Deputy Engineering Manager
Location: Brackley
Rate: £500 per day
Summary
We are seeking a Deputy Engineering Manager to join the Engineering team on-site in Brackley. This role will provide essential support to the Engineering Manager and work closely with the construction team to manage day-to-day engineering activities. Key responsibilities include identifying and mitigating engineering risks, reviewing and accepting Work Package Plans (WPPs), Risk Assessments and Method Statements (RAMS), and Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs) on behalf of the Engineering Manager. The role involves close collaboration with Quality, Environmental, and Construction Support teams to ensure compliance and technical assurance.
The Deputy Engineering Manager will oversee the management and execution of temporary works, ensuring proper coordination and integration with permanent works designs. They will provide technical guidance to construction delivery teams on matters such as Site Construction Environmental Works (SCEW), Non-Conformance Reports (NCRs), short notice design changes (Technical Queries and Field Change Requests), materials approvals, shop drawing and temporary works design reviews, and testing procedures.
Additionally, the role includes responsibility for timely and accurate redlining of approved design changes and supporting technical assurance activities such as audits, surveillance, and HS2 Technical Assurance Reviews. The Deputy Engineering Manager will liaise with the Designers Construction Support team to resolve design queries and changes efficiently.
Skills
Experience in major civil engineering works
Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering or Construction Management
Previous experience in a similar deputy or engineering management role
Experience working on large infrastructure projects
Ability to coordinate workloads effectively
Strong communication skills
Excellent Microsoft Office proficiency
Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer status
Full UK driving licence with access to a vehicle
Valid CSCS card (White, White/Yellow, Black, Gold, or Red)
Software/Tools
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Outlook)
Project management and document control systems (as applicable)
Certifications & Standards
Chartered Civil or Structural Engineer (CEng)
CSCS card (White, White/Yellow, Black, Gold, or Red)
Full UK driving licence
This role offers a competitive daily rate of £500 and the opportunity to contribute to a major infrastructure project within a collaborative and safety-focused environment.
Senior SAS Data Engineer - SC Cleared - Telford (2 Days per Week) - £550/day (Inside IR35) - 6-Month Contract
We are seeking an experienced Senior SAS Data Engineer to lead data engineering initiatives across multiple teams. This 6-month contract requires 2 days per week onsite in Telford, with the remainder remote. The role focuses on delivering secure, scalable SAS data solutions within a complex environment.
The Role
You will provide technical leadership across data engineering activities, ensuring best practice in architecture, security, and governance. Working closely with analytics, DevOps, and business teams, you will design and deliver robust SAS-based data platforms that enable reliable, insight-driven decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of SAS data platforms, pipelines, and data processes.
- Develop, optimise, and maintain complex SQL-based data models and transformations.
- Build and manage ETL processes and large-scale data integration workflows.
- Implement strong data governance, security, and performance standards aligned to SC environments.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to align technical solutions with business priorities.
- Promote engineering best practices and continuous improvement.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience in a senior data engineering role, with strong SAS expertise.
- Excellent SQL skills with experience handling large, complex datasets.
- Strong experience building and maintaining enterprise-scale SAS data solutions.
- Experience working in secure or government environments.
- Strong stakeholder management and Agile delivery experience.
- Must hold active SC clearance.
Reasonable Adjustments:
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Be part of an exciting, automotive software team where you will be challenged every day. Work closely with the range of domains within the business to bring products to life. Work with customers and identify opportunities to support their strategy and improve their processes across functions. The Role -------> As a Software Vehicle Integration Engineer, youll be at the heart of this transformation - integrating, testing, and refining the software that powers our most advanced driver assistance features. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where youll work across embedded systems, vehicle platforms, and global teams to bring new features to life. From debugging in real vehicles to collaborating with architects and engineers across the business, youll play a key role in delivering safe, intelligent, and seamless driving experiences. You will support the team in case of critical technical delivery issues in your product group/domain. Your responsibilities: Lead the integration of new software into embedded ECUs and full vehicle environments, ensuring smooth bring-up and functionality Validate customer-facing features through end-to-end system testing and real-world vehicle trials Act as the technical lead for issue resolution, using triage, root cause analysis, and hands-on debugging to solve complex software and system problems Implement software fixes and enhancements directly within the software stack to improve performance and reliability Support cross-functional teams by investigating software issues and providing expert-level technical insight Collaborate with architects and subject matter experts to align integration efforts with system-level design and long-term platform goals Your Profile Essential skills/knowledge/experience: Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, or related field Proficiency with automotive tools and platforms, including Vector tools: CANoe, CANalyzer, CAPL scripting, and AUTOSAR architectures, BSW integration, RTE understanding Communication Protocols: CAN, LIN, FlexRay, Automotive Ethernet Experience with ECU flashing, configuration management, debugging and Log analysis Exposure to Body Systems (Lighting, Doors, Windows, Seats, HVAC, etc.) Experience with HIL rigs or vehicle validation Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail Ability to lead and work effectively with cross-functional teams Strong communication and leadership skills
Network Web Proxy Infra Engineer - Investment Banking - Proxy Tech (F5 BIG-IP, McAfee, Skyhigh, Bluecoat)
Our client is looking for a Web Proxy Network Engineer on a contract basis to support the delivery and enhancement of their EMEA network.
