Required Skills & ExperienceTechnical Expertise (Exceptional Level) 2025+ years in QE engineering, transformation, and automation leadership. Mastery of:o Playwright, Appium, Selenium, Cypress, Javao API Automation (REST Assured, Karate, Postman)o Performance (JMeter, LoadRunner)o Cloud native testing (Azure, AWS, GCP)o Test orchestration, CI/CD pipelineso TDM, environment strategy, observability toolsSkills: OpenText Microfocus ALM QCJob Description: Quality Engineering Transformation LeaderThe Quality Engineering (QE) Technical & Transformational Leader is a pivotal senior responsible for driving QE modernization, technical excellence, and large scale transformation across Clients multi platform, multi portfolio environment.This leader is expected to operate at CXO facing levels, influence senior stakeholders, and navigate Clients complex environment with confidence, data backed recommendations, and strong communication.This role combines deep technical authority, strategic consulting, transformation ownership, and organizational leadership, ensuring QE becomes a value generating, data driven engineering discipline for Clients.
This leader will be crucial in: Turning QE into a value producing function, not just execution. Bringing engineering discipline, data first thinking, and performance culture. Steering conversations with Client leadership with technical depth and strategic authority. Enabling Wipro to strengthen and stabilize the long term partnership with Client through excellence and innovation.Key ResponsibilitiesLead QE Transformations Architect and drive end to end QE & Testing transformation aligned to Clients engineering, digital, and modernization roadmap. Define and own QE operational model evolution, embedding continuous testing, shift left, shift right, DevOps alignment, automation first culture, and AI/GenAI adoption. Identify and drive transformation levers such as automation scaling, test data modernization, environment optimization, and productivity uplift. Partner with domain leaders to introduce modern testing practices (in sprint automation, service virtualization, early performance testing, observability, etc.).

• Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
• Strong Executive Communication & Stakeholder Management
• Data Driven Delivery, Productivity & Value Tracking
• Leadership of Large, Multi Disciplinary QE Teams
• Drive AI/GenAI Adoption in QE
• Leadership & Behavioral
• Transformation & Consulting Skills

UK Remote

6 Month Contract

A fantastic contract role has opened up for a highly skilled Backend Software Engineer with strong expertise in Go. This is an exciting chance to join a leading technology company known for its high engineering standards and innovative approach to distributed systems.

In this position, the Backend Software Engineer will play a central role in building and scaling mission-critical, data-heavy applications. You’ll be involved across the full engineering lifecycle - from system design through to development and delivery - taking ownership of solutions that drive real impact.

Working closely with an Engineering Manager and collaborating with cross-functional teams, the Backend Software Engineer will help shape and implement microservices-based architectures, while making use of modern technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and Kafka. You’ll also focus on improving performance, reliability, and scalability, contributing to design discussions, code reviews, and knowledge sharing across the team.

Backend Software Engineer - Key Skills & Experience:

Strong background in backend software engineering, with significant commercial experience

Advanced proficiency in Go (Golang) and hands-on expertise with AWS, Kubernetes, and Docker

Experience designing and architecting systems end-to-end

Proven track record of working with complex, large-scale data applications

Product-driven mindset and experience working in fast-moving, tech-focused organisations (e.g. start-ups or scale-ups)

Additional skills with Kafka, Cassandra, gRPC, and microservices design are highly advantageous

Open-source contributions are a plus

This is an excellent opportunity for a Backend Software Engineer who thrives on tackling technical challenges and wants to make a tangible impact. The client is looking to move quickly, so if this sounds like the role for you, don’t hesitate to apply.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

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Soft Skills & Behaviours: Clear and confident communicator, able to work with designers, product teams, testers, engineers, and external partners.

• Highly collaborative, supporting team success and contributing to shared goals.
• Positive, engaged, and proactive, bringing energy to team ceremonies and wider delivery activities.
• Comfortable with change, able to work through evolving requirements or priorities.
• Keen to learn and share knowledge, contributing to code reviews, pair-programming, and community-of-practice activities.
• Experienced working within Agile delivery, contributing to stand-ups, planning, reviews, retrospectives, and show-and-tell sessions.
• Delivers with quality, making sensible trade-offs and managing technical debt thoughtfully.
• Stays informed about modern technologies and practices, promoting proportionate adoption of tools that add value.

Technical Skills & Responsibilities: Intermediate to advanced practical experience with:

• React and TypeScript
• Python
• AWS services i.e. Athena/Glue, DynamoDB, ECS, S3, Lambda, SQS, Step Function, etc
• Automated testing frameworks for Python and JavaScript
• Terraform for infrastructure-as-code
• Agile delivery workflows

Tooling experience:

• Git
• Jira
• Confluence

Desirable (Nice to Have):

• Cypress
• GitHub Actions
• Splunk

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Competitive + Bonus

Remote, UK

Permanent full time

About IRIS

IRIS is one of the UKs largest privately held software companies, delivering mission-critical solutions to businesses, schools and public sector organisations for over 40 years.

