MDM Developer

MDM Developer

• Competitive salary

• Annual bonus of up to 17.5%

• Excellent training and development opportunities

About the role

NFU Mutual are currently looking to expand our MDM DevOps Team. As a result, we are looking for an enthusiastic, creative and analytical individual to add further talent to the IT delivery teams within our MDM DevOps function.

You will be part of a fast-paced, collaborative, agile team. Our MDM application sits central to a large and expanding number of NFUM IT solutions and plays a pivotal role in serving as the master data control point for all connected systems, including CRM and for our Digital Customer Strategy programme.

The role provides an excellent opportunity for you to develop your career and play a role in the development and support of use of customer data to support the NFU Mutual’s Digital Strategy. Not only will you be working within a great team environment, for a company that puts our customers’ needs at the heart of everything we do, you’ll be joining a team that creates valuable solutions for many of our major projects , innovative integration solutions on IT’s major projects.

Whether you are an experienced developer in IBM MDM, or cross-over developer from another platform who is keen to learn and add value, we will put a robust training plan in place to support you.

In addition to on-the-job learning, training options could in include formal ITIL, Agile, DevOps, SQL and platform specific courses as needed.

After a learning period, the role will gradually assume and take responsibility for supporting IT teams, developing and testing requirements and ensuring we follow best practice for strong control of data system. It will entail working with the business, third party suppliers, and other IT Teams.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will be able to demonstrate a variety of technical and soft skills, these include:

Aptitude/Soft Skills:

• A pro-active, creative, analytical and enquiring nature.
• The ability to work closely with the business community at all levels of the organisation to understand their goals and issues.
• Able to adapt in an Agile development environment and be flexible in approach to work environment and responsibilities.
• Good interpersonal skills with clear, concise communication skills; both written and verbal.
• Self-starter with initiative to work both individually and as a strong collaborative team player.
• A desire to continually improve and provide excellent customer service; taking responsibility and ownership of requirements and issues.

Technical Skills:

• Database design and development awareness (ideally SQL Server T-SQL, RDBMS design) (Essential)
• XML (Essential)
• Any use of JSON and SOAP (Desired)
• Java or C# Experience (Essential)
• ETL experience - any ETL tool is fine (Essential)
• Experience of DevOps (automated deployments, pipelines) (Desired)
• Experience with data quality including data profiling, data analysis and data cleansing and standardization techniques (Essential)
• Experience with software development (Essential)
• Experience in configuring or implementing MDM solutions using any MDM tool ie: IBM infosphere, Informatica. Not mandatory but at least has an understanding of what MDM systems do (Desired)
• Understanding of JSP, Servlets, HTML or CSS (Desired)

Benefits and Rewards

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

• Competitive 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 are one of only 39 companies across the globe, and the only organisation with headquarters in the UK, to receive a Gallup Exceptional Workplace 2022 award. We were also named in the LinkedIn Top 25 Companies List 2021.

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.