Solution Designer

Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries. EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVEin our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ. **Role Overview** The Solution Designer is focused on the delivery of software solutions across the organisations core global platforms (internal and web facing), to support our growing portfolio of work. Working as part of wider delivery/project team you will be responsiblefor understanding business requirements and then estimating and shaping software solutions to deliver them. **Business Function** Group IT at Equiniti underpins all Equiniti Group functions across all business divisions. We build, maintain and support mission critical internal and customer-facing software solutions and infrastructure for wide-ranging products and services across theEquiniti Group. This is exciting opportunity to join an expanding and dynamic software delivery team within the Equiniti Group's Shared IT department - Equiniti Technology Solutions. **Core Duties / Responsibilities** The core activities of the Solution Design team are: - Interpret and support the elaboration of business requirements. - Devise and design software solutions. - Work within IT to agree and estimate the delivery costs for the proposed solution. - Work with Business and external stakeholders to agree the proposed solution. **Skills, Capabilities and Attributes** - Excellent stakeholder management skills: able to "draw out" the requirements of others and identify areas that may have not been previously considered. - Capable of creating a highly compelling and accurate programme of requirements that consider all stakeholders. - Proven track record of producing accurate and pragmatic estimates for all stages of work. - Driven to update your skills, awareness and understanding of developments in the wider commercial world and capable of bringing relevant ideas "to the table". - Knowledge of and experience in using Object Orientated Analysis and Design and the Unified Modelling Language. - Experience of working within a software delivery lifecycle as part of multiple project teams. - Experience in the financial sector preferred but not essential. - Knowledge of/experience in working to different software delivery models. - Experience in SQL Server preferred and high level database design preferred but not essential. **What We Offer** **Save For Your Future** - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10% **All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP)** - Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit. **Health and Wellbeing** - Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover. **Employee discounts** - Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform. **Flexible Benefits** - The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more. **Time Off** - Typically 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing. **Winning together** - Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.