This role is ideal for someone who already has hands-on experience working with Proxy technologies (such as McAfee, Skyhigh, Blue Coat, or similar), and is ready to step into a fast-paced enterprise environment where you can further deepen your expertise.
You will:
- Support the implementation and configuration of Access Policies, routing and Management of Web Proxies
- Contribute to change and incident activities within a complex network infrastructure
- Collaborate with senior engineers and architecture teams to deliver stable, secure, and scalable services
We are not looking for someone brand new to the technology - you should already be familiar with the key tools and concepts and be ready to contribute from day one, even if you’re still developing full mastery.
Core Skills & Experience
Required:
- Hands-on experience supporting or configuring Proxy platforms (eg McAfee, Skyhigh, Blue Coat)
- Experience or knowledge of Load Balancing technologies such as F5 BIG IP (LTM/GTM) VMWare Next Gen Load Balancer (formerly AVI Networks)
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, HTTP/S, SSL certificates, NAT, DNS, and Layer 7 protocols
- Comfort using CLI and GUI interfaces for network appliance configuration
Preferred:
- Experience building from base and upgrading firmware of Web Proxies
- Experience of DLP/Malware Protection & Mitigation infrastructure
- Experience writing or editing iRules, health monitors, or similar load balancing policies
- Awareness of certificate management, TLS handshake flow, and debugging tools (Wireshark, Fiddler)
Contract Role inside IR35 - initial 12 month contract - 3 days a week in office (candidate can be based near Manchester/Liverpool/Stoke/Birmingham)
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Contract | Coventry | Leading OEM via Major Consultancy The role You will own the end to end development of cockpit plastic trims from concept through to launch. This is a lead position with real accountability across technical delivery, supplier performance, validation and VAVE. You are the point of truth between design intent and production reality. What you will be doing Leading design and development of cockpit plastic trims from concept to SOP Creating and maintaining CAD models and engineering drawings Applying DFMEA, DFM and DFA to deliver robust, manufacturable designs Translating styling intent into feasible engineering solutions Selecting materials and defining manufacturing processes with suppliers Managing suppliers to deliver cost, weight and quality targets Driving validation for durability, thermal, NVH and regulatory compliance Resolving engineering issues through prototype and production phases Ensuring alignment with global regulations and OEM standards What you need Degree in Mechanical, Automotive or Polymer Engineering 8 to 10 years experience in automotive cockpit or interior plastic trims Strong knowledge of injection moulding, compression moulding and finishing Confident user of CATIA V5, V6 or equivalent CAD tools Solid understanding of NVH, BSR and regulatory requirements Proven supplier management and cost optimisation experience Comfortable owning delivery, decisions and trade offs Success looks like On time delivery of cockpit trims to programme milestones Weight, cost and quality targets met without drama Full regulatory and safety compliance Premium interior execution that customers actually notice
Senior GCP VDC Network Engineer
Public Cloud Platform | Enterprise Scale
We are recruiting aSenior GCP VDC Network Engineerto join a Public Cloud Platform function responsible for delivering compliant, secure, and efficient Google Cloud infrastructure and DevOps capabilities across the Group.
This role sits at the heart of large-scale Google Cloud adoption. You will help design and build reusable, enterprise-grade GCP network products, modernise cloud network services, and enable engineering teams to adopt Google Cloud quickly, safely, and at scale.
You will operate as part of a cross-disciplinary feature team while also acting as a senior technical authority within the wider engineering community.
Role Overview
As aGCP VDC Network Specialist, you will design and build the foundational network layer that underpins enterprise workloads on Google Cloud. This includes VDC network architecture, hybrid connectivity, policy enforcement, and automation using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps practices.
This is a hands-on senior engineering role with a strong consulting element. You are expected to influence design decisions, guide strategy, and set standards, not just execute tickets.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-scaleGCP Virtual Data Centre (VDC) network architectures.
- Build and manageVPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routing, and VPC peeringto enable secure, scalable connectivity.
- Implementhybrid connectivityusing Cloud VPN and Interconnect to support on-prem and multi-cloud integration.
- Develop and maintainInfrastructure as Codefor GCP network resources using Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
- Automate network provisioning and configuration usingPython scripting.
- Define and enforceGCP Organisation Policiesto meet security, compliance, and governance requirements.
- Integrate network deployments intoCI/CD pipelinesfor automated build, test, and release.