With 3,000 colleagues across the UK, Ireland, Romania, North America and India, we are entering an exciting growth phase scaling through innovation, cloud transformation and strategic acquisition.

Our mission is simple:to simplify the lives of organisations through powerful, intelligent software.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a strategic and technically accomplishedAssociate Director of Engineeringto lead the technology vision, architecture and delivery of our Education-focused SaaS products.

This is a senior leadership role responsible for:

• Leading a 30+ person engineering organisation (6 direct reports)
• Shaping cloud-native SaaS architecture
• Embedding AI into engineering practices and product development
• Delivering secure, scalable, customer-centric solutions

You will be instrumental in building ourAI-first engineering culture modernising tooling, accelerating delivery, and enhancing product intelligence.

What Youll Do

Drive Engineering Strategy

• Define and execute architecture roadmaps aligned to business goals
• Champion AI and automation across the SDLC
• Ensure scalable, API-first, cloud-native platform design
• Prevent platform duplication and optimise reuse

Lead & Inspire Teams

• Build, mentor and scale high-performing engineering leaders
• Establish strong development frameworks and growth pathways
• Create a culture of accountability, innovation and continuous improvement

Deliver With Excellence

• Partner with Product to bring AI-enhanced features to market
• Oversee delivery across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Ensure operational excellence in deployment, monitoring and resilience

Champion Security & Governance

• Drive secure engineering and compliance (GDPR, SOC2)
• Ensure risk-aware practices across architecture and delivery
• Support responsible AI governance

What Youll Bring

• 10+ years in software engineering, including senior leadership experience
• Proven SaaS delivery on AWS and/or Azure
• Experience modernising legacy platforms into scalable cloud-native solutions
• Strong understanding of DevOps, SRE, API architecture and AI integration
• Demonstrated ability to embed AI tools to improve engineering velocity
• Commercial awareness and customer-first mindset

Why Join Us?

• Strategic influence in a high-growth division
• Opportunity to shape an AI-first engineering culture
• Work on impactful Education technology
• Leadership scope across architecture, people and innovation
• Backed by a strong M&A growth strategy

If youre a technologist who can scale engineering with vision, discipline and an AI-forward mindset wed love to hear from you!

Please note:

We occasionally close vacancies early in the event that we receive a high volume of applications. Therefore we recommend you apply as soon as possible.

Senior Data Engineer -

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer to support the development and evolution of a scalable data platform underpinning private equity investment activity across EMEA. Working closely with investment, research, and technology teams, you will design, build, and optimise robust data pipelines and infrastructure that transform fragmented market and real estate data into structured intelligence.

This role plays a critical part in enabling data-driven decision making across underwriting, portfolio strategy, and capital allocation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines to manage and process large datasets from internal and external sources.
• Architect and optimise ETL/ELT workflows using AWS, SQL, Python, and modern cloud-based technologies.
• Manage API integrations and automate data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment processes.
• Improve data platform performance, reliability, and scalability across the organisation.
• Develop analytical tools and dashboards (e.g., Tableau) that deliver actionable insights for investment and business teams.
• Implement data quality frameworks, monitoring, and governance processes to ensure data integrity and reliability.
• Partner with investment, asset management, and finance teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Bring an architecture-first mindset, helping shape the evolution of the data platform while proactively exploring and adopting new technologies that enhance performance, scalability, and data capabilities.

Requirements

• Strong understanding of data architecture principles, scalable platform design, and data modelling.
• Proven experience building and maintaining data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows using modern data stack technologies.
• 5+ years’ experience in data engineering or a similar data-focused role.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python for data transformation, pipeline development, and analytics.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS) and modern data warehouses such as Snowflake.
• Experience using data visualisation or BI tools (e.g., Tableau) to support analytics and business insight.
• Strong analytical thinking and structured problem-solving capability.
• Ability to work effectively across teams and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Interest in investment, financial markets, or real estate data would be advantageous.

Selection Process

Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a 24-hour coding assessment as part of the selection process.

Full Stack Engineer - Up to £70k - Fully Remote

Were partnering with a fast-growing, well-funded technology startup that is building a modern, cloud-native platform to tackle a complex and meaningful problem in its space. The company is led by experienced founders with a strong product vision, early customer traction, and clear plans for growth.

This is an opportunity to join at an exciting stage of the journey and have genuine influence over the product and technical direction as the platform scales.

The Opportunity

This role is ideal for a mid-level Full Stack Engineer ready to take on more responsibility and work closely with senior stakeholders. Youll be hands-on across the full stack, contributing to key technical decisions and owning features end to end in a highly collaborative environment.

