Job Description

We are looking for a Technical Officer to join our Housing, Asset Management, Stock Improvement Team on a permanent part-time contract, 14.5 hours per week. These hours can be worked flexibly throughout the week.

You will be confident in managing data, digital processes and workflow tools, as this role has a clear focus on the Microsoft Power Platform:

• Power Apps (building apps)
• Power Automate (automating workflows)
• Power BI (data analysis)
• SharePoint (data hub)

Working within a team of three other Technical Officers, the successful candidate will focus on the development, maintenance and improvement of the digital systems that support the upgrade, repair and planned maintenance of our Council Housing stock, which totals over 13,000 tenancies.

The administrative location for this post is in Inverurie. However, the Stock Improvement Team all work from home as their base. The council has a ‘hybrid’ approach to working that favours home working over working from an office location, but you may attend some face-to-face team meetings/training in offices. ‘Hot desks’ can also be booked at various Aberdeenshire Council office locations. We meet and communicate regularly using MS Teams.

There is a responsibility for the post holder to demonstrate a commitment to quality service delivery through continuous improvement for the benefit of the Service, tenants, and the organisation.

Expected Interview date is 1 April 2026

Informal enquiries to Vicky Vaughan - 01467 534818

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Responsibilities

Technical Officers analyse stock condition data and provide essential information to support the maintenance and improvement of our housing stock. This work relies on accurate data, relationships between data, robust systems, and well‑managed digital processes.

Asset Management uses Microsoft Power Platform tools including Power Apps, Power Automate and Power BI, and at its centre SharePoint.

These digital systems support key work areas such as:

• Power BI Dashboards – Interfaces that provide lookup, query report and data analysis capabilities from ourcouncil housing stock database, NEC Assets Module.
• Damp, Condensation & Mould – DCM Case Management Tracker (Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint )
• DCM Case Status Dashboard – statistical reporting for the Scottish Housing Regulator (Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint)
• Issue Document Library – staff training, H&S compliance and essential document sign‑off (Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint)
• Induction Document Library – essential document sign‑off for New Starts policy, processes, Risk Assessments, COSHH, H&S Executive (Power Apps, Power Automate, SharePoint)
• Risk Assessments and CDM Regulations – Health & Safety compliance (Power Apps, SharePoint)
• Property maintenance tracking, including the Windows Lubrication App (Power Apps, SharePoint)

These apps and systems are central to how Asset Management works. They improve data quality, streamline processes, and support internal and statutory compliance.

The Individual

We’re looking for someone with knowledge and experience of the Microsoft Power Platform and SharePoint to help support the development and maintenance of our digital solutions, as required. A strong understanding of SharePoint list design, data structuring and permissions management is essential for this role. You will understand the importance of strong data structuring across SharePoint and the Power Platform, ensuring information is organised, consistent, and ready for automation and reporting.

You will need the confidence to learn complex work streams and understand how our existing and new apps can support them. You will work closely with our existing Technical Officers to ensure continued service delivery and system reliability.

Our digital tools are now embedded across our work. They support compliance with statutory requirements, help manage risk, and provide a secure evidence base for complaints and enquiry handling. For further information, please read the full Job Profile.

Job Title: Technical Lead - Collibra
Location: Norwich, Norfolk
Job Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 Months Job Summary:
We are looking for a Senior Technical Lead with in-depth expertise in data governance, data quality, metadata management, and a strong background in delivering solutions using the Collibra platform. You will play a pivotal role in defining solution architectures, leading Collibra configuration and integration, implementing governance workflows, and collaborating closely with enterprise architects, data stewards, and platform teams. Key Responsibilities:

• Solution Architecture & Design

  • Lead the design and implementation of Collibra-based data governance solutions, including:
    • Data Catalog
    • Business Glossary
    • Policy & Standards
    • Data Quality Integration
    • Operating Models (roles, responsibilities, stewardships)
  • Define Collibra architecture, metadata models, custom domains, and asset types.
  • Create reusable frameworks for metadata ingestion, lineage, and governance workflows.

• Collibra Configuration & Development

  • Configure Collibra components:
    • Custom asset models
    • Attribute definitions
    • Relations and hierarchies
    • Workflows (BPMN-based)
    • Data quality dashboards & certification workflows
  • Develop and maintain Collibra REST APIs, Connect integrations, and catalog crawlers.
  • Implement metadata onboarding processes and automated connectors to cloud/on-prem data platforms.

