Role/Job Title: Integration Architect Work Location: Norwich (2 to 3 days a week) Duration of Assignment: 6 Months The Role The Integration Architect is responsible for designing, governing, and delivering enterprise scale integration solutions across distributed systems. This role requires deep expertise in event driven architecture (EDA), real time streaming, and cloud native integration patterns using Kafka and AWS messaging/streaming services such as EventBridge, SQS, SNS, Kinesis. The Integration Architect partners with engineering, product, and cloud teams to create scalable, secure, and resilient integration landscapes. Your Responsibilities:

• Define enterprise integration architecture using event driven, microservices, and real time streaming patterns.
• Architect solutions using Kafka, AWS EventBridge, SQS/SNS, Kinesis Streams/Firehose, and Kafka Connect.
• Establish integration standards, best practices, reusable frameworks, and governance models.
• Design solutions that ensure high availability, scalability, observability, and security.
• Evaluate system integration options and recommend optimal patterns (Pub/Sub, CQRS, event sourcing, streaming analytics, request-response APIs, batch).
• Lead the end to end delivery of integration platforms and streaming pipelines.
• Define event schemas, streaming topologies, routing logic, partitions, consumer groups, and throughput targets.
• Guide development teams in building producers, consumers, connectors, and stream processing applications.
• Review designs/code to ensure alignment with architecture guidelines.

Architect integration workloads using:

• AWS Kinesis Streams & Kinesis Firehose
• AWS EventBridge event bus
• SQS/SNS for messaging patterns
• Kafka clusters (Confluent, MSK, or open-source)
• Work closely with cloud engineering teams on infrastructure design, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), performance tuning, and cost optimization.
• Implement monitoring using CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, or OpenTelemetry.

Enforce integration security practices:

• Authentication/Authorization
• IAM policies
• Encryption at rest/in transit
• Data governance & lineage
• Ensure solutions meet RPO, RTO, resiliency, disaster recovery, and failover requirements.
• Establish observability using tracing, logging, alerting, and dashboards.
• Collaborate with product owners, domain architects, delivery managers, and business stakeholders.
• Translate business requirements into scalable integration architectures.
• Provide technical leadership across teams and mentor integration engineers.

Your Profile Essential skills/knowledge/experience: Strong hands on experience with Kafka:

• Topics, partitions, consumer groups
• Kafka Streams, ksqlDB
• Schema Registry & Avro/JSON/Protobuf
• Kafka Connect connectors

Deep expertise in AWS streaming & messaging:

• Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Firehose
• EventBridge (rules, event buses, routing)
• SQS/SNS with dead letter queues
• AWS Lambda event-based integrations
• Experience designing event-driven and microservices architectures.

Strong knowledge of:

• API integration patterns (REST, GraphQL)
• ETL/ELT and data pipelines
• Distributed system design
• High throughput and low-latency data streaming
• Good understanding of Java/Python/Node.js for integration logic.
• Familiarity with containerization & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Working knowledge of CI/CD, DevOps, IaC.
• Architectural thinking with strong problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to lead teams, mentor developers, and influence decisions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience working in Agile environments.

We are looking for a skilled AWS MLOps Engineer to help deploy, automate, and manage production-grade machine learning solutions within our clients AWS environment. This is a great opportunity for a MLOps Engineer to become a vital part on a new data team.

This is a hybrid role with the expectation to be in the London office 1-2 times per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy ML models as real-time endpoints using Amazon SageMaker
  * Build and manage batch inference pipelines
  * Implement CI/CD workflows for ML using Git-based processes
  * Containerize applications using Docker
  * Monitor model performance, data drift, and system health using CloudWatch
  * Automate data pipelines and feature workflows using Python & SQL
  * Ensure secure access and governance using AWS IAM and best practices

Core AWS Stack

Amazon SageMaker | Amazon S3 | Amazon Redshift | AWS Lambda | Amazon CloudWatch | AWS IAM

What We’re Looking For

? Strong hands-on experience with AWS ML infrastructure
? Experience deploying and monitoring ML models in production
? Proficiency in Python and SQL
? Knowledge of Docker and CI/CD pipelines
? Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (CloudFormation preferred)

This role focuses on transforming machine learning from experimentation into secure, scalable, production-ready systems.

