Key Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain data pipelines to ingest and process OpenShift telemetry (metrics, logs, traces) at scale. Stream OpenShift telemetry via Kafka (producers, topics, schemas) and build resilient consumer services for transformation and enrichment. Engineer data models and routing for multi-tenant observability; ensure lineage, quality, and SLAs across the stream layer. Integrate processed telemetry into Splunk for visualization, dashboards, alerting, and analytics to achieve Observability Level 4 (proactive insights). Implement schema management (Avro/Protobuf), governance, and versioning for telemetry events. Build automated validation, replay, and backfill mechanisms for data reliability and recovery. Instrument services with OpenTelemetry; standardize tracing, metrics, and structured logging across platforms. Use LLMs to enhance observability capabilities (e.g., query assistance, anomaly summarization, runbook generation). Collaborate with platform, SRE, and application teams to integrate telemetry, alerts, and SLOs. Ensure security, compliance, and best practices for data pipelines and observability platforms. Document data flows, schemas, dashboards, and operational runbooks.
Required Skills: Hands-on experience building streaming data pipelines with Kafka (producers/consumers, schema registry, Kafka Connect/KSQL/KStream). Proficiency with OpenShift/Kubernetes telemetry (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus) and CLI tooling. Experience integrating telemetry into Splunk (HEC, UF, sourcetypes, CIM), building dashboards and alerting. Strong data engineering skills in Python (or similar) for ETL/ELT, enrichment, and validation. Knowledge of event schemas (Avro/Protobuf/JSON), contracts, and backward/forward compatibility. Familiarity with observability standards and practices; ability to drive toward Level 4 maturity (proactive monitoring, automated insights). Understanding of hybrid cloud and multi-cluster telemetry patterns. Security and compliance for data pipelines: secret management, RBAC, encryption in transit/at rest. Good problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative team environment. Strong communication and documentation skills.

Java Tech Lead / Architect with 10+ years experience is needed for an initial 6-month contract with further extensions up to 18 months paying £300 a day inside IR35 to drive the design and execution of high-scale, event-driven systems. This role is a hybrid of strategic architectural planning and hands-on engineering leadership. You will be responsible for defining technical roadmaps, mentoring a high-performing engineering team, and ensuring the delivery of robust microservices within a complex, long-term program.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Design and oversee the implementation of scalable microservices and event-based architectures using Java, Spring Boot, and Kafka.
• Team Steering: Act as the technical point of contact for the team; facilitate decision-making, sprint planning, and resource allocation.
• Quality Governance: Conduct rigorous code reviews, approve pull requests, and establish best practices for CI/CD and automated testing.
• Hands-on Delivery: Lead by example by contributing to mission-critical code and solving complex technical bottlenecks that require “Architect-level” troubleshooting.
• Stakeholder Management: Translate business requirements into technical blueprints and communicate progress/risks to program leadership.

Technical Requirements

10+ years of professional software development experience

Expert-level proficiency in Java (current versions) and Spring Boot.

Deep expertise in Kafka for event-driven architecture and streaming.

Proven track record in Microservices design patterns, API Gateway management, and Cloud-native development.

Previous experience leading engineering teams through the full SDLC in an Agile environment.

Preferred Attributes

Experience with Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes).

Strong understanding of Database design (SQL and NoSQL).

Excellent communication skills, capable of bridging the gap between technical teams and non-technical stakeholders.

Working Conditions

Hybrid Model: Candidates must be able to commute to West Sussex 3 days per week.

Stability: While the initial contract is 6 months, this is a multi-year program offering significant long-term potential.

Location:London (Hybrid)

Type:Permanent

Industry:High-Performance Trading / Financial Markets

About the Company

Immersive Finance provides institutional-grade risk infrastructure for digital asset derivatives. Our team comprises seasoned traders, quantitative researchers, and technologists with decades of experience at leading buy- and sell-side institutions. We specialise in advanced risk management solutions, pricing analytics, and market data, enabling institutional clients to capitalise on opportunities in digital asset derivatives. We are committed to delivering cutting-edge technology and insights to clients operating in this dynamic market.

