Lexstra Plc

Principal Software Engineer who can combine deep technical expertise with strategic vision and leadership needed ASAP. Yo u'll shape the architecture and delivery of enterprise-scale data platforms that enable analytics and insight across this regulated global media and events company. You'll partner with Digital Data Foundation, Product Analytics, and Enterprise Data Lake teams to design, build, and govern robust Data Lakes, Pipelines, and Data Products - balancing innovation with security, compliance, and scalability. What you'll do Architect and deliver secure, scalable data platforms across cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP) Lead the design and hands-on development of data pipelines (batch & Real Time) using Python, Spark, and modern frameworks Define and enforce standards for data quality, validation, and regulatory auditing Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align data initiatives with business and compliance goals Drive governance, metadata, and lineage practices across Data Lake and Mesh environments Champion automation, observability, and CI/CD for data workflows Provide technical direction and mentorship to engineers, fostering clarity and consistency in delivery What you'll bring Proven track record in leading large-scale data engineering projects in complex, regulated environments Strong hands-on experience with Python, PySpark, and modern data stacks (Glue, Databricks, Kafka, Terraform, etc.) Deep understanding of data architecture, governance, and privacy/security controls Confident communicator - able to translate complex data concepts into actionable business insights Demonstrated experience influencing multiple stakeholders and aligning technical solutions to strategic goals Balance of big-picture thinking and practical, hands-on problem solving Why this role This contract offers the opportunity to set data strategy, design future-proof platforms, and lead delivery at scale - all while working with cutting-edge technology in a collaborative, high-performing environment. Richmond upon Thames offices. Hybrid working. Full spec' available.

Business Change Manager required to join a leading global financial services company, a truly outstanding company to work for, renowned for its market leadership, client retention, and innovative digital pension solutions. The Role You will play a key role in delivering high-profile transformation projects, including: Leading client migrations to cutting-edge digital pension platforms. Driving business change activities - training, communications, testing, and adoption. Managing complex projects end-to-end with strong governance and stakeholder engagement. Why Join? Be part of a global market leader with an exceptional reputation. Work on large-scale, high-impact transformation initiatives Enjoy an inclusive, supportive culture The Requirements Highly experienced project manager with experience across Waterfall, Scrum and hybrid (W-Agile) methodologies Previous experience in provisioning of new digital products and/or migration of large-scale technology systems within financial services Proven leadership experience in achieving successful project outcomes. Track record of delivering strong results in large-scale/complex software development projects. Experience working with distributed software development products and teams Good working knowledge of recognised Project Management frameworks, eg Prince 2, PMBOK Change management experience on complex projects Drive and enthusiasm with the ability to motivate teams to deliver Ability to create an environment that encourages professional development Ability to build strong working relationships with IT and business managers Ability to influence, network and collaborate with stakeholders Excellent and effective communication, including negotiation and persuasion skills Pension knowledge is advantageous Experience with JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint is beneficial This is a fantastic chance to progress your career with a prestigious financial services organisation, delivering projects that shape the future of pensions administration. Apply today and take the next step in your career with a company that values innovation, collaboration and professional growth.

Full stack C# .NET Developer with strong technical design skills needed by global blue chip. You will need to have extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of: *Large scale, distributed, cloud-based environments, including AWS *Microservices, multi-tenant with experience in the design and architecture of complex systems, including optimisation of services and data stores for performance, high traffic, resilience etc. *Providing technical leadership in high-performing software engineering teams, preferably with an on-/off-shore element with experience guiding and mentoring junior team members. Technical skills: APIs: REST, GraphQL Languages: C#/.NET Core, ReactJS/Typescript, CSS, SQL Testing: Pair Programming, TDD, BDD, vulnerability, security and performance testing tools Instrumentation: Logging, monitoring, dashboards, alerting Database: DynamoDb, PostgreSQL Security: OWASP Top 10 CI/CD: Git, pipeline management tools, green-blue deployments, canary releases Cloud: AWS, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Cloudformation, Containerisation, Serverless Useful: PowerShell, Python, PowerBI Fully remote £550 per day inside IR35

Senior full stack C# .NET Developer with strong technical design skills needed by global, market leading, blue chip. You will need to have extensive knowledge and hands-on experience working on large scale, distributed, cloud-based environments, including AWS, microservices, multi-tenant with experience in the design and architecture of complex systems, including optimisation of services and data stores for performance, high traffic, resilience etc. In addition you will need experience providing technical leadership in high-performing software engineering teams, preferably with an on-/off-shore element with experience guiding and mentoring junior team members. Desirable skills include: APIs: REST, GraphQL Languages: C#/.NET Core, ReactJS/Typescript, CSS, SQL Testing: Pair Programming, TDD, BDD, vulnerability, security and performance testing tools Instrumentation: Logging, monitoring, dashboards, alerting Database: DynamoDb, PostgreSQL Security: OWASP Top 10 CI/CD: Git, pipeline management tools, green-blue deployments, canary releases Cloud: AWS, Lambda, S3, SNS, SQS, Cloudformation, Containerisation, Serverless Useful: PowerShell, Python, PowerBI Almost fully remote is possible. We would expect them to visit the London office once or twice in a year, so fully offshore is not going to work.