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.

We are looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer to join a growing engineering team delivering advanced software solutions using modern technologies. This role offers the opportunity to work on innovative products while collaborating with highly skilled engineers in an agile development environment.

Full Stack Software Engineer - National Security

Salary - £60,000 - £85,000 per year

Clearance: Must hold EDV

Location: Cheltenham
Contract options also available

About the Role

You will be involved in the design, development, and deployment of scalable applications, working across both front-end and back-end systems. The position is ideal for engineers who enjoy building high-quality software, working with modern cloud technologies, and continuously learning new tools and frameworks.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop clean, secure, and maintainable code using modern development practices
• Translate logical designs into technical implementations
• Produce clear technical documentation and detailed designs
• Build scalable applications using modern full stack technologies
• Participate in agile development ceremonies including stand-ups, sprint planning, and reviews
• Work with emerging technologies and recommend appropriate design patterns
• Support and maintain existing production applications
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions

Essential Requirements

• Experience with AWS development and deployment
• Experience working with AWS Lambda
• Strong programming experience with Python, Java, JavaScript, C or C++
• Experience using appropriate software testing frameworks
• Experience with modern development tools including Git, GitLab, GitLab CI, and JIRA
• A strong interest in technology and the ability to quickly learn and adapt to new tools and technologies

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About Scrumconnect Consulting

Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens.

With a strong commitment to user-centred design, secure engineering, and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly matter.

Preferred Technical ExpertiseCloud Infrastructure

• AWS (EKS, RDS, Aurora, ElastiCache, Kafka, IAM)

Secure Hosting

• Experience working within air-gapped or government-secure environments

Container & Cluster Management

• Docker, Kubernetes, Rancher
• Helm
• Jenkins

Monitoring & Observability

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• ELK Stack
• Dynatrace

Secrets & Identity Management

• HashiCorp Vault
• Keycloak

CI/CD & DevOps Tooling

• Jenkins
• Git
• ServiceNow
• Trivy
• Terraform

Streaming & Messaging

• Apache Kafka (including Kafka Replication)

Data Technologies

• PostgreSQL
• Redis
• RDLs

Automation & Scripting

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Pipeline automation
• Event relay tooling
• Bash, Python, Groovy
• AWS Lambda

Key Responsibilities

• Run, manage, and continuously evolve AWS and secure on-premise environments to ensure high availability

• Lead Level 3 (L3) production support, including non-production maintenance and 24/7 on-call support

• Ensure services comply with government security standards and change/release governance models

• Build and maintain infrastructure components including:

  • Kafka event streaming
  • Aurora, RDS, and Redis databases
  • Identity management (Keycloak)
  • Caching and secure data layers

• Enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer self-service tooling

• Proactively manage technical debt in collaboration with governance bodies

• Improve automation, observability, and testing coverage across platform services

• Align infrastructure delivery with product roadmaps and platform strategy

• Support critical national infrastructure tasks including:

  • Deployments
  • Incident, problem, and change management (ITIL-aligned)
  • Continuous service improvement

• Use and integrate ServiceNow (or successor platforms) for operational governance

Diversity & Inclusion

At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe diversity drives innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported.

We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences and actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, underrepresented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements.

Description

The Software Engineering team is looking for an experienced mobile application software engineer to join the product team that works closely with the business in delivering and maintaining software for our external customers.

It is an agile delivery environment with momentum from some recent big successes, with lots of exciting new projects also in the pipeline.

