Solution Design Lead IT Systems Design, SDLC, Road Mapping

This superb, full time Lead Solutions Designer opportunity is to support an increase in demand from high profile projects and business change initiatives across our leading financial services client's business.

An accomplished, Midlands based Solution Design Lead is required to fulfilling both a strategic and people management roles within the Solution Design team. You'll contribute to and deliver the team's strategy and direction whilst managing your direct reports effectively.

This is a s a hands-on people manager role, managing a team of 4 people.

As a Solution Design Lead, you'll set out the design runway for significant change programmes, 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.

Experience required -

• Proven track record of leading a high performing team, responsible for designing and building quality, robust and secure IT solutions
• Strong design architecture and road mapping experience
• Strong decision maker with experience of strategic planning and stakeholder engagement
• Extensive leadership experience of IT delivery teams in a large, ideally financial services environment
• Experience of successful stakeholder management at senior level, with the ability to influence and collaborate with others
• Excellent understanding of all aspects of the software development lifecycle, and problem solving, analysis and computational skills
• Comfortable designing systems and reasoning about them

When you join, you can expect a supportive culture and an attractive range of rewards and benefits including a generous and achieveable annual bonus, life assurance, discounts and lots more!

This role is based in Warwickshire, however our client understands how important a positive work-life balance is to you, so to help you give your best, they offer great facilities when you want to be in an office environment and support to work up to 80% of your hours from home (1 day per week onsite, rest remote working).

If your background aligns to the above requirements - please submit your application to Jackie Dean at Jumar for consideration. Candidates must be UK based and have the right to work in the UK without any restrictions.

Jumar takes great pride in representing socially responsible clients who not only prioritise diversity and inclusion but also actively combat social inequality. Together, we have the power to make a profound impact on fostering a more equitable and inclusive society. By working with us, you become part of a movement dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive workforce.