The MRJ Group

We're currently looking for a commercially minded and delivery-focused Business Analyst to join one of the UKs leading commerce businesses as they embark on a huge digital transformation programme focused on improving the end-to-end customer experience across multiple touchpoints. The role working closely with the Head of Programme Delivery, this is a varied role working across CRM transformation, customer data initiatives, AI and automation projects, and broader digital change programmes. You'll partner with stakeholders across product, technology, operations, marketing, and customer teams to identify opportunities, define requirements, and help deliver meaningful business improvements. What You'll Be Doing day-to-day: Work with business and technology stakeholders to understand challenges, identify opportunities, and define solutions Gather, analyse, and document business requirements, processes, and workflows Support digital transformation initiatives focused on customer experience and operational efficiency Contribute to CRM-related projects including customer journey mapping, segmentation, workflows, and integrations Help shape data and reporting initiatives to improve customer insight and decision-making Support AI and automation initiatives across customer operations and internal processes Facilitate workshops, stakeholder meetings, and discovery sessions Translate business needs into clear functional requirements and user stories Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineering, Data, and Delivery teams Support testing, UAT, change management, and rollout activities Help drive continuous improvement across systems, processes, and customer interactions Who We're Looking For Previous experience as a Business Analyst within digital, technology, or transformation environments Strong stakeholder management and communication skills Experience gathering and documenting requirements across multiple business functions Experience to CRM platforms and customer-focused digital projects Exposure to AI, automation, or process optimisation projects Understanding of customer journey mapping and service improvement Strong analytical and problem-solving capability Comfortable working across both strategic and hands-on delivery work Experience working in Agile environments Interviews are expected to take place after the bank holiday w/c 25th May with shortlisting taking place in the week before. Please share your CV, highlighting why you feel your experience is suitable for the role and the team will be in touch.

The MRJ Group is seeking a Business Analyst to drive digital transformation initiatives aimed at enhancing customer experience across various touchpoints. In this role, you'll collaborate with teams in product, technology, and marketing to identify business needs and deliver impactful improvements. Ideal candidates should possess prior experience in digital transformation, strong analytical skills, and familiarity with CRM platforms. The position offers a dynamic work environment and opportunities for professional growth.

The MRJ Group is looking for an experienced Database Administrator (AWS DocumentDB / MongoDB) to work on a remote-first basis. This role focuses on transforming a high-profile e-commerce platform into a new AWS-native environment, managing NoSQL database environments, and ensuring operational performance. The ideal candidate will have 8-10 years of experience with strong NoSQL expertise and hands-on AWS DocumentDB knowledge. Responsibilities include overseeing database migration and optimisation, ensuring high availability and security.

The MRJ Group is seeking a Senior Solutions Architect to lead technology initiatives within a growing organisation. This role will involve designing scalable and cost-effective technology solutions and producing solution design documents that align with architecture standards. You will have proven experience in the role, strong understanding of application architecture, and exceptional stakeholder management skills. This position offers a unique opportunity to impact technology strategy at a significant level.

The MRJ Group is seeking an experienced Data Scientist Contractor to uncover insights driving product performance. You will validate models, apply advanced machine learning techniques, and communicate key findings to stakeholders. This role involves data analysis to inform strategic decisions and improve product offerings. The ideal candidate will excel in Python, SQL, and have experience with machine learning frameworks, particularly using Snowflake and SHAP.

Senior Solutions Architect This is a chance to lead the technology heartbeat of one of the UK's biggest names in consumer services. With revenues approaching £700m and a presence that spans hundreds of sites nationwide, they're already the second largest player in their market, but they're not stopping there. A newly created Senior Solutions Architect role working closely with the Director of Technology, your work will directly shape how technology enables the business to scale, standardise, and innovate. Reporting to the CTO, this is a key role in shaping enterprise-wide solution design, architecture governance and technology strategy across major transformation programmes, acquisitions and business critical change initiatives. Key Responsibilities Design scalable, secure and cost-effective technology solutions Produce Solution Design Documents (SDDs) and architecture artefacts Define APIs, integrations, data flows and architectural patterns Ensure alignment with architecture standards, governance and cloud strategy Provide architectural leadership across transformation and change projects Support acquisition activity including technical due diligence and integration planning Evaluate third party/vendor solutions from both technical and commercial perspectives Collaborate across Infrastructure, Development, Data, Security and Change teams Requirements Proven experience in a Solution Architect/Senior Solution Architect role Strong understanding of application architecture, integrations and cloud/SaaS solutions Experience producing and presenting solution designs within governance forums Knowledge of APIs, event driven architecture and architecture best practices Experience working across complex enterprise environments Exposure to TOGAF or similar architecture frameworks Strong stakeholder management and communication skills M&A integration or due diligence experience desirable If you're an experienced Solutions Architect looking for an opportunity to make a lasting impact within a growing organisation, we'd love to hear from you.