Must Have Experience

• Experience in delivering production code.
• 5-10 yearsin Finance or Trading Systems.
• AdvancedC++skills.
• StrongPythonengineering experience.
• Strong understanding ofdatabases(SQL and high-performance solutions).
• Expertise in building and supportinghigh-availability,mission-critical systems.

Desireable

• Experience building and deploying docker containers.
• Experience ofFX,Crypto, orDerivativesmarkets.
• Experience withPostgres,ClickHouse, or other high-performance storage solutions.
• Exposure to real-time data, low-latency networking, and distributed systems.

Our Stack

• Python, C++.
• Multi-cloud infrastructure/deployment.
• Standard SDLC (i.e., Git workflow, build, continuous integration).
• Git/JIRA/Confluence.
• High-availability database clusters (Postgres Timescale DB)
• Queues (i.e., Kafka).
• Linux.
• High-performance distributed contributing.
• Interfaces - API/Websockets.

What We’re Looking For

• Someone who ships high-quality code quickly.
• Someone who doesn’t need hand-holding,
• Someone who likes solving gnarly engineering problems in fast-moving markets.
• Someone who takes ownership and isn’t afraid to call out bad assumptions.

Why Join Us?

You’ll work in a small, sharp, highly technical environment where your engineering decisions directly shape the platform. No bureaucracy, no pointless meetings, no slowdowns; just hard problems, smart people, and serious impact.

What You’ll Do

• Design and build robust software as a service providing tools for real-time pricing, market data, risk management, and position lifecycle management of digital assets and structured products.
• Work across C++, Python, and modern database technologies to support execution, pricing, risk, and market data.
• Engineer systems that are resilient, highly available, and capable of handling high throughput.
• Collaborate closely with quants, products, and founders to ship features that genuinely move the needle.
• Optimise performance, streamline infrastructure, and keep the platform rock-solid under load.

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.

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!

Golang Go AWS Kubernetes Terraform Bank Banking Finance Financial Services Crypto Blockchain Web3 Trading Exchange Digital Assets Hybrid Flexible Developer Software Engineer Backend Developer Golang Engineer Kafka Apache Kafka RabbitMQ AWS Lambda Cloud Platform

Contract Software Engineer (Golang)

Location: Hybrid, 3 days per week onsite in Burgess Hill

Rate: £280 per day (Inside IR35)

Duration: 12 months

Tech: Golang, Java, Git, REST, Jenkins, NoSQL, Postgres/ql

We are hiring for a consulting tech agency partnered with a major fintech organisation. This is a strong opportunity for a Golang Software Engineer to join a large-scale fintech programme delivering customer-focused digital solutions.

We are looking for a Golang Software Engineer to work within a microservices architecture, building REST APIs and asynchronous messaging services such as Kafka or RabbitMQ. This Golang Software Engineer will operate within a Scrum framework, contributing to business-critical functions delivered through a fully automated CI/CD pipeline. The successful Golang Software Engineer will be comfortable with testing practices and modern engineering standards. This Golang Software Engineer role is ideal for someone experienced in regulated or fintech environments.

Required Skills

• Golang
• Microservices architecture
• REST and asynchronous messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
• Scrum / Agile delivery
• CI/CD pipelines and automation

Desired Skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Test-Driven Development (TDD), BDD
• Unit, integration and regression testing
• Kafka, PostgreSQL, gRPC, Docker, GraphQL
• Jenkins, JIRA or Rally
• Git or SVN

Tech environment includes: Golang, Java, REST, Git, Jenkins, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Docker.

If you are a Golang Software Engineer seeking a 12-month contract in a fintech environment, apply now.

We’re working with a Chorley based tech co., a leader in their field, based in brand new state of the art offices right next to Buckshaw Parkway train station. Hybrid working DevOps Engineer role.

