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Business Analyst - Contract - Inside IR35 Looking for a contract Business Analyst for a financial services organisation based in central London. The Business Analyst is responsible for analysing debt collection, recoveries and arrears processes and systems. You'll gather business requirements for both new IT solutions and IT system improvements and support the development through to implementation. You will work collaboratively with business and IT colleagues to ensure high quality delivery. Solid working knowledge in debt collection, recoveries and arrears Support the Software Development Lifecycle and engage closely with a cross functional teams Identify and elicit requirements business requirements Strong Business Process Modelling and process re-engineering skills To identify and have a good working relationship with all stakeholders and business users involved within the project Creation of any technical design specifications Managing stakeholders to ensure the timely delivery of projects Comfortable presenting and working closely to technical teams Identify and manage any risk or issues during the project lifecycle Support the creation of test approach, cases and scenarios and coordinate UAT Ability to document user stories

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as an MLOps Engineer on a remote basis, outside IR35, for a major pharmaceutical company. The key skills required for this MLOps Engineer position are: MLOps Image data AWS PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX If you do have the relevant experience for this long term remote contract MLOps Engineer role, outside IR35, please do apply.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as a Python Developer for a major pharmaceutical company, outside IR35. The key skills required for this Python Developer role are: Python AWS Data science (numpy, pandas, scipy.stats and .spatial) Visualization (dash or seaborn) If you do have the relevant experience for this Python Developer role, please do apply.

This is a fantastic opportinity to work as a AI Python Developer for a major pharmaceutical company on a remote contract, outside IR35. The key skills required for this AI Python Developer role are: AI LLM Python AWS If you do have the relevant skills for this AI Python Developer contract, please do apply.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as an ML Engineer on a remote basis, outside IR35, for a major pharmaceutical company. The key skills required for this ML Engineer position are: Building ML systems Computer Vision Building processing pipelines for image data AWS PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX If you do have the relevant experience for this long term remote contract ML Engineer role, outside IR35, please do apply.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work a remote Senior Fullstack Developer for a major pharmaceutical company on a long term contract, outside IR35. The key skills required for this Senior Fullstack Developer are: Python React Typescript AI (desirable AWS SQL Kubernetes (desirable) If you do have the relevant experience for this remote, outside IR35 Senior Fullstack Developer role, please do send through your CV.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as a Infrastructure Architect on a long term project, for a finance company, inside IR35. It's important to note that this Infrastructure Architect position will require 2 days per week in central London or central Sheffield. The key skills required for this Infrastructure Architect position are: Hands on lead for on prem to Azure upgrade Migrating applications to Azure Azure Cisco HyperV, Exchange End to end security architecture Strong regulatory and compliance knowledge If you do have the relevant experience for this Infrastructure Architect position, please do apply.

My client, a Global organisation based in Newcastle city centre are seeking an experienced Head of Security and Platform Engineering to start ASAP. This pivotal role takes the lead in delivering breakthrough improvements in reliability and performance across technology platforms, ensuring our systems consistently exceed expectations. As the leading force behind our cyber security agenda, you will champion a step change in modern security controls introducing cutting-edge measures that protect the business. You will lead four core technology towers, and inspire teams to set bold targets, measure progress, and celebrate success as we raise the bar for platform resilience, scalability, and security. Key Responsibilities: Strategic Leadership & Governance Define and drive the vision, strategy, and roadmaps for Platform towers, aligned with business objectives and risk appetite. Oversee integration and collaboration across the four core platform towers: Digital Workspace Services (DWS) Support and System Reliability Engineering (SSRE) Platform and Cloud Engineering (PaCE) Security & Network Operations (SNOPs) Establish and socialise the Cyber Security Strategy and Roadmap, ensuring alignment with enterprise resilience and regulatory requirements Cyber Security Leadership Shape the cyber security vision and build a corresponding technical roadmap which delivers a world class security controls across cloud infrastructure, networks, end points, identity & access management, application security, and threat detection. Collaborate closely with the SNOPs Lead to adapt the SNOPs roadmap priorities in line with shifts in industry, evolving threat landscape and regulatory requirements. Ensure effective 24/7 security operations (inc. security incident management) Collaborate closely with the Enterprise Resilience function (1st Line of Defence) to ensure integrated risk management and incident response. Promote stakeholder engagement and cross-functional collaboration to embed a culture of security awareness and ownership across the organisation. Operational Oversight Ensure high availability, performance, and security of all technology systems and infrastructure. Monitor and improve service levels, incident resolution times, and system reliability metrics. Lead cross-functional coordination for escalations, major incidents, and service continuity planning. Team Leadership & Development Provide leadership and direction to platform tower leads