Job Title: Head of Architecture and IT Development
Reference Number: BEDS2976
Department / Faculty and Division: ICT
Salary: Grade: 9 £59,966 to £67,468
Full-time / Part-time: 37h per week. Hybrid – 4 days onsite and 1 day remote per week
Permanent / Fixed-Term Contract: 24-month fixed-term
Location: Luton Campus
Closing date: 30th November 2026
Interview date: 16th December 2026
The University of Bedfordshire is seeking a talented and forward-thinking Head of Architecture and IT Development to lead our technical development capability and play a key role in delivering our ambitious digital transformation agenda.
Reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), you will lead software development, solution architecture, application integration, and modernisation across the University. This hands-on technical leadership role combines strategic direction and people management with practical involvement in coding, solution design, troubleshooting, and technical delivery.
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of technical professionals, driving high standards and continuous improvement.
• Shape solution architecture and modernise enterprise applications, integrations, and cloud services.
• Remain hands-on with coding, technical design, code reviews, and complex problem-solving.
• Champion modern development practices, including DevOps, automation, AI-assisted development, and secure coding.
• Work closely with the CIO and senior stakeholders to deliver technology solutions supporting the University’s digital transformation.
What We’re Looking For:
• Strong technical expertise in.NET and/or Python, SQL, APIs and Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience leading development teams while remaining technically hands-on.
• Experience in solution architecture, cloud integration, DevOps, and modern development practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• A passion for technology, innovation, and developing people.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Minesh Tailor via mail: minesh.tailor@beds.ac.uk
Interviews will be held on the 16th December 2026
We kindly request that all applicants refrain from canvassing during the shortlisting process. Your applications will be thoroughly reviewed, and you will be contacted and informed of the outcome of in due course
For a full job description and person specification please click here
The post will be based at Luton Campus (with travel to other campuses as required)
The University is committed to equality of opportunity and values the diversity of all its workforce and student population.
At the University of Bedfordshire, inclusivity is a key University value, and we are committed to creating an environment in which we celebrate and value the diversity of our staff and student community and provide fair opportunity and outcomes for all.
We recognise that diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent and benefit from opportunities that the diversity of talent and thought creates.
We, therefore, particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in the University of Bedfordshire’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority backgrounds (particularly in roles in grades 7 and above), disabled people; LGBTQ+ people; and women in some senior grades.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
We offer a range of employee benefits including a generous pension and annual leave entitlement, free fitness classes and gym membership, flexible working arrangements, personal and professional development and family-friendly policies. For further details, please click here
To Apply
Please visit our website www.beds.ac.uk/jobs.
For any enquires contact People & Culture email P&C@beds.ac.uk
Please note a Curriculum Vitae will only be accepted if accompanied by a fully completed University application form.
26/10/2026
Full time
Job Title: Head of Architecture and IT Development
Reference Number: BEDS2976
Department / Faculty and Division: ICT
Salary: Grade: 9 £59,966 to £67,468
Full-time / Part-time: 37h per week. Hybrid – 4 days onsite and 1 day remote per week
Permanent / Fixed-Term Contract: 24-month fixed-term
Location: Luton Campus
Closing date: 30th November 2026
Interview date: 16th December 2026
The University of Bedfordshire is seeking a talented and forward-thinking Head of Architecture and IT Development to lead our technical development capability and play a key role in delivering our ambitious digital transformation agenda.
Reporting directly to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), you will lead software development, solution architecture, application integration, and modernisation across the University. This hands-on technical leadership role combines strategic direction and people management with practical involvement in coding, solution design, troubleshooting, and technical delivery.
What You’ll Be Doing:
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of technical professionals, driving high standards and continuous improvement.
• Shape solution architecture and modernise enterprise applications, integrations, and cloud services.
• Remain hands-on with coding, technical design, code reviews, and complex problem-solving.
• Champion modern development practices, including DevOps, automation, AI-assisted development, and secure coding.
• Work closely with the CIO and senior stakeholders to deliver technology solutions supporting the University’s digital transformation.
What We’re Looking For:
• Strong technical expertise in.NET and/or Python, SQL, APIs and Microsoft Azure.
• Proven experience leading development teams while remaining technically hands-on.
• Experience in solution architecture, cloud integration, DevOps, and modern development practices.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• A passion for technology, innovation, and developing people.
For an informal discussion about the post, please contact Minesh Tailor via mail: minesh.tailor@beds.ac.uk
Interviews will be held on the 16th December 2026
We kindly request that all applicants refrain from canvassing during the shortlisting process. Your applications will be thoroughly reviewed, and you will be contacted and informed of the outcome of in due course
For a full job description and person specification please click here
The post will be based at Luton Campus (with travel to other campuses as required)
The University is committed to equality of opportunity and values the diversity of all its workforce and student population.
At the University of Bedfordshire, inclusivity is a key University value, and we are committed to creating an environment in which we celebrate and value the diversity of our staff and student community and provide fair opportunity and outcomes for all.
We recognise that diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent and benefit from opportunities that the diversity of talent and thought creates.
We, therefore, particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in the University of Bedfordshire’s workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority backgrounds (particularly in roles in grades 7 and above), disabled people; LGBTQ+ people; and women in some senior grades.
The University has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK.
We offer a range of employee benefits including a generous pension and annual leave entitlement, free fitness classes and gym membership, flexible working arrangements, personal and professional development and family-friendly policies. For further details, please click here
To Apply
Please visit our website www.beds.ac.uk/jobs.
For any enquires contact People & Culture email P&C@beds.ac.uk
Please note a Curriculum Vitae will only be accepted if accompanied by a fully completed University application form.
Apto Solutions
Pembroke Road, Clifton, Bristol BS8 3BA, UK
Who this is for
An early-career engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. Security or observability background — either is welcome.
You have been working for eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role — a platform team, a SOC or security engineering team, an MSP or MSSP, an infrastructure or DevOps team, a vendor’s support or professional services desk — and you are looking for your first move. You have had your hands on something that runs in production and matters to somebody. You want to go deeper, faster, in a smaller business where the work you do is seen. This is not a graduate scheme and it is not a helpdesk. It is a real engineering seat with real customers, real supervision and a clear path up.
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. You will help run customer telemetry platforms day to day, improve them, and contribute to the platform that lets us run them well. You will do this as part of a small engineering pool, with a senior engineer checking your work before it reaches a customer and a line manager who is accountable for your development.
Operate has two shapes and you will work in both.
Operate Core is always-on. It is continuous ownership of a customer’s platform — health, ingestion, data quality, alerting, upgrades, capacity. There is no handover and no final deliverable. The platform is ours to keep healthy for as long as the customer is ours. Success is measured in the absence of surprises and in the platform being demonstrably better in six months than it is today.
Operate Attach is sprint-based improvement. A customer has a defined problem — noisy alerts, a data source that will not normalise, ingest costs running away, a detection gap, a migration — and we take a scoped block of work and fix it. Attach has a start, a shape and an end. It sits on top of Core, for the same customers, with the same engineers.
Alongside that you will take a share of professional services delivery: shorter, project-shaped engagements that are usually how a customer first meets us.
What You’ll do
Everything below is done with supervision at first and with increasing independence as you show you can carry it. We will be explicit with you about where that line is and how it moves.
Day-to-day health of customer platforms.
Ingestion pipelines, data quality, alerting, licensing and capacity, upgrades and patching. You will start by owning a slice of a named customer estate, and you will be expected to notice problems before the customer does.
Incident and problem work.
Triage, diagnosis and resolution — and then the harder part, which is the root cause and the permanent fix so it does not come back.
Content and configuration.
Detections, dashboards, parsers, normalisation, alert rules, pipeline routing — built properly, peer reviewed, version controlled, documented.
Attach sprints and PS work.
Taking a defined piece of a scoped improvement, delivering it, and being able to show what changed.
Automation.
If you do something manually three times, we expect you to want to automate the fourth. Most of our platform tooling started as an engineer being annoyed by something.
Documentation and runbooks.
Your own, to a standard, every time. Undocumented work is unfinished work.
What this role is NOT
Being clear about this matters as much as the role definition itself.
It is not a SOC analyst seat.
You are not sitting in a queue triaging alerts against someone else’s runbook. You help build and run the platform that the analysts depend on.
It is not a service desk or first-line support role.
You will talk to customers about technical matters, but the work is engineering, not ticket handling.
It is not a data science role.
We work with very large volumes of machine data, but the work is systems and operations engineering, not modelling or statistics. Python and dashboards are not the same thing as running a platform.
It is not a graduate scheme.
We paused our graduate hire to open this role instead, because we want someone who has already spent time in a production environment and knows what it feels like when something breaks at an awkward hour.
It is not a project role with a finish line.
Core has no end date. If what you enjoy is shipping a thing and walking away, you will find the continuous half of this job frustrating.
Who we are looking for
We are indifferent to whether your background is security or observability. Either one is a good starting point, and the interesting work at Apto sits where the two meet — the same telemetry usually has to serve both a security question and an operational one. What we need is depth in one and genuine curiosity about the other
Experience we’re looking for
Roughly eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role. We care much more about what you have actually done than about the number of months attached to it, and we know that at this stage most of what you have done was somebody else’s decision. That is fine. We are looking for the shape of it.
You have had your hands on a telemetry, SIEM, observability or monitoring platform that was running in production — not only in a course or a home lab. You have onboarded a data source, tuned an alert, applied an upgrade, or been the person who had to work out why the data stopped arriving.
You have carried something over time rather than only delivering a task and moving on — a set of alerts you looked after, a customer estate you knew well, an on-call rotation, a service that was yours to keep healthy.
You are comfortable in Linux, in at least one query language, and you have written scripts that did something useful. Python is what we mostly use; anything credible is a fine starting point.
You have automated or fixed something real and you can show it. A script, a repo, a before-and-after number, a description concrete enough for us to ask sensible questions about.
You can write. A clear runbook, a readable incident note, a straight message to a customer. This is a customer-facing role.
You have worked in at least one of our vendor families — Splunk, Cribl, Sentinel, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry — or a close analogue. The specific product is negotiable. Real exposure is not.
If you meet most of this and not all of it, apply anyway and tell us which parts you do not have. We would rather read an honest gap than a padded CV.
The platform work – why this is interesting
Most managed service jobs are the same job with a different logo on the ticketing system. This one is not, because we are building our own platform underneath the service and you will work on it. We have replaced a vendor-licensed telemetry backend with an open-source stack we run ourselves. A base platform (secret ;-)) On top of that sits multi-vendor collection — the pattern that lets us onboard a Splunk, a Cribl or a Sentinel customer without rebuilding it from scratch each time. Beyond that, the vendors are all shipping AI and agentic layers — MCP servers, agentic investigation, cross-vendor gateways — and we already have that work live with a customer. You will get early, hands-on exposure to it while most of the industry is still writing slide decks about it.
07/09/2026
Full time
Who this is for
An early-career engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. Security or observability background — either is welcome.
You have been working for eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role — a platform team, a SOC or security engineering team, an MSP or MSSP, an infrastructure or DevOps team, a vendor’s support or professional services desk — and you are looking for your first move. You have had your hands on something that runs in production and matters to somebody. You want to go deeper, faster, in a smaller business where the work you do is seen. This is not a graduate scheme and it is not a helpdesk. It is a real engineering seat with real customers, real supervision and a clear path up.
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering role inside Operate, our managed service. You will help run customer telemetry platforms day to day, improve them, and contribute to the platform that lets us run them well. You will do this as part of a small engineering pool, with a senior engineer checking your work before it reaches a customer and a line manager who is accountable for your development.
Operate has two shapes and you will work in both.
Operate Core is always-on. It is continuous ownership of a customer’s platform — health, ingestion, data quality, alerting, upgrades, capacity. There is no handover and no final deliverable. The platform is ours to keep healthy for as long as the customer is ours. Success is measured in the absence of surprises and in the platform being demonstrably better in six months than it is today.
Operate Attach is sprint-based improvement. A customer has a defined problem — noisy alerts, a data source that will not normalise, ingest costs running away, a detection gap, a migration — and we take a scoped block of work and fix it. Attach has a start, a shape and an end. It sits on top of Core, for the same customers, with the same engineers.
Alongside that you will take a share of professional services delivery: shorter, project-shaped engagements that are usually how a customer first meets us.
What You’ll do
Everything below is done with supervision at first and with increasing independence as you show you can carry it. We will be explicit with you about where that line is and how it moves.
Day-to-day health of customer platforms.
Ingestion pipelines, data quality, alerting, licensing and capacity, upgrades and patching. You will start by owning a slice of a named customer estate, and you will be expected to notice problems before the customer does.
Incident and problem work.
Triage, diagnosis and resolution — and then the harder part, which is the root cause and the permanent fix so it does not come back.
