About the role
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.
About you
As a Solution Design Lead, you’ll be a strategic thinker and a natural leader with a passion for designing innovative, scalable IT solutions that align to the enterprise strategy and future business needs. You will have a strong background in solution architecture and design and have a proven track record of leading high-performing teams responsible for designing and building quality, robust, and secure IT solutions that deliver real business value.
You will thrive in complex programme environments where your ability to influence, challenge, and collaborate with senior stakeholders makes a real impact. You will bring a deep understanding of architectural and design principles and have extensive knowledge of the technology landscape.
You’re confident leading cross-functional teams, managing competing priorities, and ensuring high-quality design outcomes that are consistent, robust, and aligned to standards. As a mentor and motivator, you will be passionate about developing others, sharing your expertise, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. You will be a skilled communicator, able to build strong relationships across IT and business functions, and you’re comfortable being the go-to expert for all things solution design.
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.
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