We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer to help design, build, and operate reliable, scalable platforms that enable teams to deliver software safely and efficiently. You will work closely with development and operations teams to automate build and deployment processes, improve system reliability, and strengthen our cloud-native capabilities.

This role focuses on practical delivery, operational ownership, and continuous improvement, rather than tooling for toolings sake.

Key Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and operate cloud-based infrastructure supporting production and non-production environments

Administer and support Linux and Windows-based systems

Contribute to infrastructure design with a focus on availability, scalability, and security

Design, implement, and maintain CI pipelines for on-premise and cloud-hosted applications

Support and improve CD and GitOps workflows using tools such as Argo CD

Maintain and optimise build infrastructure and build agents

Deploy, operate and support Kubernetes application deployments, services, ingress, and configuration

Troubleshoot Kubernetes and container-related issues in production environments

Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions

Support operational aspects of platforms such as: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch

Required Skills & Experience

Experience working in a DevOps or Platform Engineering role

Strong knowledge of Linux and working knowledge of Windows

Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines

Experience deploying and operating applications in the cloud

Working knowledge of Kubernetes and container-based workloads

Experience with Git-based workflows

Scripting experience using Shell / Bash and/or PowerShell

Familiarity with monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices

Desirable Skills:

Experience with GitOps tooling (Argo CD)

Experience with Bamboo and Bitbucket

Knowledge of Kafka, MongoDB, or PostgreSQL operations

Experience operating OpenSearch or similar logging platforms

Understanding of cloud security and access control (RBAC, secrets)

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Location: Cheltenham

Salary - £60,000 - £90,000 + excellent benefits + bonus

Clearance - Candidates must hold an active DV or eDV clearance.

This isn’t just another software engineering role-it’s an opportunity to be part of something bigger. As a Software Engineer, you’ll design, develop, and maintain critical infrastructure that powers essential services. You’ll tackle complex challenges, work with cutting-edge technology, and contribute to solutions that have real-world impact. Our client is looking for several Software Engineers and will consider candidates from Junior to Senior level.

What You’ll Do:

• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code while contributing to peer reviews.
• Design software features that align with product roadmaps.
• Break down large development tasks into manageable Agile sprints.
• Build end-to-end solutions within a highly secure environment.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplined Agile/Scrum team.
• Contributing to the support of multiple live systems.

What You Bring:

• Strong hands-on experience with at least one of the following languages React, Java, Python.
• React UI development.
• Python scripting - Kafka / NiFi data flows.
• A willingness to further your own knowledge, skills and technology.

Security Clearance: Candidates must hold an active DV or eDV clearance.

Ready to take on a role where your work truly matters? Apply now and be part of a team driving cutting-edge technology forward!

As an industry leading, nationwide Marketing, Digital, Analytics, IT and Design recruitment agency, we are continually receiving new assignments to work on, so keep a close eye on our website, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter pages for a full list of current permanent and interim opportunities as well as marketplace news and fun stuff.
Forward Role is operating as an employment agency.

DevOps Lead required by rapidly growing software house to work in a highly impactful hands-on role taking responsibility for DevOps tools and processes across multiple development and platform teams.
Closely aligned with our development teams and overseeing smooth deployment into production, you will act as the escalation point for issue resolution and take responsibility for the improvement of the overall DevOps estate in terms of tool selection, process automation and CI/CD pipeline management.
We would expect some one at this level to have significant previous experience in a Senior DevOps role and a wide exposure to software development architecture and methodologies.
The multi-disciplinary nature of the role means that stakeholder management, communication, leadership and organisational skills will be heavily drawn upon.
In terms of Tech Stack it would be nice to see experience in some of the following :

• Using Azure Devops tools to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Experience of AWS Cloud Infrastructure (EC2, RDS, Lambda)
• Experience of working in SaaS based environments
• Exposure to Mobile application deployment (Fastlane, App Store etc)
• Real Time data Messaging (Apache Kafka, Amazon SQS)
• Containerisation (Kubernetes , Docker)

We would require the successful applicant to be with us in our Warwickshire based HQ 3-4 days a week , at least to begin with in order to to learn about products , tech stack and to build rapport with our fantastic team.
This role is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has seen what good (and bad!) looks like elsewhere and can help define best practice and implement tools and methodologies that will directly improve how the teams and the business as a whole operate.
Apply now for immediate consideration

Join our team here at StepStone and youll be responsible for providing technical leadership to all engineering and development areas across your domain, developing and executing an engineering strategy aligned to the portfolio and global tech strategies.