Foster a culture of continuous improvement, collaboration, and innovation across all teams. Support recruitment, onboarding, and capability development to meet evolving technology needs. Technology Platform Delivery Oversee the delivery and lifecycle management of: Microsoft 365 and collaboration platforms Cloud platforms (design, automation, cost optimisation) Network and security operations (compliance, threat management) Monitoring, observability, and backup/recovery systems Ensure alignment with architectural standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., DORA, Cyber Essentials Plus). Stakeholder Engagement Act as the escalation point for unresolved issues across platform towers. Collaborate with product teams, business units, and external vendors to ensure service excellence and alignment with user needs. Represent Technology in all relevant Information Security, Risk and project Committees, ensuring visibility and accountability for and robust management of cyber security risks. Represent Security and Platforms and in governance forums such as the Architectural Review Board (ARB). Essential Skills Proven leadership in managing cyber security and cross-functional technology teams in a complex, global environment. Deep understanding of IT infrastructure, cloud platforms (e.g., Azure), and enterprise collaboration tools (e.g., Microsoft 365). Strong grasp of ITIL-based service management, including incident, change, and problem management. Expertise in security and compliance frameworks, including DORA and Cyber Essentials Plus. Prior hands-on experience in delivering security solutions within enterprise environments Knowledge of disaster recovery, business continuity, and vulnerability management. Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and vendor negotiation skills. Qualifications Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field (Master s preferred). ITIL Foundation certification (Intermediate or Expert level desirable). Relevant cloud certifications (e.g., Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect, AWS Certified Solutions Architect). Experience 10+ years in IT leadership roles, with at least 5 years managing platform or infrastructure services. Demonstrated success in leading digital transformation or cloud migration initiatives. Experience working in regulated environments with a strong focus on security and compliance The role is Hybrid working 3 office days a week in a central Newcastle location great for transport links by train, car or bus. Apply now for immediate consideration.

Job title: Senior Software Engineer Location: Full Remote (Very occasional travel to offices in Cheshire) Type: Contract / Outside IR35 / 6 months initial duration + possible renewals About the Role We re looking for Senior Software Engineers to join our client's dynamic Engineering team and play a key role in building high-quality, scalable software solutions. As a senior member of the team, you ll take ownership of full-stack development, contribute to software architecture, drive engineering best practices, and mentor junior team members. You ll work closely with Product Owners, Architects, and DevOps to ensure delivery excellence across a diverse range of projects. What You'll Be Doing Software Development Build and maintain applications using C#, .NET Core, .NET 4.x, and React.js Develop robust frontend solutions using ASP.Net MVC, HTML5, CSS, and Vue.js Design and implement RESTful APIs and Web APIs following best practices Use SQL Server, Entity Framework, and SQL for efficient data management Apply design patterns like OOP, SOLID, and Clean Code to write scalable code Engineering & Architecture Deliver high- and low-level estimations for projects Ensure software quality through unit and integration testing Perform code reviews and participate in pair programming Architect scalable, secure systems, including OAuth and SSO integrations Cloud & DevOps Deploy and manage apps in Microsoft Azure using services like Blob Storage, Functions, and Service Bus Use Git for version control and Azure DevOps for CI/CD with YAML pipelines Collaboration & Communication Work cross-functionally with Product Owners, Architects, and other teams Share progress and blockers proactively Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences Leadership & Mentoring Mentor junior developers and share knowledge through team sessions and tech talks Contribute to community events and guilds to enhance engineering culture Help in identifying and resolving technical debt Project Delivery Lead delivery of large-scale features with minimal support Accurately estimate and manage work against timelines Participate in Agile ceremonies and planning What We re Looking For Must-Have Experience: 5+ years in software engineering roles Proficient in C#, .NET Core , React.js , and SQL Server Strong background in building scalable backend systems and modern frontends Experience with Azure cloud services and CI/CD pipelines Preferred: Experience with Agile methodologies Prior team mentoring experience Familiarity with OAuth , SSO , and application security

The Project Manager will drive end to end delivery of projects to customers, maintaining communication with all stakeholders to ensure efficient and successful project delivery across the full client engagement lifecycle within scope, schedule, budget and quality parameters. Key responsibilities: Duties will include, but are not restricted to the following: - Successful project delivery - Plan and direct the overall project of work through driving a clear vision and goals. - Be the go-to lead for the project team, customer and management owning the requirements and management process throughout the full project life-cycle, from initiation through to live operation. - Successful commercial delivery of projects, within budget and agreed timescales. - Effective management of issues and risks ensuring that options and solutions are validated and the impacts of decisions clearly articulated and understood. - Ensuring deliverables are built to and agreed quality . - Conform to project management standards, champion their use and contribute to their development. - Ability to lead and deliver projects via various methodologies, AGILE / SCRUM, Waterfall, Hybrid. - Contribute to and delivery relevant reporting across the Delivery