What Youll Be Doing:

• Building and maintaining full stack features using JavaScript and TypeScript
• Developing backend services using .NET / C#
• Working closely with product and leadership to translate ideas into scalable solutions
• Designing and building cloud-native services and infrastructure on AWS
• Owning features from design through to production and iteration
• Contributing to architecture decisions, tooling, and engineering best practices
• Helping shape how the engineering team works as it continues to grow

Tech Stack:

• JavaScript / TypeScript
• .NET / C# (Backend)
• Full Stack development (frontend + backend)
• AWS (cloud-native environment)

What Theyre Looking For:

• Commercial experience as a Full Stack Engineer
• Strong JavaScript / TypeScript skills
• Backend experience with .NET / C#
• Comfortable working across frontend, backend, and cloud infrastructure
• Experience shipping production-ready software
• A proactive, ownership-driven mindset
• Enjoys working in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Strong communication and collaboration skills

What’s in it for you?

• High-impact role with real ownership and visibility
• Opportunity to grow quickly as the product and team scale
• Remote-first working with flexibility across Europe
• Competitive salary Up to £70,000
• Equity/share options offering long-term upside

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DevOps Engineer (Active SC)

£504.49/day Inside IR-35

Remote with occasional travel to London, Manchester or Leicester

6 month initial contract

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer to work closely with developers and IT teams to manage and optimise code releases, bringing together strong engineering principles with practical coding knowledge. You will play a key role in creating and implementing systems software, analysing data to enhance existing solutions, and driving productivity across the organisation. A solid understanding of the software development lifecycle is essential, along with hands-on experience using automation tools to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.

Mandatory experience and skills include:

* Proven ability to learn quickly and apply new technical skills
* Hands-on experience delivering technical projects within the DevOps domain
* Experience working in an integration-focused scrum team, supported by architects and subject matter experts
* Ability to collaborate effectively with client teams remotely, supporting successful integration with external applications
* Experience with WebSphere, MQ, IBM BPM or other rules-based application technologies
* Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence
* Knowledge of scripting languages such as ANT, Ansible, Bash, or Terraform
* Creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
* Experience with Jenkins, AWS, Git, Docker, and Liquibase

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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Role: Lead DevOps Engineer Rate: £675 - £715 per day (Inside IR35 - Umbrella) Location: Fully Remote (UK-Based) Duration: Initial 6 months (extensions highly likely) Clearance: Active SC Clearance (Required) The Opportunity Join a high-profile Public Sector transformation programme. We are seeking a senior-level DevOps Engineer to serve as technical leads in the design and evolution of secure, cloud-native platforms. This is a pure IaC (Infrastructure as Code) environment focused on enterprise-scale resilience and security. Core Technical Stack \* AWS Master: Deep expertise across EC2, Lambda, S3, IAM, and VPC. Terraform Expertise: Proven track record in designing and refactoring complex IaC environments (Git/GitLab integration). CI/CD Orchestration: Advanced experience with GitLab CI and Jenkins to automate end-to-end delivery pipelines. Containerization: Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) for scaling microservices. Scripting: High proficiency in Python, Bash, and Ansible for automation and 'code review' leadership. Responsibilities Lead Technical Design: Shape the architectural direction of the AWS environment. Refactoring & Quality: Lead code reviews and promote refactoring techniques to enhance a multi-site enterprise codebase. Security & Compliance: Implement robust security measures aligned to GDS and Home Office security standards. Stakeholder Liaison: Act as the technical bridge between IT colleagues and business clients to track prioritisation and delivery. Apply Now for immediate consideration TPBN1\_UKTJ

Platform Engineer with key skills in AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and back end services (Python, node, Go etc) is sought on a remote basis by a high growth FinTech.

Working at the forefront of B2B Saas financial security this Platform Engineer will be working with a close-knit technical team to monitor, manage and improve business critical applications and infrastructure with the aim of facilitating improvements in application deployment & scalability.

This role would suit a DevOps or Platform Engineer with a solid background in software engineering and infrastructure who can bring experience working with the latest automation and config management tooling to create a fully automated deployment environment.

In return this Platform Engineer can expect a dynamic, engaging, R&D driven culture with extensive progression opportunities and the chance to own the platform functionality of this high growth business.