Working in the Design and Platform Performance domain, you willlead the technology side of web and mobile analytics for a platform with over 50 million visits each month, deliver the best user experiences and personalisation for talent and talent seekers. We built in-house large scale tracking platform, powered by Tealium, Kafka and Adobe Analytics, and successfully rolled it out to 10 of our brands. Along with the tracking we are owners of our AB testing tool Optimizely, our in-house Design System Genesys and Frontend Framework, which when put together powers the product development at scale using a data driven approach.

You will play a vital role as we reimagine the labour market to make it work for everybody.

Your responsibilities:

• Managing and mentoring engineering professionals in your teams and domain, setting objectives for your teams and domain, owning the delivery of the outcomes, monitoring ongoing progress and performance within the OKR framework
• Partnering with your product manager, other engineering managers, staff engineers, architect, agile coach and engineering director to formulate a domain level technical strategy
• Building and maintaining relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Facilitate communication between teams under your leadership and enabling free exchange of information within your sphere of influence, developing appropriate organisational structure together with the Engineering Director
• Resourcing of plans to support the business objectives and working with the Engineering Director on budgeting within the domain

Qualifications

• Experience of providing technical leadership to an engineering team; with excellent analytical, problem solving and influencing skills, resilient, open to change and results oriented
• Experience of coding and testing of analytics tracking code using Tealium iQ, Tealium Event Stream, and Adobe Analytics
• Experience of integrating data sources via web and hypermedia APIs
• Proficient in Web Technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React.js, Next.js and Node.js, and in event-driven and eventual consistency systems using Kafka, .Net, Java, REST APIs, AWS, Terraform and DevOps
• Nice to have:experience in data pipping and modelling using SQL, DBT, ETL, Data Warehousing, Redshift and Python, and ecommerce and mobile applications background

Additional Information

Were a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when youre with us. Because your job shouldnt take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• 29 days holiday allowance + bank holidays
• Private medical and dental healthcare
• Matching pension contribution of 4 or 5% (after 3 years of service up to 10%)
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
• Life Assurance Cover
• Cycle to work scheme
• Hybrid working model (3 days working fromthe office)
• Volunteering days
• and you can bring your dog to the office onMondays and Fridays!

Our commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.

As a global business we further our DEI and sustainability progress by working with national and international bodies and are proud to have been recognised for our work - both locally and internationally, including:

• Armed Forces Covenant: SilverAward, Employer Recognition Scheme
• EcoVadis: Bronze Award
• Fertility Friendly Employer, accredited by Fertility Matters at Work
• RIDI (Recruitment Industry Disability) Awards: Inclusive Technology Award 2024
• Stonewall: Gold Award
• Stonewall: Top 100 Workplace Equality Index (85)

C# / .NET / SQL / Azure

Mansfield (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)

Salary up to £60,000 + package

We’re working with a large, well-established organisation undergoing a major technology transformation across its warehousing and fulfilment operations. As part of this journey, they’re looking to hire a Senior Backend Engineer to play a key role in the design and delivery of enterprise-scale systems built on the Microsoft stack.

This is a great opportunity to join a fast-paced engineering environment where you’ll work on high-impact platforms supporting complex, automated logistics and supply chain operations.

