Lorien

Lorien is looking for an enthusiastic Service Delivery Analyst to join their DIGITAL team, supporting the Renewables Business. You will analyze operational IT services to enhance quality and ensure business continuity, while collaborating closely with stakeholders to deliver reliable IT services. The ideal candidate will excel in stakeholder management, have experience working with ServiceNow, and possess a solid understanding of Agile practices. Opportunities for continuous improvement and customer satisfaction are key components of this role.

Lorien is seeking a Quantexa Certified Senior Data Engineer for a leading role within a Tier 1 Management Consultancy. This position guides the development of Quantexa solutions from design through to production, demanding significant expertise in data engineering and leading teams across projects. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in Quantexa, knowledge of analytics platforms, and exceptional communication skills. The role offers opportunities for career growth within a supportive environment, alongside the flexibility of hybrid work arrangements.

Lorien's banking client is seeking an Oracle Database Developer in London to integrate local Settlement activity into the Global Settlement platform. The ideal candidate will have strong software-development and analytical abilities, and be familiar with C/Pro-C, SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, and C#/.NET. This role offers a hybrid working model of 2 days a week on-site, ensuring a collaborative environment while engaging with key stakeholders to enhance system stability and efficiency.

Lorien is seeking an experienced Oracle KVM Migration Engineer for a hands-on contract role in Bradford. You will lead the migration of workloads from VMware to physical hosts running Oracle KVM, ensuring performance, resilience, and integrity throughout the process. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Oracle KVM and VMware environments, alongside Linux system knowledge. This role requires proactive problem-solving and the ability to work independently during a 3-month contract, onsite 3 days a week.

Lorien's leading banking client in London is seeking an experienced iNet Engineer to join their expanding team on a contract basis. This position focuses on technical support for network layer technologies and requires a background in infrastructure security. The ideal candidate will have experience in real-time, mission-critical environments and will work hybrid, providing support between 07:30 and 19:30, Monday to Friday. Key responsibilities include firewall troubleshooting, setup of VPN connections, and system checks for iNet operations.

Hybrid Working - London - 2 3 days a week on site. Lorien's leading banking client is looking for an experienced iNet Engineer to join the expanding team on a contract basis. Reporting to the UK iNet Team Leader, the iNet Level 3 Engineer is responsible for the technical support of technologies that sit above the network layer. Support is provided to the bank between 07:30 - 19:30 Monday to Friday. The iNet Level 3 engineer acts as the escalation point for technical issues regarding iNet technology platforms and works jointly with other infrastructure teams to deliver projects and implement required changes. The ideal candidate comes from an infrastructure security background with experience in a real time/mission critical environment within a regulated sector (trading, banking, streaming, gambling, defence, etc.). This role is based in London and will operate via an umbrella contractor. Key Skills and Experience General knowledge of Checkpoint Firewall 1, R81.10 or higher running on ClusterXL high availability configurations. Fortinet Firewall - general knowledge of Fortinet OS 7.2+ running on high availability configurations. SkyHigh Web Gateway 12+ and Bluecoat 7.X proxy software. F5 Big IP - Load Traffic Manager & GTM. General knowledge of LTM/GTM appliances running V16 or higher. Infoblox DNS/DHCP. General knowledge of DNS, DHCP and IPAM IP management. Monitoring tools - general knowledge of monitoring tools and SNMP alert configuration. Day to Day Technical Responsibilities Firewalls troubleshooting - identify FW issues related to access policy, NAT rules and routing when troubleshooting connectivity problems. Firewall system maintenance and lifecycle management - code upgrades and hardware replacements. Firewall VPN connections - setup and troubleshooting. F5 Local Traffic Manager & GTM administration and troubleshooting. Perform troubleshooting for internet browsing issues, separating potential proxy problems from desktop/client issues. Proxy whitelist/blacklist administration. DNS record management - creation, deletion and updates. DHCP scope lease management. Perform morning and evening system checks for iNet systems. Maintain alert configuration on monitoring systems, updating SNMP parameters when required. Correlate physical items with asset inventories. Update system documentation & technical diagrams when required. Escalate risks and issues to line management.

Lorien is seeking a Platform Engineer to develop and maintain scalable, secure data platforms. You will collaborate with data scientists and engineering teams to ensure the reliability of data services. This role requires expertise in platform engineering, data governance, and security. If you are passionate about automation and building data infrastructure, apply now to join Lorien in Greater London.

Lorien is seeking a Java Software Engineer for a 6-month contract in London, with remote work options from Manchester or Edinburgh. Join a high-performing team in retail banking and contribute to cloud-native solutions. This role demands expertise in microservices architecture and CI/CD practices, working alongside cross-functional teams. Ideal candidates will have solid experience in Java and Spring Boot, delivering production-grade applications in agile environments.

