Delivery Manager | Public Sector

• Rate: £480 per day
• IR35: Inside IR35
• Contract: 3-month rolling contract
• Location: Remote with 1 day per month on-site in Newcastle (nice to have, not essential)

We are currently seeking an experienced Delivery Manager to support a Government client on a contract basis.

This role requires a hands-on Delivery Manager who is comfortable operating across Scrum and Kanban environments, with strong, practical delivery management experience. This is not a role suited to Agile Coaches or candidates who position themselves solely as Scrum Masters rather than Delivery or Project Managers.

Key Requirements

• Proven experience as a Delivery Manager within Agile delivery environments
• Hands-on experience working with Scrum and Kanban
• Strong end-to-end delivery management capability
• Previous Government / Public Sector experience
• Ability to work pragmatically within established frameworks and governance

Security Clearance

• BPSS clearance required (minimum)

Contract Details

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to meaningful public sector delivery work while operating in a flexible, largely remote environment.

Cadent Gas Ltd Secure our digital future through identity excellence As an IAM Technical Analyst, you will be reporting into the Identity & Access Management team and working closely with internal IT teams and external partners supporting delivery of Cadent’s IAM roadmap into an ITIL disciplined environment, delivering IT services in a multisource model to an enterprise of 7000+ employees and external workers in a regulated utility. The IAM team aim to enhance the user experience for colleagues by simplifying, improving, and automating access to systems & data for our digital identities including Privileged Access Management (PAM). We work with internal and external partners to improve provisioning and revocation of access to resources, ensuring access is authenticated and limited, based upon principle of least privilege. Accountable for the ongoing development and deployment of automated access management processes and integrations focussed on Cadent’s non-SAP platforms and systems (Microsoft Active Directory, Entra ID and MS 365). We aim to enhance governance to improve management of digital identities including privileged access, protecting Cadent’s network to meet regulatory obligations (NCSC CAF), aligned to strategy and best practice. Why you’ll love this role: This is a hands-on technical role, where you will be working with industry standard tools where your skills and expertise will involve: Technical delivery – Implement, support and optimization of IAM and PAM services across the enterprise including SSO enablement of new SaaS applications and technical input and support to other projects and programmes.
Technical assurance – ensuring Change Management process is adhered to and technically validated to protect live service.
Security & Compliance – Ensure alignment with NCSC CAF and regulatory obligations, development, management and adherence to IAM Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), support for internal and external IAM security audits.
Automation & Integration – Drive improvements in provisioning, revocation, and access governance.
Collaborative culture – Collaborate across IT, business, and vendor teams to deliver secure solutions.
Continuous Improvement – Champion innovation and efficiency in identity management including maintenance plans and roadmaps to maintain the health of services. What you’ll bring: Education & Certifications – Degree in IT or Cybersecurity, ITIL Foundation, and ideally CIAM, CISSP or CISM. Extensive hands-on experience in IT; specifically, Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Entra ID and MS 365, with a good knowledge of system technologies, monitoring tools, processes, and incident handling in a 24x7x365 support environment. Experience of configuring, implementing, developing, and supporting complex solutions. Evidence of vendor/ stakeholder management qualities. Technical curiosity, ensuring continuous skills refresh, with cutting edge and new to market technologies explored, understood, and assessed. Experience and understanding with different delivery methods and tools including Waterfall, Agile, SCRUM, Prince2, KANBAN and JIRA. Experience of building relationships and working with a variety of stakeholders, supported by interpersonal and communication skills at all levels, with the ability to translate complex IT issues into business related vocabulary. Experience and understanding of ITIL framework and ITSM tools, specifically ServiceNow. Experience working in a regulated utility industry desired. Experience and understanding of UK Data Privacy legislation Technical knowledge or qualifications highly desirable in the following areas: Identity and Access Management, specifically Microsoft Active Directory (AD), Entra ID and MS 365 including Entra Connect, app registrations, certificate and password management for user and machine authentication. Deep knowledge of SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, SCIM, MFA and federation protocols. HR Provisioning, specifically SAP SuccessFactors to AD / Entra ID). Experience with Microsoft Entra ID Conditional Access, Defender for Identity, and Entra Permissions Management including PIM. Strong understanding of Cyber security principles including zero-trust, privileged access management (PAM), Just-In-Time (JIT) access, Role Based Access Control and adaptive authentication. Privileged Access Management, specifically CyberArk suite. Experience of integrating applications with IGA solutions using a variety of APIs and protocols such as Web service protocols REST/SOAP, LDAP, csv. Hands-on experience with identity automation; PowerShell scripting / MS Graph API, and other API-based integrations. Data Lifecycle management tools such as Microsoft Defender & Microsoft Purview. NCSC Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF). DevOps and cloud security best practices in AWS/Azure environments