The Role

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and implement backend solutions using C#, .NET, X++, and SQL
• Build and extend integrations around Dynamics 365 F&O and the wider Microsoft platform
• Develop services and applications using Azure (Functions, Storage, Event Grid, Service Bus, etc.)
• Design and optimise relational database solutions using SQL Server (T-SQL, stored procedures)
• Contribute to microservices, API-first, and event-driven architectures
• Participate in code reviews and promote engineering best practices
• Produce and maintain technical documentation and design specifications
• Mentor and support other engineers across the team
• Support existing business-critical systems during platform transition

What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years’ experience developing backend solutions with C# / .NET
• Strong experience working with SQL Server and database-driven systems
• Experience building integrations and extensions using Dynamics 365 F&O- desirable
• Solid knowledge of Azure services and cloud-based architectures
• Understanding of event-driven systems, messaging, and caching technologies
• Experience working in agile environments (Azure DevOps, Jira, etc.)
• Strong communication skills and the ability to translate requirements into technical solutions
• A proactive problem-solver who enjoys working on complex systems

Desirable (but not essential)

• CI/CD experience (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Pipelines)
• Messaging platforms such as Kafka, Azure Service Bus, or Event Grid
• Power Platform exposure (Power Automate, Power Apps)
• Data tooling such as Azure Data Factory or Synapse
• Oracle PL/SQL experience

Working Pattern

• Hybrid working: 3 days per week onsite in Mansfield, 2 days from home
• You must have the right to work in the UK

If you’re a backend-focused engineer looking to work on large-scale, business-critical platforms using modern Microsoft technologies, this is an excellent opportunity to make a real impact.

?? Apply now or get in touch for a confidential discussion.

Job Title: PostgreSQL DBA
Location: Manchester
Salary/Rate: 430 per day
Start Date: March 2026
Job Type: 6 month contract (Inside IR35)

Company Introduction
We are currently recruiting for an experienced PostgreSQL DBA to join our client on an exciting contract in the finance industry.

Primary Skills:

• Must have hands-on experience as Database Administration specifically with MongoDB, PostgreSQL / Oracle.
• Managing a oracle team
• Working with database software to find ways to store, organise and manage data
• Expert knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL data stores and working with a variety of structures, including JSON and XML
• Experience of software development with distributed data processing technologies including Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Experience in keeping databases up to date, troubleshooting, helping with database design & development, and managing database access.
• Experience in designing maintenance procedures and putting them into operation.
• Liaising with programmers, applications/operational staff, IT project managers and other technical staff
• Managing database security/integrity and backup procedures, implementing security measures.

Secondary Skills:

• Writing reports, documentation, and operating manuals
• Testing and modifying databases to ensure that they operate reliably
• Writing disaster recovery plans and archiving/housekeeping data.
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms, serverless architecture preferable
• Good understanding of software patterns and when/how to apply them
• Knowledge of Kafka will be advantageous
• Experience of working in an Agile/DevOps software development environment
• Have ability to help with mentoring tasks.
• Have experience in working on Support activities.

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.
Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

Job Title: PostgreSQL DBA
Location: Manchester (3 x per week)
Salary/Rate: £430 per day
Start Date: March 2026
Job Type: 6 month contract (Inside IR35)

Company Introduction
We are currently recruiting for an experienced PostgresSQL DBA to join our client on an exciting contract in the finance industry.

Primary Skills:

• Must have hands-on experience as Database Administration specifically with MongoDB, PostgreSQL/Oracle.
• Managing a oracle team
• Working with database software to find ways to store, organise and manage data
• Expert knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL data stores and working with a variety of structures, including JSON and XML
• Experience of software development with distributed data processing technologies including Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Experience in keeping databases up to date, troubleshooting, helping with database design & development, and managing database access.
• Experience in designing maintenance procedures and putting them into operation.
• Liaising with programmers, applications/operational staff, IT project managers and other technical staff
• Managing database security/integrity and backup procedures, implementing security measures.