Key aspects of working in an agile team at MO

• Focus on delivering working software
• Blending user (customer) feedback and best practice to evolve what we deliver
• Continuously inspect and adapt how we deliver software
• Utilise great testing principles, TDD & automation
• A “build to run mindset”, ensuring the software / systems we build are easy to support and operate
• Attitude of improving life for other engineers so the next person will find things a little bit easier
• The team is greater than the sum of its parts
• Embrace AI to maximise your effectiveness

Qualifications

You will considerable commercial mobile/web app development experience with one or more technologies listed below (or a relevant equivalent). We are very much looking for applicants who have an aptitude and demonstrable passion for building great software, a willingness to learn and embrace new things and want to be a part of a supportive and empathetic cross-functional delivery team.

If you have experience in any of the following areas, please get in touch

• React Native/React for mobile & web application development
• TypeScript for frontend or backend application development
• Java for core backend applications
• Design systems and component libraries
• Accessibility-first development through implementation and testing
• Cloud platforms e.g. AWS, Lambda, ECS, AppSync
• Database technologies e.g. PostgreSQL
• Messaging technologies e.g. Kafka
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

Who you’ll be working with
Working in an agile product team typically aligned to a domain boundary. This role will require you to work collaboratively with Engineers, Software Engineers in Test, BA, Product Owner and Scrum Master.

Benefits

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 860,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

The role: Lead Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes (twice a week on site)

VIQU IT have partnered with a growing but established SaaS organisation who are hiring a Lead Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping technical direction of the products, and lead a team of five software engineers. The role will involve hands on technical leadership, running architecture reviews, managing and mentoring engineers and ensuring projects are delivered successfully. This is an exciting opportunity to shape engineering standards at a company at a pivotal point in their growth, having an influence over the technical strategy whilst remaining hands on in architecture and engineering.

Experience required:

• Strong background in modern .NET/C# development & architecture.

• A track record of leading and mentoring teams of engineers.

• AWS experience including; IAM, Lambda, API Gateway and event-driven architectures in AWS environments.

• Experience with Angular framework, REST APIs and Web API development.

• Experience with testing frameworks and quality engineering practices (unit & integration testing and test driven development). SpecFlow for Behaviour-Driven Development and Postman for API testing.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of Docker and containerised applications.

• Strong SQL Server skills and experience with databases.

Duties of the Software Engineer

• Leading a team of 5 engineers within a scaled agile environment.
• Conducting code and architecture reviews to maintain consistency, quality, and maintainability whilst remaining hands on in the code.
• Embedding robust testing practices (TDD, integration testing, BDD) and driving automation across regression suites
• Design and architect solutions using CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and event-driven architecture patterns
• Working within AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, event-based services)
• Exploring and introducing AI related efficiencies.

The role: Lead Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes (twice a week on site)

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or reach out to Jack McManus via the

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Location: Hybrid (2 days travel to their offices in Hemel Hempstead)
Contract: Outside IR35
Day rate: Up to £600 per day
Duration: Initial 3 months but will most likely extend
Start date: ASAP
Key words: ElementSuite, Integration, API, Dataflows

We are looking for a HRIS system Integration Engineer to connect our Clients core HRIS (ElementSuite) with their AI recruitment tool (Talent.AI) and their workforce management/benefits partner (Aslan). You will be responsible for designing the data flow, writing the Middleware or scripts to sync these systems, and ensuring that data remains secure and accurate across all platforms.

Core Responsibilities

• API Development & Mapping: Use REST APIs to create seamless data synchronisation between ElementSuite, Aslan, and Talent.AI.
• Workflow Automation: Automate the _Hire-to-Onboard_ journey (eg, when a candidate is marked _Hired_ in Talent.AI, their profile is automatically created in ElementSuite and triggered in Aslan).
• Ensure that employee IDs, job codes, and sensitive payroll data match perfectly across all three systems.
• Troubleshooting & Monitoring: Monitor API performance using New Relic, AWS CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor resolve sync errors before they impact the end-user experience.
• Documentation: Create a technical map of how these systems are connected for future maintenance.

