Industrial Placements aligned to our Social Impact strategy.

We view our Technology Industrial Placement as a potential feed into our Technology Development Programme so if you want further development and a career after university this is a good place to start. Following successful completion of your placement, and with the right drive and attitude, there is the opportunity to progress onto our Development Programmes.

Our Chief Operating Office (COO) function is more than IT – it's the engine that drives Nationwide’s transformation into a modern mutual.

COO Delivers:

• Nationwide’s Strategy and Blueprint through our strategic investment portfolio, which includes improving the resilience of our systems, introducing new technology, and enhancing customer experience.
• The IT capability for the Society – both customer and colleague facing.
• Almost half of Nationwide's operational costs, ensuring efficiency and quality across a wide range of customer and colleague services, including our facilities and buildings, payments, and production of customer letters.
• The data strategy for Nationwide.
• Our Tech Strategy – simplifying our IT application estate and improving the digital experience for customers.

Location

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, based at our Swindon office.

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

During your IT Industrial Placement, you’ll be aligned to one of our key technical areas. We’re investing more than ever in the future pipeline of engineers, so we can keep Nationwide at the forefront of innovative leading-edge technology.

You’ll be asked to select the job role which interests you most from the below when you apply.

• Security & Resilience: where you’ll be at the forefront of safeguarding our customers' interests by ensuring the security of our customers' funds and data, helping us to bolster product and service security.
• Data & Analytics: where using technologies such as MS SQL, Teradata, MS Azure and SAAS you’ll help us transform data into valuable insight, conduct data modelling as well as work with AI technologies all to enrich our customers’ experience.

You’ll gain access to a bespoke 12-month project aligned to our Social Impact strategy to develop core business skills, providing opportunities to learn new skills and apply them in a different context to your day job. You’ll build a community and work alongside a range of diverse like-minded Industrial Placements from across the organisation.

About You

Dare more. Develop more. Deliver more.

• Bold in living our Customer First behaviours, you are innovative and have a growth mindset.
• Development is something you expect and embrace.
• You push for high performance – from yourself and those around you.
• You have a high standard of numerical, written, and verbal communication skills.
• You’ll have the ability to analyse and problem solve to identify challenges and propose solutions.
• Through research and experience, you’ll have commercial awareness of Nationwide Building Society and the Financial Services industry.

You’ll thrive in this Industrial Placement if you have:

• Studied for a STEM subject (Science, Technology, Engineering or Maths)
• A keen interest in computer science, cyber and/or information systems
• Drive to learn and improve and are looking for a challenge
• A positive, tenacious and solution focused mindset
• The ability to build and maintain strong working relationships and have the resilience to adapt to change

Entry Requirements

You must be studying toward an undergraduate degree in any discipline.

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.

We know applying for jobs can sometimes feel like you’re sending an application into a black hole. We review each application individually. So, it’s a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.

The Extras You’ll Get

• 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

What Makes Us Different

Uniquely Nationwide.

At Nationwide, we're making banking fairer, more rewarding and for the good of society. Unlike the banks we are owned by our members, not shareholders. That’s anyone who banks, saves or has a mortgage with us. Which means we can always focus on what’s best for them. It’s our fundamental difference.

You'll feel that difference when you join our Early Careers programmes. When you're inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about customers, you're one of us. An advocate for positive change.

About Nationwide

We forge our own path at Nationwide.

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

As champions of the mutual way, we challenge the financial sector status quo. We don’t see customers as the engine of our own profit. We work on behalf of them. Always there when they need us. Supporting them and their lives.

When you’re inspired by fairer finances, passionate about making a meaningful impact, and truly care about customers, you’re one of us. An advocate for positive change.

We're uniquely positioned to challenge the industry and make a meaningful difference in customers' lives, communities, and broader society.

To achieve this calls for courage. We're brave in speaking out and saying what we think. Honest and direct with good intent. We openly share our diverse perspectives to reach the best conclusions. We say it straight.

We don’t settle for mediocrity. Challenging the status quo, we take responsibility for continuous improvement and our own personal development, demanding high performance in ourselves and of each other. We push for better.

We're decisive, prioritising what will have the greatest impact. Taking accountability for delivering brilliant customer outcomes. We get it done

How to apply

To apply for this role and to find out more, please click on the apply button.

Please note that applications may close before the application deadline, so apply early to avoid disappointment.