This Platform Engineer should have most of the following key skills:

• Strong experience in owning scalability ideally within a product lead environment
• Solid back end services experience - Go, Python, node etc)
• IAC experience - Terraform, Ansible, Redhat etc
• AWS exposure
• Strong containerization experience - Docker, Kubernetes
• Basic VM management experience
• Experience delivering new tooling for infrastructures
• Rational database exposure - Postgres, MySQL etc
• An agile, flexible personality who feels comfortable working in a fast paced environment

This Platform Engineer will receive

• Base salary of up to £100,000
• Long term remote working (one day a month on site max)
• Generous equity stake with a clear business exit strategy
• Bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
• Flexible working hours
• Clear progression and personal development opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private pension
• Regular salary reviews

So if you are a Platform Engineer and like the idea of joining a market leading company that offers excellent project ownership skills within a collaborative, autonomous environment please apply now to be considered.

Platform Engineer
Remote
Linux, Java, Python, MongoDB, Postgres, automation, node, infrastructure, Kubernetes, ansible, AWS, Terraform, ansible

Your new company An established and fast‑growing technology organisation is on a mission to transform digital connectivity across the UK. With a focus on building and operating high‑speed fibre networks, the business is committed to delivering world‑class broadband services to communities and supporting a data‑driven future. You'll be joining a forward‑thinking environment that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Your new role As a Senior Data Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and enhancing the organisation's enterprise data platform. Working within a specialist Data Analytics & AI team, you'll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and models within Snowflake to support analytics, reporting, and data‑led decision‑making across the business.You will translate data architecture strategies into high‑quality technical solutions, optimise performance and cost, and ensure the data platform is reliable, secure, and well‑structured. This includes developing ELT/ETL pipelines using tools such as dbt and Argo Workflows, implementing data quality and governance practices, and leveraging advanced Snowflake features to drive automation and efficiency.Collaboration is key-you'll work closely with analysts, data consumers, and business stakeholders, enabling them through well‑designed data models and providing technical support where needed. You'll also contribute to monitoring, CI/CD processes, and ongoing improvements to engineering standards across the team. What you'll need to succeed Proven experience delivering cloud‑based data engineering solutions, ideally centred around Snowflake Strong skills in SQL, Python, and dbt for data modelling and transformation Experience with Snowflake RBAC and performance optimisation Familiarity with ingestion/replication tools such as Airbyte, Fivetran, Hevo, or similar Understanding of cloud technologies (AWS preferred) Knowledge of data modelling, governance principles, and best‑practice engineering standards Experience supporting BI/reporting tools such as Power BI Solid grounding in version‑controlled development and CI/CD practices (git)Desirable: Exposure to enterprise systems like Salesforce, BSS/OSS, telephony, or call‑centre data Experience in data platform migrations, data validation, and quality assurance Background in enabling business teams through training, documentation, or adoption support Familiarity with Terraform or Infrastructure‑as‑Code A mindset for continuous learning and staying up to date with modern data stack tooling What you need to do now If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion about your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)

Software Engineer with key skills in either Python, Go or Typescript and experience operating data systems at scale is sought on a remote basis by a market leading Fintech. With recent investment this Software Engineer will be joining a dynamic, autonomous team of six tasked with scaling new product functionality and greenfield solutions. As such proven experience working in a product led, fast paced start or scale up would be hugely beneficial. This role would suit an experienced software engineer who relishes using the latest technology to build greenfield solutions that quickly solve business problems with the ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions. This Software engineer should have most of the following key skills - Strong commercial software engineering experience - Go, Python, Typescript, node etc - Solid rational database exposure - MySQL, Postgres - A well rounded skill set in streaming systems - Kafa, Kinesis etc - Strong AWS deployment exposure - Understanding of column-oriented databases - BigQuery, ClickHouse etc - A product focussed, business first approach to engineering - Experience working in a fast paced product lead environment - Experience operating data systems at scale - Any experience working in a FinTech or regulated industry - Cloud native architecture exposure - AWS massively preferred - Solid pipeline automation skills (CI/CD) In return this Software Engineer will receive: - Base salary of up to £100,000 - Long term remote working (one day a month on site max) - Generous equity stake with a clear business exit strategy - Bonus scheme - Private healthcare - Flexible working hours - Clear progression and personal development opportunities - 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - Private pension - Regular salary reviews So if you are a software engineer who gets excited about greenfield development and playing a key role in building high traffic, enterprise grade applications for household names then please apply now to be considered. Software Engineer Up to £100,000 Product, FinTech, Kafka, data systems, AWS, Clickhouse, CI/CD, cloud native Python, JavaScript, node, express, react, aws, serverless, cloud, cloud native, Typescript TPBN1\_UKTJ