• Data Governance & Data Quality Leadership

  • Collaborate with data governance councils, data stewards, and business SMEs to define:
    • Data standards
    • Business glossary terms
    • Data ownership & stewardship models
    • Data quality rules, SLAs, and issue management workflows
  • Ensure alignment with enterprise data governance frameworks and compliance requirements.

• Integration & Metadata Lineage

  • Implement automated metadata ingestion from:
    • Data lakes
    • ETL tools (Glue, Informatica, Talend, IICS)
    • Data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery)
    • BI tools (Power BI, Tableau)
    • Streaming sources (Kafka)
  • Build lineage diagrams across ETL pipelines, APIs, datasets, and downstream consumption layers.
  • Ensure metadata completeness, accuracy, and operational SLAs.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Expertise with Collibra platform (configuration, integration, and workflow implementation)
• Experience with:
  • Data lakes
  • ETL tools (Glue, Informatica, Talend, IICS)
  • Data warehouses (Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery)
  • BI tools (Power BI, Tableau)
  • Streaming sources (Kafka)
• Ability to build lineage diagrams across ETL pipelines, APIs, datasets, and consumption layers
• Strong knowledge of metadata management, data quality, and data governance frameworks
• Excellent stakeholder management and collaboration skills

Interim Data Warehouse Consultant (3-Month Contract)
Remote | Outside IR35
I’m currently supporting a UK University that is looking to bring in an experienced Interim Data Warehouse Consultant on an initial 3-month contract.

The successful consultant will play a key role in supporting their existing environment and helping shape their future data platform. The University currently uses Wherescape Red, with plans to transition to Azure in the near future.

Role overview:
* 3-month interim assignment
* Fully remote
* Outside IR35
* Support and enhance existing Wherescape Red environment
* Contribute to future planning and migration towards Azure

Experience Required:
* Strong background in data warehousing
* Hands-on experience with Wherescape Red
* Knowledge of cloud data platforms (Azure experience beneficial)
* Ability to work independently and advise on best practice

location: remote, client is based in West England

Please click here to find out more about our Key Information Documents. Please note that the documents provided contain generic information. If we are successful in finding you an assignment, you will receive a Key Information Document which will be specific to the vendor set-up you have chosen and your placement.

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DATA MODELLER - 6 months - VALID SC CLEARANCE - RATE 480 PD INSIDE IR35 - REMOTE ROLE WITH OCCASIONAL TRAVEL TO LEEDS/NEWCASTLE UNDER LYME

We are looking for an experienced Data Modeller to join our buy Government team on a Hybrid basis in the North of England

Role

Manage the holistic data view across all the domains microservices

Maintain a Physical Data Schema and detailed Data Dictionary

Support service Data Performance Analysts analytics team Teal with MI/BI/ONS responsibilities

Support Data Governance

Collaboration with Data Architect

SkillsData Modelling in producing Conceptual, Logical and Physical models.

Experience or at least awareness of MongoDb json implementations.

SQL or Python in Databricks to inspect and examine live new service data in analytics landing and staging areas

Experience of Data Catalog products (Particularly Axon) Please apply online only

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Job Title: Workday Prism Analytics Lead
Location: Remote
Start Date: April
Job Type: Contract - Inside IR35.

We are seeking an experienced Workday Prism Consultant to support the design and delivery of analytics and reporting solutions within a Workday Finance environment.

The role will focus on building and managing Prism datasets, data transformations and reporting models, translating business requirements into scalable analytics solutions that support financial and operational insights.

Key responsibilities

• Design and develop Workday Prism datasets and data transformations
• Translate functional reporting requirements into technical Prism solutions
• Integrate and model financial and external data within Prism
• Support reporting and analytics across Workday Finance
• Work closely with business stakeholders, finance teams and technical resources

Key experience required

• Strong hands-on experience with Workday Prism Analytics
• Experience working within Workday Finance environments
• Proven ability to translate business requirements into data models and reporting solutions
• Experience supporting Workday implementation or enhancement projects

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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Newcastle upon Tyne

12 Month Fixed Term

65,000

Car Allowance and 5% bonus

Hybrid working (average 1 day per week in the office)

We are supporting our regular client with a Power BI Optimisation Lead on a 12 month foxed term contract. As the lead within the BI support team you will lead the standardisation of Power BI deployments, introduce smarter reporting tools and monitor capacity usage.