- Implementpolicy-as-code guardrailsusing Sentinel or OPA to ensure consistent network governance.
- Optimise network performance, resilience, and availability through monitoring, logging, and proactive tuning.
- Partner with security teams to embed network security best practices, including firewall design, private access, and service perimeters.
- Support migration of legacy network designs into standardised, reusable VDC templates.
- Diagnose and resolve complex, multi-layer network issues across GCP environments.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Strong, hands-on experience withGCP networking, including VPCs, subnets, firewall rules, routing, and peering.
- Proven expertise inhybrid connectivity, specifically Cloud VPN and Interconnect.
- Advanced experience usingTerraform and Terraform Cloudfor network IaC.
- Python scripting for infrastructure automation.
- Experience integrating infrastructure workflows intoCI/CD pipelinesusing tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, or Harness.
- Solid understanding ofGCP Organisation Policyand policy-as-code frameworks such as Sentinel or OPA.
- GCP certification, ideallyProfessional Cloud Network Engineeror equivalent.
Nice to have
- Experience working with internal developer platforms or cloud engineering portals such asBackstage.
Desirable Profile
- Senior-level GCP SME with experience operating as atechnical consultant, influencing architecture, design, and cloud strategy.
- Demonstrated thought leadership in cloud networking, automation, and platform engineering best practices.
- Strong communicator and collaborator, comfortable working across engineering, security, and senior stakeholder groups.
- Able to balance engineering rigour with pragmatism in a regulated enterprise environment.
Data Engineer - Minerva VAT TxR
Active SC Clearance required
Telford
£480 - £515 per day inside IR35
Hybrid - 2 days per week
Hiring for an experienced Data Engineer to join the Minerva Platform Data Team, supporting the consolidation of key tax data services into a single, scalable calculations platform.
Responsibilities:
* Design and build scalable data pipelines and integration solutions
* Develop ETL processes using Pentaho and Talend
* Work with Denodo (data virtualisation) and SAS
* Drive Agile delivery and DevOps CI/CD practices
* Ensure high standards of data quality, governance, and security
Skills and Experience:
* Strong ETL expertise (Pentaho, Talend)
* Experience with Denodo and SAS
* Strong SQL and data modelling skills
* Agile/Scrum and DevOps experience (Jenkins, Git, Docker, Kubernetes)
* Ability to solve complex data challenges in secure environments
Please apply for immediate interview!
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Java Software Engineer - Government Project
Active SC Clearance Required
Day Rate:£420 per day inside IR35
Duration:6 months
Location:Telford - 2 days on-site per month (mostly remote)
Job Description:
We are seeking an experienced software engineer to join a dynamic team that plays a crucial role in supporting key services. This role involves contributing to various project and live delivery tasks, ensuring that the systems are well-supported and efficiently managed.
Key Responsibilities:
- Contribute to both project work and live service delivery.
- Develop, implement, and maintain high-quality software solutions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful and timely delivery of services.
Key Skills:
- Proficiency in Java
- Experience with Spring Boot
- Knowledge of PL/SQL
Security Clearance:
- Active SC clearance required
If this role aligns with your skills and experience, and you’re looking to contribute to meaningful public sector data programmes, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today to be considered.
We are currently recruiting Gas Service & Repair Engineers to take on a service and repair contract on behalf of a market leading company. all works will be in the private sector and all jobs will be sent via a pda. The successful Gas Service & Repair Engineer will receive 6-8 jobs a day all based in your chosen working location. in order to take on this position as a service and repair engineer, the successful gas engineer must meet the following criteria:
3-5 Days a week
Weekly Pay
Parts Supplied
Flexible work on a long term contract
Essential Requirements:
- OwnGasSafe Registration - Including Fires & Cookers
- Own Van and Tools
- Criminal Background Check
- Domestic experience
- MINIMUM 2 years experience with all boiler diagnostics, servicing, installation, maintenance & repairs, across all major brands
- Strong customer skills
Desired:
- Experience managing own workload
- Qualified installer of vented and unvented cylinders
- Confident driving and working in and around Central London
- Ability to work confidently in high end properties
- Experience with power-flushing heating system
- Experience in Plumbing maintenance
- Experience in bathroom installations
Please get in touch to apply now! Quick Starts Available
Fabric Engineer – Temporary Cover (Single Site)
Stafford
£15.50 per hour (PAYE)
Temporary Assignment
We are currently recruiting on behalf of our client for an experienced Fabric Engineer to provide temporary cover on a single-site location in Solihull.
