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# Ab Initio Developer

- **Company:** Nationwide Building Society
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £75,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Databases, Data Integration, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Relational Databases, Database Queries, Data Ingestion, Ab Initio, Apache Kafka, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** August 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=5a48dbcf27ecc15c

## About the Role

As a minimum requirement, you'll have:

 * Extensive experience in Ab Initio development
 * Hands-on experience developing or supporting Ab Initio Continuous Flow Graphs and/or Batch Graphs
 * Working knowledge of Ab Initio GDE, EME, Conduct IT and Control Center
 * Experience building and maintaining ETL/data integration workflows
 * Exposure to Kafka for data ingestion or messaging
 * Experience working with relational databases and writing SQL queries
 * Basic Unix/Linux scripting knowledge

## Description

We are looking for an Ab Initio Developer with hands-on experience in developing and supporting data integration solutions using Ab Initio Continuous Flow Graphs and/or Batch Graphs. The candidate should have experience working with enterprise data pipelines, databases and Kafka-based integrations.

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 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 Edinburgh site approximately once per quarter. 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 your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works., This is a technical hands on role where you will be responsible for developing and supporting Ab Initio Continuous Flow and Batch Graphs whilst building and maintaining data integration workflows and ETL processes., You will work with Kafka and database systems for data ingestion and processing, participate in testing, deployment and production support activities whilst monitoring data pipelines and resolve data quality or processing issues., 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.