Content and configuration.
Detections, dashboards, parsers, normalisation, alert rules, pipeline routing — built properly, peer reviewed, version controlled, documented.
Attach sprints and PS work.
Taking a defined piece of a scoped improvement, delivering it, and being able to show what changed.
Automation.
If you do something manually three times, we expect you to want to automate the fourth. Most of our platform tooling started as an engineer being annoyed by something.
Documentation and runbooks.
Your own, to a standard, every time. Undocumented work is unfinished work.
What this role is NOT
Being clear about this matters as much as the role definition itself.
It is not a SOC analyst seat.
You are not sitting in a queue triaging alerts against someone else’s runbook. You help build and run the platform that the analysts depend on.
It is not a service desk or first-line support role.
You will talk to customers about technical matters, but the work is engineering, not ticket handling.
It is not a data science role.
We work with very large volumes of machine data, but the work is systems and operations engineering, not modelling or statistics. Python and dashboards are not the same thing as running a platform.
It is not a graduate scheme.
We paused our graduate hire to open this role instead, because we want someone who has already spent time in a production environment and knows what it feels like when something breaks at an awkward hour.
It is not a project role with a finish line.
Core has no end date. If what you enjoy is shipping a thing and walking away, you will find the continuous half of this job frustrating.
Who we are looking for
We are indifferent to whether your background is security or observability. Either one is a good starting point, and the interesting work at Apto sits where the two meet — the same telemetry usually has to serve both a security question and an operational one. What we need is depth in one and genuine curiosity about the other
Experience we’re looking for
Roughly eighteen months to three years in a hands-on technical role. We care much more about what you have actually done than about the number of months attached to it, and we know that at this stage most of what you have done was somebody else’s decision. That is fine. We are looking for the shape of it.
You have had your hands on a telemetry, SIEM, observability or monitoring platform that was running in production — not only in a course or a home lab. You have onboarded a data source, tuned an alert, applied an upgrade, or been the person who had to work out why the data stopped arriving.
You have carried something over time rather than only delivering a task and moving on — a set of alerts you looked after, a customer estate you knew well, an on-call rotation, a service that was yours to keep healthy.
You are comfortable in Linux, in at least one query language, and you have written scripts that did something useful. Python is what we mostly use; anything credible is a fine starting point.
You have automated or fixed something real and you can show it. A script, a repo, a before-and-after number, a description concrete enough for us to ask sensible questions about.
You can write. A clear runbook, a readable incident note, a straight message to a customer. This is a customer-facing role.
You have worked in at least one of our vendor families — Splunk, Cribl, Sentinel, Grafana, Datadog, Elastic, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry — or a close analogue. The specific product is negotiable. Real exposure is not.
If you meet most of this and not all of it, apply anyway and tell us which parts you do not have. We would rather read an honest gap than a padded CV.
The platform work – why this is interesting
Most managed service jobs are the same job with a different logo on the ticketing system. This one is not, because we are building our own platform underneath the service and you will work on it. We have replaced a vendor-licensed telemetry backend with an open-source stack we run ourselves. A base platform (secret ;-)) On top of that sits multi-vendor collection — the pattern that lets us onboard a Splunk, a Cribl or a Sentinel customer without rebuilding it from scratch each time. Beyond that, the vendors are all shipping AI and agentic layers — MCP servers, agentic investigation, cross-vendor gateways — and we already have that work live with a customer. You will get early, hands-on exposure to it while most of the industry is still writing slide decks about it.
The Business Systems Architect serves as the strategic technical lead for the business's core systems and digital transformation.
The core purpose of this role is to design, implement, and optimise enterprise-wide technology solutions that actively drive business change.
Enhancing critical platforms such as IFS Cloud, EDI, and modern API integration, as well as pioneering new capabilities like AI and advanced barcoding / QR integration, the Business Systems Architect ensures our technology infrastructure robustly supports operational efficiency, supply chain visibility, and Rodda's future growth.
This role acts as the bridge between complex technical requirements and tangible business outcomes. What are we looking for?
System Architecture and Integration
Lead the architectural design, administration, and continuous improvement of IFS Cloud .
Lead the Systems and Process team with collaborative inter-departmental working.
Architect, develop, and maintain secure API integrations between internal systems, legacy applications, and third-party platforms.
Enhancement of existing platforms into standardised mandatory business processes.
Oversee existing and potentially new EDI solutions to ensure seamless, automated data flow with our supply key customers whilst planning for enhanced connectivity in both forecasting and supply chain.
Maintain a holistic view of the company's technical architecture, ensuring all systems communicate effectively and securely.
Innovation and Business Change
Act as a primary driver for technology-driven business change, partnering with department heads to translate complex business challenges into clear technical requirements.
Drive the exploration, evaluation, and implementation of AI integrations both Generative and Agentic to optimise manufacturing, supply chain, and administrative processes. Develop where necessary but lead towards success.
Lead barcoding integration initiatives to enhance traceability, inventory management, and factory-floor efficiency with future work on the Hyper-traceability initiative and QR code replacement
Champion new technologies and agile methodologies to keep the business at the forefront of industry.
Project Leadership and Support
Design future operating models for new technology deployments, ensuring successful end-to-end delivery.
Compile comprehensive architectural documentation, system workflows, and integration maps.
Provide high-level (3rd line) escalation support and technical mentorship to the wider IT Helpdesk and System & Process teams.
Be part of the on-call rota supporting the business and employees.
Ensure all architectural designs comply with internal data security, GDPR DPO, and disaster recovery standards.
Work closely with Suppliers to deliver solutions to projects whilst maintaining a high-level of technical documentation.
20/07/2026
Full time
The Business Systems Architect serves as the strategic technical lead for the business's core systems and digital transformation.
The core purpose of this role is to design, implement, and optimise enterprise-wide technology solutions that actively drive business change.
Enhancing critical platforms such as IFS Cloud, EDI, and modern API integration, as well as pioneering new capabilities like AI and advanced barcoding / QR integration, the Business Systems Architect ensures our technology infrastructure robustly supports operational efficiency, supply chain visibility, and Rodda's future growth.
This role acts as the bridge between complex technical requirements and tangible business outcomes. What are we looking for?
System Architecture and Integration
Lead the architectural design, administration, and continuous improvement of IFS Cloud .
Lead the Systems and Process team with collaborative inter-departmental working.
Architect, develop, and maintain secure API integrations between internal systems, legacy applications, and third-party platforms.
Enhancement of existing platforms into standardised mandatory business processes.
Oversee existing and potentially new EDI solutions to ensure seamless, automated data flow with our supply key customers whilst planning for enhanced connectivity in both forecasting and supply chain.
Maintain a holistic view of the company's technical architecture, ensuring all systems communicate effectively and securely.
Innovation and Business Change
Act as a primary driver for technology-driven business change, partnering with department heads to translate complex business challenges into clear technical requirements.
Drive the exploration, evaluation, and implementation of AI integrations both Generative and Agentic to optimise manufacturing, supply chain, and administrative processes. Develop where necessary but lead towards success.
Lead barcoding integration initiatives to enhance traceability, inventory management, and factory-floor efficiency with future work on the Hyper-traceability initiative and QR code replacement
Champion new technologies and agile methodologies to keep the business at the forefront of industry.
Project Leadership and Support
Design future operating models for new technology deployments, ensuring successful end-to-end delivery.
Compile comprehensive architectural documentation, system workflows, and integration maps.
Provide high-level (3rd line) escalation support and technical mentorship to the wider IT Helpdesk and System & Process teams.
Be part of the on-call rota supporting the business and employees.
Ensure all architectural designs comply with internal data security, GDPR DPO, and disaster recovery standards.
Work closely with Suppliers to deliver solutions to projects whilst maintaining a high-level of technical documentation.
Databricks Technical Lead l Contract | 12 Months | Outside IR35 l Up to £1,000 per day | Remote first, occasional on-site (Midlands & South East) The role Method Resourcing have been asked by one of our consulting partners to find a hands-on Databricks Technical Lead to design and deliver a new Azure Databricks platform for a major life sciences organisation replacing its enterprise data and analytics stack. The programme uses AI and LLM tooling to reverse-engineer existing pipelines, business logic and reports into documented, tested code. You'll mentor three senior data engineers, own the technical architecture and stay hands-on in development. What you'll do Architect and build the platform on Azure Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, medallion architecture) Use AI agents and LLMs to reverse-engineer Legacy reports, queries and transformations, and build repeatable AI-assisted processes for code generation, testing and migration Build automated testing and reconciliation to validate migrated data against existing reporting Integrate SAP, Azure Data Lake, Salesforce and other systems, and design gold-layer models for Power BI Set engineering standards (Workflows, CI/CD, IaC, governance) and mentor the team through to UAT and cutover What you'll need Extensive hands-on experience delivering and technically leading enterprise solutions on Azure Databricks Demonstrable use of AI, LLMs or agents to reverse-engineer data pipelines or reporting logic Strong Python, PySpark and SQL Deep knowledge of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows and medallion architecture Automated validation, reconciliation and testing experience Azure data engineering (ADLS Gen2, ADF) Databricks CI/CD (Terraform, Asset Bundles or Azure DevOps) SAP ECC or S/4HANA integration experience Dimensional modelling and Power BI semantic model familiarity Proven team leadership while staying hands-on Desirable Databricks certification (Data Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect) Platform migration, carve-out or separation experience Reusable AI agent frameworks for data engineering Strong governance and data quality experience Consulting background Contract outside IR35 £900-£1,000 per day Remote with some travel required 12 month contract If this is you, send your CV to (see below) and if suitable, i'll be in touch. As you can appreciate, this role will receive a high volume of candidates so I will do my best to respond if possible. Databricks Technical Lead l Contract | 12 Months | Up to £1,000 per day | Remote first, occasional on-site (Midlands & South East) RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
10/11/2026
Contractor
Databricks Technical Lead l Contract | 12 Months | Outside IR35 l Up to £1,000 per day | Remote first, occasional on-site (Midlands & South East) The role Method Resourcing have been asked by one of our consulting partners to find a hands-on Databricks Technical Lead to design and deliver a new Azure Databricks platform for a major life sciences organisation replacing its enterprise data and analytics stack. The programme uses AI and LLM tooling to reverse-engineer existing pipelines, business logic and reports into documented, tested code. You'll mentor three senior data engineers, own the technical architecture and stay hands-on in development. What you'll do Architect and build the platform on Azure Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, medallion architecture) Use AI agents and LLMs to reverse-engineer Legacy reports, queries and transformations, and build repeatable AI-assisted processes for code generation, testing and migration Build automated testing and reconciliation to validate migrated data against existing reporting Integrate SAP, Azure Data Lake, Salesforce and other systems, and design gold-layer models for Power BI Set engineering standards (Workflows, CI/CD, IaC, governance) and mentor the team through to UAT and cutover What you'll need Extensive hands-on experience delivering and technically leading enterprise solutions on Azure Databricks Demonstrable use of AI, LLMs or agents to reverse-engineer data pipelines or reporting logic Strong Python, PySpark and SQL Deep knowledge of Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Workflows and medallion architecture Automated validation, reconciliation and testing experience Azure data engineering (ADLS Gen2, ADF) Databricks CI/CD (Terraform, Asset Bundles or Azure DevOps) SAP ECC or S/4HANA integration experience Dimensional modelling and Power BI semantic model familiarity Proven team leadership while staying hands-on Desirable Databricks certification (Data Engineer Professional or Solutions Architect) Platform migration, carve-out or separation experience Reusable AI agent frameworks for data engineering Strong governance and data quality experience Consulting background Contract outside IR35 £900-£1,000 per day Remote with some travel required 12 month contract If this is you, send your CV to (see below) and if suitable, i'll be in touch. As you can appreciate, this role will receive a high volume of candidates so I will do my best to respond if possible. Databricks Technical Lead l Contract | 12 Months | Up to £1,000 per day | Remote first, occasional on-site (Midlands & South East) RSG Plc is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Creative Automation - London Daily rate: £500 - £700 inside IR35 Duration: 12 months Hybrid: 3 days per week Start: ASAP We are looking for a S enior Agentic AI Engineer to join a high-performing creative innovation team within the Enterprise Marketing function of a global technology leader. As the first hire of this kind within a newly established creative production model, you will be responsible for building the AI-powered infrastructure, automated workflows, and custom tools that enable the rapid creation and scaling of paid media assets across EMEA. