Software Engineer - Java / SQL

NATIONWIDE BUILDING SOCIETY ,
London, Greater London

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Field1 About the role Nationwide are opening a new state of the art tech hub in the iconic Post building, Holborn, which will ultimately house around 1,000 people as part of a 1.2b investment in our technology. For a Software Developer like you, it's a unique opportunity to get a Centre of Engineering Excellence off the ground, influence its evolution and grow your career. We're following the lead of some of the world's biggest tech companies in solving the huge complexities of massive-scale, user-driven systems. So we're embarking on a new chapter in our architectural thinking focused around event streams and event-driven architectures. It involves utilising technologies such as Apache Kafka, NoSQL Databases and Microservices to build elastically scaling systems to provide an outstanding experience to our members. Shape and be part of our new vision, while having a healthy work-life balance. You'll be given your schedule in advance, helping you to organise your life and enjoy everything the capital has to offer. What you'll be doing You'll join an agile development team on an in-flight project to produce and implement solutions for applications on-boarding into SailPoint IIQ. You will collaborate with the access management team and have responsibility for the implementation of applications into SailPoint IIQ across the full SDLC; creating solutions to present to the design authority, producing and documenting low level design specifications through to building out the solution and working with the system integration testing team before deploying into production. A team player who can lead by example, you'll develop, maintainable, testable and reusable code, taking ownership of and resolving technical issues from development through to production. You'll also participate in code reviews, integration and deployment events in order to enable things to be done faster and more efficiently. Essentially, it's about getting stuck in and having a go, knowing that sometimes to fail fast is to learn fast. About you You are a pragmatic developer who loves to solve problems and who understands how to extract and interpret data. You'll have worked on similar large-scale system integration projects so you understand the complexities and challenges involved. Experience with SailPoint IIQ or other identity and access management systems (IAM) is preferred but not essential. You'll be a strong communicator working in a highly collaborative team dispersed between Swindon and London. Knowledge and Skills * Develop, maintainable, testable, and reusable code * Responsible for the solution from design to deployment * Take ownership of and resolve technical issues from development to production * Ensure quality of developed code through testing and lessons learned * Participate in code reviews, integration, and deployment events * Excellent documentation and communication skills Developer skill set: * Strong Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle server knowledge * Scripting (PowerShell / Jenkins) * Scripting (BeanShell / Java) * XML * Microsoft Excel (advanced) * Test automation (the tools used are Selenium and Cucumber) * Team Foundation Server (TFS) * Functional / Technical Spec Writing Preferred: * Experience in SailPoint IIQ and integration of in scope systems * IIQ Administration, Configuration and Developer Training * Application enrolment into SailPoint IIQ the automation of access provisioning and de-provisioning using API's * General understanding of Access Control * Experience with Agile development methodology * Experience with JIRA and Confluence The extras you'll get If you put a lot in, it's only fair that you get a lot out. Our rewards and recognition scheme includes: 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 Access to an annual performance related bonus Access to training to help you develop and progress your career 25 days holiday Why work at Nationwide We're a building society founded by ordinary people, our members, who came together to help each other get the most from their money, buy homes and save for their futures. For over 130 years, we've supported each other and our communities, and we've done the right thing for wider society too. If you come to work here at Nationwide, you'll be part of that. Part of something a bit different. Something really quite special. What's more, we have a strong ethic of care for each other and our members. We recognise that our employees feel most appreciated when their thoughts and values are respected and considered. We're committed to creating a culture that recognises and truly values our individual differences and identities. So if you'd like to be a part of an inclusive workplace where you can be yourself, where your talents are nurtured and you feel empowered to contribute, then plea