Our global financial services client is seeking a Reporting Analyst to analyse and define a reporting strategy that aligns with its business vision. You will need excellent experience of the data domain in financial services and be comfortable working in a fast-moving, dynamic and delivery-focused financial services environment. Required Professional Experience: *Experience using SQL to write queries and analyse data *Excellent knowledge of reporting tools including Power BI *Comfortable analysing large datasets *Experience in Data Visualisation *Advanced Microsoft Excel skills to present and analyse data *Extensive experience as a Financial, Reporting, Data or Business Analyst *Strong data presentation and visualisation skills *Ability to produce top quality data-driven reports *Detailed knowledge of best practice solutions for data management *Strong understanding of data relationships, data querying & data management *Experience in training the users of reporting tools and reports *Experience of process improvement in multi-location financial service environments Required Qualities: *Excellent analytical skills *Excellent verbal and written communication skills *Excellent presentation skills *Excellent accuracy and attention to detail You will need to be: *Resourceful, enthusiastic and imaginative *Keen to introduce new ideas *Able to perform under pressure in a busy and demanding environment This is an important role and the recruitment process will move quickly. Primarily WFH you will need to be able to travel to our client's office in Redhill, Surrey on an ad hoc basis. Salary to £75k + good bonus & additional benefits.

Pensions Data Analyst required by a large Financial Services company. You must have understanding and experience of UK Defined Contribution or Defined Benefit Pension data with strong data analysis skills including good SQL skills, an understanding of database table design, dependencies and relationships. In addition you should have excellent interpersonal/communication skills, strong general IT skills and good time management skills. This role reports to the Product Technical Lead, with the primary focus of ensuring all incoming client data is successfully migrated to the new pensions administration system. Working under the direction of the Technical Lead and Scrum Master, the Pensions Data Analyst will work as an integral part of the team to ensure that the incoming data is analysed against the structure of the scheme, validated, mapped to the target database and is reconciled successfully from source to target. Homeworking/Reigate, Surrey Contract Paying circa £550 per Day

Applications Analyst required by a large financial services firm to provide support, maintenance, development and security of portfolio investment and accounting systems. You will be required to provide 2nd and 3rd line technical support while also contributing to strategic development and maintenance. You will act as a Subject Matter Expert & Single Point of Contact for projects and minor enhancements, working on Technology and Change Projects, CSI initiatives and BAU. You will need to follow structured release management processes while implementing new software releases, minor enhancements or change introduced as part of project and BAU delivery. You will also be responsible for carrying out detailed root cause analysis, maintaining good third party vendor relationships and aiding in the progress of ongoing development work. You will be expected to maintain a good awareness of developing applications, with full life cycle applications support and management experience. The successful candidate must have strong skills and demonstrable experience in the following: Experience of supporting business applications. Experience using ITSM tool (preferably Service Now). Exposure to ITIL practices including Incident, Problem, Release, Request, Change and Risk Management. Experience supporting integrated applications. Software transition and release management. Vendor management. Experience of the following is desirable: Intersystems Caché/IRIS database. ITIL v4 qualified. Financial Services experience. ObjectScript. Object Oriented programming. Transact SQL. Data messaging formats such as JSON or XML. Supporting applications in Windows based environment (ideally Windows Server 2012+). Experience of application delivery through Citrix. Deployment of applications to a cloud infrastructure. Educated to degree level or relevant professional qualifications. ITIL accreditation. Experience of working with Finance applications such as Sun Accounting.

Senior Data Engineer/Developer required by a global blue chip required to join a cross-functional team in an Agile/Scrum/Kanban environment working on the architecture, design and maintenance of data-led solutions. You will need to have in-depth experience of some of the following: SQL, eg T-SQL, PL/SQL, PostgreSQL. Extensive experience in a NoSQL implementation, eg Hadoop, Mongo, S3, Azure Table/BLOB storage. At least one programmatic language, eg C#, Java, Python, R. Cloud storage structures, formats, and transformation/querying techniques, eg JSON, XML, XSLT. Experience with SSIS, SSRS beneficial. In addition you should have experience of relational database design, including at least one enterprise SQL implementation. Non-relational database design (NoSQL). Cloud data storage formats and techniques. Development of ETL, data warehouse and data lake solutions. Commercial exposure to at least one enterprise cloud environment, eg AWS, Azure, Oracle, Google. Exposure to AWS products (S3, SQS, Athena, SNS, Lambdas) beneficial. Familiarity with BI/MI concepts, multi-dimensional data repositories, warehouses, lakes. Experience of transforming and aggregating data for business use in offline tools, eg Excel, Tableau. Experience of transferring high volume data between database and business systems, eg Salesforce, and of automating such processes. You should also have familiarity with current software development practices: CI/CD, automated testing, blue/green deployment, feature toggles. Mixture of Homeworking and on-site with 2-3 days a week working from home. £540/day inside IR35.