Technical Skills Required

• API Expertise:
  o Deep experience with RESTful APIs, JSON, and Webhooks.
  o Programming: Proficiency in Python or Node.js.
• Experience building integrations on AWS (Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway) or Azure (Logic Apps, Functions, Service Bus).
• HR Tech Familiarity: Previous experience with HRIS (ElementSuite, Workday, Zellis Resourcelink, etc.), payroll/workforce intelligence platforms (Zellis Intelligence), or ATS (Talent.AI, Greenhouse, etc.) is a major plus.

Excellent opportunity opens for an experienced Developer strong on Golang with experience in AWS and Kubernetes to join a highly regarded Financial Services entity’s London office. You will act as the team lead and play a key role in building mission-critical financial applications that power trading, investment, and risk management systems across the firm.

If you are passionate about working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and are eager to apply your technical expertise to the financial services industry, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Back End services using GoLang to support financial applications and services, including trading platforms, investment systems, and risk management tools.
• Build and deploy cloud-based solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS), including services such as EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, and Lambda to create scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure.
• Implement and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes, ensuring seamless orchestration, scaling, and resilience in a cloud environment.
• Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code while following best practices for financial systems development, focusing on performance and security.
• Collaborate with other development teams, business analysts, and stakeholders to define and refine requirements, and ensure that applications meet financial regulatory standards and business needs.
• Optimize the performance of Back End services, ensuring low-latency responses and high availability, critical for financial services.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and monitoring systems to ensure the reliability and stability of production systems.
• Proactively identify issues and bottlenecks in existing systems and propose solutions to improve the system’s performance and scalability.
• Stay updated with new tools, technologies, and industry trends in cloud computing, containerization, and financial systems to continuously improve development practices and outcomes.

Ideal Skills:

• Proven experience (2+ years) in GoLang Back End development, with a strong focus on performance optimization and building scalable systems for high-volume, high-frequency financial applications.
• Strong experience working with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including EC2, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, and other cloud-native technologies.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes for deploying, managing, and scaling containerized applications in a cloud environment.
• Solid understanding of financial systems and services, particularly in areas such as trading platforms, investment management, and risk analytics.
• Experience in building microservices architectures and working with APIs (RESTful, gRPC, etc.) to integrate various systems.
• Strong knowledge of containerization (Docker) and continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) practices.
• Experience with database systems (relational and NoSQL) and working with financial data.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools to streamline the development life cycle, such as infrastructure-as-code (eg, Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues in production environments, ensuring uptime and performance in high-pressure, mission-critical scenarios.
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders in a fast-paced financial environment.
• Experience with serverless computing (AWS Lambda, etc.) to create efficient and scalable solutions.
• Knowledge of financial industry regulations and standards, particularly around data security and privacy.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures or message queues (eg, Kafka, RabbitMQ) for Real Time data processing.
• Experience with automated testing frameworks and continuous delivery tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or CircleCI.
• Understanding of performance monitoring and observability tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, or Datadog.

Interested? Please Apply!

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The role: Lead Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes (twice a week on site)

VIQU IT have partnered with a growing but established SaaS organisation who are hiring a Lead Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping technical direction of the products, and lead a team of five software engineers.

The role will involve hands on technical leadership, running architecture reviews, managing and mentoring engineers and ensuring projects are delivered successfully.

It is an opportunity to shape engineering standards at a company at a pivotal point in their growth, having an influence over the technical strategy whilst remaining hands on.

Experience required:

Strong background in modern .NET/C# development & architecture.

A track record of leading and mentoring teams of engineers.

AWS experience including; IAM, Lambda, API Gateway and event-driven architectures in AWS environments.

Experience with Angular front end framework, REST APIs and Web API development.

Experience with testing frameworks and quality engineering practices (unit & integration testing and test driven development). SpecFlow for Behaviour-Driven Development and Postman for API testing.

Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Knowledge of Docker and containerised applications.

Strong SQL Server skills and experience with databases.

Duties of the Software Engineer

Leading a team of 5 engineers within a scaled agile environment.

Conducting code and architecture reviews to maintain consistency, quality, and maintainability whilst remaining hands on in the code.

Embedding robust testing practices (TDD, integration testing, BDD) and driving automation across regression suites

Design and architect solutions using CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and event-driven architecture patterns

Working within AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, event-based services)

Exploring and introducing AI related efficiencies.

The role: Lead Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes (twice a week on site)

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or reach out to Jack McManus via the

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Ready to lead and still stay hands-on? We re looking for a Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead / Lead Devops Engineer to take charge of our AWS platform, drive automation-first practices, and shape how we deploy, scale, and secure our systems. You will lead a small, capable team, work closely with product squads, and elevate our DevOps game with powerful CI/CD pipelines and generative AI tools for IaC. Role: Lead Devops Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Team Lead, AWS Infrastructure Engineer, Senior Cloud Engineer, Lead AWS Engineer, Cloud Architect, Lead Cloud Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer etc Salary: £75k - £80k base + Bonus and bens Benefits: 5% pension, 25 days holiday, 2 wellbeing days, Christmas shutdown, private healthcare, life assurance, cinema tickets & more You ll bring deep AWS knowledge, IaC expertise with Terraform and Ansible, and a proven track record leading high-impact cloud projects. You ll understand cloud security and governance inside-out, thrive on performance tuning, and be a confident communicator with solid stakeholder skills. Familiarity with GitHub, WAFs, monitoring tools, and serverless tech like AWS Lambda is key. Bonus points for experience with Windows/Linux servers or AI-enhanced IaC. Own your next big move click apply and lead the cloud your way.

Get involvd in a greenfield replatforming project for a major retailer and take your backend skills to the next level.

A well-known retail brand is investing heavily in its technology platform and is currently undertaking a major ecommerce re-platform to Shopify. As part of this transformation, they are building a modern integration layer that will connect multiple systems and services across the business.

This role offers the opportunity to work on a high-impact programme of work where you will help design and develop the event-driven integrations that power a new ecommerce ecosystem.

You will join a collaborative engineering environment where learning, experimentation, and sharing ideas are encouraged. Engineers are given real ownership of their work and the chance to influence architecture and technical direction as the platform evolves.

As a Backend Engineer, you will help design and build integrations between Shopify and a range of internal and third-party systems. The focus of the role is API development using Node.js and deployment to AWS.

You will work across the full development lifecycle from design through to deployment and ongoing improvement.

Ideal experience:

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• Node.js
• AWS Lambda
• Event-driven systems
• Git workflows
• Automated testing
• Terraform

Not to worry if you don’t have all of this - the key experience we need is Node.js backend development.

Salary: £40,000 £50,000 salary
Location: 1 day per week in either Leamington Spa or Desborough.

If this sounds of interest to you, apply now as we have interview slots available!

We are an equal opportunity recruitment company. This means we welcome applications from all suitably qualified people regardless of race, sex, disability, religion, sexual orientation or age.
We are particularly invested in Neurodiversity inclusion and offer reasonable adjustments in the interview process. Reasonable adjustments are changes that we can make in the interview process if your disability puts you at a disadvantage compared with others who are not disabled. If you would benefit from a reasonable adjustment in your interview process, please call or email one of our recruiters.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a Full Stack Developer to join a live GOV-UK service environment in a hands-on role within an agile, autonomous delivery team.

You will contribute across both backend and frontend development, helping refine and evolve a live digital service where user impact and service reliability are paramount.

The role requires strong technical delivery capability, sound engineering judgement and the confidence to engage constructively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

This is not a maintenance-only position, you will play an active role in architectural discussions, continuous improvement and shaping the technical direction of the service.