This role is ideal for a hands-on fabric or maintenance engineer with strong experience in planned preventative maintenance (PPM) within a commercial or facilities environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Carrying out PPM fabric maintenance tasks across the site
- Emergency lighting checks and basic compliance testing
- Tap temperature checks in line with H&S and legionella controls
- Minor fabric repairs (e.g. doors, fixtures, fittings, general upkeep)
- Reporting defects and completing maintenance records accurately
- Ensuring all work is carried out safely and to site standards
Requirements:
- Previous experience in a Fabric Engineer / Maintenance Assistant / Facilities role
- Good working knowledge of PPM schedules
- Understanding of basic compliance checks (emergency lighting, water temperatures)
- Ability to work independently on a single-site environment
- Reliable, punctual, and safety-conscious
What’s on Offer:
- £15.50 per hour PAYE
- Stable temporary to permanent position
- Straightforward, well-defined duties
- Single-site work (no travel between locations)
If you’re a dependable fabric engineer looking for a temporary assignment in Solihull, we’d love to hear from you.
Powertrain Engineer (PTSE) Automotive
Contract Role | Leading Automotive OEM
A leading automotive OEM is seeking an experiencedPTSE Engineerto support the design, development, and release of critical fuel and evaporative systems. This is a hands-on contract role focused on technical delivery, problem resolution, and robust engineering through to launch.
Technical Scope and Experience Required
Demonstrable experience across fuel and evaporative system components, including:
- Fuel Cap
- Filler Pipe and Filler Hose
- Fuel Tank
- Fuel Delivery Module (FDM)
- Charcoal Canister
- Leak Detection Systems
- Fuel Lines
- Vent and Evaporative Emission Lines
- Fuel Filters
You will lead thedesign, development, and releaseof PTSE components, ensuring alignment with performance, safety, cost, quality, and programme targets.
Key Responsibilities and Role Expectations
Failure Mode Avoidance and Problem Solving
- Lead complex engineering investigations using structured 8D methodologies to identify and eliminate root causes.
- Apply Failure Mode Avoidance techniques, including containment, warranty risk mitigation, and recurrence prevention.
- Use data-driven problem-solving tools to validate cause and effect relationships, incorporating measurement system capability and process mapping.
- Define and implement robust, permanent corrective actions with appropriate control strategies.
- Deliver resilient, cost-effective engineering solutions using OEM issue management and robustness frameworks.
Systems Engineering
- Apply systems engineering principles to resolve multi-disciplinary technical challenges.
- Support systems design, integration, verification, and validation activities.
- Manage requirements, systems modelling, test definition, execution, workflow, and configuration control.
- Deliver integrated system solutions that meet functional, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements.
- Define and maintain design rules and engineering standards for PTSE components and systems.
Geometric Dimensional Control and Tolerance Management
- Decompose complex systems into logical assembly sequences, defining key locating and fixing strategies.
- Manage dimensional variation using statistical analysis and six degrees of freedom principles.
- Analyse measurement data using appropriate engineering toolsets to support high-quality component release.
- Apply digital engineering tools to support component maturation through prototype, build, and launch phases.
Commodity Planning and Programme Delivery
- Interpret programme assumptions, reuse strategies, and commodity plans to support feature delivery.
- Manage commodity delivery against programme critical paths using structured OEM delivery frameworks.
- Apply all phases of APQP and support Engineering Build Event Readiness activities.
Cost and Budget Management
- Analyse financial data across engineering and supplier inputs to identify cost risks and optimisation opportunities.
- Track and report engineering KPIs using appropriate financial and programme tools.
- Develop and implement financial risk mitigation strategies using complex datasets and OEM cost processes.
Good-to-Have Experience
- Design and development within automotive systems engineering environments
- Release management and engineering change control
- Programme and delivery governance
- Supplier technical management and issue resolution
Ready to work somewhere that cares more about how you build software than how fast you can ship it? At Opencast, we don’t measure developers by the number of tickets you complete. We care about engineering craft, clean design and thoughtful problem-solving. Opencast consultants deliver in complex environments, pairing often and working with others who take pride in doing things properly: TDD, emerging design, refactoring and leaving code better than they found it. We build software we are proud of, and our clients trust us not just to code but to think, challenge and guide. If you value simple and robust solutions and want a role where your judgment matters as much as your keyboard, you will fit right in. The role We’re looking for Contractors in Software Development (consultant level) to help our major clients transform. Software developers at Opencast care about building products right and combine their own experience and approach with our company values. They are tech agnostic, have expertise in agile methodologies, extreme programming practices and use industry-leading programming languages to deliver agile transformation. Our approach to software development is collaborative, focused on keeping things simple, and we use test driven development and pair programming as best practice. Working with clients and key stakeholders is a crucial part of a consultancy role. Our developers are inclusive team players that listen, collaborate, can positively challenge and manage expectations when needed but most of all are always willing to teach and help others. Leaving a client with improved ways of working, working technology and a good experience from discovery through to live is the priority. Contractors at Opencast follow the same principles as permanent consultants. The roles are varied, technical, and never confined to any one provider or solution. Requirements Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it. Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As attendance at client sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves occasional travel, travel expenses are not covered. Experience in delivering digital services for the UK government is highly valuable for many of our projects. Therefore, familiarity with the GDS toolkit will be beneficial. Technical Skills - Expertise in Java and/or Scala is required - Experience with Javascript, Typescript, Kotlin, Python or Ruby is also valuable - Understanding of Object Oriented Programming - In depth knowledge of concepts and uses of testing - Knowledge or experience of delivering complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards - Being comfortable with new technology, t-shaped and comfortable with ongoing learning and development is key to success - Experience with agile methodology A contractor in software development at Opencast is responsible for: - Delivering in the upkeep of their team’s backlog - Collaborating with the teams testing effort - Leading on the implementation of user stories - Embracing mobbing and pairing - Working with others in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment Salary Up to £450 per day (working inside IR35) Where you’ll work This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role. We include you We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all. Interview Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs. Want to know more? Visit our website for more details.