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing agentic systems, MCP integrations, and intelligent automation that connect creative workflows, design systems, content repositories, and performance data into a seamless production ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and deploy agentic workflows and custom internal tools utilizing Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and API ecosystems to automate the generation of static and video ad assets. Architect and manage Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers and configurations, establishing secure, standardized connections between LLM applications and our external tools, data sources, and asset repositories. Develop and maintain the technical plumbing and API integrations connecting performance data pipelines, media libraries, and production software. Engineer advanced context and prompt frameworks, utilizing MCP and other tooling to ensure context such as brand guidelines, design specs, program specific data sources are accessible and agent-readable. Build automated agents capable of reading design systems, parsing creative template libraries, and outputting production-ready static and video assets. Support the operational growth of the studio by architecting automated QA/QC and performance reporting tools. Collaborate closely with the Creative Strategist and Designers to translate creative hypotheses and workflow bottlenecks into technical code requirements. Maintain clean, documented code for all internal tools, agents, and custom integrations, ensuring workflows are stable, repeatable, and easily scalable across the region. Skills & Experience Proven experience building AI agents, agentic workflows, and multi-agent systems using tools such as LangChain, CrewAI, StackAI, or similar frameworks. Strong experience with Anthropic Claude, OpenAI APIs, RAG architectures, and vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma, etc.). Hands-on experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP). Strong software engineering background in Python and JavaScript/Node.js. Extensive experience designing and integrating REST APIs. Solid understanding of prompt engineering, context engineering, and structured data formats such as JSON and XML. Excellent problem-solving and stakeholder communication skills. Desirable Experience working with creative automation, design systems, DAM platforms, or video rendering technologies. Knowledge of marketing technology, advertising production, or creative operations. Experience building AI-powered tools in enterprise environments. Exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP. Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related field. Master's degree or MBA preferred but not essential. *Rates depend on experience and client requirements
10/11/2026
Contractor
Senior Agentic AI Engineer - Creative Automation - London Daily rate: £500 - £700 inside IR35 Duration: 12 months Hybrid: 3 days per week Start: ASAP We are looking for a S enior Agentic AI Engineer to join a high-performing creative innovation team within the Enterprise Marketing function of a global technology leader. As the first hire of this kind within a newly established creative production model, you will be responsible for building the AI-powered infrastructure, automated workflows, and custom tools that enable the rapid creation and scaling of paid media assets across EMEA. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on designing agentic systems, MCP integrations, and intelligent automation that connect creative workflows, design systems, content repositories, and performance data into a seamless production ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and deploy agentic workflows and custom internal tools utilizing Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, and API ecosystems to automate the generation of static and video ad assets. Architect and manage Model Context Protocol (MCP) Servers and configurations, establishing secure, standardized connections between LLM applications and our external tools, data sources, and asset repositories. Develop and maintain the technical plumbing and API integrations connecting performance data pipelines, media libraries, and production software. Engineer advanced context and prompt frameworks, utilizing MCP and other tooling to ensure context such as brand guidelines, design specs, program specific data sources are accessible and agent-readable. Build automated agents capable of reading design systems, parsing creative template libraries, and outputting production-ready static and video assets. Support the operational growth of the studio by architecting automated QA/QC and performance reporting tools. Collaborate closely with the Creative Strategist and Designers to translate creative hypotheses and workflow bottlenecks into technical code requirements. Maintain clean, documented code for all internal tools, agents, and custom integrations, ensuring workflows are stable, repeatable, and easily scalable across the region. Skills & Experience Proven experience building AI agents, agentic workflows, and multi-agent systems using tools such as LangChain, CrewAI, StackAI, or similar frameworks. Strong experience with Anthropic Claude, OpenAI APIs, RAG architectures, and vector databases (Pinecone, Chroma, etc.). Hands-on experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP). Strong software engineering background in Python and JavaScript/Node.js. Extensive experience designing and integrating REST APIs. Solid understanding of prompt engineering, context engineering, and structured data formats such as JSON and XML. Excellent problem-solving and stakeholder communication skills. Desirable Experience working with creative automation, design systems, DAM platforms, or video rendering technologies. Knowledge of marketing technology, advertising production, or creative operations. Experience building AI-powered tools in enterprise environments. Exposure to AWS, Azure, or GCP. Education Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, AI, or a related field. Master's degree or MBA preferred but not essential. *Rates depend on experience and client requirements
Infrastructure Engineer Position Description 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer MoD Corsham Role Summary This role provides for the advanced operational support, maintenance and development of a secure MoD platform, working as part of a team based at MoD Corsham. The position involves working across a complex technical estate to ensure platform availability and resilience, while supporting change and continuous service improvement. The role requires DV clearance and sole UK nationality. Key Responsibilities The Infrastructure Engineer will be expected to provide technical support to incident, problem and change management across production and non production environments. . Administer Windows based systems, including patching and configuration management. . Support Citrix and virtualised platforms such as VMWare vSphere and vRealize Automation. . Monitor and maintain system health using tools including SCOM and other enterprise monitoring solutions. . Collaborate with adjacent teams (e.g, Application Support Provider, IaaS provider) to provide reliable, resilient and secure services. . Conduct root cause analysis and the resolution of complex platform issues. Essential Skills and Background Experience in 2nd/3rd line engineering roles within secure Defence environments. . Highly proficient in Windows Server administration, and familiar with SCOM and MECM. . Experienced in the deployment and support of VMWare and Citrix solutions. . Hands on experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management. Desirable Skills . Proficiency with Linux (RHEL/CentOS) in the support context. . Familiarity with Trend, Nessus or similar security tooling. . Knowledge of backup and DPKI solutions. . Awareness of trust relationships and secure enterprise architectures. . Prior experience working with Defence Digital and knowledge of policies including JSP453. . Prior experience delivering support within an ITIL based service management model. . Certifications including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced Administration. Your future duties and responsibilities Required qualifications to be successful in this role Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals. Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
10/11/2026
Full time
Infrastructure Engineer Position Description 2nd/3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer MoD Corsham Role Summary This role provides for the advanced operational support, maintenance and development of a secure MoD platform, working as part of a team based at MoD Corsham. The position involves working across a complex technical estate to ensure platform availability and resilience, while supporting change and continuous service improvement. The role requires DV clearance and sole UK nationality. Key Responsibilities The Infrastructure Engineer will be expected to provide technical support to incident, problem and change management across production and non production environments. . Administer Windows based systems, including patching and configuration management. . Support Citrix and virtualised platforms such as VMWare vSphere and vRealize Automation. . Monitor and maintain system health using tools including SCOM and other enterprise monitoring solutions. . Collaborate with adjacent teams (e.g, Application Support Provider, IaaS provider) to provide reliable, resilient and secure services. . Conduct root cause analysis and the resolution of complex platform issues. Essential Skills and Background Experience in 2nd/3rd line engineering roles within secure Defence environments. . Highly proficient in Windows Server administration, and familiar with SCOM and MECM. . Experienced in the deployment and support of VMWare and Citrix solutions. . Hands on experience with Ansible for automation and configuration management. Desirable Skills . Proficiency with Linux (RHEL/CentOS) in the support context. . Familiarity with Trend, Nessus or similar security tooling. . Knowledge of backup and DPKI solutions. . Awareness of trust relationships and secure enterprise architectures. . Prior experience working with Defence Digital and knowledge of policies including JSP453. . Prior experience delivering support within an ITIL based service management model. . Certifications including Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced Administration. Your future duties and responsibilities Required qualifications to be successful in this role Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals. Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Systems Engineer - Space Systems Position Description At CGI, we're helping shape the future of the UK space industry, delivering innovative systems engineering solutions that support critical space programmes and strengthen national capabilities. As a Systems Engineer within our Space business, you'll contribute to complex, mission-critical projects, applying systems thinking and cutting-edge technologies to deliver secure, resilient and high-performing solutions. You'll take ownership of meaningful engineering challenges, bring creative ideas to life and collaborate with multidisciplinary experts to solve complex problems. Supported by CGI's extensive space and technology expertise, collaborative culture and commitment to professional development, you'll have the opportunity to influence technical decisions, expand your capabilities and make a lasting impact on the future of space systems and services. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK 'Best Employer' by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position, based in Leatherhead, Reading or London. Your future duties and responsibilities In this role, you will help design, develop and assure complex systems supporting CGI's Space business, contributing to programmes where reliability, security and operational performance are essential. Working across the full systems engineering lifecycle, you'll translate business, mission and operational requirements into robust technical solutions, from early concept development and systems architecture through to integration, verification and validation. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers, technical specialists and clients to tackle challenging engineering problems, explore innovative approaches and improve the delivery of complex space-related capabilities. Whether applying Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), developing system architectures or supporting critical technical decisions, you'll have the opportunity to influence outcomes and take ownership of your contributions. You'll be supported by a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing, continuous learning and career progression. Key responsibilities include: • Design & Deliver: Apply systems engineering principles throughout the lifecycle, supporting the development of secure, reliable and resilient space systems and associated technologies. • Analyse & Define: Capture, analyse and manage system, mission and operational requirements, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs and programme objectives. • Model & Architect: Develop system models and architectures using MBSE methodologies, digital engineering tools and recognised frameworks. • Integrate & Validate: Support system integration, verification and validation (V&V), ensuring solutions meet technical, operational and performance requirements. • Innovate & Optimise: Explore opportunities to improve engineering processes, adopt digital technologies and enhance system performance and efficiency. • Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, clients and stakeholders to resolve technical challenges and inform architectural and engineering decisions. • Assure & Improve: Support technical assurance, risk management and continuous improvement across complex systems and programmes. • Lead & Develop: For senior-level appointments, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, guide engineering approaches and contribute to future business opportunities. Required qualifications to be successful in this role To succeed in this role, you should have a strong foundation in systems engineering, supported by experience delivering complex technical solutions within engineering, technology or highly regulated environments. You'll bring an analytical mindset, effective communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. While previous space sector experience would be valuable, we also welcome professionals from backgrounds who can bring transferable systems engineering expertise and fresh perspectives to CGI's Space business. Essential experience and qualifications: • Educational Background: A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM), or an equivalent qualification. • Systems Engineering: Proven experience applying systems engineering principles, processes and methodologies within complex engineering or operational environments. • Requirements Engineering: Knowledge of requirements capture, analysis, management and traceability using appropriate systems engineering tools. • Technical Specialism: Experience in at least one area such as MBSE, systems architecture, requirements engineering or digital systems engineering. • Engineering Tools: Knowledge of relevant modelling tools and frameworks, potentially including NAF, IBM Rhapsody, Cameo or Enterprise Architect. • Digital Technologies: Understanding of how systems engineering can be applied within digital environments, including cloud platforms, IT architecture or DevOps. • Stakeholder Engagement: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence technical and non-technical audiences. • Problem-Solving: Ability to apply systems thinking to complex technical challenges involving evolving requirements and competing priorities. Desirable experience and qualifications: • Previous experience working on space systems, satellite technologies, ground systems or space-related programmes. • Knowledge of capability planning, enterprise design or operational analysis. • Experience applying artificial intelligence, automation or emerging digital engineering technologies. • Professional engineering registration, such as Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng). • Experience supporting cybersecurity, system safety or technical assurance activities. • Additional qualifications or experience in project management, business analysis or change management. Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals. Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
