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    Are you looking for a paid industrial placement as part of your degree?  Innovative and curious with an ambitious talent and keen to start a career building out your experience, learning best practice methods using cutting edge tools and software?

    LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group (RSG) – Placement Programme is the perfect way to start building your career.

    The Placement

    As part of the Technology Graduate programme, you will join a structured and well-developed 12-month, non-rotational placement within our Risk Solutions Insurance business (www.risk.lexisnexis.co.uk).  LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a leader in providing essential information to help customers across industry and government assess, predict and manage risk.

    The Role

    You will be part of the Nottingham based development team and have foundational knowledge of PHP (or a similar, transferable language).  The goal of the placement is to develop your knowledge and technical skills so that you are able to contribute to real feature development as part of our agile software development teams. During the placement, you will also gain valuable business insight that will help you develop into a well-rounded development team member.  We will introduce you into a development team’s processes and prepare you to become a regular contributor as part of the team releasing into a production environment.

    We are keen to welcome applications from candidates who have a passion for developing site reliability/DevOps skills.  As we continue to grow as a business, so too does out need to deploy features and solutions within cloud environments such as AWS/Azure.

    Training & Development

    You will receive a blend of technical and people skills development. This is important as it’s not just what you do, but how you do it that is important to us.

    Initially you will be immersed into an intensive, but rewarding, 2–3-week induction bootcamp and will be part of a wider graduate community with frequent socials including charity days and diversity and inclusion events.  We work to a 70/20/10 learning model with 70% of your learning on the job, 20% informal learning and 10% from formal educational learning.

    Apply If You Are

    • A Passionate collaborator with a focus on what is best for the team
    • Foundational/basic PHP development skills (Java a bonus)
    • Understanding of agile development concepts
    • Strong communicator who can flex their communication style for different audiences
    • Able to work with relational databases such as MySQL (basic query, update and delete)
    • Studying STEM (All Sciences, Technology, Economics or Maths) degree
    • Version control - GIT

    All applicants must have the right to work full time and live in the UK on a permanent basis

    Life at Lexis Nexis

    What really stands us out from the crowd is our culture. We’re an agile, dynamic and forward-thinking organisation who understands the importance of looking after our staff. We pride ourselves on delivering high-quality products, providing our employees with interesting challenges for their personal and career development whilst also striking the right balance between work and personal life.

    Women in Technology

    LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group (RSG) is very supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 27% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology:

    • Mentoring Scheme for Women in Technology
    • Women’s Network Forum
    • Women in Technology Employee Resource Group (ERG)
    • RSG proudly support the Tech Talent Charter.

    Diversity & Inclusion

    At LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Group having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 35 diversity employee networks globally and prioritise ensuring inclusive leadership is part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

    If you require additional support any stage, then please let us know how we can provide adjustments to your needs. All applications are treated in line with our equal opportunities policy.

    The Perks

    We want our people to feel appreciated, supported and inspired, which is why we offer such a fantastic range of benefits and reward.  Here is a glance at just a few:

    • Hybrid Working – 2/3 days office working
    • 25 days holiday with the option to buy more
    • Graduate socials and events
    • 2 days paid leave towards Diversity & Inclusion events and 2 days for charity volunteer days
    • Travel Interest Free Loans and Cycle to Work schemes
    • Private Health Benefit
    • Wellness programme and access to Mindfulness app