Hybrid Working - London - 2 days a week on site. Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a Oracle Database Developer to join them, this role is to integrate the local Settlement activity into the Global Settlement platform, covering the entire trade lifecycle. The ideal candidate should possess strong software development and analytical abilities, with a proven history of collaborating closely with both on shore and off shore teams and engaging stakeholders confidently. Experience with high availability systems is essential. The back end components are primarily built using C/Pro C, SQL, and Oracle PL/SQL, while the front end is developed in C#/.NET, so solid familiarity with these technologies is desirable. This role is based in London. This role will be Via Umbrella. Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 day a week on site. Core Accountabilities of Role Development Planning & Design Effort Estimation - Produce realistic time and resource estimates for all development assignments. Requirement Elaboration - Work hand in hand with the Business Analyst to clarify and expand functional specifications. High Level Architecture - Create and maintain high level design artefacts that outline system structure, data flows, and integration points. Traceability Management - Implement and sustain end to end traceability, linking every requirement to its corresponding design, code, and test artefacts. Code Development & Quality Assurance Component Development & Testing - Build product components, execute comprehensive functional tests, and verify that they meet the defined acceptance criteria. Performance Engineering - Profile, tune, and optimise SQL statements, execution plans, and PL/SQL logic using tools such as AWR/ASH, DBMS_PROFILER, SQL Plus, and Oracle Optimiser hints. Architectural Reviews - Participate in design review sessions, contribute capacity planning insights, and define indexing/partitioning strategies for high volume batch jobs. Documentation, Standards & Governance Technical Documentation - Produce clear design specifications, interface contracts, and deployment guides. Code Review & Standards Enforcement - Conduct peer reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and verify compliance with the SDLC, risk management, and security policies. Project & Task Management Task Status Updates - Keep work item statuses current in the project tracking system, highlighting progress, impediments, and completed deliverables. Support & Incident Resolution Level 3 Production Support - Investigate critical production incidents swiftly, deliver hot fixes or work arounds, and mentor Level 1/Level 2 support teams on root cause analysis and remediation techniques. Escalated Application Support - Participate in higher severity support activities as required, ensuring minimal service disruption. Stakeholder Liaison - Partner with upstream data feed providers, downstream accounting platforms, and infrastructure groups (Linux/Unix) to guarantee end to end system stability and seamless data flow. Strong PL/SQL programming skills - developing complex packages, stored procedures, functions and implementing best practices in PL/SQL programming Development expertise in Unix/Linux C or Pro C and SQL Use of unit testing strategies Educated to degree-level at minimum in a numerate or technical discipline Python Good knowledge Linux/Unix OS & its commands Strong interest in understanding the business needs Source code refactoring Strong analytical skills. Quality focussed. Ability to prioritise work effectively in a dynamic, ever changing, environment. Confidence in working closely with both business and IT stakeholders. Open and hands on approach. Strong teamwork focus Conduct Demonstrate proactivity, transparency and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues, partners and clients before making decisions, and elevate issues to your manager when unsure.

Lorien is seeking a Junior C# Developer to support their banking client in London. This role involves maintaining the Global Settlement platform and requires a strong foundation in C# and .NET technologies. Working in a hybrid model, the candidate will collaborate across teams, providing support and development for critical applications. The ideal candidate will also possess skills in SQL and PL/SQL and have experience with Agile practices.

Hybrid Working - London - 2 days a week on site. Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a Junior C# Developer to join them, this role is to maintain the Global Settlement platform, covering both the internet and intranet user interfaces. This role is based in London. This role will be Via Umbrella. Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 day a week on site. Core Accountabilities of Role Development Planning & Design Effort Estimation - Produce realistic time and resource estimates for all development assignments. Requirement Elaboration - Work hand in hand with the Business Analyst to clarify and expand functional specifications. High Level Architecture - Create and maintain high level design artefacts that outline system structure, data flows, and integration points. Traceability Management - Implement and sustain end to end traceability, linking every requirement to its corresponding design, code, and test artefacts. Code Development & Quality Assurance Component Development & Testing - Build product components, execute comprehensive functional tests, and verify that they meet the defined acceptance criteria. Architectural Reviews - Participate in design review sessions, contribute capacity planning insights, and define indexing/partitioning strategies for high volume batch jobs. Documentation, Standards & Governance Technical Documentation - Produce clear design specifications, interface contracts, and deployment guides. Code Review & Standards Enforcement - Conduct peer reviews, ensure adherence to coding standards, and verify compliance with the SDLC, risk management, and security policies. Project & Task Management Task Status Updates - Keep work item statuses current in the project tracking system, highlighting progress, impediments, and completed deliverables. Support & Incident Resolution Level 3 Production Support - Investigate critical production incidents swiftly, deliver hot fixes or work arounds, and mentor Level 1/Level 2 support teams on root cause analysis and remediation techniques. Escalated Application Support - Participate in higher severity support activities as required, ensuring minimal service disruption. Liaise appropriately with other platform IT teams upstream and downstream as and when required for assigned tasks Strong skills in C# and .NET Framework 3.5/4.0/4.6 Intermediate level PL/SQL ability. (Note: we use Microsoft SQL Server 2019 and Oracle 19c) Basics of performance tuning of SQL (Any RDBMS) Basics of XML + XSL + XSLT Use of unit testing strategies Educated to degree level at minimum in a numerate or technical discipline Python Good knowledge Linux/Unix OS & its commands Strong interest in understanding the business needs Source code refactoring Experience on LINUX. Familiarity with agile methodologies and scrum practices. Familiarity with DEVOPS Tools (Team City / Jenkins / Bitbucket / Artifactory). Strong analytical skills. Quality focused. Ability to prioritise work effectively in a dynamic, ever changing, environment. Confidence in working closely with both business and IT stakeholders. Open and hands on approach. Strong teamwork focus Conduct Demonstrate proactivity, transparency and accountability for identifying and managing conduct risks Consider the implications of your actions on colleagues, partners and clients before making decisions, and elevate issues to your manager when unsure.