Secondary Skills:

• Writing reports, documentation, and operating manuals
• Testing and modifying databases to ensure that they operate reliably
• Writing disaster recovery plans and archiving/housekeeping data.
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms, serverless architecture preferable
• Good understanding of software patterns and when/how to apply them
• Knowledge of Kafka will be advantageous
• Experience of working in an Agile/DevOps software development environment
• Have ability to help with mentoring tasks.
• Have experience in working on Support activities.

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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Cardiff | £50,000 - £60,000 | Hybrid (2/3 days onsite) The Opportunity We're supporting a fast-scaling SaaS organisation looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to play a critical role in deploying, monitoring, and operating production systems serving tens of thousands of users. This is a high-impact position, directly influencing customer experience, system reliability, and overall company growth. You'll work within an agile engineering function using modern tooling including AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible. What You'll Be Doing Providing technical thought leadership across Engineering & Architecture Designing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code across dev & prod Building robust observability and monitoring frameworks Supporting uptime/SLAs Designing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters (advanced configuration) Designing and maintaining Kafka clusters (including DR & scaling strategy) Building and optimising CI/CD pipelines Identifying infrastructure vulnerabilities and improving resilience What We're Looking For 3+ years DevOps experience in a SaaS environment Strong AWS expertise Advanced Kubernetes administration Advanced Kafka administration (DR, topic scaling, performance tuning) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform essential) Config management (Ansible, Chef or Puppet) CI/CD tooling (Git, Jenkins or GitHub Actions) Distributed systems knowledge Strong networking knowledge (TCP/UDP, SSL, firewalls) Security-first mindset Prior development experience (ideal) What's On Offer Hybrid working (2/3 days onsite) Benefits Include: Enhanced parental leave Generous annual leave Healthcare plan Cycle-to-work scheme Pension with employer contribution Life assurance (3x salary) Rewards & discounts programme LinkedIn Learning licence Ready to Apply? Contact Lewis Allen or apply to find out more. Please apply with a CV and a cover letter outlining why you're perfect for the role. Know someone great for the job? We offer a referral scheme-just get in touch! Note: We do our best to respond to every application, but due to volume, we can't always guarantee it. If you haven't heard back within 7 days, unfortunately, you haven't been successful this time. Keep an eye on our site for new opportunities

I'm working with a world-class, product-led technology company in Edinburgh to help them find a Data Engineer to join their growing team (hybrid working, typically 1-2 days in the office). This is an opportunity to join a business operating at serious scale, building data systems that power products used by millions of customers. You'll be joining a high-performing data engineering team where data is central to how the organisation makes decisions. The team is responsible for building and maintaining both batch and streaming pipelines that support analytics, machine learning and key business reporting. It's a fully hands-on role in a modern, cloud-first environment, working on scalable, production-grade data solutions. As a Data Engineer, you'll design, develop and maintain reliable data pipelines and infrastructure, with a strong focus on data quality, performance and clean engineering standards. You'll collaborate closely with analysts, data scientists and fellow engineers to deliver high-quality, consumable datasets while contributing to best practices across the wider platform. You'll be working heavily with Python, SQL and Spark, using tools such as Databricks, Airflow, dbt and Kafka within AWS. Experience with modern data stacks is important, along with a solid understanding of data warehousing concepts, ETL/ELT processing, dimensional modelling and both batch and real-time ingestion patterns. Given the scale they operate at, reliability and performance are critical. Experience building robust pipelines, working with orchestration and monitoring tools, and contributing to well-tested, scalable data solutions will be highly valuable. The organisation has grown significantly over the past few years and continues to scale, meaning there is genuine scope for progression as the data function continues to expand. Their office is based in central Edinburgh and offers a great environment for collaboration when onsite. In return, they're offering a competitive salary and an excellent overall benefits package which includes a bonus and unlimited holidays. Hybrid working is standard (ideally 1-2 days in the office). If you're keen to join a fast-growing, data-driven organisation where you can work on systems operating at real scale, please apply or get in touch with Matthew MacAlpine at Cathcart Technology for a chat. Cathcart Technology is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy

About the Role I am working with a growing consultancy delivering high-impact data solutions across secure government and defence environments. Due to continued project wins, we are looking for experienced DV Cleared Data Engineers to join their team.