10/11/2026
Full time
Systems Engineer - Space Systems Position Description At CGI, we're helping shape the future of the UK space industry, delivering innovative systems engineering solutions that support critical space programmes and strengthen national capabilities. As a Systems Engineer within our Space business, you'll contribute to complex, mission-critical projects, applying systems thinking and cutting-edge technologies to deliver secure, resilient and high-performing solutions. You'll take ownership of meaningful engineering challenges, bring creative ideas to life and collaborate with multidisciplinary experts to solve complex problems. Supported by CGI's extensive space and technology expertise, collaborative culture and commitment to professional development, you'll have the opportunity to influence technical decisions, expand your capabilities and make a lasting impact on the future of space systems and services. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK 'Best Employer' by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position, based in Leatherhead, Reading or London. Your future duties and responsibilities In this role, you will help design, develop and assure complex systems supporting CGI's Space business, contributing to programmes where reliability, security and operational performance are essential. Working across the full systems engineering lifecycle, you'll translate business, mission and operational requirements into robust technical solutions, from early concept development and systems architecture through to integration, verification and validation. You'll collaborate with experienced engineers, technical specialists and clients to tackle challenging engineering problems, explore innovative approaches and improve the delivery of complex space-related capabilities. Whether applying Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), developing system architectures or supporting critical technical decisions, you'll have the opportunity to influence outcomes and take ownership of your contributions. You'll be supported by a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge sharing, continuous learning and career progression. Key responsibilities include: • Design & Deliver: Apply systems engineering principles throughout the lifecycle, supporting the development of secure, reliable and resilient space systems and associated technologies. • Analyse & Define: Capture, analyse and manage system, mission and operational requirements, ensuring alignment with stakeholder needs and programme objectives. • Model & Architect: Develop system models and architectures using MBSE methodologies, digital engineering tools and recognised frameworks. • Integrate & Validate: Support system integration, verification and validation (V&V), ensuring solutions meet technical, operational and performance requirements. • Innovate & Optimise: Explore opportunities to improve engineering processes, adopt digital technologies and enhance system performance and efficiency. • Collaborate & Influence: Work closely with multidisciplinary teams, clients and stakeholders to resolve technical challenges and inform architectural and engineering decisions. • Assure & Improve: Support technical assurance, risk management and continuous improvement across complex systems and programmes. • Lead & Develop: For senior-level appointments, provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, guide engineering approaches and contribute to future business opportunities. Required qualifications to be successful in this role To succeed in this role, you should have a strong foundation in systems engineering, supported by experience delivering complex technical solutions within engineering, technology or highly regulated environments. You'll bring an analytical mindset, effective communication skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving. While previous space sector experience would be valuable, we also welcome professionals from backgrounds who can bring transferable systems engineering expertise and fresh perspectives to CGI's Space business. Essential experience and qualifications: • Educational Background: A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM), or an equivalent qualification. • Systems Engineering: Proven experience applying systems engineering principles, processes and methodologies within complex engineering or operational environments. • Requirements Engineering: Knowledge of requirements capture, analysis, management and traceability using appropriate systems engineering tools. • Technical Specialism: Experience in at least one area such as MBSE, systems architecture, requirements engineering or digital systems engineering. • Engineering Tools: Knowledge of relevant modelling tools and frameworks, potentially including NAF, IBM Rhapsody, Cameo or Enterprise Architect. • Digital Technologies: Understanding of how systems engineering can be applied within digital environments, including cloud platforms, IT architecture or DevOps. • Stakeholder Engagement: Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence technical and non-technical audiences. • Problem-Solving: Ability to apply systems thinking to complex technical challenges involving evolving requirements and competing priorities. Desirable experience and qualifications: • Previous experience working on space systems, satellite technologies, ground systems or space-related programmes. • Knowledge of capability planning, enterprise design or operational analysis. • Experience applying artificial intelligence, automation or emerging digital engineering technologies. • Professional engineering registration, such as Chartered Engineer (CEng) or Incorporated Engineer (IEng). • Experience supporting cybersecurity, system safety or technical assurance activities. • Additional qualifications or experience in project management, business analysis or change management. Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals. Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Application Architect - Perm - London (Hybrid) - Competitive Salary A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Application Architect to join a London-based global law firm. Key Responsibilities * Lead the technical design of the firm's off-the-shelf application estate, including integration and enterprise service bus architecture using cloud technologies. * Evaluate novel solutions and provide high-level designs and estimates for investment mandates prior to project initiation. * Run technical workshops and deliver technical specifications to project teams, translating business needs into solutions alongside Business Analysts. * Analyse technology and processes to recommend designs that improve service, lower costs and define acceptance and adoption criteria with stakeholders. * Work with the IT Security and Infrastructure Architects to meet Cyber Essentials Plus requirements. * Own the applications roadmap, architectural best practices and documentation, addressing obsolescence, security, scalability and performance. Key Experience * Minimum of 3 years' IT applications engineering/architecture experience; technical bachelor's degree or equivalent. * Certified in, or good experience using, EA frameworks such as TOGAF. * Experience with Elite, Intapp, Workday, iManage (Cloud, Work 10) and other legal systems, including legal innovation technology. * Deep understanding of Microsoft M365 and public/hybrid cloud (Azure, AWS, VMware, Cisco), plus on-prem infrastructure and networking fundamentals. * Knowledge of hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V), Linux and Windows, Middleware (app servers, web servers, databases) and containers (Kubernetes, Docker). * Strong analytical, communication and business partnering skills, with services sector experience, ideally legal, professional or financial services. Application Architect - Perm - London (Hybrid) - Competitive Salary In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position. DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business
10/11/2026
Full time
Application Architect - Perm - London (Hybrid) - Competitive Salary A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Application Architect to join a London-based global law firm. Key Responsibilities * Lead the technical design of the firm's off-the-shelf application estate, including integration and enterprise service bus architecture using cloud technologies. * Evaluate novel solutions and provide high-level designs and estimates for investment mandates prior to project initiation. * Run technical workshops and deliver technical specifications to project teams, translating business needs into solutions alongside Business Analysts. * Analyse technology and processes to recommend designs that improve service, lower costs and define acceptance and adoption criteria with stakeholders. * Work with the IT Security and Infrastructure Architects to meet Cyber Essentials Plus requirements. * Own the applications roadmap, architectural best practices and documentation, addressing obsolescence, security, scalability and performance. Key Experience * Minimum of 3 years' IT applications engineering/architecture experience; technical bachelor's degree or equivalent. * Certified in, or good experience using, EA frameworks such as TOGAF. * Experience with Elite, Intapp, Workday, iManage (Cloud, Work 10) and other legal systems, including legal innovation technology. * Deep understanding of Microsoft M365 and public/hybrid cloud (Azure, AWS, VMware, Cisco), plus on-prem infrastructure and networking fundamentals. * Knowledge of hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V), Linux and Windows, Middleware (app servers, web servers, databases) and containers (Kubernetes, Docker). * Strong analytical, communication and business partnering skills, with services sector experience, ideally legal, professional or financial services. Application Architect - Perm - London (Hybrid) - Competitive Salary In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position. DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business
Opus Recruitment Solutions
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne And Wear
Location: Newcastle (Candidates must be based locally and have the right to work in the UK) Salary: Up to 50,000 Contract Type: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract with a view to becoming permanent Clearance: SC Eligible We're supporting a major technology programme and are looking for an experienced Java Developer to join a growing Agile engineering team based in Newcastle. This is an excellent opportunity for a developer who enjoys building modern microservices, working within cloud environments and contributing to large-scale digital transformation projects. You'll be joining a collaborative team where engineering quality, automation and continuous improvement are central to the development approach. The role offers long-term stability with a clear pathway from FTC to permanent employment and would suit somebody looking to work within a secure, highly governed environment whilst continuing to develop their technical skills. What You'll Be Doing Developing and maintaining Java-based applications and microservices Building scalable services using Java (JDK 11+) and Spring Boot Supporting the design and development of modern microservice architectures Working closely with Architects, DevOps Engineers and Technical Leads Supporting end-to-end integration between technical components Participating in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives Contributing to code reviews, testing activities and engineering best practice Working with cloud and infrastructure teams to deploy secure and scalable solutions Supporting continuous integration and continuous delivery initiatives Essential Experience Strong commercial Java development experience Experience with Java Development Kit (JDK 11+) Strong Spring Boot experience Experience developing APIs and microservices Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Experience working within Agile delivery environments Strong understanding of engineering best practices and coding standards Experience with Git-based source control and branching strategies Knowledge of Continuous Integration and automated testing approaches Ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders Desirable Experience WebLogic Server (Enterprise Edition) CAS SDK experience AWS or other public cloud platforms Container technologies Test Driven Development (TDD) Continuous Testing DevOps tooling and practices Experience working within secure or regulated environment What's on Offer? Salary up to 50,000 12-month FTC with strong opportunity to convert into a permanent position Hybrid working Modern technology stack Large-scale development programme Supportive Agile engineering environment Immediate interview process To be considered, you must be SC eligible and currently living and working within commutable distance of Newcastle, or willing to relocate. Apply now with your latest CV for a confidential discussion.
10/11/2026
Contractor
Location: Newcastle (Candidates must be based locally and have the right to work in the UK) Salary: Up to 50,000 Contract Type: 12-Month Fixed-Term Contract with a view to becoming permanent Clearance: SC Eligible We're supporting a major technology programme and are looking for an experienced Java Developer to join a growing Agile engineering team based in Newcastle. This is an excellent opportunity for a developer who enjoys building modern microservices, working within cloud environments and contributing to large-scale digital transformation projects. You'll be joining a collaborative team where engineering quality, automation and continuous improvement are central to the development approach. The role offers long-term stability with a clear pathway from FTC to permanent employment and would suit somebody looking to work within a secure, highly governed environment whilst continuing to develop their technical skills. What You'll Be Doing Developing and maintaining Java-based applications and microservices Building scalable services using Java (JDK 11+) and Spring Boot Supporting the design and development of modern microservice architectures Working closely with Architects, DevOps Engineers and Technical Leads Supporting end-to-end integration between technical components Participating in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives Contributing to code reviews, testing activities and engineering best practice Working with cloud and infrastructure teams to deploy secure and scalable solutions Supporting continuous integration and continuous delivery initiatives Essential Experience Strong commercial Java development experience Experience with Java Development Kit (JDK 11+) Strong Spring Boot experience Experience developing APIs and microservices Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Experience working within Agile delivery environments Strong understanding of engineering best practices and coding standards Experience with Git-based source control and branching strategies Knowledge of Continuous Integration and automated testing approaches Ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders Desirable Experience WebLogic Server (Enterprise Edition) CAS SDK experience AWS or other public cloud platforms Container technologies Test Driven Development (TDD) Continuous Testing DevOps tooling and practices Experience working within secure or regulated environment What's on Offer? Salary up to 50,000 12-month FTC with strong opportunity to convert into a permanent position Hybrid working Modern technology stack Large-scale development programme Supportive Agile engineering environment Immediate interview process To be considered, you must be SC eligible and currently living and working within commutable distance of Newcastle, or willing to relocate. Apply now with your latest CV for a confidential discussion.
