JD ROSS

Lead Backend Software Engineer I'm looking for a Lead Backend Software Engineer to shape backend architecture, drive engineering excellence, and guide teams building high performance digital products used at scale. This is a hands on leadership role where you'll influence technical strategy, mentor engineers, and ensure backend systems are robust, secure, and future ready. What you'll be doing Lead backend architecture - Define and evolve scalable, secure, high performance backend systems Set engineering standards - Champion best practices, secure coding (OWASP), and high quality delivery Hands on technical contribution - Support critical backend work and review complex code Guide teams & mentor engineers - Facilitate design discussions, code reviews, and technical decision making Improve tooling & CI/CD - Enhance pipelines, build processes, and operational workflows Drive continuous improvement - Reduce technical debt and introduce modern backend approaches Support compliance - Ensure systems align with standards such as ISO27001 and PCI What we're looking for Strong backend engineering experience with Java (11 ) & Spring Boot Event driven architecture expertise - Kafka or similar Cloud experience - ideally AWS; Kubernetes knowledge beneficial Deep understanding of microservices, REST APIs & distributed systems Experience with SQL/NoSQL databases Strong CI/CD, automated testing & DevOps awareness Ability to influence technical direction across teams Comfortable communicating technical risks to non technical stakeholders Hybrid working London or Newcastle 3 month rolling contract Outside IR35

JD ROSS is seeking a Lead Backend Software Engineer to shape backend architecture and drive engineering excellence. This hands-on leadership position involves mentoring engineers and ensuring systems are robust and future-ready. Responsibilities include defining scalable backend systems, championing best practices, and supporting critical code work. Candidates should have strong Java skills, event-driven architecture expertise, and cloud experience, preferably with AWS. This role offers a hybrid working model in London or Newcastle, and the contract is rolling for 3 months.

JD ROSS in Newcastle upon Tyne is seeking an Interaction Designer to enhance the user experience for its product. The role involves collaborating closely with the Digital Delivery product development team. The ideal candidate will be adept at creating user journeys, conducting guerrilla testing, and presenting product solutions. Key skills include Application Design, Design Thinking, and Usability Design.

Data Engineer (Streaming) - Requirements Strong coding in Java (preferred) or Python Experience with Kafka, Flink, or Spark (Flink/Kafka ideal) Solid understanding of stream processing (event time, state, backpressure) Experience building ETL/ELT or real-time data pipelines Knowledge of microservices and distributed systems Tech & Cloud Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP (AWS preferred) Familiarity with Databricks, Snowflake, or BigQuery Engineering Practices Strong in testing, CI/CD, Git Experience with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes Experience 3 years in data engineering Agile experience and strong communication skills Nice to Have Consulting/client-facing experience Real-time/low-latency systems Certifications or mentoring experience Details 12 month FTC, very likely to convert to perm Upto 3 days per week in Newcastle Pay dependant on experience SC Clearance Essential

JD ROSS is seeking a Data Engineer (Streaming) in Newcastle upon Tyne. The role involves strong coding skills in Java or Python, and experience with Kafka, Flink, or Spark is crucial. The successful candidate will understand stream processing, build data pipelines, and work with cloud technologies like AWS, Azure, or GCP. This is a 12-month FTC, likely to transition into a permanent position. Candidates must have SC Clearance and can work up to 3 days per week in the office.

Job Description To create the best possible user experience for the consumers. The Interaction Designer works closely with the Digital Delivery product development department and acts as an advocate for all users of the business's product. The Interaction Designer must be able to visually and verbally present product solutions necessary for the enhancement of users' experience. Create user journeys, iterate, do guerrilla testing which are good to haves. Required Skills Application Design Design Thinking Interaction Design Usability Design Visual Design Group Problem Solving

JD ROSS is seeking a Java Developer in Newcastle upon Tyne to create modular, maintainable services using Java Development Kit (JDK 11) and Spring Boot. The successful candidate will work on enterprise middleware platforms like WebLogic Server and deploy solutions in public cloud environments such as AWS. The role involves following Scrum methodologies and advocating best development practices while collaborating with technical leads and cloud teams. Candidates should have significant experience in Java programming and microservices development.

JD ROSS in Newcastle upon Tyne is looking for a skilled Business Analyst. The role requires strong business analysis capability, managing senior stakeholders, and experience leading projects in Agile or Waterfall environments. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in producing business analysis artefacts and applying structured analysis techniques. Familiarity with tools like JIRA and Confluence is essential.

Job Description Strong and proven business analysis capability across requirements elicitation, analysis, documentation, validation, and management. Ability to independently understand complex business problems and lead the translation of business needs into high quality requirements and solution designs. Extensive experience producing and assuring business analysis artefacts including user stories, functional and non functional requirements, process models, business rules, and data specifications. Confident application of structured analysis and solution design techniques (e.g. UML, BPMN, process modelling, and business impact assessment) to complex change initiatives. Strong analytical skills, with experience using data to shape recommendations, validate requirements, and influence decision making. Proven ability to manage and influence senior stakeholders, facilitating alignment across business and technology teams. Extensive experience leading business impact assessments and clearly articulating change impacts, dependencies, and risks. Experience leading, coaching, and/or mentoring other business analysts, setting clear direction, assuring quality of outcomes, and supporting capability development within the team. Strong experience operating within Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and/or Waterfall delivery environments, shaping analysis approaches to suit delivery context. Ability to lead backlog refinement and prioritisation activities, ensuring alignment to value, risk, and delivery dependencies. Experience providing direction and support across testing phases, including complex defect triage and resolution. Confident use of tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Visio, and Excel to drive analysis, reporting, and delivery outcomes.

Job Description Experience within Java Development Kit (JDK 11 ) and Spring Boot to build modular, maintainable services aligned to enterprise standards. Demonstrable work experience with enterprise middleware platforms including WebLogic Server (Enterprise Edition) and CAS SDK for secured high-performance integrations. Collaborate with cloud and infrastructure teams to deploy solutions into secure, scalable public cloud environments (e.g., AWS), using containers. Advocate for and employ good development practices on the team such as consistent branching strategy, coding standards, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing. Support the technical leads in crafting the separation of functional into microservices and the end-to-end integration and flow between technical components. Support the test automation engineers in testing the stories and features delivered both from a functional and non-functional perspective. Follow the Scrum Methodology participating actively in sprint backlog refinement, sprint planning, stand-ups, sprint review and sprint retrospective Have significant Java programming experience, ideally utilizing core Java and Spring Boot to develop microservices.

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Junior Test Engineer 18 months experience required Hyrid onsite in Newcastle Must be SC elegible If interested please get in touch On the lookout for the followingJava developerExpereince - Junior12 Months FTC£33,000 a yearHybrid onsite in NewcastleIf interested please get in touch with your cv Senior Data Engineer Python Airbyte Apache BigQuery EducationTech Remote, London £70k Looking to help shape Data Strategy for a scaling Tech-for-Good business?I'm partnered with a AI first data and analytics platform built for schools, multi academy trusts and education groups. Their technology connects fragmented school data - attendance, behaviour, wellbeing, assessment, SEND and unstructured documents - and uses a multi agent AI system to surface actionable insights for school leaders in seconds.They are in a high growth phase, backed by Innovate UK funding, with a roadmap spanning predictive analytics, supplier intelligence, and international expansion. The

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