Lorien is seeking a Senior Test Engineer to join their hybrid delivery team in Warrington. This role focuses on enhancing QA practices and quality-first approaches within an Agile delivery environment. Responsibilities include driving QA strategy, applying testing at the right levels, and leading exploratory testing. The candidate should have strong experience in modern QA practices and be able to improve quality outcomes through data and continuous improvement. Benefits include a competitive salary of £50,000, enhanced company pension, and a company bonus scheme.

Lorien is seeking a Head of Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) in Reading to establish and lead a new PMO capability. You'll drive governance and strategic alignment across a portfolio of over 150 projects worth over £200m. This leadership role involves engaging senior stakeholders while ensuring financial oversight and mentoring a high-performing PMO team. With a competitive day rate and hybrid working arrangement, this is an opportunity to influence strategic decisions within a major utilities organization.

Lorien is seeking an experienced Solution Architect (Data) to design and deliver a secure, scalable data sharing platform in Hounslow. This role combines hands-on architecture with strategic stakeholder engagement, supporting interoperability and governance efforts. The ideal candidate will lead end-to-end data solutions, collaborate with the governance and security teams, and ensure compliance with data privacy regulations. This is a 6-month contract position with 2 days per week onsite.

Head of Agile Delivery/Coach - Outside IR35 - AI A fast growing, AI led public sector organisation is building new product teams and needs a hands on Head of Agile Delivery / Agile Coach to improve delivery and team performance. You'll be accountable for improving delivery effectiveness across a portfolio of AI product teams - setting standards, coaching teams, and building a delivery function that helps teams move faster without adding unnecessary process. Requirements Demonstrable experience in Agile Delivery / Agile Coaching roles within product led environments Strong practical knowledge of Agile methodologies (e.g., Kanban, Scrum, XP) with the ability to apply them pragmatically Proven track record improving team performance, delivery pace, and team health across multiple squads Experience coaching and developing teams and delivery managers, driving adoption of effective ways of working Confident facilitator, able to design and lead impactful workshops, ceremonies, and team sessions Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and cross functional teams Comfortable working in fast paced, ambiguous environments (e.g., start up or scaling organisations) Experience working across multiple teams / teams of teams delivery models Understanding of how AI tooling is changing product delivery and team ways of working Experience working in public sector or government environments Background across both start ups and larger organisations Logistics Initial 4-5 days onsite to embed for first couple weeks, then 2-3 days/week in Aldgate

Lorien is seeking a Head of Agile Delivery/Coach to enhance team performance and delivery effectiveness within AI product teams. You will set standards, coach teams, and build a delivery function to facilitate faster movement without unnecessary processes. The ideal candidate should have strong Agile Delivery experience, practical knowledge of Agile methodologies, and a background in public sector settings. Initially, you will spend 4-5 days onsite, transitioning to 2-3 days in Aldgate per week.