Application Architect - Perm - Bristol (Hybrid) - Competitive Salary A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Application Architect to join a Bristol based global law firm. Key Responsibilities * Lead the technical design of the firm's off-the-shelf application estate, including integration and enterprise service bus architecture using cloud technologies. * Evaluate novel solutions and provide high-level designs and estimates for investment mandates prior to project initiation. * Run technical workshops and deliver technical specifications to project teams, translating business needs into solutions alongside Business Analysts. * Analyse technology and processes to recommend designs that improve service, lower costs and define acceptance and adoption criteria with stakeholders. * Work with the IT Security and Infrastructure Architects to meet Cyber Essentials Plus requirements. * Own the applications roadmap, architectural best practices and documentation, addressing obsolescence, security, scalability and performance. Key Experience * Minimum of 3 years' IT applications engineering/architecture experience; technical bachelor's degree or equivalent. * Certified in, or good experience using, EA frameworks such as TOGAF. * Experience with Elite, Intapp, Workday, iManage (Cloud, Work 10) and other legal systems, including legal innovation technology. * Deep understanding of Microsoft M365 and public/hybrid cloud (Azure, AWS, VMware, Cisco), plus on-prem infrastructure and networking fundamentals. * Knowledge of hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V), Linux and Windows, Middleware (app servers, web servers, databases) and containers (Kubernetes, Docker). * Strong analytical, communication and business partnering skills, with services sector experience, ideally legal, professional or financial services. Application Architect - Perm - Bristol (Hybrid) - Competitive Salary In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position. DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business
10/11/2026
Full time
Application Architect - Perm - Bristol (Hybrid) - Competitive Salary A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Application Architect to join a Bristol based global law firm. Key Responsibilities * Lead the technical design of the firm's off-the-shelf application estate, including integration and enterprise service bus architecture using cloud technologies. * Evaluate novel solutions and provide high-level designs and estimates for investment mandates prior to project initiation. * Run technical workshops and deliver technical specifications to project teams, translating business needs into solutions alongside Business Analysts. * Analyse technology and processes to recommend designs that improve service, lower costs and define acceptance and adoption criteria with stakeholders. * Work with the IT Security and Infrastructure Architects to meet Cyber Essentials Plus requirements. * Own the applications roadmap, architectural best practices and documentation, addressing obsolescence, security, scalability and performance. Key Experience * Minimum of 3 years' IT applications engineering/architecture experience; technical bachelor's degree or equivalent. * Certified in, or good experience using, EA frameworks such as TOGAF. * Experience with Elite, Intapp, Workday, iManage (Cloud, Work 10) and other legal systems, including legal innovation technology. * Deep understanding of Microsoft M365 and public/hybrid cloud (Azure, AWS, VMware, Cisco), plus on-prem infrastructure and networking fundamentals. * Knowledge of hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V), Linux and Windows, Middleware (app servers, web servers, databases) and containers (Kubernetes, Docker). * Strong analytical, communication and business partnering skills, with services sector experience, ideally legal, professional or financial services. Application Architect - Perm - Bristol (Hybrid) - Competitive Salary In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position. DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business
Technical Lead (Software Development) Position Description At CGI, you'll lead the engineering direction of digital services that help citizens, legal professionals and government access justice through modern technology. Working across the one of our key UK Government Department programmes, you'll influence the delivery of secure, resilient and scalable services while mentoring technical leaders and driving engineering excellence. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping how emerging AI capabilities are responsibly introduced to enhance software delivery and service outcomes, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to solve complex challenges while developing your own career within one of the UK's leading technology consultancies. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK 'Best Employer' by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position. Your future duties and responsibilities In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership across multiple product teams delivering business-critical services within the programme. Working alongside architects, Product Managers and Delivery Managers, you will ensure engineering teams deliver secure, scalable and high-quality solutions that align with long-term platform strategy while meeting the evolving needs of the programme. You will mentor Technical Leads and senior engineers, helping to embed engineering best practice, strengthen technical capability and drive continuous improvement across the programme. You'll also play a key role in identifying opportunities to introduce AI-enabled capabilities and AI-assisted engineering practices, ensuring innovation is adopted responsibly to improve productivity, software quality and service outcomes. Key responsibilities • Lead & Mentor Technical Leads across multiple engineering teams, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement. • Guide & Review complex software designs and implementation, providing hands-on technical leadership where required. • Collaborate & Deliver with architects, Product Managers and Delivery Managers to translate architecture into successful delivery. • Champion & Embed engineering best practices including secure software development, code quality, automated testing and DevOps. • Drive & Support delivery of cloud-native services using modern engineering approaches and technologies. • Identify & Introduce AI-enabled capabilities that improve user services and operational efficiency. • Enable & Promote AI-assisted software engineering practices to enhance developer productivity and software quality. • Manage & Mitigate technical risks, cross-team dependencies and delivery challenges. • Support & Develop engineering talent through mentoring, coaching, recruitment and onboarding. • Influence & Improve engineering standards across the wider programme. Required qualifications to be successful in this role To succeed in this role, you'll bring extensive technical leadership experience delivering complex digital services within enterprise or regulated environments. You'll combine strong hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to mentor senior technical professionals, influence strategic technical decisions and drive the adoption of modern engineering and AI-enabled delivery practices. Essential qualifications • Significant experience leading software engineering teams delivering complex digital services. • Proven experience mentoring Technical Leads, senior engineers or multiple development teams. • Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Java, Angular, Node.js and Express.js. • Experience designing and supporting distributed systems and microservices architectures. • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL or other enterprise SQL databases. • Experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Service Bus and Application Insights. • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling including Git, Jenkins and Terraform. • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. • Experience working within highly regulated or public sector environments is advantageous. • Understanding of AI-assisted software development, Azure OpenAI or other LLM-based services is desirable. • Knowledge of responsible AI principles and governance considerations is desirable. Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals. Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
10/11/2026
Full time
Technical Lead (Software Development) Position Description At CGI, you'll lead the engineering direction of digital services that help citizens, legal professionals and government access justice through modern technology. Working across the one of our key UK Government Department programmes, you'll influence the delivery of secure, resilient and scalable services while mentoring technical leaders and driving engineering excellence. You'll play a pivotal role in shaping how emerging AI capabilities are responsibly introduced to enhance software delivery and service outcomes, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to solve complex challenges while developing your own career within one of the UK's leading technology consultancies. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK 'Best Employer' by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you'll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We'll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position. Your future duties and responsibilities In this role, you will provide senior technical leadership across multiple product teams delivering business-critical services within the programme. Working alongside architects, Product Managers and Delivery Managers, you will ensure engineering teams deliver secure, scalable and high-quality solutions that align with long-term platform strategy while meeting the evolving needs of the programme. You will mentor Technical Leads and senior engineers, helping to embed engineering best practice, strengthen technical capability and drive continuous improvement across the programme. You'll also play a key role in identifying opportunities to introduce AI-enabled capabilities and AI-assisted engineering practices, ensuring innovation is adopted responsibly to improve productivity, software quality and service outcomes. Key responsibilities • Lead & Mentor Technical Leads across multiple engineering teams, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement. • Guide & Review complex software designs and implementation, providing hands-on technical leadership where required. • Collaborate & Deliver with architects, Product Managers and Delivery Managers to translate architecture into successful delivery. • Champion & Embed engineering best practices including secure software development, code quality, automated testing and DevOps. • Drive & Support delivery of cloud-native services using modern engineering approaches and technologies. • Identify & Introduce AI-enabled capabilities that improve user services and operational efficiency. • Enable & Promote AI-assisted software engineering practices to enhance developer productivity and software quality. • Manage & Mitigate technical risks, cross-team dependencies and delivery challenges. • Support & Develop engineering talent through mentoring, coaching, recruitment and onboarding. • Influence & Improve engineering standards across the wider programme. Required qualifications to be successful in this role To succeed in this role, you'll bring extensive technical leadership experience delivering complex digital services within enterprise or regulated environments. You'll combine strong hands-on engineering expertise with the ability to mentor senior technical professionals, influence strategic technical decisions and drive the adoption of modern engineering and AI-enabled delivery practices. Essential qualifications • Significant experience leading software engineering teams delivering complex digital services. • Proven experience mentoring Technical Leads, senior engineers or multiple development teams. • Strong hands-on software engineering experience with Java, Angular, Node.js and Express.js. • Experience designing and supporting distributed systems and microservices architectures. • Strong knowledge of PostgreSQL or other enterprise SQL databases. • Experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Service Bus and Application Insights. • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling including Git, Jenkins and Terraform. • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences. • Experience working within highly regulated or public sector environments is advantageous. • Understanding of AI-assisted software development, Azure OpenAI or other LLM-based services is desirable. • Knowledge of responsible AI principles and governance considerations is desirable. Together, as owners, let's turn meaningful insights into action. Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you'll reach your full potential because You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That's why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company's strategy and direction. Your work creates value. You'll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise. You'll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You'll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons. That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals. Come join our team-one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
Data Engineer / SC Cleared 390 - 500 per day (Inside IR35/Umbrella) Duration: 14 Months (60 Weeks) Location: Hybrid from either Newcastle, London, Manchester or Glasgow (2-3 days per week) Start: ASAP We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join a high-profile programme, delivering scalable and robust data solutions within a modern cloud-based environment. This is an excellent opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies including AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Java, and Big Data platforms , helping organisations unlock the value of their data. The Role As a Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data solutions that support data generation, collection, processing, and consumption across the organisation. You'll work closely with technical and business stakeholders to build high-performing data pipelines, ensure data quality, and deliver reliable ETL processes. This role requires someone who can provide technical leadership, contribute to key architectural decisions, and collaborate effectively across multiple teams while mentoring junior engineers. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable data engineering solutions. Build and optimise data pipelines to support large-scale data processing. Implement ETL processes to migrate, transform, and deploy data across multiple platforms. Ensure the quality, accuracy, and reliability of data across the estate. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and deliver effective data solutions. Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve pipeline performance and stability. Contribute to technical design discussions and key project decisions. Act as a subject matter expert within the data engineering capability. Mentor and support junior team members, promoting best practices and knowledge sharing. Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive continuous improvement. Required Skills & Experience Strong commercial experience in Data Engineering . Expert-level proficiency in Java . Advanced experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) . Advanced experience with Apache Kafka . Advanced experience with Kubernetes . Experience working with Big Data technologies and engineering practices. Proven experience building and maintaining enterprise-scale data pipelines. Strong understanding of data modelling, ETL frameworks, and data quality management. Experience working within Agile delivery environments. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
10/11/2026
Contractor
Data Engineer / SC Cleared 390 - 500 per day (Inside IR35/Umbrella) Duration: 14 Months (60 Weeks) Location: Hybrid from either Newcastle, London, Manchester or Glasgow (2-3 days per week) Start: ASAP We are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to join a high-profile programme, delivering scalable and robust data solutions within a modern cloud-based environment. This is an excellent opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies including AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, Java, and Big Data platforms , helping organisations unlock the value of their data. The Role As a Data Engineer, you'll be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining data solutions that support data generation, collection, processing, and consumption across the organisation. You'll work closely with technical and business stakeholders to build high-performing data pipelines, ensure data quality, and deliver reliable ETL processes. This role requires someone who can provide technical leadership, contribute to key architectural decisions, and collaborate effectively across multiple teams while mentoring junior engineers. Key Responsibilities Design, develop, and maintain scalable data engineering solutions. Build and optimise data pipelines to support large-scale data processing. Implement ETL processes to migrate, transform, and deploy data across multiple platforms. Ensure the quality, accuracy, and reliability of data across the estate. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and deliver effective data solutions. Monitor, troubleshoot, and improve pipeline performance and stability. Contribute to technical design discussions and key project decisions. Act as a subject matter expert within the data engineering capability. Mentor and support junior team members, promoting best practices and knowledge sharing. Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive continuous improvement. Required Skills & Experience Strong commercial experience in Data Engineering . Expert-level proficiency in Java . Advanced experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) . Advanced experience with Apache Kafka . Advanced experience with Kubernetes . Experience working with Big Data technologies and engineering practices. Proven experience building and maintaining enterprise-scale data pipelines. Strong understanding of data modelling, ETL frameworks, and data quality management. Experience working within Agile delivery environments. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
Location This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Sheffield. Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here. Please note: for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027. For candidates requesting to work in Sheffield King's Court, please note these roles will initially be based at King's Court and then move to 1 West Bar by early 2028. About the job Job summary Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. Do you want to solve large-scale security challenges, designing resilient architectures, leading threat mitigation and embedding security across modern cloud-native services? We are looking for a Senior Security Architect who: Has proven experience as a Security Architect within complex, large-scale digital or government environments. Has a strong understanding of secure-by-design principles, enterprise architecture and cloud-native security. Has experience working in agile, multidisciplinary teams delivering user-centric services. Has the ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex security concepts clearly. Can demonstrate experience of shaping architecture standards, roadmaps and governance frameworks. Has a passion for mentoring others and developing organisational capability. As our Security Architect, you will use your technical knowledge, architecture design knowledge and development skills to help secure services used by millions of people against cyber threats. DWP is a huge and complex organisation. We have unique architectural and security challenges that you won't find in other roles. The reason for this vacancy is for a security architect to provide advice and guidance to this team. This role will involve our Corporate Centre Services function. We also welcome applications from candidates from a range of backgrounds including those with academic, consultancy and military experience, who hold a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification or a Master's degree in Information Security or willing to work towards obtaining either qualification as this will support your career development. Job description The Security Architect will provide guidance and advice ranging from scoping IT Health Checks, providing guidance in risk assessment, providing security guidance, checking the cloud posture management platform for vulnerabilities. Each team is made up of a number of architects, so relationships will need to be built with other teams, the security community and the design authority. Key responsibilities include: Leading the design and delivery of secure architectures, ensuring security controls are embedded from the outset of product development. Developing and recommending secure solution options during discovery and inception to inform design decisions. Collaborating with Solution Architects and agile teams to produce secure, value-for-money designs aligned to user needs. Creating clear security architecture artefacts and documentation to support governance and enable secure engineering practices. Ensuring all designs comply with the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture standards, and agreed product roadmaps. Providing expert security guidance across the full product lifecycle, including assurance activities such as control self-assessments. Owning and evolving security product roadmaps, contributing to Digital Blueprint improvements and reusable security patterns. Build organisational security capability through mentoring, sharing best practice, and supporting the growth of the Architecture community. Person specification When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below: Enterprise-Scale Architecture Experience: Demonstrable experience operating as a Security Architect within a complex, large-scale, national or multinational organisation. You are confident working across enterprise architectures, aligning solutions with strategic roadmaps and Digital Blueprint standards. Threat Analysis, Risk Management & Cryptography Expertise: Ability to identify, assess and mitigate sophisticated cyber threats using tools such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, and endpoint detection platforms. Strong understanding of risk assessment practices, encryption and cryptographic standards (e.g. TLS, IPsec, PKI, VPNs) to protect data in transit and at rest. Identity, Access Management & Security Leadership: Deep knowledge of authentication and authorisation protocols (e.g. OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT) and their application in identity and trust platforms. Proven ability to communicate security solutions, influence stakeholders, and build capability through collaboration, mentoring and leadership within architecture communities. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact .