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Lead (contract) to support the evolution of our cloud and application delivery strategy as we modernise our deployment, integration, and operational capabilities. This role will focus on building scalable, secure, and automated platform services that improve developer productivity, deployment consistency, operational resilience, and software delivery across engineering teams. The successful candidate will play a key role in transitioning from traditional infrastructure deployments toward modern cloud native and platform engineering practices. Security will be a core component of the role, ensuring that platform services, deployment pipelines, and engineering standards are designed with secure by default principles. The role will help embed DevSecOps practices across the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring security controls are automated, repeatable, and integrated into engineering workflows rather than applied retrospectively. The role will also contribute to the development of platform security standards and recommendations, supporting secure application delivery, cloud governance, identity management, secrets handling, and compliance requirements across engineering environments. In addition, the role will support secure collaboration models for internal engineering teams, third party development partners, and external data providers, ensuring appropriate identity management, access controls, environment segregation, and secure integration practices are implemented across platform services and delivery pipelines. Key Responsibilities Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar tooling. Implement automated multi stage deployment pipelines across development, test, UAT, and production environments. Support blue/green and phased deployment strategies. Develop Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and/or Bicep. Build reusable infrastructure templates and standardised deployment patterns. Support cloud native services and event driven architectures using Azure technologies. Implement security controls within CI/CD pipelines including code scanning, dependency validation, secrets detection, and policy enforcement. Support secure identity, access control, and secrets management practices across cloud platforms and deployment pipelines. Support secure collaboration and integration with internal teams, third party development partners, and external data providers. Contribute to platform security recommendations, engineering governance, and secure deployment standards. Support security testing and validation activities within pre production and UAT environments. Contribute to platform architecture standards, engineering governance, and future technology strategy. Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational resilience practices aligned to SRE principles. Support operational stability, incident management, and platform optimisation initiatives. Technical Skills & Experience Essential: Azure cloud platform experience, CI/CD pipeline engineering (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Bicep), Automation and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python), Experience with Azure Service Bus and serverless technologies, Security and DevSecOps practices, Experience implementing security controls within CI/CD pipelines, Identity and access management experience, Monitoring, logging, and operational support experience, Experience working within cloud native or platform engineering environments. Desirable GitOps practices SRE / reliability engineering experience Experience defining platform standards and reference architectures Knowledge of security tooling including SAST/DAST, vulnerability scanning, and policy as code frameworks.

The MRJ Group in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking for an AI Engineer to lead the company's ambitious AI journey. You'll be responsible for identifying new AI opportunities, designing and deploying AI models, and influencing the technical direction of projects. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in AI/ML and MLOps, is skilled with tools like OpenAI, and has an experimentation mindset. This role offers the chance to truly impact AI's role in a growing technology landscape.

The MRJ Group is seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Lead (contract) in Liverpool City Region. This role is crucial for modernising cloud and application delivery strategies, emphasizing secure and automated platform services. The successful candidate will design CI/CD pipelines, implement Infrastructure-as-Code, and ensure security controls within the deployment processes. Familiarity with Azure technologies and DevSecOps practices is essential. Join us to lead the transformation towards cloud-native engineering.

The MRJ Group is seeking a Lead Developer to spearhead the design and development of high-quality software applications. You will work with Agile delivery teams, focusing on innovation and speed within a growing global tech company. With strong experience in C# .NET and SQL, your role will include collaborating with engineering teams, producing scalable code, and mentoring junior developers. The position offers a salary of £75k+ bonus and a hybrid working model with 2 office days in Manchester, UK.

Overview The MRJ team have engaged with a VERY exciting company at the forefront of the workforce technology industry as they embark on a new game-changing AI journey. This isn't a greenfield "AI strategy" conversation. The foundations and vision is already in place. But we're now looking for someone who can take ownership of what comes next: extending capability, building tools, integrating systems, and exploring what AI can unlock across the wider platform. We're looking for the kind of AI Engineer whose ideas start with "I wonder if we could " and usually end with a working prototype. Someone who enjoys building, experimenting and pushing beyond the obvious, turning AI from a feature into something genuinely useful. If your browser history is full of docs, repos, experiments and half-finished ideas you just had to test, you'll probably fit in well here. What you'll be doing (a summary) Identify, assess and shape new AI and automation opportunities, including running PoCs Design, build and deploy Machine Learning models, LLM solutions and generative AI components Implement MLOps best practices, including model pipelines, monitoring and automated evaluation Creating prompt-driven experiences that can interface with multiple platforms Help steer technical direction and influence what gets built next Person requirements (AI Engineer) Experience and passion in AI/ML, LLMs and MLOps You are an expert at prompting and utilizing AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Anthropic models & OpenAI to accelerate your coding, debugging, and documentation. An experimentation mindset, you will love turning ideas into working products Can operate in ambiguity and lead from the front Strong experience with Azure / Microsoft services Enjoys taking ownership and influencing direction If you want a role where you can genuinely help define what AI looks like inside a growing product business, we should talk asap