You will encourage and shape best practices and coach developers in the team to create a well-governed and scalable reporting environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Defining enterprise-wide publishing protocols and benchmarks
• Lead centralised data sourcing strategies to elevate performance at scale.
• Lead proactive auditing and monitoring of Power BI model performance, resource utilisation and refresh cycles.
• Develop and embed reusable model templates and modular design frameworks.
• Establish cross-functional communities of practice to embed Power BI optimisation standards across teams.

Who are we looking for:

• Experience in Power BI optimisation and development, inclusive of model design, performance tuning and capacity management.
• Expertise in Power BI architecture, capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Experience in auditing Power BI environments, identifying inefficiencies and implementing solutions.
• Proven experience of improving report performance through strategic model architecture.
• Proficient in DAX, data modelling best practices and Power Query.

Please submit an application if you are interested in hearing more about the role and seeing the full job spec. The role closes for applications on the 20th March so please don’t delay with your application.

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Interim Data Warehouse Consultant (3-Month Contract)
Remote | Outside IR35
I’m currently supporting a UK University that is looking to bring in an experienced Interim Data Warehouse Consultant on an initial 3-month contract.

The successful consultant will play a key role in supporting their existing environment and helping shape their future data platform. The University currently uses Wherescape Red, with plans to transition to Azure in the near future.

Role overview:
* 3-month interim assignment
* Fully remote
* Outside IR35
* Support and enhance existing Wherescape Red environment
* Contribute to future planning and migration towards Azure

Experience Required:
* Strong background in data warehousing
* Hands-on experience with Wherescape Red
* Knowledge of cloud data platforms (Azure experience beneficial)
* Ability to work independently and advise on best practice

location: remote, client is based in West England

Please visit our website to find out more about our Key Information Documents. Please note that the documents provided contain generic information. If we are successful in finding you an assignment, you will receive a Key Information Document which will be specific to the vendor set-up you have chosen and your placement.

To find out more about Real, please visit our website

Real Staffing, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales

We re Quickline, and we believe everyone deserves great internet. Whoever you are, wherever you are and whatever you do online. So we re on a mission to provide just that. Lightning fast, reliable broadband that reaches the places other providers leave behind. Our mission relies on a team full of inspiring people, and we re looking for a Lead Data Engineer to build and strengthen the foundations of our data platform, delivering reliable pipelines, governed, high-quality data products that teams across Sales, Network, Customer Experience, Finance and Operations can trust. If building robust, production-grade data systems motivates you, and seeing trusted data improve how a business performs gives you a sense of achievement, we d be very interested in learning more about your experience and expertise. Here s why you ll love this role - Build and own core data engineering foundations in a business where data is becoming central to operational performance and decision making. - Design and deliver reliable ingestion and transformation pipelines that reduce failures and multiple versions of the truth . - Create trusted, well modelled datasets that underpin executive KPIs and operational dashboards across the organisation. - Improve platform maturity: environments, testing, monitoring, documentation, and release practices that make delivery safer and faster. - Work closely with IT, Systems Development and business teams to align system changes with data flows and change control. - Be part of a data function that s building towards a modern, governed single source of truth with clear ownership and quality expectations. Here s why you ll be great in this role - Extensive hands-on data engineering experience within complex, high-growth or technology-led organisations, including building data platforms from inception to production. - Proven track record of transforming fragile or fragmented pipelines into trusted, governed, production-grade data platforms through practical engineering improvements. - Strong expertise across the full data engineering lifecycle: data ingestion, transformation and modelling, and enabling consumption through BI layers and semantic models. - Deep hands-on experience with modern cloud data platforms, including best practices for testing, monitoring, environments, deployment, and data quality management across pipelines and upstream systems. - Experienced leader and communicator, capable of building and developing high-performing data engineering teams while clearly explaining trade-offs and delivery decisions to non-technical stakeholders. The benefits - Pension 5% employer / 5% employee contribution. - Health Cashback Scheme Can claim back prescription, GP and optician charges, therapy allowance, private outpatient consultations, EAP, 24/7 remote GP service, member discounts. - 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, your birthday, house move and wedding day off. - Option to buy or sell up to 5 additional days annual leave - Enhanced Paternity/Maternity/Adoption leave - High Street Shopping Discount Scheme - Holidays, food and drink, insurance, sport, tech, high street, Ikea, M&S, cinema etc. - Free Parking on site. - Regular Lunch & Learns - Social Events Summer and End of Year parties etc. - Customer Obsessed Awards - Regular opportunities to win! Note to agencies Quickline have an internal recruitment team. We will not accept unsolicited CVs from any source other than directly from a candidate via our Applicant Tracking System ( ATS ). Any unsolicited CVs sent to Quickline, via the Quickline careers email address, directly to Quickline employees or managers, will be considered Quickline property and Quickline are free to contact those prospective candidates directly with zero financial repercussions. For further information refer to our careers page. Please note: You must have the right to work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role