Ready to work somewhere that cares more about how you build software than how fast you can ship it? At Opencast, we don’t measure developers by the number of tickets you complete. We care about engineering craft, clean design and thoughtful problem-solving. Opencast consultants deliver in complex environments, pairing often and working with others who take pride in doing things properly: TDD, emerging design, refactoring and leaving code better than they found it. We build software we are proud of, and our clients trust us not just to code but to think, challenge and guide. If you value simple and robust solutions and want a role where your judgment matters as much as your keyboard, you will fit right in. The role We’re looking for Contractors in Software Development (Senior level or Technical Lead) to help our major clients transform. Software developers at Opencast care about building products right and combine their own experience and approach with our company values. They are tech agnostic, have expertise in agile methodologies, extreme programming practices and use industry-leading programming languages to deliver agile transformation. Our approach to software development is collaborative, focused on keeping things simple, and we use test driven development and pair programming as best practice. Working with clients and key stakeholders is a crucial part of a consultancy role. Our developers are inclusive team players that listen, collaborate, can positively challenge and manage expectations when needed but most of all are always willing to teach and help others. Leaving a client with improved ways of working, working technology and a good experience from discovery through to live is the priority. Contractors at Opencast follow the same principles as permanent consultants. The roles are varied, technical, and never confined to any one provider or solution. Requirements Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security Check (SC) Clearance or be eligible to obtain it. Eligibility typically requires UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days. As attendance at client sites is a routine part of the role’s working pattern and involves occasional travel, travel expenses are not covered. Experience in delivering digital services for the UK government is highly valuable for many of our projects. Therefore, familiarity with the GDS toolkit will be beneficial. Technical Skills - Expertise in Java and/or Scala is required - Experience in other languages such as Javascript, Typescript, Kotlin, Python or Ruby is also valuable - Experience in a technical leadership role - Deep understanding of programming paradigm, code design, testing, accessibility, performance and security - Proven ability to apply different testing tools and methods in practice - Knowledge or experience of delivering complex services to Government Digital Service (GDS) standards - Being comfortable with new technology, t-shaped and comfortable with ongoing learning and development is key to success - Experience with agile methodology A senior level contractor in software development at Opencast is responsible for: - Driving the elaboration of their team’s backlog - Setting testing strategies to match industry standards - Being a technical expert in their team (or acting as the team lead) - Leading the technical representation in a project discovery - Acting as a technical lead in the team, enabling them to achieve their full potential Salary £450 - £600 per day (working inside IR35) Where you’ll work This role requires regular on-site attendance across our HQ, hub offices, client sites and home. Applicants must be able to commute to offices and client sites as part of their normal working arrangements, as travel is essential to fulfilling the responsibilities of the role. We include you We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all. Interview Interviews will be conducted via Microsoft Teams. We’re happy to make adjustments to support your needs. Want to know more? Visit our website for more details.
Role: Java Developer
Location: Solihull/Remote (2 days per week on-site)
Duration: 6 Months
Day rate: Negotiable Outside IR35
Clearance: Active SC clearance required & NPPV3 is desirable
About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Java Developer to join our team and work on a large-scale public sector program. This unique development opportunity involves creating and implementing solutions for our portfolio of biometric products, supporting live systems, and diagnosing incidents. You will be part of a collaborative team that prides itself on engineering the best possible Java code.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement solutions for biometric products.
- Support live systems and diagnose incidents.
- Collaborate with the team to ensure high-quality Java code.
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Proficiency in Java 17+, Spring Boot, Spring Data JPA, Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Microservices, Quartz, SQL Database (PostgreSQL), JPA (Hibernate), REST and SOAP Web Services, Messaging service (ActiveMQ), Maven, Junit, Jenkins, AWS Cloud hosting and its components, Postgres/Aurora, Bootstrap, Docker, TDD, Agile (Scrum)
- Public sector experience.
- 8-10 years of hands-on experience with large-scale Spring-based Java projects.
- Experience supporting live systems and diagnosing incidents.