Technical Lead - Digital & Technology Consulting

A leading global innovation and transformation consultancy is looking for an experienced Technical Lead to join its growing technology practice. This role suits someone who enjoys solving complex problems, leading engineering teams, and delivering high-impact digital solutions across diverse industries.

What youll be doing as a Technical Lead:

• Leading the technical delivery of complex, cloud-based solutions
• Acting as a hands-on technical authority across architecture, development and troubleshooting
• Mentoring engineers and promoting modern engineering best practices
• Working closely with clients to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
• Driving continuous improvement across the full software delivery lifecycle

What they are looking for in a Technical Lead:

• Proven experience as a Technical Lead or Senior engineer
• Strong software engineering and system design background
• Experience delivering enterprise applications on AWS, Azure or GCP
• Proficiency in JavaScript, Java or .NET
• Agile delivery experience (Scrum / Kanban)
• Knowledge of DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and modern testing practices
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills

Whats on offer:

• Flexible working with autonomy over schedule
• Competitive salary and performance-related bonus
• 25 days annual leave plus buy options
• Excellent pension, healthcare and wellbeing benefits
• Purpose-led work with clear career progression

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Senior Software Engineer - EdTech / Learning Platforms Belfast / Remote (UK)

About the Company

A fast-growing technology company delivering learning and training solutions to some of the world’s largest organisations across finance, insurance, and tech. Their platforms are central to the company’s growth strategy - enabling them to scale delivery, expand into new markets, and support learners globally. Every person on the team plays a meaningful role, with real ownership and room to grow.

The Role

You’ll join the platform engineering team as a senior technical voice, shaping how they build, evolve, and scale the systems that underpin the business. Beyond writing great code, you’ll set the technical bar - mentoring engineers, driving architectural decisions, and leading initiatives from inception through to production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve software underpinning a modern learning platform
• Lead technical design and architecture of significant features and components
• Mentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering high standards and continuous improvement
• Own and drive projects end-to-end - scoping, planning, delivery
• Deliver full-stack features: Rust, TypeScript/Node.js on the backend, React/ on the frontend
• Build cloud-native, scalable solutions on AWS using managed and serverless services
• Define and maintain infrastructure using Terraform
• Write high-quality, well-tested code (TDD)
• Own CI/CD pipelines for fast, safe deployments
• Work in a trunk-based development model with small, frequent changes

Required

• 5+ years commercial engineering experience at senior level
• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript, particularly Node.js
• React and for modern web applications
• Hands-on AWS experience
• Terraform or similar IaC tools
• PostgreSQL and DynamoDB (or equivalent)
• Agile team experience (Kanban or similar)
• Solid understanding of automated testing and CI/CD
• System design experience - distributed systems, API design, architectural trade-offs
• Track record leading technical projects end-to-end
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to team culture

Nice to Have

• Rust backend experience
• Exposure to education or training platforms
• Experience with AI-powered developer tools and agentic workflows
• Curiosity about AI, data, and emerging tech

Salary & Benefits

Competitive salary, professional development, and a collaborative, fast-moving environment.

