Norton Blake

6 job(s) at Norton Blake

Norton Blake Sheffield, Yorkshire
04/02/2026
Contractor
Service Designer, Sheffield/Hybrid, 6 months, £535/day (Inside IR35) Role Overview The Business Risk & Resilience (BRR) function brings together multiple teams, tools, and processes that support operational resilience, continuity, incident management, risk controls, and reporting across the global business. We are seeking a highly technical Service Designer to join a newly formed multi-disciplinary team within BRR. The role will focus on early-stage discovery, understanding how BRR fits within the wider ecosystem, and addressing tooling interoperability, data gaps, business processes, and end-to-end service journeys. The Service Designer will be Embedded deeply within technology, risk, controls, architecture, tooling, and global operations-not customer-facing channels. You'll shape problem statements, map complex journeys, uplift agile practices, and support pragmatic delivery across a large-scale risk environment. Key Responsibilities Discovery & Ecosystem Understanding Lead a 3-6 month structured discovery into how BRR sits within the global ecosystem. Identify dependencies, rules, controls, and operational handoffs across the organisation. Analyse current state across multiple teams, tooling solutions, and business processes. Service Design & Journey Mapping Create end-user journeys, personas, service blueprints, and problem statements based on insights from risk users, operational teams, and senior leadership. Understand and articulate the needs of risk users and resilience stakeholders across the bank. Translate unstructured or weak business requirements into clear, actionable service insights. Tooling, Interoperability & E2E Lifecycle Assess point-tooling and identify interoperability issues between risk, resilience, and controls platforms. Support evaluation and uplift of tools such as ServiceNow (vulnerability, scenario testing, incident processes). Ensure that tooling aligns to real business processes and supports effective end-to-end service flows. Integration & BRR Team Collaboration Work closely with architects, integration teams, and BRR SMEs to address data weaknesses, process friction, and solution feasibility. Act as a bridge between business and technology, ensuring the right information reaches the right people through the right tools. Contribute to backlog creation, use cases, and prioritisation of requirements. Stakeholder Engagement & Ways of Working Engage global senior stakeholders confidently (MD/CIO level). Introduce and uplift agile ways of working within teams new to service design. Provide detective-style support to uncover gaps, diagnose issues, and shape better business requirements.
Norton Blake City, London
29/01/2026
Contractor
Senior Mendix Developer, 3 months, London/Hybrid, £440/day (Inside IR35) We are seeking a Senior Mendix Developer to deliver enterprise-grade applications exclusively on the Mendix low-code platform. This is a client-facing role requiring close collaboration with client business and technology teams throughout the application life cycle. The role focuses on Mendix application development, UI configuration, and deployment within Mendix-managed environments, ensuring solutions meet client requirements, governance standards, and quality expectations. Key Responsibilities Client Collaboration & Delivery Work closely with client business and IT teams to understand requirements and translate them into Mendix solutions Participate in client workshops, design discussions, and sprint ceremonies Provide technical input on feasibility, design trade-offs, and delivery timelines Support client reviews, demos, UAT, and production readiness activities Mendix Application Development Develop applications entirely using the Mendix platform (Mendix Studio Pro) Build responsive user interfaces using Mendix native components and Atlas UI Configure domain models, microflows, nanoflows, and business logic within Mendix Apply Mendix best practices for performance, maintainability, and scalability Deployment & Environment Management Deploy and manage applications across Mendix-specific environments (Development, Test, Acceptance, Production) Configure application security, environment variables, and runtime settings within Mendix Support release planning, deployments, and post-release stabilization Quality, Governance & Support Perform unit testing and support system and UAT testing Troubleshoot and resolve issues using Mendix logs and tools Ensure solutions align with client standards, security, and governance requirements APPLY NOW!