- Experience in large-scale integration projects involving microservices, messaging, web services, and distributed systems.
- Experience with web services (SOAP and RESTful).
- Experience with containerization (Docker).
- Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, Powermock, JMock, DBUnit, TestContainers.
- Experience connecting processes across several systems with message brokers like ActiveMQ.
- Experience with Continuous Integration methodologies - Maven, GIT, Jenkins, SonarQube, and Stash Repository.
- Experience developing in a Linux development environment.
- Experience working with a suite of Atlassian products.
- Experience working with open-source database management systems like PostgreSQL.
- Experience working with AWS services (EC2, SQS, RDS, DynamoDB, S3, Route53, KMS, Cloudwatch).
- Monitoring using Grafana.
- Agile development methods - Scrum, Kanban, TDD, BDD.
- Strong analytical and decision-making abilities.
Desired Skills and Experience:
- Experience in Angular and Node JS.
- Experience in Jaspersoft reporting tool.
- DBA experience in performance tuning SQL queries and Postgres/Aurora DB config.
- Experience working with Spring Cloud, Spring Batch, and Spring Integration.
- Experience working with Activiti BPMN.
- Experience working with Postfix.
- Experience in AWS DevOps.
- Ability to create a cohesive working environment and build high-performing teams.
- Strong stakeholder management.
- Hands-on Java development experience working on digital or technology projects at a leading consultancy, agency, or government organization.
- AWS or Azure certification, or willingness to attain the certification.
- Self-starter, comfortable working in both process-driven and ambiguous environments.
- Experience and passion for working within Central Government and other sectors.
- Proven capability of working successfully with senior client stakeholders and end-users, quickly building successful relationships, and establishing credibility.
- Passion for digital and technology, with the drive and determination to continually learn new things and develop yourself and others.
- Strong written, presentation, and verbal communication skills, with a high degree of attention to detail.
- Strong organizational skills, with the ability to work independently in a highly collaborative, team-based environment.
What We Are Looking For:
- Ability to manage and build relationships with teams, relevant stakeholders, and third-party sub-contractors utilizing effective and appropriate governance mechanisms.
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools and agile methodologies, and hands-on delivery experience.
- Drive outcomes and business value, coordinate activities across teams to establish pace of delivery.
Role: Delivery Lead / Scrum MasterType: Contract (6 Months)
Location: Birmingham, UK
Working Model: Hybrid (2/3 Days in office per Week)
Telecom Industry Experience Required.
Payrate: 400 - 500 per day INSIDE IR35 Umbrella
The Mission We need an experienced Delivery Lead to drive high-priority Data & Analytics initiatives for a major Telco. You will lead a cross-functional squad (onshore & offshore) to deliver a GCP platform re-architecture and automated self-serve reporting (Qlik/Looker/PowerBI).
What You’ll Do
- Lead Delivery: Manage sprint ceremonies, backlogs, and flow for data engineering and analytics teams.
- Manage Vendors: Coordinate effectively with offshore partners to ensure seamless delivery.
- Unblock: Navigate complex data dependencies and remove impediments across the business.
The “Must-Haves”
- Telecom Experience: Mandatory prior experience in the Telco industry.
- Data Fluency: Proven success delivering data pipelines and BI projects (not just software/web).
- Agile Expertise: Pragmatic experience applying Scrum/Kanban to data workflows.
This is an urgent vacancy with a deadline where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it praveen. Com
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.
Your new company
My clients are looking for a Business Change Officer. This is a hybrid role, working 2 days a week on-site, based in Birmingham. They are looking for someone who can join a directorate to help support the client through an implementation. You will be analysing and reviewing processes and data along with reporting back to the business change managers. You will be the main point of contact for the directorate to resolve any issues/queries they may have to help implement Oracle smoothly.
The experience below is essential for this role.- Local or Central Gov experience
- Oracle Fusion/ERP
- Data Analysis processing
- Business Change Officer/Consultant experience
Your new role
- Lead the adoption and change management planning of the delivery of projects which may span an 8- month period, engaging and influencing stakeholders to balance objectives and redeploy people and resources as priorities change to ensure the project delivers the agreed business objectives.
- Work with colleagues in other functions to define sound adoption and change management resourcing models, and priority, funding, governance, and reporting mechanisms required to enable the project to deliver upon our commitments.
- Be the ‘go-to’ person for expertise on how to deliver and manage the people side of change within the project, providing support to the change sponsor.
- Directly lead the adoption and change management delivery elements of projects, products, and services, taking responsibility for understanding, managing, and communicating the change process to all stakeholders.
- Work with multidisciplinary product teams to analyse and articulate adoption and change needs, creating actionable deliverables for the five change management levers: communications plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan, and resistance management plan.
- Apply and promote best practices and standards to drive the continuous improvement in the use of products and services to meet user needs, ensuring they dovetail with the work of the product team.