MySQL DBA - Cloud Migration (AWS & Azure) Location: Remote (UK) Contract: Inside IR35 Duration: 6 months Role Overview - We are looking for an experienced SQL Database Administrator with strong AWS and Azure cloud migration experience to support a major database transformation programme. - The role will focus on migrating on-premise MySQL databases into cloud environments, initially into AWS and eventually transitioning workloads into Microsoft Azure. - This role sits within a migration-focused satellite team working alongside the infrastructure team. - The successful candidate will play a key role in risk assessment, migration planning, and execution, ensuring zero downtime migrations where possible while maintaining performance and security standards. Required Skills & Experience Essential - Strong Database Administration experience with MySQL. - Proven experience delivering database cloud migration projects. - Hands-on experience with both AWS and Azure cloud platforms. - Experience migrating on-premise databases to AWS. - Strong performance tuning and database optimisation skills. - Ability to conduct risk assessment and mitigation planning for migrations. - Strong documentation and communication skills. Desirable + Experience with Azure Cosmos DB. + Exposure to large-scale database transformation projects. + Experience working in hybrid infrastructure environments. + Knowledge of database footprint reduction and system simplification strategies.

The Role
Seeking a Senior Application Engineer ( Backend cloud based application development) with deep technical expertise and thought leadership. You will drive strategy for your area of expertise across teams and foster a developer community within your domain. The role involves mentoring junior staff, ensuring high-quality deliverables, promoting best practices like TDD and BDD, and leading engineering practices across the SDLC.

Your responsibilities:
Provide advanced technical expertise in Backend Development, supporting the team with effective solutions and practical insights.
Participate in all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including requirements gathering, development, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
Demonstrate a commitment to keeping up with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices, actively applying them in your work.
Contribute new ideas, tools, and methodologies to help foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within the team.
Share knowledge and mentor peers and junior engineers, supporting their growth and skills development.
Collaborate with technical leads, IT teams, and business stakeholders to understand project requirements, implications, and dependencies.
Review and provide feedback on technical documentation, suggesting improvements where appropriate.
Promote and practice best development approaches such as Test-Driven Development (TDD) and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) to deliver high-quality, maintainable code.
Apply design patterns to address complex problems, ensuring code is efficient, readable, and reusable.
Adhere to IT and Information Security policies and procedures in all engineering activities.

Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
Preferred - Experience of building distributed scalable microservices using Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, OAuth 2.0, Secure API design
Understanding of API design for mobile application with event driven architecture
Strong analysis and problem-solving skills
Knowledge of the financial services industry
Other technologies/areas: AWS, API Design, Automation testing

About the Company A global data, analytics and technology organisation providing services in credit, fraud prevention, identity verification, risk management, automated decisioning and consumer insights. The Role We are looking for a Software Developer to join a growing Integrations and Decisioning engineering team. This role focuses on building and supporting reliable backend systems and services that power critical decisioning and data integrations. You will collaborate with internal teams and clients to design, develop and maintain high-quality systems while contributing to improvements in reliability, performance and engineering practices. Key Responsibilities Design and build reliable backend services and infrastructure tooling Write high-quality, maintainable code using Test-Driven Development (TDD) Develop and maintain automated test suites Own the reliability, observability and performance of key services Work directly with clients to understand requirements, investigate issues and propose solutions Improve system architecture, automation and deployment processes Support and mentor junior developers where appropriate Take ownership of technical challenges and drive solutions through to completion Essential Skills & Experience Strong programming skills in Node.js or a similar backend language Experience using TDD and automated testing practices Comfortable working with clients to gather requirements and troubleshoot issues Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities Clear and effective communication skills (written and verbal) Desirable Skills Experience supporting backend systems in production environments Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS or GCP) Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling Experience designing systems that operate under sustained load Contributions to internal developer tooling or open-source projects Experience working with large datasets or machine learning models TPBN1\_UKTJ

Lead Full Stack Software Engineer - Public Sector Digital Transformation

Location: UK (Fully Remote)

Security Clearance: SC cleared/eligible

Lead engineering teams building modern, impactful digital services for the UK public sector.

We’re supporting a purpose-driven digital consultancy in hiring a Lead Software Engineer to guide multidisciplinary teams on high-profile transformation programmes. You’ll shape architectures, lead delivery, mentor engineers, and drive best-practice engineering - all while helping public sector organisations improve services for people and communities.

If you’re an experienced engineer who enjoys leadership, hands-on problem solving and collaborating with non-technical stakeholders, this is an excellent next step.

The Role

As a Lead Software Engineer, you’ll set the technical direction for complex software systems, ensuring solutions are high-quality, secure and scalable. You’ll manage and mentor engineers, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and work directly with product, UX, DevOps and delivery teams to deliver user-centred digital services.

You’ll also help shape engineering culture through your craft - from code standards to CI/CD pipelines to architectural decision-making.