Skills and Experience:

• Ruby on Rails
• Java (Spring Boot)
• AWS
• Experience deploying and managing serverless applications within AWS (Lambda and/or Fargate).
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Terraform.
• Solid working knowledge of PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based development environments.
• Proven experience working within agile teams on live services, working closely with user-centred designers.
• Experience working within GDS/GOV-UK service standards would be ideal.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain backend services using Java (Spring Boot) and PostgreSQL.
• Develop and enhance frontend functionality using Ruby on Rails and GOV-UK frontend.
• Contribute to architectural decisions and technical direction.
• Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code in line with modern engineering standards.
• Participate in code reviews, agile ceremonies and iterative delivery cycles.
• Ensure changes are assessed carefully for impact on live users.
• Support demonstrations and provide clear technical updates to clients and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to refine and improve a live GOV-UK service.
• Working alongside user-centred designers to improve user experience.
• Engaging directly with clients and explaining technical concepts clearly.

NB: The successful candidate will be required to undergo a basic level of security clearance before undertaking the assignment (two to four weeks lead-time).

Applications:

Please contact Edward Laing here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology

The role: Lead Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes (twice a week on site)

VIQU IT have partnered with a growing but established SaaS organisation who are hiring a Lead Software Engineer to play a key role in shaping technical direction of the products, and lead a team of five software engineers.

The role will involve hands on technical leadership, running architecture reviews, managing and mentoring engineers and ensuring projects are delivered successfully.

It is an opportunity to shape engineering standards at a company at a pivotal point in their growth, having an influence over the technical strategy whilst remaining hands on.

Experience required:

• Strong background in modern .NET/C# development & architecture.

• A track record of leading and mentoring teams of engineers.

• AWS experience including; IAM, Lambda, API Gateway and event-driven architectures in AWS environments.

• Experience with Angular front end framework, REST APIs and Web API development.

• Experience with testing frameworks and quality engineering practices (unit & integration testing and test driven development). SpecFlow for Behaviour-Driven Development and Postman for API testing.

• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

• Knowledge of Docker and containerised applications.

• Strong SQL Server skills and experience with databases.

Duties of the Software Engineer

• Leading a team of 5 engineers within a scaled agile environment.
• Conducting code and architecture reviews to maintain consistency, quality, and maintainability whilst remaining hands on in the code.
• Embedding robust testing practices (TDD, integration testing, BDD) and driving automation across regression suites
• Design and architect solutions using CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation) and event-driven architecture patterns
• Working within AWS (Lambda, API Gateway, IAM, event-based services)
• Exploring and introducing AI related efficiencies.

The role: Lead Software Engineer

Salary: Up to £85,000 per annum

Location: Milton Keynes (twice a week on site)

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or reach out to Jack McManus via the (url removed)

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Senior Software Engineer Belfast £60,000 - £80,000 Hybrid

Join a dynamic, fast-moving team building the next generation of smart monitoring and predictive tools. You’ll be working on products that solve real problems, using data, AI and cutting-edge full-stack technology to turn complex challenges into tangible results.

This is a role where every line of code counts, where collaboration and creativity drive impact and where you’ll see the results of your work in real time.

If you thrive on building meaningful software, experimenting with AI-powered tools and shipping products that users actually rely on, this is the place for you.

What you’ll do:

• Build modern full-stack apps using React, TypeScript, Node, SQL, and DynamoDB
• Design scalable serverless infrastructure in AWS (Lambda, SQS, SNS, SES, ECS) with SST
• Rapidly prototype, validate with users and ship features
• Leverage AI-native tools to accelerate development and improve UX
• Use analytics to measure success and iterate fast
• Collaborate with Product and Data to solve complex, real-world problems

What you bring:

• Full-stack software experience with a track record of shipping real products
• Ownership mindset and problem-solving focus
• Comfort working with product teams and AI-augmented workflows
• Analytics-informed thinking and strong communication skills

Why join? Small, high-trust team. Fast delivery. Real impact.