You will work on mission-critical programmes, designing and building scalable, secure, and high-performing data platforms in AWS environments.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain secure data pipelines and ETL processes

Develop scalable data lake and data warehouse solutions in AWS

Implement infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD for data platforms

Optimise data workflows for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency

Collaborate with architects, analysts, and client stakeholders

Ensure solutions meet strict security and compliance requirementsEssential Skills & Experience

Active DV Clearance (mandatory)

Strong hands-on experience with AWS data services (e.g., S3, Glue, Lambda, Redshift, EMR, RDS)

Proficiency in Python and/or Scala

Experience with SQL and data modelling

Knowledge of infrastructure as code (Terraform / CloudFormation)

Experience building production-grade data pipelines

Strong understanding of security best practices in cloud environmentsDesirable Experience

Experience working within government or defence sectors

Familiarity with DevOps and CI/CD tooling

Containerisation (Docker / Kubernetes)

Streaming technologies (Kafka / Kinesis)What We Offer

Competitive salary (£45,000 – £90,000 depending on experience)

Performance bonus

Flexible working arrangements

Private healthcare

Pension contribution

Ongoing training and AWS certifications

Opportunity to work on high-profile national programmes

LIVE: Senior Data Engineer | Manchester (Hybrid) Global Tech | Long‑Term Data Modernisation Programme I'm working with a global technology organisation embarking on a major, multi‑year data modernisation initiative - and they're looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join their Manchester team on a long‑term contract. If you're a seasoned engineer with strong communication skills and a passion for modern data tooling, this one's for you. Role Details Day Rate: £500-£550 per day (Inside IR35) Start Date: ASAP - ideally early March (latest: end of March) Location: Manchester (Hybrid: 3-4 days onsite, typically Tues-Thurs) Flexibility: Once knowledge transfer is complete → 1 day per week onsite Contract Length: Until end of year (high chance of extension) Interview Process: 2 stages Essential Skills DBT Snowflake Data Vault 2.0 + Dimensional Modelling SQL Server Stack Excellent communication skills (non‑negotiable) ➕ Nice to Have API work Kafka AWS / S3 Grafana Please connect with me on LinkedIn to have early access to future opportunities: 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 Computer Futures please visit Computer Futures, 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 | OC(phone number removed) England and Wales

Job Description:

• We are seeking a Payment Solution Architect with deep experience in banking and payments to own architecture decisions for a suite of payment applications. The role focuses on defining end-to-end solution designs, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, and guiding delivery teams to build scalable, secure, and high-performance payment systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and drive architecture design and decisions across multiple payment applications.
• Define solution vision, system interactions, interfaces, and non-functional requirements.
• Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, governance standards, and regulatory requirements.
• Lead architecture trade-off decisions covering scalability, security, resilience, and availability.
• Act as a trusted advisor to technology leadership, product owners, and delivery teams.
• Drive adoption of architecture standards, patterns, and roadmaps.
• Mentor junior architects and collaborate with global delivery teams.

Required Experience & Skills:

• 20+ years in IT with 10+ years in Solution Architecture.
• 5+ years in Banking / Financial Services, preferably Payments.
• Strong expertise in microservices architecture, cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP), containers, Kafka, and distributed systems.
• Proven experience designing high-throughput, low-latency applications.
• Strong background in architecture governance, design reviews, and decision documentation.
• Experience working across Agile and Waterfall delivery models.

