Solution Design Lead

We have an exciting opportunity for a Solution Design Lead to join our team on a permanent basis. Fulfilling both strategic and people management roles within the Solution Design team, you'll lead and deliver the team's strategy and direction whilst managing your direct reports effectively. As a Solution Design Lead, you'll set out the design runway for significant change programmes at NFU Mutual, collaborating with a variety of senior stakeholders and business areas. You'll work closely with colleagues in Business and IT Architecture to understand both high level business outcomes and the Architecture vision. You will be accountable for the design activity for a programme or set of projects and you will organise design workload and deadlines for your team. You'll consult, challenge, and make recommendations to senior business stakeholders on new business initiatives requiring IT solutions, whilst encouraging the growth of the Solution Design capability to support customer and business needs. As a leader within the Solution Design team, you'll play a key role in process design and strategy, streamlining procedures and ways of working to help the team deliver change quicker. Using your planning and organisation skills, you'll monitor and oversee the delivery of the Solution Design operation, ensuring effective resource management to support the successful delivery of solutions and services.

As a Solution Design Lead, you'll have a proven track record of leading a high performing team responsible for designing and building quality, robust and secure IT solutions. You'll be a strong decision maker and have experience of strategic planning and stakeholder engagement. You'll have extensive leadership experience of IT delivery teams in a large, ideally financial services environment and have experience of successful stakeholder management at senior level, with the ability to influence and collaborate with others. You'll have an excellent understanding of all aspects of the software development lifecycle, and problem solving, analysis and computational skills. You'll also be comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them.

Working at NFU Mutual We're one of the UK's leading general insurance and financial services companies. For over 110 years we've put our customers at the heart of everything we do. Our people are just as important to us. We pride ourselves on being "a great place to work" and we're one of only 60 companies across the globe to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2024 award, and one of only 2 companies to receive the award for the ninth consecutive year. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021, the Glassdoor Best Places to Work UK List 2023 and 2024, and were recognised as a certified UK Top Employer by the Top Employers Institute in 2023 and 2024. We offer a supportive culture where we empower and inspire our people to perform, offer them opportunities to grow, and recognise and reward their contribution. Our people are proud to work for a company that respects them and their communities, and they trust us to be financially sustainable, so we are successful now and in the future.

• £70,000 - £75,000 annual salary
• Annual bonus (up to 25% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 28 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• Private medical insurance + options to add family members
• Access to savings at High Street brands, travel and supermarkets
• £20 contribution to a monthly gym membership - subject to T&Cs
• Health and wellbeing plan - cashback for dentist, opticians, physio and more
• Employee Volunteering - volunteer in the community for one day each year
• Unlimited access to Refer a Friend £500 bonus scheme
• Life Assurance cover of 4 x salary
• Employee discounts of 15% on a range of NFU Mutual insurance policies.