and Cloud Services Group functions to internal and external parties. - Ensure accurate and effective documentation and reporting during delivery and into service. Stakeholder management - Ensuring customer satisfaction and promotion of successful long-term customer relationship evidenced by successful on-boarding and customer retention. - Creating and retaining customer engagement throughout the whole project/engagement lifecycle. - Materially shaping the project to get the optimum outcome for all stakeholders. - Using an understanding of the customers strategic importance and to actively contribute to account success. - Demonstrable experience in managing 3rd parties within the engagement lifecycle. Commercial activities - Manage the capacity and forecasting of the project management team ensuring capability and numbers match the pipeline of approved projects. - Key contributor to pre-sales activities of relevant projects and opportunities. - Identifying and following up all new business opportunities with the customer. People management - Taking direction from colleagues to ensure the project is aligned with broader account strategies, however, for some customers/project, the project manager may be the principle relationship owner - Ensure the allocation of relevant resources to ensure delivery success. - Mentoring colleagues in project management best practice where required. - Direct experience of building, managing and developing a team. - This list of responsibilities is not exhaustive, and the role holder is expected to reasonably take on any other responsibilities required to support business activities within the Group.? Person specification The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience: Essential Skills - Superior communication skills, with ability to articulate written and verbal communications clearly and concisely - Ability to manage communication with stakeholders at a variety of levels, and select the most appropriate method of communication. - Confidence in leading project meetings and presentations, and ability to present complex ideas to a non-technical audience. - Ability to anticipate stakeholder and colleague needs and respond accordingly. - Expert experience and knowledge across various delivery and management methodologies. - Experience of working in shared service environments. - Ability to see the wider picture and consider consequences. - Ability to estimate and forecast progress accurately. - Ability to translate ideas and solutions to clear tasks and models. - Experience in working across the full customer engagement lifecycle. - Ability to identify and manage risk, dependencies and constraints. Knowledge - Proven experience of systems integration and implementation projects - Experience of public/private Cloud technologies and associated services - Demonstrable experience of operational service processes and handover practices - Working knowledge of design methods, models and techniques. - Experience of working on multiple and large-scale IT infrastructure projects - Experience of leading project teams to success. - Good commercial awareness and understanding of the need for business value. - Recognised Project Management qualification or equivalent professional experience. Behaviours - High level of self-awareness. - Pragmatism and drive to resolve problems efficiently. - Drive and determination. - Collaborates well looking for a win-win solution wherever possible. - Positive, proactive attitude and approachable nature. Desirable - Knowledge and experience of working in a DevOps/SRE environment. - Evidence of taking a pro-active approach in evolving process improvements. - Experience of account and service management. - Awareness of business process modelling

Purpose of the Job: Design, build, and maintain robust data systems and pipelines that support data storage, processing, and analysis on the Cloud. Work with large datasets, ensuring data quality, scalability, and performance, while collaborating. closely with data scientists, analysts, and other engineering teams to understand their data needs and provide them with high-quality, accessible data. They are responsible for ensuring that the underlying data infrastructure supports the organizations broader data and business goals, enabling more effective data-driven decision-making. Key Accountabilities: Design and implement scalable, efficient, and secure data architectures, ensuring optimal data flow across systems in order to achieve high service levels of support, maintenance and development You will own development and change projects to ensure requirements are met in the most cost-effective manner while minimising associated risk to expected standards. Responsibly for cloud data platform development, data modelling, shaping and technical planning You will be a mentor among the owning decision making and evaluation of requirement suitability, facilitate reliable estimates, technical project management, stakeholder management with a project Ensure that resource requirements are understood and planned/estimated effectively against demand, including identification of additional temporary resource capability within projects Maintain appropriate process procedures, compliance and service level monitoring, performance reporting and vendor management. Implementing best practices around data security, privacy, and compliance for the teams compliance with cyber security and data protection and supporting along with BI lead Strong stakeholder management will be required for maintaining relationships with our business users to clarify and influence requirements. Including liaising with internal business departments and functions to manage the service level expected from the data team. Collaborating with external organisations and third-party software/service suppliers for ongoing support, maintenance and development of systems. You will be able to demonstrate you are quality focused to ensure that they solutions are built to an appropriate standard whilst being balanced with a drive to deliver against tight deadlines. Support in developing and implementing best practices and process across the team along with BI lead. Influence the evolution of business and system requirements and contribute to the design of technical solutions to feed a delivery pipeline that increasingly employs