10/11/2026
Full time
Location This role may be located in one of the following locations; Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle Upon Tyne and Sheffield. Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here. Please note: for candidates requesting to work in Newcastle, the role will initially be based at Benton Park View. It will then move to 1 Pilgrim Place in Newcastle city centre by the end of 2027. For candidates requesting to work in Sheffield King's Court, please note these roles will initially be based at King's Court and then move to 1 West Bar by early 2028. About the job Job summary Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. For further information, please see 'Selection process details'. Do you want to solve large-scale security challenges, designing resilient architectures, leading threat mitigation and embedding security across modern cloud-native services? We are looking for a Senior Security Architect who: Has proven experience as a Security Architect within complex, large-scale digital or government environments. Has a strong understanding of secure-by-design principles, enterprise architecture and cloud-native security. Has experience working in agile, multidisciplinary teams delivering user-centric services. Has the ability to influence senior stakeholders and communicate complex security concepts clearly. Can demonstrate experience of shaping architecture standards, roadmaps and governance frameworks. Has a passion for mentoring others and developing organisational capability. As our Security Architect, you will use your technical knowledge, architecture design knowledge and development skills to help secure services used by millions of people against cyber threats. DWP is a huge and complex organisation. We have unique architectural and security challenges that you won't find in other roles. The reason for this vacancy is for a security architect to provide advice and guidance to this team. This role will involve our Corporate Centre Services function. We also welcome applications from candidates from a range of backgrounds including those with academic, consultancy and military experience, who hold a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification or a Master's degree in Information Security or willing to work towards obtaining either qualification as this will support your career development. Job description The Security Architect will provide guidance and advice ranging from scoping IT Health Checks, providing guidance in risk assessment, providing security guidance, checking the cloud posture management platform for vulnerabilities. Each team is made up of a number of architects, so relationships will need to be built with other teams, the security community and the design authority. Key responsibilities include: Leading the design and delivery of secure architectures, ensuring security controls are embedded from the outset of product development. Developing and recommending secure solution options during discovery and inception to inform design decisions. Collaborating with Solution Architects and agile teams to produce secure, value-for-money designs aligned to user needs. Creating clear security architecture artefacts and documentation to support governance and enable secure engineering practices. Ensuring all designs comply with the Digital Blueprint, Enterprise Architecture standards, and agreed product roadmaps. Providing expert security guidance across the full product lifecycle, including assurance activities such as control self-assessments. Owning and evolving security product roadmaps, contributing to Digital Blueprint improvements and reusable security patterns. Build organisational security capability through mentoring, sharing best practice, and supporting the growth of the Architecture community. Person specification When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below: Enterprise-Scale Architecture Experience: Demonstrable experience operating as a Security Architect within a complex, large-scale, national or multinational organisation. You are confident working across enterprise architectures, aligning solutions with strategic roadmaps and Digital Blueprint standards. Threat Analysis, Risk Management & Cryptography Expertise: Ability to identify, assess and mitigate sophisticated cyber threats using tools such as SIEM, IDS/IPS, and endpoint detection platforms. Strong understanding of risk assessment practices, encryption and cryptographic standards (e.g. TLS, IPsec, PKI, VPNs) to protect data in transit and at rest. Identity, Access Management & Security Leadership: Deep knowledge of authentication and authorisation protocols (e.g. OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT) and their application in identity and trust platforms. Proven ability to communicate security solutions, influence stakeholders, and build capability through collaboration, mentoring and leadership within architecture communities. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact .
Role Summary We're hiring an AI Agent Developer to own the technical delivery of an enterprise AI agent/AI-native engineering platform that supports task automation for our Finance Operation business users. You'll combine architectural design with hands-on, full-stack engineering , writing production code to build secure, scalable services and user experiences that developers and business users will adopt. You'll integrate large language models (LLMs), AI agents and knowledge augmentation into the solution design, from requirements and design through coding, testing and environment orchestration. You'll apply modern full-stack engineering practices: microservices, micro frontends, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), integrated development, security and operations (DevSecOps), observability and cloud-native delivery . Key Responsibilities 1) AI Agent Platform Architecture & Delivery (hands-on) Lead architecture and implementation of an AI agent platform, including task orchestration , tool invocation , context/session management , memory , and multi-agent collaboration . Translate emerging model capabilities into reusable platform components that teams can adopt safely and quickly, including software development kits (SDKs), services, templates and guardrails that constrain AI behaviour. Drive real implementation in complex engineering scenarios, not just prototypes-optimised for reliability, latency, and cost. 2) AI-native Engineering Workflow Enablement Embed AI capabilities into Business workflows, covering: AI-assisted agent AI evaluation Natural Language to SQL generation Establish quality and measurement practices for AI features (accuracy, coverage, drift, prompt/tool regression, cost). 3) Knowledge Augmentation (RAG/GraphRAG/Knowledge Graph) Design and implement a knowledge layer that grounds AI responses in enterprise information and improves their correctness, covering: RAG , GraphRAG , and knowledge graph design/integration indexing strategies, retrieval evaluation, and relevance tuning governance for enterprise knowledge usage (permissions, lineage, auditability) 4) Engineering Delivery Excellence (Full Stack + Microservices + DevOps) Stay hands-on delivering production-grade full stack solutions ( Python Back End microservices/ React Front End UI), applying secure engineering practices and strong system design. Build and operate cloud-native services with CI/CD, DevSecOps, test automation, environment management, and robust observability (metrics/logs/traces), driving high availability and operational readiness. Collaborate across Product/Engineering/QA/Operations to standardise, productionise and continuously improve platform capabilities; mentor engineers and uplift delivery maturity using practical engineering metrics (eg, DORA). Required Qualifications & Experience: 8+ years in Back End/platform engineering, architecture, or similar enterprise-scale delivery roles. Experience working in a commercial environment over the past three years , delivering AI solutions into production. System thinking : Strong ability to design and evolve complex systems with a focus on resilience, scalability, high availability, maintainability, and performance. Engineering strength : Proficiency in Python and React , supported by strong coding fundamentals, architectural judgement and hands-on experience delivering complex systems; Java proficiency may also be required . Strong hands-on skills in Microservice development, Kubernetes, CI/CD and quality automation AI/Agent Architecture Expertise (Must Have) Strong understanding of LLM/agent architecture patterns: task decomposition, planning, tool use/function calling context management and memory design execution loops, failure handling, and safety guardrails Hands-on experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph (or equivalent orchestration frameworks). Familiarity with AI developer tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot . Full Engineering on Cloud (Strong Plus) Micro service design and development for resilient and reliable system with excellent skill set on database, message broker and CI/CD toolkits Cloud-native engineering experience (eg, Google Cloud ) and platform mindset. Certifications are a plus (eg, GCP , architecture/programming certs). Knowledge/certification in Kubernetes , and ecosystem tools such as Message Broker eg GCP pub/sub , Spring Gateway (or equivalents) is a plus. Experience contributing to engineering communities is a plus. What Success Looks Like A secure, scalable AI agent platform running reliably in production with clear adoption across teams. Measurable engineering impact (delivery speed, quality, stability) backed by strong telemetry and feedback loops. Well-governed knowledge augmentation (RAG/GraphRAG/knowledge graphs) that improves accuracy and trust. Efficient, end-to-end delivery of production-ready solutions through hands-on full-stack engineering. A team culture that ships quickly, learns continuously, and operates with blameless accountability.
10/11/2026
Contractor
Role Summary We're hiring an AI Agent Developer to own the technical delivery of an enterprise AI agent/AI-native engineering platform that supports task automation for our Finance Operation business users. You'll combine architectural design with hands-on, full-stack engineering , writing production code to build secure, scalable services and user experiences that developers and business users will adopt. You'll integrate large language models (LLMs), AI agents and knowledge augmentation into the solution design, from requirements and design through coding, testing and environment orchestration. You'll apply modern full-stack engineering practices: microservices, micro frontends, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), integrated development, security and operations (DevSecOps), observability and cloud-native delivery . Key Responsibilities 1) AI Agent Platform Architecture & Delivery (hands-on) Lead architecture and implementation of an AI agent platform, including task orchestration , tool invocation , context/session management , memory , and multi-agent collaboration . Translate emerging model capabilities into reusable platform components that teams can adopt safely and quickly, including software development kits (SDKs), services, templates and guardrails that constrain AI behaviour. Drive real implementation in complex engineering scenarios, not just prototypes-optimised for reliability, latency, and cost. 2) AI-native Engineering Workflow Enablement Embed AI capabilities into Business workflows, covering: AI-assisted agent AI evaluation Natural Language to SQL generation Establish quality and measurement practices for AI features (accuracy, coverage, drift, prompt/tool regression, cost). 3) Knowledge Augmentation (RAG/GraphRAG/Knowledge Graph) Design and implement a knowledge layer that grounds AI responses in enterprise information and improves their correctness, covering: RAG , GraphRAG , and knowledge graph design/integration indexing strategies, retrieval evaluation, and relevance tuning governance for enterprise knowledge usage (permissions, lineage, auditability) 4) Engineering Delivery Excellence (Full Stack + Microservices + DevOps) Stay hands-on delivering production-grade full stack solutions ( Python Back End microservices/ React Front End UI), applying secure engineering practices and strong system design. Build and operate cloud-native services with CI/CD, DevSecOps, test automation, environment management, and robust observability (metrics/logs/traces), driving high availability and operational readiness. Collaborate across Product/Engineering/QA/Operations to standardise, productionise and continuously improve platform capabilities; mentor engineers and uplift delivery maturity using practical engineering metrics (eg, DORA). Required Qualifications & Experience: 8+ years in Back End/platform engineering, architecture, or similar enterprise-scale delivery roles. Experience working in a commercial environment over the past three years , delivering AI solutions into production. System thinking : Strong ability to design and evolve complex systems with a focus on resilience, scalability, high availability, maintainability, and performance. Engineering strength : Proficiency in Python and React , supported by strong coding fundamentals, architectural judgement and hands-on experience delivering complex systems; Java proficiency may also be required . Strong hands-on skills in Microservice development, Kubernetes, CI/CD and quality automation AI/Agent Architecture Expertise (Must Have) Strong understanding of LLM/agent architecture patterns: task decomposition, planning, tool use/function calling context management and memory design execution loops, failure handling, and safety guardrails Hands-on experience with LangChain and/or LangGraph (or equivalent orchestration frameworks). Familiarity with AI developer tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot . Full Engineering on Cloud (Strong Plus) Micro service design and development for resilient and reliable system with excellent skill set on database, message broker and CI/CD toolkits Cloud-native engineering experience (eg, Google Cloud ) and platform mindset. Certifications are a plus (eg, GCP , architecture/programming certs). Knowledge/certification in Kubernetes , and ecosystem tools such as Message Broker eg GCP pub/sub , Spring Gateway (or equivalents) is a plus. Experience contributing to engineering communities is a plus. What Success Looks Like A secure, scalable AI agent platform running reliably in production with clear adoption across teams. Measurable engineering impact (delivery speed, quality, stability) backed by strong telemetry and feedback loops. Well-governed knowledge augmentation (RAG/GraphRAG/knowledge graphs) that improves accuracy and trust. Efficient, end-to-end delivery of production-ready solutions through hands-on full-stack engineering. A team culture that ships quickly, learns continuously, and operates with blameless accountability.