Systems & Reporting Lead - Contract
£550 per day (Inside IR35)
6-month contract | 2 days per week onsite in Birmingham

We’re looking for an experienced Systems & Reporting Lead to drive improvements across commercial systems, data quality and reporting. You’ll take ownership of system enhancements, performance reporting, and data integrity, ensuring information is accurate, reliable and supports effective decision-making.

What you’ll do

• Lead improvements across systems, data management and reporting processes.
• Transform complex commercial data into clear, actionable insights.
• Oversee key datasets including pipelines, registers and performance metrics.
• Champion continuous improvement, automation and better ways of working.
• Work closely with stakeholders and guide a small team to deliver high-quality outputs.

What you’ll bring

• Strong experience in commercial reporting, analytics or systems-focused roles.
• Solid knowledge of platforms such as Oracle and wider digital tools.
• Ability to work at pace, manage multiple priorities and communicate well with senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail.

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HR Reporting Analyst | 3 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Remote| Starting ASAP

Day Rate: £DOE

About the Role:

You will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and improving HR and payroll reporting and analytics across the iTrent HRIS platform, using SAP BusinessObjects and other analytical tools such as Power BI and Tableau.

The role ensures high-quality management information, accurate data outputs, and supports organisational decision-making through robust reporting solutions.

Essential Skills & Experience:

Reporting, and Business Objects and Central Management Consol Design and Maintenance

• Build, maintain, and optimise standard/scheduled and ad-hoc Business Objects reports for iTrent data users.
• Manage Freedom of Information (FOI) and other internal and external data requests
• Design dashboards, scheduled reports, automated outputs, and data extracts.
• Develop user-friendly reporting solutions from the full iTrent database, using pre-packaged filters and custom prompts.
• Manage and maintain the CMC

Data Analysis & Quality Assurance

• Ensure data accuracy through validation, testing, and reconciliation routines.
• Join data from other HR systems
• Analyse trends, patterns, and anomalies and present insights to HR, Payroll, Finance, and service leaders.
• Support audit requests and statutory reporting needs.
• Ensure data quality and definitions are consistent

System Support & Collaboration

• Work closely with HR, Payroll, IT, and other stakeholders to gather reporting requirements.
• Provide guidance on best practice use of reporting tools within iTrent and BO.
• Provide user training for self-service reporting
• Assist with business processes such as payroll cycles, HR compliance, and organisational structure data checks.
• Strong experience in SAP Business Objects, supporting iTrent HR and Payroll system
• Experience supporting system upgrades or reporting migration projects
• Ability to advise in relation to Data and Reporting matters to managers including senior managers
• Developing and Maintaining a Business Objects Universe
• Experience of analysing data and information from various sources to produce complex reports and action plans
• Strong SQL or query-writing skills for complex data extraction
• Excellent communication skills to translate business needs into technical requirements
• Solid understanding of HR/Payroll data structures and relational/dimensional data models

Desirable Experience:

• Knowledge of iTrent modules beyond core HR (payroll, absence, recruitment, onboarding, time and attendance, case management, performance)

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland. Please click the link to apply.

This is a strategic, hands on, standalone role that blends market data vendor management, technical capability, and business engagement.

I need someone with Financial Service experience ideally Wealth Manager, below are the key components of the role

Market Data Vendor Oversight

• Identify and catalogue current market data feeds managed by business teams
• Engage business stakeholders to understand data needs.
• Assess overlapping vendor feeds
• Drive cost savings, synergies, and vendor consolidation where possible.
• Support decommissioning or renegotiation of feeds.

Procurement & Contractual Understanding

• Work closely with procurement teams.
• Understand contract obligations and typical market data vendor operating models.

1. Technical & Data Capability

The role sits in the data department, so the candidate must be technically capable:

• Understand data architecture and how feeds land in Snowflake.
• Ability to run SQL queries, investigate data, and compare feeds.
• Familiarity with concepts like EDP, data lakes, ingestion of PDFs, etc.
• Should be able to use AI/tools to automate comparisons.
• Not reliant on data engineers/analysts for basic tasks.