Agile methods such as SCRUM and Kanban You will be required to develop unit tested code and then support test cycles including post implementation validation. You will be required to contribute to the transition into service and ongoing support of the applications in the area which provides the opportunity to reduce technical debt and rationalise our technical footprint Mentor data engineers, supporting their professional growth and development Outcome, Results and Key Performance Indicators: Delivery of projects to expected timely, cost and quality standards Excellent levels of application availability and resilience as required by business operations. Necessary governance and control requirements defined - design, code and test standards and guidelines. Ensure data systems comply with necessary governance and control requirements. Internally-developed data solutions are fit for purpose and fit correctly within the data architecture. Built and tested to user requirements, performing to defined performance and capacity requirements. Company data is secure, accurate, maintained and available according to requirements. Technical risks and issues correctly mitigated and managed on Projects and Production support. High quality software delivered in to production - zero critical and high defects before production release. Dimensions of Job: This role is part of a well-established data team, the role offers a great opportunity for the right candidate to hone their modern data management skills in a friendly and supportive environment. This role requires attendance to a Leeds based office as often as needed with a minimum 2 days a week. Able to work effectively as part of a remote team. A great opportunity for a motivated data engineer seeking a new opportunity with a friendly, newly formed data team and able to contribute to the team's growth with their technical expertise Key Relationships: Internal: Wider technical teams (including apps, test, dev ops and more), Project managers, business SME's, data teams and communities , Data scientists, BI Lead, Head of Data External: software & service suppliers, consultants. Knowledge and Skills: Knowledge - Broad data management technical knowledge so as to be able to work across full data cycle. - Proven Experience working with AWS data technologies (S3, Redshift, Glue, Lambda, Lake formation, Cloud Formation), GitHub, CI/CD - Coding experience in Apache Spark, Iceberg or Python (Pandas) - Experience in change and release management. - Experience in Database Warehouse design and data modelling - Experience managing Data Migration projects. - Cloud data platform development and deployment. - Experience of performance tuning in a variery of database settings. - Experience of Infrastructure as code practises. - Proven ability to organise and produce work within deadlines. Skills - Good project and people management skills. - Excellent data development skills. - Excellent data manipulation and analysis skills using a variety of tools including SQL, Phyton, AWS services and the MSBI stack. - Ability to prioritise and be flexible to change those priorities at short notice. - Commercial acumen. - Able to demonstrate a practical approach to problem solving. - Able to provide appropriate and understandable data to a wide ranging audience. - Well-developed and professional communication skills. - Strong analytical skills - ability to create models and analyse data in order to solve complex problems or reinforce commercial decisions. - Able to understand business processes and how this is achieved/influenced by technology. - Must be able to work as part of a collaborative team to solve problems and assist other colleagues. - Ability to learn new technologies, programs and procedures. Technical Essentials: - Expertise across data warehouse and ETL/ ELT development in AWS preferred with experience in the following: - Strong experience in some of the AWS services like Redshift, Lambda,S3,Step Functions, Batch, Cloud formation, Lake Formation, Code Build, CI/CD, GitHub, IAM, SQS, SNS, Aurora DB - Good experience with DBT, Apache Iceberg, Docker, Microsoft BI stack (nice to have) - Experience in data warehouse design (Kimball and lake house, medallion and data vault) is a definite preference as is knowledge of other data tools and programming languages such as Python & Spark and Strong SQL experience. - Experience is building Data lake and building CI/CD data pipelines - A candidate is expected to understand and can demonstrate experience across the delivery lifecycle and understand both Agile and Waterfall methods and when to apply these. Experience: This position requires several years of practical experience in a similar environment. We require a good balance of technical and personal/softer skills so successful candidates can be fully effective immediately. - Proven experience in developing, delivering and maintaining tactical and enterprise data management solutions. - Proven experience in delivering data solutions using cloud platform tools. - Proven experience in assessing the impact of proposed changes on production solutions. - Proven experience in managing and developing a team of technical experts to deliver business outcomes and meet performance criteria. - Exposure to Energy markets, Energy Supply industry sector - Developing and implementing operational processes and procedures.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as a Infrastructure Architect on a long term project, for a finance company, inside IR35. It's important to note that this Infrastructure Architect position will require 2 days per week in central London or central Sheffield. The key skills required for this Infrastructure Architect position are: Hands on lead for on prem to Azure upgrade Migrating applications to Azure Azure Cisco HyperV, Exchange End to end security architecture Strong regulatory and compliance knowledge If you do have the relevant experience for this Infrastructure Architect position, please do apply.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work as a contract Data Architect for the NHS on a remote contract, inside IR35. The key skills required for this Data Architect role are: Erwin Data modelling Data architecture Data standards If you do have the relevant experience for this contract Data Architect position, please do apply.