- Complete project change readiness assessments for all stakeholders and impacted audiences, evaluate and ensure user readiness, identify, analyse, and prepare risk mitigation tactics, assess the change impact, and support change management at the project level advising on activities to embed the change.
- Act as a facilitator for adoption and change management within the product teams that you work within, and clearly articulate adoption and change value to stakeholders.
- Protect the value of project investments by utilising and integrating effective change management into projects, continually assessing change risk during execution, and putting in place appropriate mitigation to enable faster adoption, higher utilisation, and greater proficiency of use to protect the aggregate project benefits and value.
- Oversee the successful transition into service of deliverables and ensure that the results of post implementation reviews are used to inform, refine, and improve our change management and adoption approach. Be a role model for IT&D’s values and lead by example to help transform the culture of the organisation; fostering a high trust, empowered and inclusive environment where teams and individuals thrive and perform at their best.
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Ready to turn curiosity into impact?
Do you want to use research to shape services that make a real impact? Are you ready to bring curiosity and insight to projects that improve people’s lives?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a User Researcher, you’ll uncover the needs and voices of people, work in multi-disciplinary teams to feed these needs into design decisions shape impactful services, and bring curiosity, pragmatism and insight to projects. You’ll enjoy, a supportive community whilst working across public sector clients, to solve real problems that impact people’s lives.
What you’ll do within our teams
- Plan research approaches for complex projects that might have multiple research activities running at the same time whilst being delivered by other researchers
- Offer oversight of research conducted by other people, either formally or informally, to improve research practices
- Identify where research points to areas that need more investigation and, where necessary, help to re-define the project scope and priorities in response to this
- Produce the required documentation and materials for research activity, including discussion guides and consent forms
- Recruit participants in line with GDPR and MRS guidelines
- Use your excellent communication skills to clearly explain your approach to your team and stakeholders
You’ll suit this role if you:
- Use a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods, including things like interviews, surveys, workshops, focus groups, shadowing, diary studies, usability testing, eye tracking, A/B testing, and analytics
- Have a strong understanding of GDS and designing to government service standards, preferably on projects that passed assessment(s)
- Can identify key themes, user needs, business needs, and personas through analysis
- Can explain findings to a range of audiences and translate these into areas of the service that need design focus
- Can produce user research deliverables like personas and journey maps
- Make sure your research is inclusive and includes people with disabilities and those who need support to use digital services
- Can build strong relationships with clients and persuade stakeholders of the importance of research to a project
- Thrive in a multidisciplinary team and encourage teammates to shadow and take part in research
- Understand agile processes
- Enjoy working with clients as they evolve and adapt
- Are naturally curious and able to champion your own learning and development
- Are an advocate for user-centred design
- Are respectful and tactful in your approach to clients who perhaps aren’t as familiar with user-centred design
- Are proactive and will take the initiative to solve a problem rather than seeing it and ignoring it
- Are keen to share your knowledge and experience
If you have any of this experience, please show it on your CV and in the interview.
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Want to solve meaningful problems?
Are you looking to make a positive impact in your work? Do you want to work in an environment where you can grow, while solving problems to help improve government, healthcare and private sector services?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business. As a Business Analyst, you’ll listen, ask questions and turn needs into plans usingstrong analysis, facilitation and problem-solving skills.
The role
You’ll lead business analysis activities within projects and be responsible for planning and achieving deliverables for our clients.
You’ll provide expert advice to our consultants and contribute towards building the BA community at Opencast.
You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.
Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.
Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.
Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you will have experience as a business analyst across different industries and/or clients. You will also ensure BA activities and outcomes align across multiple work streams and/or projects. Please show how you have:
• Experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines.
• Analysed and evaluated complex business systems and processes to recommend improvement opportunities or change initiatives.
• Planned and executed the business analysis deliverables to meet the objectives of a project.
• Delegated and managed the tasks of others.
• Successfully worked within unfamiliar industries and/or clients and quickly adapted to understand the business domain and project needs.
• Built meaningful and lasting relationships with stakeholders to elicit and manage requirements and facilitate the path to delivery.
• Shaped the requirements management approach, including methodology, tools, and processes to enable successful delivery and value.
• Used a variety of BA techniques to solve complex problems and present ideas to stakeholders.
• Coached junior members of a team, sharing your knowledge of best practice and ways of working.
• Experience working in agile delivery teams
In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Salary
Inside IR35 - from £490 per day
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
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Open to a new challenge?
Do you enjoy shaping products and services which positively impact people?
Are you looking for empowerment to deliver for some of the most important services in the UK?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re an independent UK technology consultancy specialising in designing, building and running user-centred digital and technology solutions that make a positive difference to people’s lives.
The role
You’ll already be working as a business analyst in your current role.
You’ll work with our clients to help them achieve their business goals.