Lead Developer Global Tech Company Agile Delivery Teams Hands On UK Based Millions of customers. One proprietary platform. Infinite possibilities. This global technology business has just completed a massive migration to their own platform, and now, the stage is set for scale, innovation, and speed. Products are being built at pace, technology is unlocking new capabilities, and the experiences delivered to customers worldwide are next-level. What you'll do Lead the design, development and maintenance of software applications, ensuring quality, efficiency and performance. Collaborate with the Platform Engineering team on tooling, CI/CD and deployment process improvements. Produce clean, maintainable, scalable code. Debug, resolve issues, fix bugs and optimise performance across the stack. Provide technical direction to the team through code reviews and mentoring. Stay up to date with emerging technologies and apply learning to improve development processes. Create and maintain accurate documentation for design, code, tests and user facing technical materials where required. Act as a liaison between Engineering and Senior Management, communicating progress, risks and technical challenges. Who you are Strong commercial experience with C# .NET. Solid SQL/MySQL experience. Proven experience developing enterprise grade single page applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with strong expertise in modern frameworks. Confident with Git and source control best practices. Strong grasp of OOP principles, design patterns, software design and architecture. Experience with TDD. Proven experience working in an Agile environment. Excellent collaborator and communicator, with a problem solving mindset. Key perks Salary: £75k+ bonus. Hybrid working with 2 days in Manchester office (must be based in the UK). Flexi time & much, much more. If you're passionate about leading & driving innovation, we'd love to chat with you about this opportunity! Apply & we'll be able to guide you every step of the way, providing all the cheat codes and hidden tricks you need to shine in the process!

Principal QA / Principal Software Engineer in Test - Manchester City Centre - up to £80k We're working with a growing SaaS business looking for a Principal QA to lead their testing strategy and drive quality across engineering. This is a hands-on leadership role with a strong focus on modern automation, particularly Playwright (Cypress also welcome). What you'll be doing Own and define the QA strategy across products Lead adoption of Playwright-based automation frameworks Work closely with engineers to embed quality across the SDLC Mentor QA engineers and build a high-performing team Improve tooling, processes, and CI/CD pipelines What they're looking for Strong experience with Playwright or Cypress Solid background in TypeScript/JavaScript automation Experience with API testing (Postman) Good understanding of CI/CD (Jenkins/AWS/Azure) Strong communication and leadership skills You will be leading a highly skilled, established QA team, while still staying hands-on with automation and strategy. The product itself is a well-known platform you've likely come across, adding real-world impact to the work you'll be doing. If this is something for you, feel free to reach out or apply to the job and I'll be in touch!

Are you passionate about uncovering the hidden drivers behind business performance? We're looking for an experienced Data Scientist Contractor to help us identify what makes the highest-performing products in our portfolio stand out and translate those insights into actionable business decisions. The Opportunity You'll work on a high-impact project focused on understanding the characteristics of successful products across a large and diverse portfolio. Building on existing analysis, you'll validate current assumptions, apply advanced machine learning techniques, and develop a robust framework that explains the key drivers of product performance. This is a highly visible piece of work that will influence strategic decision-making across the business and provide direct exposure to senior leadership stakeholders. What You'll Be Doing Validating and enhancing existing analytical models and hypotheses. Applying unsupervised learning techniques to segment and cluster product data. Building supervised learning models to identify and predict high-performing products. Using model explainability techniques such as SHAP to uncover and communicate key performance drivers. Turning complex analytical findings into clear, compelling narratives for both technical and non-technical audiences. Developing scalable, programmatic solutions using data housed within Snowflake. Creating engaging stakeholder-facing outputs, ideally leveraging Streamlit. What/Who We're Looking For Proven commercial experience delivering Data Science projects from problem definition through to insight generation. Strong expertise in both supervised and unsupervised machine learning. Experience with model interpretability techniques, particularly SHAP. Excellent stakeholder communication and storytelling skills. Strong Python and SQL capabilities. Experience working with Snowflake and ideally Streamlit. Ability to challenge assumptions, validate existing work, and build trusted recommendations. Next Steps We are shortlisting w/c 1st June with the ideal start within the next 2 weeks. If you enjoy turning complex data into clear business value and want to help define what great looks like across a large product portfolio, we'd love to hear from you.

