IT Applications Designer

• Hybrid up to 80% homeworking available and 20% in Stratford-upon-Avon
• A great opportunity to help design our IT applications
• Based at our Ryon Hill office with excellent facilities and surroundings

About the role

We have an exciting opportunity for an IT Applications Designer to join the Solution Design team on a permanent basis. In this role, you'll work closely with internal teams and external partners to design, prototype and guide the delivery of elegant solutions that meet the needs of the user, comply with our design principles, and fall within brand guidelines. You'll communicate design solutions to delivery teams and stakeholders, supporting problem solving, gaining consensus, and helping to facilitate the build process. You'll play a leading role in supporting both technical design processes and embedding the culture of good user experience, where appropriate, whilst ensuring the solution remains fit for purpose. You'll ensure solutions meet business and system requirements and are successfully transitioned into business-as-usual.

As an IT Applications Designer, you'll understand, evaluate and challenge IT system requirements from Subject Matter Experts and Business Analysts to ensure that they are complete and provide sufficient clarity to produce fit-for-purpose low-level solution design documents and enable accurate IT solution development estimates. You'll outline all potential solution options and make reasoned recommendations as to the suitability of options to ensure the Solution Designers are fully prepared to enable evidence-based decisions at the relevant boards.

You'll create, document, and maintain design collateral which meets the business objectives, align with architectural blueprints, design principles, and fall within brand guidelines and ensure designs adhere to documented design patterns and follow templates, standards and governance frameworks set out by the Solution Design function.

About you

As an IT Applications Designer, you'll have excellent problem-solving skills and show great levels of self-motivation. You'll be adaptable and show flexibility where required and effective communication skills.

You'll also have:

• Experience of analysis, IT system design and/or software development (essential)
• In depth application knowledge (desirable)
• Experience of UML (desirable)
• ITIL awareness (desirable)
• Experience of Agile development methodology (desirable)

At NFU Mutual, we support an inclusive workplace and value all the differences that make us unique. We celebrate the creativity and innovation that comes from diverse perspectives and experiences and share a common vision of doing the right thing for our customers and employees.

We recognise that some candidates may experience barriers during the recruitment process. So, we encourage candidates to discuss any adjustments or accommodations they need to be the best they can be throughout our recruitment process.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Race at Work and Women in Finance Charter signatory and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, regardless of age, ethnicity, disability, neurodiversity, gender, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic background.

Benefits and Rewards

When you join our team, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including:

• Up to £50,000 annual salary
• Annual bonus (up to 17.5% of salary)
• Contributory pension scheme, up to 20%, including your 8% contribution
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + buy/sell/save holiday trading scheme
• A Family Friendly policy that helps you balance your work and family responsibilities
• 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
• Access to voluntary benefits, including health assessments, private medical insurance and dental insurance
• 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.

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.