This is a strategic, hands on, standalone role that blends market data vendor management, technical capability, and business engagement.

I need someone with Financial Service experience ideally Wealth Manager, below are the key components of the role

Market Data Vendor Oversight

• Identify and catalogue current market data feeds managed by business teams
• Engage business stakeholders to understand data needs.
• Assess overlapping vendor feeds
• Drive cost savings, synergies, and vendor consolidation where possible.
• Support decommissioning or renegotiation of feeds.

Procurement & Contractual Understanding

• Work closely with procurement teams.
• Understand contract obligations and typical market data vendor operating models.

Technical & Data Capability

The role sits in the data department, so the candidate must be technically capable:

• Understand data architecture and how feeds land in Snowflake.
• Ability to run SQL queries, investigate data, and compare feeds.
• Familiarity with concepts like EDP, data lakes, ingestion of PDFs, etc.
• Should be able to use AI/tools to automate comparisons.
• Not reliant on data engineers/analysts for basic tasks.

Rate: 625 a day

Location: Reading - full time on site

Duration: 6 months +

Clearance: UKSV DV Clearance required

A leading global technology consultancy is looking for an experienced Application & Data Architect to join a high-profile Defence programme within a Joint Design Team.

This is a hands-on senior architecture role at the heart of a complex, secure delivery environment - shaping how applications are designed, assessed, and evolved across a significant enterprise estate.

The Role

You’ll lead the design and technical assurance of secure-by-design application and data architectures, owning architectural decisions across software systems of varying scale and risk. Day-to-day you’ll conduct application technical assessments, engage directly with delivery teams and senior stakeholders, and help drive long-term architectural direction while addressing immediate backlog priorities.

What You’ll Need

• Strong enterprise application architecture experience in secure or Defence environments
• Hands-on knowledge of COTS/GOTS products, middleware, integration, and databases
• Practical experience with CIS Benchmarks and secure application configuration
• Familiarity with Defence Secure by Design principles
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps and CI/CD practices
• ArchiMate modelling; BizzDesign Enterprise Studio experience desirable
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills up to senior/executive level

Staff Data Engineer - GCP - Big Query - DBT - Hybrid - 2x a week (London) - paying up to £95k

A fast-growing and innovative technology company is looking for a Staff Data Engineer to join its expanding Data & Analytics team.

This is an opportunity to play a key technical leadership role in shaping a modern cloud-based data platform and enabling data-driven decision making across the organisation.

The Role

As a Staff Data Engineer, you will be responsible for the design, development, and ongoing optimisation of the company’s cloud-based data platform. You will work closely with analysts and stakeholders across multiple business areas to deliver scalable, high-quality data solutions that support insight and decision making.

Over the next 12-18 months, the platform will increasingly transition toward Google BigQuery, moving away from Azure-based infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines and ETL/ELT processes
• Develop and optimise data models to support analytics and reporting
• Lead improvements and enhancements to the data platform architecture
• Monitor and tune system performance to ensure reliability and scalability
• Build and maintain cloud-based data infrastructure

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Strong expertise in SQL, including complex queries, optimisation, and indexing
• Experience working with ETL tools such as Google Cloud Dataflow, DBT, Azure Data Factory, Fivetran, or Databricks
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT pipelines, and dimensional modelling
• Experience building and managing cloud-based data infrastructure (GCP)
• Experience using Git/DevOps for version control and collaboration
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Sybase Database Administrator (Contract)

Duration: 12 Months (Possibility for extension)

Location: Bromley/Hybrid (3 days per week on site)

Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate is available for suitable candidates

