IT Industrial Placement 2023

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 IT Industrial Placement where you’ll be aligned to one of our key technical areas. You could be placed in any of the following areas - Engineering, Security or Data and Analytics.

We view our IT 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.

With all our Early Career opportunities, you will not need to relocate. At Nationwide, where we work is led by what we’re doing. Sometimes that means meeting up at one of our hubs, and often it means working from home or a nearby office. You can find out more about our Happily Hybrid approach in our Future of Work section.

Please apply early. Our Industrial Placement roles are very popular and we do stop accepting applications before the deadline if we have enough.

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 could be placed within any of the business areas described below;

Data and Analytics

In Data and Analytics our colleagues work to predict future patterns and behaviours using data. We use data to uncover new insights and then tell that story to inform decisions for our members. We transform raw data into something truly meaningful for the business, managing and protecting it at every stage.

Security

The Security & Resilience team plays a critical role in ensuring we keep secure our members money and data. We are made up of several specialised teams, each playing a critical role in maintaining our service availability and trusted reputation.
You can expect the role to be varied, challenging, energetic and rewarding, coupled with opportunities to work across the team within our Security Operations Centre, Cloud Security, Technical Vulnerability team or working with our Consultancy team to help secure our products and services.

Engineering

Over the course of a 12-month Industrial Placement you will experience a range of software engineering practices. You will work with experienced engineers and discover how they overcome complex problems. Working in an Agile environment, you will learn state-of-the-art software design and programming technologies. You will work as part of a team and hone your project management skills as well as coding. In a fast – paced, customer-centric environment, you might be working with front-end technologies such as React or JavaScript or take a back-end route with .Net or Java. You may also be exposed to more backend technologies such as Cloud or Infrastructure Engineering.

About you

We’re looking for people who want to develop a career in IT and have the passion and determination to grow and learn. We’re interested in your ability to shape your own career.

We don’t ask for you to be studying towards a certain degree subject for our Industrial Placements. However, you must be at university and looking to complete this placement as part of your degree, returning to university for your final year once this placement is completed.

You’ll be using your good communication skills to build strong and lasting working relationships. You’ll be a quick learner, inquisitive, always focused on solutions and have the tenacity to bring them to life.

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 and information systems
• Drive to learn and improve and are looking for a challenge
• A positive, tenacious and solution focused mindset

Our members are at the heart of everything we do, so a passion for providing excellent customer service is a must. The path to the right result is rarely straightforward so you’ll have to be comfortable navigating challenges and managing ambiguity. As a high performing, ambitious deliverer, we’ll rely on you to be decisive, organised and proactive.

We’re also interested in who you are as a person. Why? Because our membership is made up of so many different kinds of people, so we want our employees to be just as diverse. We’d love to hear about your values, what makes you who you are and how you’d make a difference to our members in this role.

The extras you’ll get

As well as a fixed-term contract and a competitive starting salary (£19,100 pa), as a valued member of the team we offer you:

• A 12 month placement from Sept 2023 – Sept 2024
• A real job – you’ll be contributing to the organisation while you learn
• 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
• Access to training to help you develop and progress your skills and career, for example, the technology learning platform for IT professionals – Pluralsight

Why work at Nationwide

We’re different from other financial service providers. We’re a building society, owned by our members. And for over 130 years, we’ve supported those members to make the most of their money and achieve what they want from life.

That’s reflected in the way we work here at Nationwide. We come together to make sure we’re doing things in the best way possible, both for each other and for our members. If you join us, you’ll be part of that. You’ll be able to help us build something really quite special. And you’ll have the opportunity to make a real difference.

On top of that, we always want you to be yourself. To use your skills and experience to make our Society stronger. To feel valued for who you are, not just what you do. Because here at Nationwide, we understand that we can do more together than we ever could alone.

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’ll send you our online assessments to complete and there will also be a short video interview to find out more about you. If you are successful, you’ll then be invited to attend one of our Virtual assessment centres which run from mid-November through to December.

We respond to everyone, so we will be in contact shortly after the closing date to let you know the outcome of your application.

For more information on our application process and useful hints and tips, please visit: https://www.nationwide-jobs.co.uk/application-hints-and-tips/

If you have any further questions, please contact us at Emerging.Talent@nationwide.co.uk

Good luck!