Benefits:
Work From Home

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

Job Title: Product Owner

Location: Home based (With occasional travel to Bristol)

Contract Type: 6 months - possibility for extension

About the Role

We’re looking for a Product Owner to help shape and deliver digital products that make a real difference to customers’ everyday lives.

Working within the utilities sector, you’ll play a key role in improving how customers interact with essential services - from billing and account management to service requests and digital journeys. You’ll take ownership of product delivery end-to-end, working with cross-functional teams to build reliable, user-focused solutions in a regulated environment.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys balancing customer needs, business goals, and operational realities - and wants to drive meaningful change in an industry that impacts millions.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Owning the product vision and roadmap for key digital products
• Managing and prioritising the product backlog to deliver maximum value
• Working closely with engineering, design, operations, and stakeholders across the business
• Leading Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews)
• Translating complex business and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable user stories
• Driving improvements to customer journeys across digital platforms
• Using data and customer feedback to continuously optimise products
• Supporting product releases and ensuring smooth go-lives
• Identifying and managing risks, particularly in relation to service continuity and compliance

What We’re Looking For

• Experience working as a Product Owner in a digital environment
• Strong understanding of Agile ways of working (Scrum, Kanban)
• Ability to manage stakeholders and communicate effectively across technical and non-technical teams
• A customer-first mindset with a passion for improving user experience
• Confidence working in complex or regulated environments (utilities, energy, water, or similar is a plus)
• Strong prioritisation and decision-making skills
• Comfortable using data to inform product decisions

Nice to Have

• Experience within the utilities or energy sector
• Knowledge of regulatory environments (e.g. Ofgem or similar bodies)
• Exposure to legacy system integration or large-scale transformation programmes

Apply now!

Please be advised: if you haven’t heard from us within 48 hours, then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion. We may, however, keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies and contact you accordingly.

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

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by leveraging Salesforce Financial Services Cloud (FSC) to support adviser, customer and operational journeys across our Life, Wealth and Retirement propositions.

Job Purpose

The Business Analyst will play a key role in enabling business change through the delivery of Salesforce Financial Services Cloud solutions. You will work closely with business stakeholders, product teams and Salesforce engineering teams to define, shape and support the implementation of end-to-end financial services processes within Salesforce and its integrated ecosystem.

This role bridges business and technology, ensuring that Customer and Colleagues requirements are clearly articulated, aligned to FSC capabilities and data models, and traceable from business outcomes through to Salesforce configuration, development and testing.
The Business Analyst drives continuous improvement of customer and colleague experience through the business process reengineering, modernisation and adoption of automation (including AI).

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners and Salesforce delivery teams to identify and define business needs aligned to Salesforce FSC capabilities
• Translate business objectives into Salesforce-focused requirements, including epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria and functional specifications
• Support prioritisation of Salesforce backlog items based on business value, customer outcomes, regulatory considerations and delivery constraints
• Act as a key liaison between business teams, Salesforce platform teams and third-party suppliers to agree scope, solution design and delivery approach
• Analyse and document end-to-end financial services processes (e.g. onboarding, servicing, advice, case management), identifying opportunities to optimise through Salesforce FSC
• Ensure requirements align to Salesforce FSC data models, data quality standards and integration patterns
• Maintain high-quality analysis artefacts to support traceability from business outcomes through to Salesforce build and testing
• Support testing activities by ensuring clear acceptance criteria and validating delivered Salesforce functionality against business expectations
• Contribute to continuous improvement of Salesforce processes, features and ways of working
• Champion the use Salesforce across the business, supporting ongoing adoption and embedding.