Role Profile

We are a leading player in the Investment Banking sector, committed to delivering excellence through innovative solutions and cutting-edge technology. Our EMEA Sybase team is expanding, and we are on the lookout for a skilled Sybase Database Administrator (DBA) to join us on a contract basis. If you thrive in high-stakes environments and have a passion for database management, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, and maintaining Sybase ASE and Replication Server environments.
• Managing database upgrades, patching, migrations, and version lifecycle activities.
• Overseeing platform migrations from RHEL7/8 to RHEL9.
• Implementing and managing database security, roles, permissions, and auditing.
• Monitoring database environments to identify and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Optimizing SQL queries, indexes, server configurations, and resource allocation.
• Diagnosing and resolving blocking, deadlocks, contention, and execution plan issues.
• Maintaining and improving backup and recovery strategies using Sybase Backup Server.
• Supporting high-availability and replication architectures, including DR environments.
• Conducting regular recovery testing and ensuring compliance with DR procedures.
• Providing L2/L3 support for production and non-production database incidents and requests.
• Collaborating with development and application teams on schema changes, data insights, and integration.
• Creating and maintaining automation scripts for routine tasks.
• Participating in an on-call rotation to provide out-of-hours support for critical production systems.
• Developing and maintaining detailed documentation for configurations, processes, and operational procedures.
• Ensuring all database environments comply with security, governance, and compliance standards.
• Supporting internal and external audits with necessary evidence and reporting.

Skills and Experience:

• Hands-on experience as a Sybase DBA in enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in Sybase ASE administration, tuning, troubleshooting, and configuration.
• Strong experience with Sybase Replication Server.
• Advanced SQL skills, including query tuning and a solid understanding of execution plans.
• Proven experience supporting high-availability, 24/7 production environments.
• Proficiency with Unix/Linux systems and shell scripting.
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently in a contract role with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills, comfortable engaging with senior management, application support, developers, and fellow technologists.
• Experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) or database migration projects.
• Familiarity with other database technologies such as SQL Server and/or Oracle.
• Experience in the large-scale financial services enterprise sector.
• Exposure to automation tools (Python, Ansible) and DevOps practices.

Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

If you feel you have the skills and experience and want to hear more about this role ‘apply now’ to declare your interest in this opportunity with our client. Your application will be observed by our dedicated team.

We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.

Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and enthusiasm into improving everyone’s chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an inclusive environment that helps them thrive.

As part of our standard hiring process to manage risk, please note background screening checks will be conducted on all hires before commencing employment.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

A leading Financial Services organisation is looking to appoint a Head of Data Platform Engineering to lead the design, development and ongoing evolution of its enterprise data platform. The role is offering a base salary of £125,000 plus excellent benefits. The business operates a remote-first model, with occasional travel to its London and Southeast office.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for a modern Azure and Snowflake environment, leading teams across platform engineering, quality, and governance. You will shape the data platform roadmap, drive delivery across both strategic change and BAU, and play a key role in building a scalable, secure and high-performing data capability.

The role will suit someone who combines strong technical depth with proven leadership experience in modern data platforms. You will be expected to improve engineering standards, strengthen DataOps and CI/CD practices, drive platform optimisation and cost control, and act as a senior partner to stakeholders across technology and the wider business.

Key requirements

• Strong experience leading modern data platform engineering teams
• Deep knowledge of Snowflake, Azure and cloud-based data environments
• Proven background in DataOps, DevOps, CI/CD and engineering best practices
• Experience improving platform scalability, quality, security and governance
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional delivery
• Strong people leadership skills, with experience building capable, high-performing teams

This is an excellent opportunity to join a business that is investing heavily in its data estate, where you will have real ownership, visibility, and the chance to shape the platform’s future direction.

If you are an experienced Head of Data Platform Engineering with the required background, please respond to this advert with an up-to-date copy of your CV for review.

AWS Data Engineer - SC cleared - remote - 12 months

Key Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and optimize ETL pipelines using AWS Glue (Informatica will be beneficial)
• Build and manage cloud-based data pipelines leveraging AWS services (eg, EMR, S3, Lambda, Glue).
• Implement scalable data processing workflows using Databricks, PySpark, Python, and SQL.
• Design and support data ingestion, transformation, and integration processes across structured and unstructured data sources.
• Collaborate with data architects, analysts, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver reliable data solutions.
• Monitor pipeline performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure data quality and reliability.
• Contribute to best practices for data engineering, including version control, CI/CD, and automation.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with ETL development and orchestration (AWS).
• Solid AWS cloud experience, including working with core data services.
• Expertise in building distributed data pipelines using EMR, PySpark, or similar technologies.
• Strong data processing and transformation experience across large datasets.
• Proficiency in PySpark, Python, and SQL for data manipulation and automation.
• Understanding of data modelling, data warehousing concepts, and performance optimization.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (DevOps, GitHub, GitLab).
• Exposure to data governance, metadata management, and data quality frameworks.
• Experience working in Agile environments is a plus.