ServiceNow Architect with ITSM/ITOM/HRSD are sought to lead technical architecture, solution design and platform development across enterprise ServiceNow environments. The successful ServiceNow Architect will be responsible for designing scalable solutions, overseeing platform customisation and integration, and providing architectural guidance across ServiceNow delivery activities. Key Responsibilities Own ServiceNow solution architecture and technical design. Design and implement custom applications and integrations. Provide technical oversight across ITSM, ITOM and HRSD. Define and maintain ServiceNow architectural standards. Work with business stakeholders to establish technical requirements. Guide configuration, customisation and development. Support technical teams through architectural guidance and mentoring. Assess new ServiceNow functionality and platform improvements. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience in ServiceNow architecture and development. Experience designing and implementing multi-module ServiceNow solutions. Strong knowledge of ServiceNow platform configuration and customisation. Experience with ServiceNow integrations and application development. Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Strong technical design and stakeholder communication skills. Ability to provide architectural guidance to development teams. Desirable Skills ServiceNow CAD certification. ServiceNow CIS certification. Broad experience across ITSM, ITOM and HRSD. Technical leadership and developer mentoring experience. Equivalent relevant experience will also be considered. Working Arrangements - Hybrid working involving a combination of home, office and client-site attendance. Basic Salary range: £110,000 - £130,000 basic (Depending on experience) Package: £130,000 - £150,000 including bonus and benefits (Depending on experience) Location: UK - any UK based location supported Working Pattern: Hybrid
10/11/2026
Full time
ServiceNow Architect with ITSM/ITOM/HRSD are sought to lead technical architecture, solution design and platform development across enterprise ServiceNow environments. The successful ServiceNow Architect will be responsible for designing scalable solutions, overseeing platform customisation and integration, and providing architectural guidance across ServiceNow delivery activities. Key Responsibilities Own ServiceNow solution architecture and technical design. Design and implement custom applications and integrations. Provide technical oversight across ITSM, ITOM and HRSD. Define and maintain ServiceNow architectural standards. Work with business stakeholders to establish technical requirements. Guide configuration, customisation and development. Support technical teams through architectural guidance and mentoring. Assess new ServiceNow functionality and platform improvements. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience in ServiceNow architecture and development. Experience designing and implementing multi-module ServiceNow solutions. Strong knowledge of ServiceNow platform configuration and customisation. Experience with ServiceNow integrations and application development. Proficiency in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Strong technical design and stakeholder communication skills. Ability to provide architectural guidance to development teams. Desirable Skills ServiceNow CAD certification. ServiceNow CIS certification. Broad experience across ITSM, ITOM and HRSD. Technical leadership and developer mentoring experience. Equivalent relevant experience will also be considered. Working Arrangements - Hybrid working involving a combination of home, office and client-site attendance. Basic Salary range: £110,000 - £130,000 basic (Depending on experience) Package: £130,000 - £150,000 including bonus and benefits (Depending on experience) Location: UK - any UK based location supported Working Pattern: Hybrid
Lead Data Engineer (AI & Data Platforms) | Must Be DV Clearable | 5 Days Onsite Hands-on technical leadership building data and AI systems that actually work We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join a growing enterprise data and AI capability, playing a critical role in designing, building, and operating production-grade data platforms and AI-enabled solutions. This is not a line-management role . Instead, it is a senior, hands-on technical leadership position for someone with deep data engineering experience who leads through delivery, technical judgement, and engineering excellence rather than hierarchy. You will work across complex environments spanning Legacy platforms, modern cloud services, advanced analytics, machine learning, and emerging AI technologies. The challenge isn't greenfield experimentation; it's building robust production systems, operationalising AI capabilities, improving what exists, and helping teams use data and AI safely, effectively, and at scale. We're particularly interested in engineers who have helped organisations establish the foundations for AI-led development, including data platforms, ML pipelines, governance frameworks, deployment processes, and production support models. What You'll Be Doing You'll act as a senior technical anchor for both data engineering and AI-enablement initiatives, contributing directly while guiding others through example. You will: Design, build, and enhance enterprise-scale data platforms, pipelines, and services Lead complex data engineering work end-to-end, from problem definition and exploration through build, testing, deployment, and operational support Build and maintain cloud-native data platforms that support analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads Develop robust data pipelines supporting both traditional analytics and AI/ML use cases Work directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate operational problems into scalable data and AI solutions Design data models, integration patterns, and storage structures that support long-term maintainability and reusability Help establish engineering frameworks for AI-led development, including environments, CI/CD processes, testing strategies, governance controls, and deployment standards Support the operationalisation of machine learning and AI solutions into production environments Improve data sharing, onboarding of new data sources, and interoperability across teams and systems Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and technologies where they deliver genuine value Build robust, production-grade solutions rather than proofs of concept Treat metadata, lineage, observability, governance, data quality, and security as first-class engineering concerns Diagnose and resolve complex data and platform issues in challenging enterprise environments Contribute to a supportive engineering culture focused on quality, delivery, and continuous improvement What We're Looking For This role is for a genuine practitioner who enjoys doing the work and raising standards around them. Essential Experience Significant hands-on experience as a Senior or Lead Data Engineer working on complex, enterprise-scale systems Strong Python and Spark skills with evidence of building and maintaining production data pipelines Deep understanding of the full data engineering lifecycle: ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and reuse Strong experience designing integrations across diverse data sources, platforms, and Legacy environments Experience building and supporting cloud-based data platforms, preferably within AWS environments Proven experience designing scalable data models and architectures Solid understanding of data governance, security, compliance, and operational controls Experience with modern engineering practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation Ability to communicate effectively with both highly technical and non-technical stakeholders Experience supporting machine learning or AI workloads through production-grade data engineering solutions Highly Desirable Strong AWS data platform experience (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, Bedrock, SageMaker or equivalent) Experience operationalising machine learning models into production environments Experience with MLOps, model deployment, model monitoring, model lifecycle management, and automated validation processes Experience supporting Generative AI solutions, including RAG architectures, vector search, LLM integration, AI orchestration, or agentic workflows Databricks experience, including Unity Catalog, MLflow, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture, and AI tooling Experience working within secure, regulated, or government environments Exposure to large-scale enterprise data and AI platforms If you're passionate about building enterprise-scale data platforms, enabling AI adoption, and solving genuinely difficult engineering challenges, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
10/11/2026
Contractor
Lead Data Engineer (AI & Data Platforms) | Must Be DV Clearable | 5 Days Onsite Hands-on technical leadership building data and AI systems that actually work We're looking for a Lead Data Engineer to join a growing enterprise data and AI capability, playing a critical role in designing, building, and operating production-grade data platforms and AI-enabled solutions. This is not a line-management role . Instead, it is a senior, hands-on technical leadership position for someone with deep data engineering experience who leads through delivery, technical judgement, and engineering excellence rather than hierarchy. You will work across complex environments spanning Legacy platforms, modern cloud services, advanced analytics, machine learning, and emerging AI technologies. The challenge isn't greenfield experimentation; it's building robust production systems, operationalising AI capabilities, improving what exists, and helping teams use data and AI safely, effectively, and at scale. We're particularly interested in engineers who have helped organisations establish the foundations for AI-led development, including data platforms, ML pipelines, governance frameworks, deployment processes, and production support models. What You'll Be Doing You'll act as a senior technical anchor for both data engineering and AI-enablement initiatives, contributing directly while guiding others through example. You will: Design, build, and enhance enterprise-scale data platforms, pipelines, and services Lead complex data engineering work end-to-end, from problem definition and exploration through build, testing, deployment, and operational support Build and maintain cloud-native data platforms that support analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads Develop robust data pipelines supporting both traditional analytics and AI/ML use cases Work directly with technical and non-technical stakeholders to translate operational problems into scalable data and AI solutions Design data models, integration patterns, and storage structures that support long-term maintainability and reusability Help establish engineering frameworks for AI-led development, including environments, CI/CD processes, testing strategies, governance controls, and deployment standards Support the operationalisation of machine learning and AI solutions into production environments Improve data sharing, onboarding of new data sources, and interoperability across teams and systems Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and technologies where they deliver genuine value Build robust, production-grade solutions rather than proofs of concept Treat metadata, lineage, observability, governance, data quality, and security as first-class engineering concerns Diagnose and resolve complex data and platform issues in challenging enterprise environments Contribute to a supportive engineering culture focused on quality, delivery, and continuous improvement What We're Looking For This role is for a genuine practitioner who enjoys doing the work and raising standards around them. Essential Experience Significant hands-on experience as a Senior or Lead Data Engineer working on complex, enterprise-scale systems Strong Python and Spark skills with evidence of building and maintaining production data pipelines Deep understanding of the full data engineering lifecycle: ingestion, transformation, storage, serving, and reuse Strong experience designing integrations across diverse data sources, platforms, and Legacy environments Experience building and supporting cloud-based data platforms, preferably within AWS environments Proven experience designing scalable data models and architectures Solid understanding of data governance, security, compliance, and operational controls Experience with modern engineering practices including source control, automated testing, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and deployment automation Ability to communicate effectively with both highly technical and non-technical stakeholders Experience supporting machine learning or AI workloads through production-grade data engineering solutions Highly Desirable Strong AWS data platform experience (S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, Bedrock, SageMaker or equivalent) Experience operationalising machine learning models into production environments Experience with MLOps, model deployment, model monitoring, model lifecycle management, and automated validation processes Experience supporting Generative AI solutions, including RAG architectures, vector search, LLM integration, AI orchestration, or agentic workflows Databricks experience, including Unity Catalog, MLflow, Delta Lake, Lakehouse architecture, and AI tooling Experience working within secure, regulated, or government environments Exposure to large-scale enterprise data and AI platforms If you're passionate about building enterprise-scale data platforms, enabling AI adoption, and solving genuinely difficult engineering challenges, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Lead Enterprise Architect is required by this sector leading, global organisation to lead on implementation strategies for architecture work within a key product part of the business. Working with key partners, you will look to bridge the gap between enterprise strategy and practical solution architecture. Managing a portfolio with an annual multi-million investment, you will align customer-facing and Back Office technology systems with overarching business goals. A challenging aspect of this role involves collaborating extensively with international partners to reach a consensus on shared, innovative architecture directions. Key areas of the role include - Target Architecture: Design scalable, secure cloud solutions, data platforms, and integration frameworks. Roadmap & Innovation: Create technology roadmaps that reduce time-to-market for new services. Governance: Establish robust architectural principles across enduring product and project teams. Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with business leaders, technical teams, and external vendors to translate business needs into technical reality. Ideally your background will demonstrate where you've been a senior technology expert with a proven track record in both enterprise and solution architecture. In combination, you must demonstrate exceptional communication skills, easily navigating complex stakeholder landscapes to foster collaboration and consensus. With a focus on driving cost efficiency, mitigating architectural risks, and fostering a culture of innovation across multi-disciplinary teams. Please contact me for a full job spec and detailed conversation about the role and business - please note that this position requires time on site every week in the office, generally 2-3 days weekly. Only apply if this is something you can commit to.
10/11/2026
Full time
Lead Enterprise Architect is required by this sector leading, global organisation to lead on implementation strategies for architecture work within a key product part of the business. Working with key partners, you will look to bridge the gap between enterprise strategy and practical solution architecture. Managing a portfolio with an annual multi-million investment, you will align customer-facing and Back Office technology systems with overarching business goals. A challenging aspect of this role involves collaborating extensively with international partners to reach a consensus on shared, innovative architecture directions. Key areas of the role include - Target Architecture: Design scalable, secure cloud solutions, data platforms, and integration frameworks. Roadmap & Innovation: Create technology roadmaps that reduce time-to-market for new services. Governance: Establish robust architectural principles across enduring product and project teams. Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with business leaders, technical teams, and external vendors to translate business needs into technical reality. Ideally your background will demonstrate where you've been a senior technology expert with a proven track record in both enterprise and solution architecture. In combination, you must demonstrate exceptional communication skills, easily navigating complex stakeholder landscapes to foster collaboration and consensus. With a focus on driving cost efficiency, mitigating architectural risks, and fostering a culture of innovation across multi-disciplinary teams. Please contact me for a full job spec and detailed conversation about the role and business - please note that this position requires time on site every week in the office, generally 2-3 days weekly. Only apply if this is something you can commit to.