Job Ref 33 Date Added Consultant A Quantexa Certified Senior Data Engineer is required by this Tier 1 Management Consultancy. This Manager grade role operates at the intersection of architecture, delivery leadership, and client advisory - leading end to end Quantexa implementations across complex data ecosystems. As a Senior Quantexa Data Engineer in this major Management Consultancy, this role: Leads full lifecycle Quantexa solutions, from use case design through to production deployment Assists the Technical Lead as the technical authority and client interface, translating regulatory or business problems into scalable Quantexa architectures Leads teams in shaping data models, ER logic, and performance tuning across high volume, enterprise datasets Mentors teams while influencing delivery standards, design patterns, and best practice within the workstream In order to secure this role you will need the following: Quantexa Technical Certification is mandatory. Proven experience in leading teams across end-to-end Quantexa SDLC implementations, including design, build, testing, and deployment. In depth experience gained in data engineering, data modelling and design in the context of large-scale analytics platforms Expert knowledge of Quantexa, Entity Resolution (ER), Scoring Framework, Contextual Network Generation Expertise in Big Data technologies, including:Scala, Apache Spark, Hadoop, ElasticSearch Strong stakeholder management and communication skills - capable of interfacing with both business and technical audiences. The work is heavily weighted toward Financial Services, Fraud, AML, and KYC use cases, with real emphasis on contextual decision intelligence at scale, rather than PoCs. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career in Data Engineering and Quantexa all backed through excellent on going training as provided by one of the world's leading management consultancies. These flex hybrid roles will be based from the clients London offices, but all candidates must be fully flexible in terms of travel, as client projects may be based across the wider UK. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Automation Test Engineer - Hybrid Working - London - 2 days a week on site. Financial Services Lorien's leading banking client is looking for a skilled Automation Test Engineer with strong experience of with Rest API testing in Java to join our London-based team. The ideal candidate will have strong experience of working with CI/CD Environments, Rest API And Kafka Events. This role is based in London. This role will be Via Umbrella. Working in a Hybrid Model of 2 days a week on site. Experience & Ways of Working Hands on experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) environments. Experience working in TDD and BDD driven teams, applying Red-Green-Refactor practices. Experience with pair programming and close collaboration with developers. Experience in performance engineering, supporting profiling and tuning to identify performance hotspots and prevent regressions early. Monitor and analyse p95/p99 latency trends to ensure performance stability and help identify regressions introduced by changes. Exposure to accessibility testing and usability considerations, ensuring inclusive and user friendly experiences. Comfortable working in highly collaborative environments, where development and testing happen alongside the engineering community. Quality Engineering Responsibilities Implement and maintain TDD aligned unit tests, component/integration tests, and consumer driven contract tests (PACT) for REST APIs and Kafka events. Curate a minimal, meaningful end to end (E2E) test suite for critical user journeys and actively eliminate flaky tests. Plan and execute exploratory testing using charters, and convert valuable, repeatable findings into automated tests. Monitor and continuously improve pipeline health (flakiness, execution time, stability) and overall test effectiveness. Apply systems thinking, a bias for small tests, strong facilitation skills, clear written communication, and pragmatic decision making. Partner with product and engineering to convert requirements into clear, testable acceptance criteria and executable examples. Integrate security checks (SAST, dependency/SBOM) into CI pipelines and work with teams to drive remediation. Support operational readiness by helping maintain runbooks and observability standards. Coach engineers in XP practices (pairing, refactoring, trunk based development) and foster a continuous learning culture. Tools & Technologies JUnit 5, Mockito, AssertJ, PIT (mutation testing), WireMock (where appropriate). Contract Testing PACT (REST APIs and Kafka events), Pact Broker. Performance Testing k6 or Gatling (performance smoke tests and baseline validation). CI/CD & Delivery Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Our UK Leading Banking client require a PMO Lead to help support on an exciting project for an initial 6 months contract. Skills required: Benefits tracking RAID and assurance of all governance activities Strong experience of Stakeholder management Support with Project Management Behaviours - curious, efficient, well organised Use of CMF framework to support any push back Ability to challenge financial planning/questions Proficient use of Excel If this role sounds of interest, please apply and I will give you a call to discuss in more depth.

Job Type Contract/Temporary Location Bradford, West Yorkshire Job Ref BBBH57 Date Added Consultant Hollie Smith Oracle KVM Implementation Engineer - VMware Experience Bradford - Onsite 3 days a week 3 month contract Inside of IR35 We are looking for an experienced Oracle KVM Migration Engineer to deliver a critical infrastructure project, migrating virtual machines from a VMware environment to physical hosts running Oracle KVM. This is a hands on, delivery-focused role - ideal for someone who thrives on execution and can take full ownership of the migration lifecycle from planning through to completion. What You'll Be Doing Lead the end to end migration of workloads from VMware to Oracle KVM physical hosts Configure, deploy, and optimise Oracle KVM environments for performance and resilience Perform testing and validation to guarantee workload integrity and performance Implement backup, recovery, and monitoring solutions Troubleshoot and resolve migration related issues in real time Produce clear documentation covering configuration, processes, and validation What We're Looking For Proven hands on experience with Oracle KVM (deployment, configuration, management) Strong background in VMware environments and VM migrations Deep understanding of Linux systems in enterprise settings Knowledge of physical infrastructure (servers, storage, networking, performance tuning) Strong problem solving skills and ability to work independently If you are available and interested, please apply today!