This is a senior individual contributor role with significant cross-functional influence. The successful candidate will be expected to lead vendor negotiations, manage licensing compliance, and deliver a multi-year improvement project, while transitioning new capabilities into business-as-usual operations.

Role Outcomes

• Lead the delivery of the Market Data Consolidation project, including vendor renegotiations, centralisation of feeds via the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP), and implementation of a Market Data Management (MDM) tool and data catalogue.
• Manage strategic vendor relationships and lead contract negotiations with the “Big 6” providers and over 100 smaller suppliers.
• Oversee the full market data budget, identifying and delivering cost savings through usage optimisation, contract consolidation, and improved governance.
• Establish a centralised market data distribution model, ensuring consistent, timely access to data across the business.
• Perform detailed feed-level analysis across vendors, comparing coverage, timeliness, granularity, and cost to identify duplication, gaps, and consolidation opportunities across pricing, reference, index, and analytics data.
• Use SQL and data analytics to interrogate market data usage, lineage, and consumption patterns within Snowflake/EDP, identifying optimisation opportunities and unused or overlapping entitlements.
• Identify synergies and rationalisation opportunities between market data feeds, platforms, and downstream consumers, driving simplification of the market data landscape.
• Implement governance frameworks for licensing, usage, and entitlements, ensuring compliance with vendor agreements and exchange policies.
• Act as the key liaison between business, technology, and compliance teams to align data services with operational and regulatory needs.
• Provide project leadership for the transformation programme, coordinating cross-functional delivery and ensuring successful transition to BAU.
• Monitor and report on market data usage, entitlements, and spend, using analytics to drive continuous improvement and cost control.

Technical Skills

• Deep knowledge of market data vendors, products, and licensing models (eg Bloomberg, Refinitiv, FactSet, FTSE, ICE, Morningstar).
• Experience managing large-scale vendor contracts and enterprise-level negotiations.
• Familiarity with market data compliance, licensing audits, and exchange rules.
• Understanding of data integration platforms and enterprise data architecture (eg Snowflake, EDP).
• Experience implementing MDM tools, data catalogues, and entitlement management systems (eg MDSL, FITS, DACS).
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret usage data and identify optimisation opportunities.
• Knowledge of financial markets and instruments, including pricing, indices, analytics, and reference data.
• Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience analysing large-scale market data sets in cloud data platforms (eg Snowflake), including usage, coverage, and cost attribution.
• Proven experience in market data feed comparison and consolidation, including identification of overlapping datasets, coverage gaps, and vendor substitution opportunities.
• Hands-on knowledge of market data consolidation programmes, including central ingestion, normalisation, entitlement mapping, and downstream distribution.
• Experience leveraging AI/advanced analytics to enhance market data governance, including automated data classification, usage pattern detection, anomaly identification, and cost optimisation insights.
• Understanding of data lineage, metadata, and data quality controls as applied to market data within enterprise data platforms.

Professional Skills

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across business, technology, procurement, and compliance.
• Proven leadership in delivering complex, cross-functional programmes, including project planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Commercial mindset with a focus on cost control, value delivery, and ROI.
• Organised and process-oriented, with a focus on governance and operational excellence.
• Experience in financial services, ideally within investment or wealth management.
• Ability to operate independently while collaborating across teams to deliver strategic outcomes.

Rate: £625 a day

Location: Reading - full time on site

Duration: 6 months +

Clearance: UKSV DV Clearance required

A leading global technology consultancy is looking for an experienced Application & Data Architect to join a high-profile Defence programme within a Joint Design Team.

This is a hands-on senior architecture role at the heart of a complex, secure delivery environment - shaping how applications are designed, assessed, and evolved across a significant enterprise estate.

The Role

You’ll lead the design and technical assurance of secure-by-design application and data architectures, owning architectural decisions across software systems of varying scale and risk. Day-to-day you’ll conduct application technical assessments, engage directly with delivery teams and senior stakeholders, and help drive long-term architectural direction while addressing immediate backlog priorities.

What You’ll Need

• Strong enterprise application architecture experience in secure or Defence environments
• Hands-on knowledge of COTS/GOTS products, Middleware, integration, and databases
• Practical experience with CIS Benchmarks and secure application configuration
• Familiarity with Defence Secure by Design principles
• Proficiency in Azure DevOps and CI/CD practices
• ArchiMate modelling; BizzDesign Enterprise Studio experience desirable
• Excellent stakeholder communication skills up to senior/executive level

Data Architect (Architecture Data Development Engineer Engineering Manager Management Head of Agile Microsoft Azure ML AI Automation Finance Financial Services Fabric Synapse DataBricks Snowflake SQL) required by our financial client in London.