Role Title: PostgreSQL DBA

Location: Manchester Hybrid 3 days on site

Duration: 31/08/2026

Rate - 441

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA

Role Description:

Primary Skills:

• Must have hands on experience as Database Administration specifically with MongoDB, PostgreSQL / Oracle.
• Managing a oracle team
• Working with database software to find ways to store, organise and manage data
• Expert knowledge of RDBMS and NoSQL data stores and working with a variety of structures including JSON and XML
• Experience of software development with distributed data processing technologies including Oracle, MongoDB, PostgreSQL
• Experience in keeping databases up to date, troubleshooting, helping with database design & development, and managing database access.
• Experience in designing maintenance procedures and putting them into operation.
• Liaising with programmers, applications/operational staff, IT project managers and other technical staff
• Managing database security/integrity and backup procedures, implementing security measures.

Secondary Skills:

• Writing reports, documentation, and operating manuals
• Testing and modifying databases to ensure that they operate reliably
• Writing disaster recovery plans and archiving/housekeeping data.
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms, serverless architecture preferable
• Good understanding of software patterns and when/how to apply them
• Knowledge of Kafka will be advantageous
• Experience of working in an Agile/DevOps software development environment
• Have ability to help with mentoring tasks.
• Have experience in working on Support activities.

Role Title: HIP Developer Experience Lead for Internal Cloud

Duration: contract to run until 17/07/2026

Location: Sheffield, 3 days per week onsite

Rate: up to 575.92 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Role purpose / summary

Client Internal Cloud (HIC), IKP (Internal Kubernetes Platform) and Kafka (Event Streaming) are our strategic hosting platforms supporting the fast-growing demand from numerous customers. We have deployed over 15,000 servers in 3 regions underpinning thousands of Technology services.

As a developer experience lead for the HIP platform, you will help to understand and improve the internal customer and developer experience for our strategic platforms, enabling more customer centric solutions.

Your role is to tackle the challenge of the complexity that teams must endure as they integrate technology services into a viable route-to-live. This journey might include runtimes for dev, test and prod; global load balancing; CI/CD mechanism; monitoring, logging, alerting systems; database; file storage; secrets management; team coordination tooling including Confluence and Jira; solutions design documentation; and IT service acceptance documentation.

What you’ll do:

• Work with key platform stakeholders to review existing platforms in HIP for opportunities to implement better customer journeys.
• Assess and compare external platforms (owned by GBGIs, CTO Platforms or other domains) to seek for enhancements opportunities to then implement into HIP platforms.
• Work closely with lead developers, understanding their needs and pain points, and to identify areas for improvement and implement solutions within our HIP infrastructure.
• Facilitate 2-way communication between platform creators and consumers - technical, but good comms / material creation etc.
• Create and maintain efficient tools, platforms, and processes that enable internal developers to build and deploy software more easily.
• May include implementing automation, managing infrastructure as code, building CI/CD pipelines, providing self-service infrastructure, and being a partner to development teams to improve their workflow and remove blockers.
• Maintain and drive strong collaboration between federated domains underpinning internal cloud across CTO, and across the business lines and with vendors.
• Provide technical guidance and support for customers whilst driving deployment consistency.
• Build a developer-centric culture within HIP.

What you need to have to succeed in this role:

• Ability to listen, communicate and learn from others’ experiences
• A strong blend of infrastructure engineering skills and a developer-centric mindset to improve the overall developer productivity and happiness.
• Ability to interface with senior stakeholders to procure the right tools and environments to suit their developers.
• A strong background in development is essential for the role
• Experience of managing teams is highly beneficial, as well as managing or leading programmes of work.
• Experience working within an Agile environment delivering software solutions.
• Experience and working knowledge on HIC/IKP, Hybrid Integration Platform, Software Defined Compute, Storage and Networks.
• Understand of public cloud offerings with preferable experience in building applications on it.
• Experience with providing enterprise strength solutions to manage/operate a globally disperse infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of multiple middleware disciplines (Web Servers, Application Servers, Messaging and Application Lifecycle Management) is highly desirable
• Experience working across cultures and coordinating a globally dispersed team.
• Effective communication, problem solving skills, strategic and pragmatic approach to develop solutions.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamically changing environment.
• Strong People Leadership, Articulation, Strategic Planning and Execution, Networking, and Influencing Skills

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!