You’ll work with other disciplines such as developers and user researchers to solve complex and interesting problems.
You’ll create relationships with stakeholders to understand what they need, then translate these into the requirements of the project.
You’ll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client.
If you take more of a leadership role on projects, you may be more suited to our senior business analyst role.
Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel.
Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it.
Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days.
Essential experience
To succeed in this role, you need experience of working as a business analyst. You’ll need to show how you have:
• Applied business analysis techniques to solve problems in a methodical and considered way
• Elicited and managed business requirements using different methods
• Presented complex information in a way that is easy to understand
• Built effective working relationships within cross functional teams and across business stakeholders
• Shared knowledge and best practice with BAs and other disciplines
• Planned and managed your own workload to achieve the objectives of your project
• Experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines.
• Working in agile delivery teams
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge in agile delivery management and/or product management
As well as business analysis skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to be a great consultant. You’ll need to show how you have:
• Contributed to improving ways of working within teams
• Positively challenged decisions or solutions you don’t agree with
In the interview, we’ll ask you questions that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Salary
Inside IR35 - from £380 per day
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
Check out this brand new role! Ready to design products and services that make a difference? Do you want to create products that make a meaningful impact? Are you ready to lead strategy and delivery on projects that reach large audiences? If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. As a Product Manager, you’ll lead product strategy and delivery, balancing user needs and business goals across sectors, to create services that are used by millions of UK citizens. The role You'll work on complex business challenges to help deliver solutions that deliver our clients' goals. You will develop an understanding of those goals to define products and their priority features. You’ll design, support and lead discovery and ideation workshops with clients and internal teams to devise innovative and impactful solutions. You’ll be responsible for managing relationships with stakeholders and development teams. You'll ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards and procedures while working on client. Applicants must be based within a 40-mile radius of Newcastle, Manchester or Leeds, as the role requires close collaboration with our teams and regular travel. Applicants must either currently hold active Security Clearance (SC) or meet the eligibility criteria to obtain it. Eligibility requires UK citizenship, continuous residence in the UK for the past five years, and no single absence from the UK exceeding 28 consecutive days. Essential experience To succeed as a senior consultant product manager, you will need to demonstrate a breadth and depth of experience working in product management roles, on complex projects, across the full product lifecycle in different sectors. You will have in-depth knowledge of software development, with experience in agile and user-centred design. In your CV and the interview, you should show how you have: • Led cross-functional, agile teams to deliver successful products • Developed product visions, minimum viable products and roadmaps, understanding business problems and contexts • Communicated objectives, plans and progress to a range of stakeholders • Used boundary objects to synthesise many different perspectives • Facilitated conversations to align large groups of diverse stakeholders • Cultivated high performing, constructive and trusting team environments As well as product management skills, there are other essential skills you’ll need to be an effective senior consultant. In your CV, please show how you have: • Methodically solved complex problems across a range of contexts and environments • Taken the lead on projects, setting tasks and objectives to get the best out of others • Adapted ways of working to suit the specific needs of projects • Supported the development of others through coaching and/or mentoring • Demonstrable experience working in UK central government, delivering services to GDS / UK Service Standard guidelines Desirable experience There are some areas of experience which are not essential but are relevant to this role. • Active contribution in wider product community events and workshops • Demonstrated experience or knowledge in business analysis and/or agile delivery management In the interview we’ll ask you to that demonstrates this experience. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics. Where you’ll work Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team. We include you We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all. Interview Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
The Role You’ll lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping open communication channels. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently. You’ll be keen to understand our clients’ ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed. Essential experience We want you to have demonstrable experience in DevOps practices and appreciate that Cloud & Platform Engineering are big topics. Ultimately, we’re looking for talented engineers who can learn modern technologies in the digital space. In the interview, please show your experience in: · Designing, building, and testing software release processes that cover the entire SDLC. · Creating, modifying, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines. · Creating dashboards and visualisations for application performance that proactively identify and address potential problems before they occur. · Using automated testing to detect security issues/vulnerabilities in application and/or infrastructure code, thereby detecting issues before it reaches production (aka Shift-Left). · Strong experience in operating and maintaining services primarily in any of the BIG three public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP). Desirable experience Some other areas of experience that are not essential but still relevant to the role: · Identifying problems using RCA or 5-Whys methods and suggesting solutions to reduce the likelihood of incidents reoccurring. · A strong understanding of cloud networking and security concepts. · Understanding the principles of containerisation, and how to control and orchestrate groups of containers in production environments. · Writing clean, organised, structured and version-controlled code. · Knowledge of at least one scripting language that enables you to perform more complex automation tasks thereby reducing manual toil. · Preference for using CLI tools over relying on web portals. · Understanding SRE (live services) ways of working, that enables you to better increase reliability and availability of the service you support. · Auditing your service for FinOps and SecOps related compliance issues. Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. If you don’t have all this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.