Applications Support Analyst required by a large financial services firm to provide support, maintenance, development and security of portfolio investment and accounting systems. You will be required to provide 2nd and 3rd line technical support while also contributing to strategic development and maintenance. You will act as a Subject Matter Expert & Single Point of Contact for projects and minor enhancements, working on Technology and Change Projects, CSI initiatives and BAU. You will need to follow structured release management processes while implementing new software releases, minor enhancements or change introduced as part of project and BAU delivery. You will also be responsible for carrying out detailed root cause analysis, maintaining good third party vendor relationships and aiding in the progress of ongoing development work. You will be expected to maintain a good awareness of developing applications, with full life cycle applications support and management experience. The successful candidate must have strong skills and demonstrable experience in the following: Experience of supporting business applications. Experience using ITSM tool (preferably Service Now). Exposure to ITIL practices including Incident, Problem, Release, Request, Change and Risk Management. Experience supporting integrated applications. Software transition and release management. Vendor management. Experience of the following is desirable: Intersystems Caché/IRIS database. ITIL v4 qualified. Financial Services experience. ObjectScript. Object Oriented programming. Transact SQL. Data messaging formats such as JSON or XML. Supporting applications in Windows based environment (ideally Windows Server 2012+). Experience of application delivery through Citrix. Deployment of applications to a cloud infrastructure. Educated to degree level or relevant professional qualifications. ITIL accreditation. Experience of working with Finance applications such as Sun Accounting.

Applications Analyst required by a large financial services firm to provide support, maintenance, development and security of portfolio investment and accounting systems. You will be required to provide 2nd and 3rd line technical support while also contributing to strategic development and maintenance. You will act as a Subject Matter Expert & Single Point of Contact for projects and minor enhancements, working on Technology and Change Projects, CSI initiatives and BAU. You will need to follow structured release management processes while implementing new software releases, minor enhancements or change introduced as part of project and BAU delivery. You will also be responsible for carrying out detailed root cause analysis, maintaining good third party vendor relationships and aiding in the progress of ongoing development work. You will be expected to maintain a good awareness of developing applications, with full life cycle applications support and management experience. The successful candidate must have strong skills and demonstrable experience in the following: Experience of supporting business applications. Experience using ITSM tool (preferably Service Now). Exposure to ITIL practices including Incident, Problem, Release, Request, Change and Risk Management. Experience supporting integrated applications. Software transition and release management. Vendor management. Experience of the following is desirable: Intersystems Caché/IRIS database. ITIL v4 qualified. Financial Services experience. ObjectScript. Object Oriented programming. Transact SQL. Data messaging formats such as JSON or XML. Supporting applications in Windows based environment (ideally Windows Server 2012+). Experience of application delivery through Citrix. Deployment of applications to a cloud infrastructure. Educated to degree level or relevant professional qualifications. ITIL accreditation. Experience of working with Finance applications such as Sun Accounting.

Infrastructure Engineer/Application Deployment Engineer required by a large Financial Services/Investment Management firm with a great working environment, scope for career progression and fantastic benefits. You will be responsible for implementation, deployment and support of a suite of business applications on a mixture of enterprise Cloud infrastructure environments and hosted on windows Servers. You will need to have previous experience of working in the Financial Services sector with application specific technology skills (eg database configuration, access control ext.) and experience of application delivery through Citrix (working closely with development teams). Deployment of applications to a cloud infrastructure such as AWS (EC2, VPC, ECS, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation) or equivalent Azure IaaS services. You should also have experience using an ITSM tool (eg Service Now) and strong knowledge of ITIL. You must have 3 years+ experience migrating, building, and deploying systems and applications with experience of configuration management tools and automation in infrastructure management. In addition to 5 years+ Linux and Microsoft server management, including Hyper-V with extensive experience of Active Directory. Desirable skills/experience: * Citrix XenApp 7.x. * Orchestration (SCORCH). * Proactive monitoring (SCOM or Nagios or EdgeSight). * SQL, App-V. * HP Rack and Blade Servers. * Up to date knowledge of Cyber security concepts and issues. * PowerShell and Json experience. * Linux/Unix Scripting with Shell, Bash, Perl or Python * System center products such as SCVMM, SCCM. * Working knowledge with DevOps tools such as TerraForm or equivalent Full spec available.