Norton Blake
15/08/2023
Full time
My Client are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to join the team on a permanent basis specialising in ontology, knowledge engineering, knowledge graphs, and more. This role is not for the faint-hearted but for those energised by challenges, inspired by innovation, and driven by real-world impact. The role can pay up to £80,000 per annum for the right person so please click apply if you feel the below suits your skill set: Qualifications: Education: MSc/PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, or related field Experience: 5-7 years of hands-on experience in the industrySkills: Deep knowledge in First-Order Logic, Descriptive Logic, Web Ontology Language (OWL) Proficiency in graph neural networks (GNN), network science, and semantic networks Mastery over task-specific finetuning, including data extraction, classification, and generation A comprehensive understanding of traditional statistics, Machine Learning (ML), and multi-objective optimisation techniques Excellent communication and written skills Passion for continuous learning and collaboration as a team player Tools: Python: Structured workflows using environments, Conda, Git, GitFlow, etc.Databases: Traditional (SQL) and Graph Databases (openCypher, Gremlin, SPARQL) Technologies: MLOps/LLMOps, Protege, Cloud environments (Azure/AWS)
Norton Blake
22/09/2022
Full time
SQL Developer - PowerBI, ETL, T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, Data Warehouse - £70K per annum My client, a leader in their field are on the lookout for a SQL Developer to join their expanding team. This organisation are looking for a talented developer with a strong T-SQL programming background to join a greenfield project. The successful individual will have excellent data analysis capabilities and a solid foundation in Scripting and ETL processes. Responsibilities: Develop data analysis automation in SQL Server Collaborate with senior members throughout business whilst acting as project lead Support data requests and Tableau-based analytics solutions Data warehouse activities including ETL, troubleshooting, bug fixing and enhancements Requirements: Solid experience in a Microsoft SQL Server environment (SSIS, SSRS, SSMS) PowerBI reporting Excellent T-SQL Scripting ability Knowledge of data warehousing ETL best practice Data visualisation in PowerBI or similar technology An understanding of APIs will be a significant advantage SQL Developer - PowerBI, ETL, T-SQL, SSIS, SSRS, Data Warehouse - £70k per annum
Norton Blake
10/09/2021
Full time
My client is on a journey to build a set of new generation database tools to build, manage and operate various databases in AWS with a infrastructure as code mindset and migrating databases from our On-Prem private cloud to AWS. The development of those tools will also enable other database users to have the capability to manage and operate their own database platforms. We use various database RDBMS and NoSQL technologies. We support multiple databases platforms - running on both private and public cloud infrastructure. WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING Gather required specifications, design the software framework and develop the necessary tools. Deliver self-service tools to facilitate the usability of the datastore services to help the engineering development (or developer) success. Maintain and enhance Python/Django based applications running as micro services on Kubernetes. Desired hands on usage of Git version control system and designing version control process methodologies. Collaborate with other database engineering teams to build tools in order to facilitate and increase the efficiency of operation routine tasks. Onboard, support and maintain the automation tools with users. Participate OnCall duty for critical tool sets. Strategize on building proactive monitoring and alerting to pre-empt outages. WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS) Demonstrable experience with programming languages (eg: Python and Python Framework such as Django, etc) in software engineering roles, with full stack database driven development experience using any of the following open source databases: MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch or Hadoop. Strong years of experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management (eg: Ansible, SaltStack, Terraform, Puppet, Chef ), can orchestrate and automate complex administrative tasks. Substantial years of experience with independent design and developing client tools experience from end to end. Experience with building microservices applications on container platforms such as Kubernetes. Experience in observability and alerting (eg: Prometheus, InfluxDB, ElasticSearch) Experience working with AWS DB solutions and their ecosystems (eg: Aurora, RDS, DynamoDB, lambda, EC2, Cloudwatch, Eventbus, SNS and AMI, Kafka etc.) Experience working on the infrastructure of open-source databases (eg: MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, or Hadoop). Experience with Database observability or general system observability (metrics, dashboards, and alerts). Experience designing CI/CD pipelines to maintain infrastructure code deployment Strong fundamentals of Linux/Unix system knowledge If this is something you could be interested in please send me your most up to date CV to (see below) or give me a call
Norton Blake
22/03/2021
Contractor
My major consultancy client is looking to recruit a Digital Programme Manager who has worked on multiple digital transformation projects within the Retail Sector. The ideal Digital Programme Manager will have excellent experience leading multiple streams of retail projects and have a good understanding or retail-focused technology. THIS ROLE IS INSIDE IR35 Requirements: Proven record of delivering digital transformation programmes, ideally within the retail sector. Have experience of building credible relationships both inside the organisation and externally Good influencing skills Strong project, stakeholder and programme management skills Strong vendor management and influencing/negotiating skills Strong reporting skills for programme status and financial forecasting Excellent communication and influencing skills and adaptability to changes Be flexible and willing to adapt to the changing needs of the programmes If you are interested in this role please get in touch as soon as possible.