Trainee Developer (HR Support)

The Role:

As a Trainee Developer in our HR Support team, you will be at the heart of the technology that drives NEXT. Your mission is to develop and support the systems used by every colleague across the company, ensuring our internal platforms are efficient and effective.    

Join a highly collaborative team of experts and play an instrumental role in our technology lifecycle. Your work will span from delivering critical day-to-day troubleshooting in our Production environment and leveraging AI to drive process efficiency, to designing innovative new features.

We are deeply committed to your professional growth, offering dedicated support and comprehensive training to ensure you master our bespoke systems and build a successful, long-term career in technology.

What You’ll Take On:  

• Support our systems: Act as a key member of the support team, ensuring essential HR business processes run smoothly every day. 
• Drive efficiency: Identify opportunities to automate manual tasks, helping the department become faster and more effective.
• Collaborate across teams: Work with other systems teams to resolve issues and improve workflows.
• Flexible support: Provide additional support during key events, and our peak trading periods to ensure we continue to deliver for the business.

What You’ll Bring:

• Technical foundation: Skills in C# .Net, SQL/TSQL, and JavaScript.
• Tool familiarity: Experience with Visual Studio, TFS, GIT, and VB Script.
• Analytical mindset: A natural curiosity and the ability to learn new systems and document logic from scratch.
• Problem-solving strengths: The patience to analyse legacy systems and understand how they function.
• Collaborative spirit: A team-player mindset with the ability to communicate clearly with technical and business users.
• Proactive attitude: A desire to continuously expand your technical knowledge and an interest in how AI can improve processes.

If you have the technical expertise and a collaborative mindset to strengthen the systems our colleagues rely on, we would love to see your application.  

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You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!

• 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
• Company performance based bonus
• Sharesave scheme
• On-site Nursery available; OFSTED outstanding in all areas
• 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
• Early VIP access to sale stock
• Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
• Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
• Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
• Free on-site parking
• Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
• Apprenticeship - Grow and develop on the job whilst gaining a qualification
• Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
• Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
• Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change. 

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email headoffice_careers@next.co.uk (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.