Solution Architect/DV Clearable/5 Days Onsite Location: London We're seeking an experienced Solution Architect to provide design leadership across complex technology programmes and critical product areas. This is an opportunity for a technology-driven architect who can shape innovative solutions, influence strategic direction, and balance immediate delivery requirements with long-term business goals. The Role As a Solution Architect, you will act as the design authority for key technology initiatives, working closely with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams. You will define solution architectures, develop technology roadmaps, manage technical risk, and support the successful delivery of complex systems and digital transformation programmes. Key responsibilities include: Producing high-level solution designs and architecture artefacts Shaping technology strategy and product roadmaps Providing design governance and technical leadership Managing technology risk throughout the product lifecycle Collaborating with engineering, product and business teams to drive successful outcomes Evaluating emerging technologies and identifying opportunities for innovation Balancing cost, risk, quality, user experience and delivery timelines when making architectural decisions What We're Looking For Essential Experience Proven experience as a Solution Architect or technical domain expert delivering complex technology solutions Strong background in enterprise and solution architecture Experience leading significant elements of product delivery, systems development or transformation programmes Ability to perform trade-off analysis and communicate complex technical decisions to a range of stakeholders Broad technology knowledge with a modern, adaptable and technology-first mindset Experience working across diverse technology portfolios and business environments Desirable Experience Exposure to AI, emerging technologies and digital-native architectures Experience in Agile and Lean delivery environments Experience operating within highly secure or complex organisational environments Previous leadership or mentoring experience within architecture teams Knowledge of recognised architecture frameworks and best practices The Ideal Candidate We're looking for a curious and adaptable technologist rather than a traditional, narrowly focused architecture specialist. You'll be comfortable exploring new technologies, influencing stakeholders, solving complex problems, and driving practical outcomes in fast-evolving environments. What's On Offer Opportunity to work on complex and impactful technology challenges Exposure to innovative projects across data, communications and knowledge systems Collaborative and inclusive working environment Strong focus on professional development and continuous learning Opportunity to influence strategic technology decisions at scale Apply today to discuss this opportunity in more detail. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
10/11/2026
Contractor
Solution Architect/DV Clearable/5 Days Onsite Location: London We're seeking an experienced Solution Architect to provide design leadership across complex technology programmes and critical product areas. This is an opportunity for a technology-driven architect who can shape innovative solutions, influence strategic direction, and balance immediate delivery requirements with long-term business goals. The Role As a Solution Architect, you will act as the design authority for key technology initiatives, working closely with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders and multidisciplinary teams. You will define solution architectures, develop technology roadmaps, manage technical risk, and support the successful delivery of complex systems and digital transformation programmes. Key responsibilities include: Producing high-level solution designs and architecture artefacts Shaping technology strategy and product roadmaps Providing design governance and technical leadership Managing technology risk throughout the product lifecycle Collaborating with engineering, product and business teams to drive successful outcomes Evaluating emerging technologies and identifying opportunities for innovation Balancing cost, risk, quality, user experience and delivery timelines when making architectural decisions What We're Looking For Essential Experience Proven experience as a Solution Architect or technical domain expert delivering complex technology solutions Strong background in enterprise and solution architecture Experience leading significant elements of product delivery, systems development or transformation programmes Ability to perform trade-off analysis and communicate complex technical decisions to a range of stakeholders Broad technology knowledge with a modern, adaptable and technology-first mindset Experience working across diverse technology portfolios and business environments Desirable Experience Exposure to AI, emerging technologies and digital-native architectures Experience in Agile and Lean delivery environments Experience operating within highly secure or complex organisational environments Previous leadership or mentoring experience within architecture teams Knowledge of recognised architecture frameworks and best practices The Ideal Candidate We're looking for a curious and adaptable technologist rather than a traditional, narrowly focused architecture specialist. You'll be comfortable exploring new technologies, influencing stakeholders, solving complex problems, and driving practical outcomes in fast-evolving environments. What's On Offer Opportunity to work on complex and impactful technology challenges Exposure to innovative projects across data, communications and knowledge systems Collaborative and inclusive working environment Strong focus on professional development and continuous learning Opportunity to influence strategic technology decisions at scale Apply today to discuss this opportunity in more detail. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
AI SECURITY ARCHITECT | LONDON | DV Clearable |5 Days On-Site Looking for your next opportunity at the forefront of AI and cyber security? This is a unique opportunity to shape the security strategy, governance and architecture of AI solutions within a highly secure and complex environment. You'll play a key role in ensuring AI technologies are deployed safely, securely and compliantly, while helping to define the future of AI security standards and best practice. Location: London (5 days per week on-site) Contract Length: 12 Months Must be Eligible for DV Clearance What You'll Do * Define and maintain AI security architectures aligned to enterprise risk and security objectives. . Develop secure AI standards, reference architectures and security design patterns. . Support the secure deployment and accreditation of AI solutions across the organisation. . Work closely with security, compliance and architecture teams to ensure AI systems meet regulatory and governance requirements. . Conduct security assessments, design reviews and risk analysis for AI initiatives. . Produce security documentation, risk assessments and compliance evidence. . Advise senior stakeholders on AI security risks, controls and best practices. . Help identify opportunities to leverage AI within cyber security and protective monitoring capabilities. What We're Looking For * Strong experience in Information Security Architecture or Security Assurance . . Experience working with AI systems, machine learning technologies or emerging AI platforms . . Proven ability to design and implement security controls for large-scale technology programmes. . Strong understanding of security risk management, threat modelling and security governance. . Experience engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels. . Knowledge of security frameworks and standards such as NIST , AI security guidance and industry best practice. . Excellent communication and documentation skills. Highly Desirable * CISSP, ISSAP, CISM, SANS or similar security qualifications. . AI-focused certifications such as AIGP , Certified AI Security Engineer or ISO 42001 . . Experience supporting security accreditation and compliance activities. . Experience within highly regulated, defence, government or national security environments. DV Clearance Eligibility Requirements * UK residency history with a clear and verifiable background. . Strong financial integrity with no significant unresolved issues. . Ability to successfully undergo enhanced security vetting and referencing. If you're passionate about securing next-generation AI technologies and shaping security standards in a highly influential environment, we'd love to hear from you. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
10/11/2026
Contractor
AI SECURITY ARCHITECT | LONDON | DV Clearable |5 Days On-Site Looking for your next opportunity at the forefront of AI and cyber security? This is a unique opportunity to shape the security strategy, governance and architecture of AI solutions within a highly secure and complex environment. You'll play a key role in ensuring AI technologies are deployed safely, securely and compliantly, while helping to define the future of AI security standards and best practice. Location: London (5 days per week on-site) Contract Length: 12 Months Must be Eligible for DV Clearance What You'll Do * Define and maintain AI security architectures aligned to enterprise risk and security objectives. . Develop secure AI standards, reference architectures and security design patterns. . Support the secure deployment and accreditation of AI solutions across the organisation. . Work closely with security, compliance and architecture teams to ensure AI systems meet regulatory and governance requirements. . Conduct security assessments, design reviews and risk analysis for AI initiatives. . Produce security documentation, risk assessments and compliance evidence. . Advise senior stakeholders on AI security risks, controls and best practices. . Help identify opportunities to leverage AI within cyber security and protective monitoring capabilities. What We're Looking For * Strong experience in Information Security Architecture or Security Assurance . . Experience working with AI systems, machine learning technologies or emerging AI platforms . . Proven ability to design and implement security controls for large-scale technology programmes. . Strong understanding of security risk management, threat modelling and security governance. . Experience engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels. . Knowledge of security frameworks and standards such as NIST , AI security guidance and industry best practice. . Excellent communication and documentation skills. Highly Desirable * CISSP, ISSAP, CISM, SANS or similar security qualifications. . AI-focused certifications such as AIGP , Certified AI Security Engineer or ISO 42001 . . Experience supporting security accreditation and compliance activities. . Experience within highly regulated, defence, government or national security environments. DV Clearance Eligibility Requirements * UK residency history with a clear and verifiable background. . Strong financial integrity with no significant unresolved issues. . Ability to successfully undergo enhanced security vetting and referencing. If you're passionate about securing next-generation AI technologies and shaping security standards in a highly influential environment, we'd love to hear from you. Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Vertage Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Mobile Engineer Location: London Department: Infrastructure/GTI/End User Computing Reports To: ZTNA Programme 2. About CACI Network Services CACI Network Services is a leading provider of secure networking, cloud, and digital transformation solutions. We support mission-critical environments by delivering innovative, secure, and scalable technology services that enable our clients to operate effectively and securely in an evolving digital landscape. 3 Role Overview The End User Computing (EUC) team is responsible for delivering secure remote access solutions across corporate and BYOD devices. Working within a fast-paced Agile environment, the team develops and maintains modern access technologies that enable users to connect securely from anywhere. As a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Mobile Engineer , you will play a key role in the engineering, development, and enhancement of the ZTNA infrastructure supporting iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS devices. You will work closely with Product Management, Operations, and Security teams to deliver secure, scalable, and user-focused solutions while driving automation and continuous improvement. 4. Key Responsibilities Configure, build, and deploy platform solutions using automated processes and infrastructure-as-code principles. Take ownership of the platform from an end-to-end engineering perspective. Ensure solutions align with security, compliance, data protection, and governance requirements. Collaborate closely with Product and Operations teams to ensure smooth transition of services from engineering into production. Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and Agile delivery activities. Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the platform and engineering processes. Package, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft Intune, including: Palo Alto Prisma Access Agent Palo Alto Enterprise Browser Support release management and ensure adherence to SDLC processes and engineering best practices. Contribute to platform innovation while maintaining a strong focus on user experience and security. 5. Required Skills & Experience Endpoint Management & Mobility Strong knowledge of iOS and Android operating systems, architecture, and enterprise management. Extensive experience with Microsoft Intune (Endpoint Manager) including: Device provisioning Configuration profiles Compliance policies Conditional Access Windows Autopilot Application deployment Identity & Access Management Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) including: Conditional Access Identity Protection Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Integration with Intune and Microsoft 365 Automation & Engineering Experience with Scripting and automation using PowerShell , preferably Azure PowerShell. Knowledge of automation frameworks, settings customisation, and application configuration. Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) processes and Agile methodologies. Infrastructure & Security Good understanding of Microsoft Active Directory architecture and Group Policy migration to modern device management (MDM). Solid knowledge of end-to-end IT service delivery including architecture, design, implementation, and operational support. Experience supporting Zero Trust and secure remote access technologies is highly desirable. 6. Desirable Skills Experience with Palo Alto Prisma Access . Experience with Palo Alto Enterprise Browser . Knowledge of Zero Trust security principles and frameworks. Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments. Exposure to DevOps and automation-led delivery models. 7. Qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience. Agile certification (Scrum, SAFe, Agile Practitioner) desirable. ITIL Foundation certification desirable. Relevant networking and security certifications are advantageous, such as: Palo Alto Networks Certifications Microsoft Certifications CompTIA Security+ CISSP CCNP Security 8. Personal Attributes The successful candidate will: Be a hands-on engineer with excellent communication and documentation skills. Demonstrate a strong networking and security engineering mindset. Be logical, analytical, and innovative in problem-solving. Confidently engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Be highly organised and committed to continuous improvement. Take a methodical approach to engineering, design review, and delivery. Thrive in globally distributed teams spanning multiple time zones. Maintain awareness of emerging cyber security threats and industry best practices. Expected behaviours We have a structured performance management framework which measures continual attainment against key personal behaviours. We believe this is an important part of our success and culture. Joining as a team member we expect you to act as a role model and exemplar against these behaviours which are to be: Proactive Adaptable Flexible A team player Reliable Flexibility The key to our success is our teamwork and collaboration. We take a hybrid approach - working remotely and coming into the office depending on the business demand and collaboration required as part of the delivery process. Equal opportunities CACI is proud to be an equal employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favorably due to ethnic origin, age, gender, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.
10/11/2026
Full time
Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Mobile Engineer Location: London Department: Infrastructure/GTI/End User Computing Reports To: ZTNA Programme 2. About CACI Network Services CACI Network Services is a leading provider of secure networking, cloud, and digital transformation solutions. We support mission-critical environments by delivering innovative, secure, and scalable technology services that enable our clients to operate effectively and securely in an evolving digital landscape. 3 Role Overview The End User Computing (EUC) team is responsible for delivering secure remote access solutions across corporate and BYOD devices. Working within a fast-paced Agile environment, the team develops and maintains modern access technologies that enable users to connect securely from anywhere. As a Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) Mobile Engineer , you will play a key role in the engineering, development, and enhancement of the ZTNA infrastructure supporting iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS devices. You will work closely with Product Management, Operations, and Security teams to deliver secure, scalable, and user-focused solutions while driving automation and continuous improvement. 4. Key Responsibilities Configure, build, and deploy platform solutions using automated processes and infrastructure-as-code principles. Take ownership of the platform from an end-to-end engineering perspective. Ensure solutions align with security, compliance, data protection, and governance requirements. Collaborate closely with Product and Operations teams to ensure smooth transition of services from engineering into production. Participate in backlog refinement, sprint planning, and Agile delivery activities. Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the platform and engineering processes. Package, deploy, and manage applications through Microsoft Intune, including: Palo Alto Prisma Access Agent Palo Alto Enterprise Browser Support release management and ensure adherence to SDLC processes and engineering best practices. Contribute to platform innovation while maintaining a strong focus on user experience and security. 5. Required Skills & Experience Endpoint Management & Mobility Strong knowledge of iOS and Android operating systems, architecture, and enterprise management. Extensive experience with Microsoft Intune (Endpoint Manager) including: Device provisioning Configuration profiles Compliance policies Conditional Access Windows Autopilot Application deployment Identity & Access Management Strong understanding of Microsoft Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) including: Conditional Access Identity Protection Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Integration with Intune and Microsoft 365 Automation & Engineering Experience with Scripting and automation using PowerShell , preferably Azure PowerShell. Knowledge of automation frameworks, settings customisation, and application configuration. Understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) processes and Agile methodologies. Infrastructure & Security Good understanding of Microsoft Active Directory architecture and Group Policy migration to modern device management (MDM). Solid knowledge of end-to-end IT service delivery including architecture, design, implementation, and operational support. Experience supporting Zero Trust and secure remote access technologies is highly desirable. 6. Desirable Skills Experience with Palo Alto Prisma Access . Experience with Palo Alto Enterprise Browser . Knowledge of Zero Trust security principles and frameworks. Experience working within large-scale enterprise environments. Exposure to DevOps and automation-led delivery models. 7. Qualifications Bachelor's degree or equivalent industry experience. Agile certification (Scrum, SAFe, Agile Practitioner) desirable. ITIL Foundation certification desirable. Relevant networking and security certifications are advantageous, such as: Palo Alto Networks Certifications Microsoft Certifications CompTIA Security+ CISSP CCNP Security 8. Personal Attributes The successful candidate will: Be a hands-on engineer with excellent communication and documentation skills. Demonstrate a strong networking and security engineering mindset. Be logical, analytical, and innovative in problem-solving. Confidently engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Be highly organised and committed to continuous improvement. Take a methodical approach to engineering, design review, and delivery. Thrive in globally distributed teams spanning multiple time zones. Maintain awareness of emerging cyber security threats and industry best practices. Expected behaviours We have a structured performance management framework which measures continual attainment against key personal behaviours. We believe this is an important part of our success and culture. Joining as a team member we expect you to act as a role model and exemplar against these behaviours which are to be: Proactive Adaptable Flexible A team player Reliable Flexibility The key to our success is our teamwork and collaboration. We take a hybrid approach - working remotely and coming into the office depending on the business demand and collaboration required as part of the delivery process. Equal opportunities CACI is proud to be an equal employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favorably due to ethnic origin, age, gender, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.