What You’ll Be Doing

Leading the architecture, design and delivery of large-scale digital services

Managing, coaching and developing software engineers at multiple levels

Championing engineering best practice, secure design and high coding standards

Working with Product, UX, DevOps, QA and other teams to turn business needs into robust technical solutions

Driving continuous improvement across performance, reliability, security and development processes

Overseeing and improving CI/CD pipelines , automation and release processes

Conducting code reviews and providing actionable, constructive feedback

Troubleshooting complex technical challenges

Identifying and introducing new technologies or tools where beneficial

Managing scope, timelines and technical delivery across projects

Contributing to early-stage discovery, bids, and occasionally supporting hiring activity (e.g., technical assessments)

What We’re Looking For

Essential

Extensive full-stack engineering experience across design, build, test and deployment

Strong hands-on skills in Java, Spring Boot, Python, microservices , and ideally a polyglot mindset

Deep understanding of Agile , TDD , DevOps and modern engineering practices

Real-world experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks

Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) and Infrastructure as Code

Knowledge of modern architecture patterns: microservices, event-driven, containerised (Docker/Kubernetes)

Experience leading engineering teams through successful delivery

Strong grounding in secure, scalable and well-architected system design

Excellent communication skills, including working with stakeholders at all levels

Desirable

Knowledge of emerging technologies (e.g., AI/ML tools)

Previous senior/lead engineering experience

Experience running large multidisciplinary projects

Line management experience

Experience interviewing and supporting technical hiring

Experience contributing to bids/proposals

Who This Role Suits

This role is ideal for engineers who want to:

Lead teams delivering meaningful public sector services

Have a mix of hands-on engineering, leadership and stakeholder interaction

Influence engineering standards and culture

Shape long-term technical direction for major transformation programmes

Work in an environment that values empathy, collaboration and purpose

Why Join

This consultancy is committed to people-powered transformation , combining technology, design and data to help public sector organisations deliver outcomes that genuinely improve lives. You’ll join a thoughtful, collaborative community that values diversity, learning and openness.

Benefits include:

30 days holiday + bank holidays

2 paid volunteer days

Enhanced maternity/paternity leave

5% employer pension contribution

Health cash plan & wellbeing support

Personal L&D budget

Share Incentive Plan

EV leasing, cycle-to-work and green benefits

and a supportive culture where your leadership can make a real impact.

?? Interested?

If you’re a lead-level engineer who cares about high-quality software and wants to help shape better public services, we’d love to hear from you.

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

If you need any help or adjustments during the recruitment process for any reason , please let us know when you apply or talk to the recruiters directly so we can support you.

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SOFTWARE ENGINEER / OFFENSIVE SECURITY / RED TEAM

Fully Remote

Up to £100,000 + Excellent Staff Bens + Share Scheme

SECURE has Strategically Partnered with a Multi-Award-Winning, Software-Based Organisation at the forefront of Pre-Emptive Exposure Management. As a market leader backed by significant Venture Funding, they expand Offensive Security capabilities, specifically around Threat Detection Engineering, in their mission of helping organisations understand how they could be compromised. Success in this position will enable the business to build Detection Strategies that Continuously Identify Real-World Exploitation, helping Fortune 500 Companies & Critical Infrastructure Providers outrun Real-World Threats in Real-Time.

Our Client is looking for an ambitious Engineer who sits at the Intersection of Software Engineering and Offensive Security . You will Not Just Write Code; you will Architect the Cloud-Native Engines & Big Data Pipelines that Power Automated Red Teaming. Your work will “Bridge the Gap” Between Manual Research & Scalable, Real-Time Threat Simulation.

Skills & Experience of Cyber Security Engineer:

Core Engineering: Minimum 2 Years Background within Software Engineering (Python or Go) with Focus on Maintainable, Production-Grade Code.

Cloud Architecture: Deep experience with Cloud-Native Services (AWS etc) & Serverless Architectures.

Big Data: Proven Ability to Handle High-Volume Data Processing & Ingestion Pipelines.

Offensive Exposure : Interest or Experience in Security (CTFs, Red Teaming) and understanding of TTPs.

Problem Solving: Proactive Approach to Navigating Technical Challenges.

Experience of working within Fast-Moving Growth Environments or B2B Scale-UpsFocusing on Enterprise Clients

Bonus: Contributions to Open-Source Projects or Public Security Tooling

Responsibilities of Application Security Engineer:

Cloud-Driven Engineering: Utilise Cloud-Native Services to Develop Resilient, Big Data Solutions that form their Offensive Security & Data Processing Capabilities.

Data Pipeline Development: Engineer & Maintain Robust Data Pipelines that Process Attack Surface & Offensive Security Data, Delivering Real-Time Insights to Enhance Red Team Capabilities.

Offensive Security Innovation: Lead R&D Projects that push the limits of Offensive Security, Replicating Adversarial Tactics at Scale to Uncover Vulnerabilities.

Architect Scalable Solutions: Design & Implement Scalable Infrastructures that Underpin Cutting-Edge Offensive Tools, Ensuring Efficiency.

