Location: Bradford, Chatham Petersfield

We are happy for you to be based in Bradford, Chatham or Petersfield but please note that occasional travel will be required to our other offices

Working Pattern: Our working style is hybrid, but we recognise the importance of collaborative working with our colleagues often 1 to 3 days per week in one of our offices

Benefits: Discretionary annual bonus, 25 days holiday up to 30 days (depending on service), pension scheme with matched company contributions up to 10%, 2 paid days to ‘give back’, enhanced maternity pay (once successfully passing probation), 4 weeks paid paternity, LinkedIn Learning for all, Snoop Premium, Private Medical Insurance

Don’t hesitate to apply for a role even if you don’t meet all the criteria; your unique strengths and eagerness to learn can be just as valuable.

You and Your Team:

As a Lead MI Developer, you will be responsible for monitoring and reporting on the business’ performance by building and producing daily, weekly and monthly dashboards, which will enable senior stakeholders to measure the health of the business.

You will be the lead developer for all regulatory reporting requirements.  Mapping and recording processes and procedures and making process improvement suggestions will also be a key feature of this role.

In your day-to-day role, as a Lead MI Developer, you will:

• Interpret business requirements and determine optimum MI solutions to meet business needs.
• Provide support and advice to other members of the MI team.
• Review code accuracy, functionality and adherence to standards.
• Create process documentation.
• Create solutions and code that set the benchmark and that other team members can aspire to.
• Understand that building good solutions is adapting theory to fit the needs of the customer, codebase, team, tools, and organization.
• Understand how VBG and its customers work, what their values are, and why these are both important for success.
• Understand the role of a Lead MI Developer is to provide solutions to problems, not just write code. Because of this you will always think of what you are doing in terms of how much value it brings to the organisation.
• Be prepared to explore new techniques and coding patterns.
• Work within established development guidelines, standards, methodologies, and naming conventions.

What will make you stand out?

• Experience of working in a Management Information role within an operational environment.
• Strong analytical and statistical/mathematical background.
• Experience working with a consumer credit/lending portfolio or in the non-standard market is desirable although not essential.
• Effective oral and written communication skills, including ability to interpret user requirements and offer potential advancements.
• Educated to degree level in an IT related discipline and/or can show equivalent technical experience.

The interview process:

Our average process takes up to 4 weeks but we will always work around your availability. You will have the chance to speak to our recruitment team throughout the process.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

Your working life: If you prefer to work part-time, we'll make this happen whenever we can - whether this is to help you meet other commitments or strike a great work-life balance. A fear of losing your current working flexibility shouldn't hinder you from applying for new opportunities, which is why we aim to match your existing flexible working arrangements where possible.

Why work for us?

We’re Vanquis Banking Group plc, an FTSE All Share company and a leading specialist bank, established in 1880. We lend responsibly, providing tailored products and services to 1.75 million UK customers through Vanquis, Moneybarn, and Snoop. Our purpose is simple: to deliver caring banking so our customers can make the most of life’s opportunities.

At Vanquis Banking Group we believe in looking after our colleagues, so we do our best to create a rewarding, engaging, and supportive work environment across our various divisions.

We let our colleagues know we appreciate their hard work by offering competitive salaries, benefits, and a Group wide recognition scheme. All colleagues are eligible to join a pension scheme, and, after six months’ service, you can join our 'Buy as you Earn' schemes.

We offer a range of training and development opportunities to help each of our colleagues maximise their potential, whatever their role. From your first day working with us, we’ll help you settle into your new role and are happy to talk to you about your career aspirations.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Here at Vanquis Banking Group, we embrace everyone’s unique strengths and identities to be themselves at work. Regardless of how you identify yourself, your sexual orientation, martial or civil partner status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national background, faith, disability, or age – your experiences and background help enrich our teams, and most importantly help support our customers in the best way possible. At the end of the day, it's our people that help us to fulfil the reason why we’re here in the first place: to help put people on a path to a better everyday life.