Key Accountabilities

• Enable successful delivery of Salesforce FSC initiatives that meet defined business, customer and regulatory needs
• Manage and engage stakeholders to shape Salesforce-driven change and ensure shared understanding of outcomes
• Ensure Salesforce solutions comply with legal, regulatory and governance requirements relevant to the Life & Wealth industry
• Produce business analysis deliverables that meet audit, traceability and quality standards
• Apply strong analytical and data analysis skills to understand complex Salesforce-led processes and data flows
• Support feedback loops and retrospectives to improve Salesforce delivery and adoption
• Drive continuous improvement of customer and colleague experience through business process reengineering and adoption of tools such as automation (including AI), whilst driving re-use across the organisation.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst within financial services, ideally Life, Group Protection, Wealth or Retirement
• Hands-on experience working on Salesforce platforms, preferably Financial Services Cloud
• Strong understanding of Salesforce FSC concepts, including customer and household models, servicing journeys and case management
• Experience defining requirements for Salesforce configuration, customisation and integrations
• Experience with Lean or Systems Thinking methodologies for process improvement and collaboration, driving efficiency and removing failure demand and waste, identifying opportunities for automation, AI or other relevant tools.
• Ability to analyse and map end-to-end business processes and data flows within a Salesforce ecosystem
• Experience working with Agile delivery approaches (Scrum, Kanban) and familiarity with Waterfall where appropriate
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate complex Salesforce concepts to non-technical audiences
• Experience supporting testing activities and validating Salesforce solutions against business requirements
• Familiarity with regulated environments and applying regulatory considerations to system and process design
• Deep understanding of regulatory, security, and data protection requirements relevant to Salesforce solutions in the financial services sector.
• Strong partnership with technical leads to ensure business requirements are technically feasible and aligned with best practice in security, data management, and DevOps
• Resourceful, detail-oriented and comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving Salesforce delivery environment

Benefits of working at Canada Life

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that’s regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

How we work at Canada Life

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward.

We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That’s why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

“At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.” Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.

Senior Product Manager - Digital Consultancy

We are partnering with a growing digital consultancy that helps organisations deliver meaningful digital transformation through user-centred design, data-driven decision making and modern engineering practices.

This organisation works closely with public and private sector clients to solve complex problems, improve services and deliver measurable outcomes. Their teams operate in truly agile environments, combining strategy, product thinking and delivery expertise to build services that work in the real world.

They are now looking to hire Senior Product Managers to join their expanding consulting practice.

The Role:

As a Senior Product Manager, you will play a key role in translating client goals into successful digital products and services. Youll shape product vision, define roadmaps and lead multidisciplinary teams through discovery, delivery and continuous improvement.

This is a senior consulting position where you will influence stakeholders, mentor teams and champion user-centred approaches across engagements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and communicate clear product visions aligned to client objectives
• Develop and manage product roadmaps and prioritised backlogs
• Lead multidisciplinary delivery teams in agile environments
• Engage senior stakeholders to build alignment and secure buy-in
• Support teams by removing blockers and protecting delivery focus
• Translate complex business needs into actionable product outcomes
• Facilitate workshops, collaboration sessions and decision-making forums
• Advocate for user-centred design and evidence-based product decisions
• Coach colleagues and clients to strengthen product capability

About You:

• Lead and motivate specialist teams toward shared outcomes
• Use data and evidence to drive product decisions
• Build consensus across diverse stakeholder groups
• Make confident decisions when alignment cannot be reached
• Balance user needs with constraints such as policy, risk and security
• Work effectively across delivery frameworks such as Scrum or Kanban
• Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences
• Facilitate engaging workshops both remotely and in person
• Mentor others and build lasting product capability within teams

Due to the consulting nature of the role, occasional travel to client sites or offices may be required depending on project needs.

Whats on Offer:

• Competitive salary package
• Contributory pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Flexible benefits options including health cover and additional leave
• Life assurance and critical illness cover
• Cycle to work and electric vehicle schemes
• Season ticket loan options
• Wellbeing and financial support programmes
• Volunteer days and community initiatives
• Access to employee discounts platform

Ok I’m In What’s Next?
Please apply with your latest CV