Operationalize Research: Collaborate in Translating Manual Exploit Research into Automated, High-Fidelity Detection Engines.

Engineering Excellence: Champion Best Practices in Code Quality, CI/CD & Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

Searches: Offensive Security Engineer / Cyber Security Engineer / Software Security Engineer / Red Team / CI/CD / Software Engineer

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Senior Software Engineer Salary: £75k-£110k (plus attractive bonus on top) Location: London or Leeds (relaxed about hybrid or remote working, if preferred) My client is a specialist provider of sports pricing and trading technology, developing advanced simulation-based models and risk tools that underpin the performance of major sports brands.

Role Overview Were looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Modelling & Data Engineering group at a rapidly expanding sports-technology business. This is a hands-on role in a fast-moving environment where youll help shape new modelling tools, improve existing systems, and contribute to the technical foundations that support the companys growth.

What youll be working on Developing high-quality, maintainable software using .NET technologies.

Taking ownership of greenfield initiatives, designing and building internal tools that support the companys modelling capabilities.

Helping to gather, process and structure the data that powers the modelling pipeline.

Introducing new technologies, improving architectural patterns and reducing technical debt to enhance performance and maintainability.

Collaborating closely with colleagues across the Modelling & Data Engineering function to manage the full lifecycle of internal tooling.

Qualifications Essential A degree in a STEM discipline (Computer Science preferred), or equivalent demonstrable programming ability.

Certifications or training aligned with the companys core tech stack (e.g., .NET, AWS).

Strong programming fundamentals, including data structures, performance-focused development, design patterns and SOLID principles.

Commercial experience working with .NET (ideally .NET 5+).

Good SQL knowledge and at least one year working with relational databases.

Experience with distributed streaming platforms such as Kafka.

Familiarity with in-memory storage solutions like Redis.

Hands-on experience with AWS services such as S3, Athena, ECS, CloudFormation, Lambda and CloudWatch.

Confident using Git in a multi-developer environment.

Background in systems integration, including APIs, networking and data migration.

A commitment to producing clean, well-documented, reproducible systems.

Strong communication, organisation and time-management skills, with the ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Analytical mindset and strong problem-solving ability.

Desirable Interest in US sports (NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAAB, NCAAF), Cricket, Tennis or Football.

Experience collaborating with Data Scientists or Data Engineers.

Comfort with mathematical concepts such as probability, statistics and matrix operations.

Additional notes While experience with C# is preferred, candidates with a strong Java background and relevant industry exposure - or a clear personal interest in betting, gaming or US sports - will also be considered.

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Core Duties Design and develop machine learning models for traditional ML use cases (forecasting, classification, anomaly detection) and GenAI/LLM applications Lead experimentation cycles: define hypotheses, design experiments, evaluate results, and iterate rapidly while adhering to governance requirements Transition validated experiments into production-ready solutions, working closely with other engineers on deployment and monitoring Build and optimise ML pipelines using AWS services and experiment tracking tools Develop and integrate LLM-powered solutions for tracing, evaluation, and production monitoring Implement robust experiment tracking, model versioning, and reproducibility practices with full audit trails Design feature engineering approaches and contribute to feature store development Support production models through monitoring, performance analysis, and continuous improvement Apply responsible AI practices, including model explainability and fairness assessment Present experiment findings and production outcomes to stakeholders, articulating operational and strategic value Mentor junior colleagues and share learnings across the team About You You will have experience in many of the following: Hands-on experience developing and deploying ML models in Python using frameworks such as scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, or TensorFlow Strong experience with AWS ML services (SageMaker, Lambda, S3) in production environments Strong experiment design skills: hypothesis formulation, A/B testing methodology, and statistical evaluation Proven track record transitioning models from experimentation to production with appropriate governance and quality controls Experience with experiment tracking and MLOps tooling (MLflow, Weights & Biases, Data Version Control) Experience developing LLM/GenAI applications, including prompt engineering and RAG architectures It Would Be Great If You Also Had Experience In Some Of These, But If Not Well Help You With Them Experience with advanced LLM techniques: agents, tool use, and agentic workflows Experience with vector databases (Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector) for RAG applications Experience with feature stores (Feast, AWS Feature Store) Experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS) Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) Experience with data processing frameworks (Spark, Dask) for large-scale workloads Understanding of data governance and compliance frameworks TPBN1\_UKTJ

