SAS Technical Lead

You'll be joining our Engineering team as a Technical Lead for Enterprise Analytics Platforms, with responsibility for the technical direction, engineering and operational ownership of our SAS estate and wider analytics platform landscape.

Our platforms support critical regulatory, risk, finance and analytical workloads across the society. As we evolve from traditional SAS Grid environments towards a modern analytics ecosystem integrating cloud services, data platforms and emerging technologies, we're looking for a lead who can combine deep technical expertise with strong platform ownership.

This is a senior hands-on role working across infrastructure, analytics platforms, integrations, automation and operational engineering. You'll be responsible for maintaining the reliability, resilience and performance of critical production services while driving platform modernisation and continuous improvement initiatives.

You'll work closely with business stakeholders, architects, vendors and engineering teams to influence platform strategy, deliver secure, scalable and future-ready capabilities that support some of the society’s most important business functions.

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 role, you'll be based at your nearest regional office or hub. We value time spent together to connect with colleagues for collaboration so there will be a regular requirement to attend our Swindon, London, Glasgow or Gosforth site approximately once per week. If you are based at an office location, you'll be expected to meet our hybrid working requirement of at least two days a week, or 40% of your working time if part-time, in the office. If you’re based at our Glasgow office, this will apply from 1 April 2027 and ahead of that there will be a need to regularly connect with colleagues for collaboration events. If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works. 

Virgin Money is now part of Nationwide

Nationwide acquired Virgin Money in October 2024. Virgin Money continues to serve customers on the high street, and there will be a phased and considered integration over the coming years.

You’ll be employed by Nationwide from day one, delivering real impact and benefitting from a highly competitive range of benefits. We’re a workplace where you’re rewarded, recognised and celebrated.

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 spend your time designing, improving and supporting enterprise analytics platforms that underpin critical business processes across the society. You'll work hands-on across platform design, automation, integrations while also contributing to strategic initiatives such as platform modernisation, migrations and adoption of new technologies. You'll collaborate with business stakeholders, architects, vendors and engineering teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions and ensure our analytics platforms remain resilient, secure and operationally effective. You'll take ownership of complex technical issues from investigation through to resolution while continuously identifying opportunities to improve reliability, performance and user experience.

You will build and manage a team of platform engineers and support specialists, developing their technical skills and domain knowledge in SAS and analytics environments.
 

About you

• Experience managing, engineering and operating enterprise analytics platforms such as SAS, SAS Grid or similar large-scale analytics environments.
• Deep technical expertise across Linux platforms, distributed computing environments, batch processing and scheduling technologies, and data integration tooling.

• Experience driving platform reliability and operational excellence, including incident management, root cause analysis, and continual service improvement

• People leadership experience managing technical teams through delivery.
• Experience delivering platform modernisation, migration or transformation initiatives within complex enterprise environments.
• Understanding of platform architecture, infrastructure, automation and integration patterns, with the ability to work across technical boundaries when required.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills with both technical and non-technical audiences including vendor management.

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.

Please note that should you be successful in securing this role, the job title on our internal systems will be Technical Lead.