You MUST have the following:

• Good experience as a Data Engineering Manager/Lead Data Architect
• Strong management experience- inheriting teams, raising standards and performance
• Strategy to align with the needs of the business
• Excellent design and architecture ability
• MS SQL Server
• Azure
• AI - even if outside work
• Agile
• Experience in a financial environment

The following are DESIRABLE, not essential:

• Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks or Snowflake

Role: Data Architect (Architecture Data Development Engineer Engineering Manager Management Head of Agile Microsoft Azure ML AI Automation Finance Financial Services Fabric Synapse DataBricks Snowflake SQL) required by our financial client in London. You will inherit a team of 3, comprising two permanent staff and one contractor. The contractor is senior, the two permanent are more junior, making this a very hands-on role. It will be all-encompassing, involving data architecture, engineering for technical delivery and management to cover line-management of the team and alignment of the company’s strategy with the roadmap for the data environment. In addition to this are data governance and regulatory compliance requirements that you will also have ownership of.

On the engineering and architecture side, you will have good experience of leading companies from on-premise virtual machines to Azure. You will be seasoned in taking data projects from inception to design, architecture and technical delivery, contributing to the engineering yourself. In addition to taking environments to the cloud, you will also have some exposure to AI and ML and be comfortable in assessing what tools and products are most appropriate for the business’ goals and evolution.

On the managerial side, you will have led teams and have experience with line-management. If you have inherited teams previously, that would also be ideal. You will have worked in an FCA regulated environment and be familiar with the necessary requirements to be compliant from a data perspective.

The journey you will take with this team will be to implement better monitoring, automation, migration to the cloud and then the adoption of AI and ML. As the business is c.200 people and the management team is strong and Agile, this could happen very quickly.

The technology department has a hybrid working setup. You will be given the flexibility to come into the office as you wish although, in the initial months, it will probably be appropriate to go to the office 2-3 times/week.

Salary: £100k - 125k + Bonus + Pension

Data Engineering Manager (Architect Architecture Data Development Engineer Engineering Management Head of Agile Microsoft Azure ML AI Automation Finance Financial Services Fabric Synapse DataBricks Snowflake SQL) required by our financial client in Croydon, London.

You MUST have the following:

• Good experience as a Data Engineering Manager/Lead Data Architect
• Strong management experience- inheriting teams, raising standards and performance
• Strategy to align with the needs of the business
• Excellent design and architecture ability
• MS SQL Server
• Azure
• AI - even if outside work
• Agile
• Experience in a financial environment

The following are DESIRABLE, not essential:

• Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks or Snowflake

Role: Data Engineering Manager (Architect Architecture Data Development Engineer Engineering Management Head of Agile Microsoft Azure ML AI Automation Finance Financial Services Fabric Synapse DataBricks Snowflake SQL) required by our financial client in Croydon, London. You will inherit a team of 3, comprising two permanent staff and one contractor. The contractor is senior, the two permanent are more junior, making this a very hands-on role. It will be all-encompassing, involving data architecture, engineering for technical delivery and management to cover line-management of the team and alignment of the company’s strategy with the roadmap for the data environment. In addition to this are data governance and regulatory compliance requirements that you will also have ownership of.

On the engineering and architecture side, you will have good experience of leading companies from on-premise virtual machines to Azure. You will be seasoned in taking data projects from inception to design, architecture and technical delivery, contributing to the engineering yourself. In addition to taking environments to the cloud, you will also have some exposure to AI and ML and be comfortable in assessing what tools and products are most appropriate for the business’ goals and evolution.

On the managerial side, you will have led teams and have experience with line-management. If you have inherited teams previously, that would also be ideal. You will have worked in an FCA regulated environment and be familiar with the necessary requirements to be compliant from a data perspective.

The journey you will take with this team will be to implement better monitoring, automation, migration to the cloud and then the adoption of AI and ML. As the business is c.200 people and the management team is strong and Agile, this could happen very quickly.

The technology department has a hybrid working setup. You will be given the flexibility to come into the office as you wish although, in the initial months, it will probably be appropriate to go to the office 2-3 times/week.

Salary: £125k - 150k + Bonus + Pension