A leading technology consultancy is seeking an experienced Machine Learning Operations Engineer to help deploy AI/ML solutions into production environments across a range of client engagements. This role is focused on operationalising models (MLOps / AIOps), rather than building ML applications from scratch. Key Responsibilities Design and develop machine learning operational processes across diverse client environments Analyse client requirements and provide clear technical recommendations Manage the full ML lifecycle, including data selection, model deployment, operationalisation, and monitoring Develop Infrastructure as Code for ML platforms using AWS CDK Collaborate closely with data scientists to productionise ML models Required Experience & Skills Proven experience deploying AI/ML models into production (MLOps / AIOps) Strong AWS experience (other cloud platforms will not be considered) Experience with CI/CD pipelines for ML/DL models Proficiency in Python and common ML libraries (e.g. Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch) Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) Consultancy or client-facing experience preferred Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Qualifications IT / Technology-related degree (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or similar) Minimum 2:1 classification (or equivalent) Bachelors degree or higher required TPBN1\_UKTJ

An internationally trusted source of medical news and education to the healthcare professional community, seeks a CTO to guide them through a major digital transformation, including a full ground-up redesign/redevelopment of their core platforms and wider product ecosystem. With the existing platform developed predominantly in PHP and WordPress, my client is seeking to adopt a more modern tech stack that will provide greater stability, scalability, resilience and will allow them to embrace AI and provide new features and enhanced functionality. The Role The CTO will bridge strategy and execution, as they translate business vision and product requirements into a clear technical strategy. The CTO will then own the end-to-end digital roadmap for the new digital platform, and will advise on platform architecture, tooling and technology, before then leading and line-managing the development team through the greenfield rebuild of the platform. This is a "sleeves rolled up" CTO role and would suit a candidate with senior engineering leadership experience (CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, Tech Lead, Principal Engineer etc.) looking to architect and own a major platform rebuild in a role that will provide real influence over product direction and company growth. The Company The CTO will be joining a company established nearly 10 years ago to meet a growing need for independent expert advice and cutting-edge research directly from international thought leaders. Having grown rapidly to establish themselves as a trusted global leader in this field, providing readily accessible content via a range of subject-specific websites and digital platforms, their close-knit team work remotely, but with a collaboration hub currently in London where they enjoy getting together to explore and share ideas on a monthly basis. With a flexible approach to working and with excellent benefits and opportunities for career development and advancement, this really is an excellent time to join. Benefits include: Remote working Flexible hours 25 days holiday Pension What's required of the CTO? Senior engineering leadership experience gained within smaller companies where the environment is fast-moving Experience of architecting modern web platforms with Node.js backend development, AWS infrastructure, Linux and containerised applications such as Docker PHP/WordPress would be useful to understand the current platform Python skills, especially for AI/data/automation use cases would be beneficial Practical experience of implementing AI features, with an understanding of LLMs, prompt design, vector search, knowledge graphs, etc., would be advantageous What Next? If you're currently a CTO, or looking to take the step up to that level of ownership and responsibility, and have any questions or would simply welcome a chat about this excellent position and company, just call me or drop me an email, as I'd love to hear from you! If, though, you think this role could be right for you and you'd like to learn more, then please apply now! CTO, Node.js, AWS, Chief Technology Officer, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, Tech Lead, Principal Engineer Corriculo Ltd acts as an employment agency and an employment business. #GB, #ChannelA TPBN1\_UKTJ

Software Engineer with key skills in either Python, Go or Typescript and experience operating data systems at scale is sought on a remote basis by a market leading Fintech.

With recent investment this Software Engineer will be joining a dynamic, autonomous team of six tasked with scaling new product functionality and greenfield solutions. As such proven experience working in a product led, fast paced start or scale up would be hugely beneficial.

This role would suit an experienced software engineer who relishes using the latest technology to build greenfield solutions that quickly solve business problems with the ability to understand and translate business requirements into technical solutions.

This Software engineer should have most of the following key skills

• Strong commercial software engineering experience - Go, Python, Typescript, node etc
• Solid rational database exposure - MySQL, Postgres
• A well rounded skill set in streaming systems - Kafa, Kinesis etc
• Strong AWS deployment exposure
• Understanding of column-oriented databases - BigQuery, ClickHouse etc
• A product focussed, business first approach to engineering
• Experience working in a fast paced product lead environment
• Experience operating data systems at scale
• Any experience working in a FinTech or regulated industry
• Cloud native architecture exposure - AWS massively preferred
• Solid pipeline automation skills (CI/CD)

In return this Software Engineer will receive:

• Base salary of up to £100,000
• Long term remote working (one day a month on site max)
• Generous equity stake with a clear business exit strategy
• Bonus scheme
• Private healthcare
• Flexible working hours
• Clear progression and personal development opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private pension
• Regular salary reviews

So if you are a software engineer who gets excited about greenfield development and playing a key role in building high traffic, enterprise grade applications for household names then please apply now to be considered.

Software Engineer
Up to £100,000
Product, FinTech, Kafka, data systems, AWS, Clickhouse, CI/CD, cloud native
Python, JavaScript, node, express, react, aws, serverless, cloud, cloud native, Typescript