The MRJ Group is looking for a Business Process Automation Lead in Scotland to modernize internal automation across a leading Fintech. The role involves identifying and delivering high-impact automation solutions to improve efficiency and user experience. Your responsibilities include owning the automation roadmap, evaluating current tools, and implementing AI-based solutions. Proven experience in automation engineering and process optimization is required. Join a dynamic team and influence the future of back-office operations.

Opprtunities like this don't come around every day We're currently working closely with the CEO of a leading Fintech in Scotland who is looking for a Business Process Automation Lead to modernise and scale internal automation across a 450 person organisation, with a strong focus on back office operations and business critical processes. A brand new role, you will be fully responsible for identifying high impact automation opportunities, shaping the approach, and delivering solutions that measurably improve efficiency, accuracy and customer/employee experience. You'll lead the design and implementation of AI enabled automation, while also evaluating current tooling and platform constraints (including where the current ecosystem may limit what's achievable) and recommending pragmatic, scalable alternatives where needed. This is a hands on leadership role with real influence, ideal for someone who enjoys combining technical depth with business impact. Day to day Responsibilities Own the internal automation roadmap across departments, focusing on back office and operational workflows. Identify, prioritise and deliver automation opportunities with clear ROI and measurable outcomes. Design and implement end to end automation solutions using AI where it adds tangible value (e.g., intelligent document processing, workflow automation, decision support). Assess current Microsoft based tooling and architecture; recommend enhancements or complementary platforms to unlock greater capability (e.g., Microsoft Power Platform, UiPath). Establish engineering standards, governance and best practices for automation development, deployment and monitoring. Work closely with stakeholders across operations, finance, HR and other functions to map processes and remove bottlenecks. Ensure automation solutions are secure, compliant and maintainable, with appropriate audit trails for business processes. Person Requirements This is a high impact opportunity and you'll be expected to have had experience operating in a role that blends strategy, delivery and technical leadership. We're looking for someone who's done this before, can hit the ground running and doesn't need hand holding. To be considered, you'll offer experience/expertise in the following: Proven experience leading automation engineering or process automation initiatives in a business setting. Strong understanding of internal process optimisation and back office operations (e.g., finance ops, HR ops, customer operations, shared services). Hands on experience delivering automation using one or more of: RPA/workflow tools (e.g., Microsoft Power Automate/Power Platform, UiPath), integration platforms, scripting/engineering approaches, and AI enabled automation. Ability to evaluate platform constraints and make sound build/buy/extend recommendations, including within Microsoft environments (e.g., Power Platform). Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business needs into technical delivery. Knowledge of security, governance and compliance considerations for automating internal processes (desirable).

The MRJ Group in Manchester is seeking a backend engineer to design and build scalable systems that empower users financially. You will be responsible for owning systems end-to-end, making key architectural decisions, and mentoring team members. If you are passionate about creating impactful technology and have experience in Kotlin or Java, this is the ideal role for you. The company values collaboration and user-centric product development.

Role Overview This isn't just another fintech job. Millions of people are underserved, overcharged, or overlooked by traditional financial systems. Our client is here to change that. They're building technology that puts people first, making finance simpler, fairer, and more accessible. No jargon. No hidden complexity. Just products that genuinely improve lives. If you've ever wanted your work to matter, this is where it happens. Responsibilities Helping people take control of their money Building systems that customers rely on every single day Turning complex financial problems into simple, human experiences Shipping real impact, not sitting in endless planning cycles Day to Day Designing and building scalable backend systems in the cloud Owning systems end to end - from idea ? build ? production Working closely with product and design to solve real user problems Making key architectural decisions that shape the future of the platform Improving performance, reliability, and security across critical systems Mentoring others and contributing to a high performing engineering culture Qualifications Strong backend engineering experience (Kotlin, Java, or similar) Experience building and scaling distributed systems AI Tooling (you'll use Claude, Cursor or similar daily) A product mindset, you think about users, not just code You value clean code, testing, and long term quality Comfortable making trade offs and moving at pace A collaborative approach, low ego, high ownership Apply today, interviews to take place from w/c 6th April

The MRJ Group is seeking a fully remote Process Automation Engineer to drive automation in the global hospitality sector. This role involves translating existing process maps into scalable workflows, optimizing Salesforce, and integrating LLM outputs into business tools. The ideal candidate has a strong background in process automation, experience in startup environments, and the ability to engage with C-Suite executives. The position offers £450 per day.