Data Product Owner Our trusted client, a leading financial services corporation, with whom we have partnered for several years, is hiring a Data Product Owner to play a pivotal role within their ongoing data modernisation program. The chosen Data Product Owner will be required to create a single source data platform, moving away from MI reporting into modern cloud hybrid services, possessing five years’ experience acting as a dedicated Data Product Owner. The chosen Data Product owner will have strong capabilities in launching data platforms and services, end-to-end delivering large-scale & complex data transformation initiatives, partnering with data engineers, architects, and the CDO. Our client is offering a basic salary of £95,000 + 25% bonus + 28 days holiday + 8% contributory pension + more to be based in Chatham, London, and Wolverhampton on a hybrid basis. To be successful, the chosen Data Product Owner must have strong experience within the financial services domain, coupled with experience of SQL & NoSQL architectures, who has proven experience delivering data transformation initiatives aligning to SAFe/Agile ownership to be considered. Core responsibilities: Define and own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for enterprise data platforms aligned to CDO and business strategy
Partner with SMEs, architects, engineers, and cross-functional leaders to shape high-value data solutions
Translate product vision into a prioritised, value-based delivery roadmap
Develop and validate business cases, presenting to senior stakeholders and C-level committees
Establish clear success metrics, KPIs and measurable outcomes
Lead ideation workshops to identify customer needs, pain points, and innovative solutions
Apply Lean Agile and SAFe practices, collaborating across Program Increment (PI) cycles
Champion best practice across data products, including: BI dashboards and reporting
Data APIs and feeds
Cloud and hybrid data platforms
ML models and services
Data models and governance frameworks
Master data management
Act as the voice of the Data Platform, aligning technical capability with business demand
Ensure full compliance with Risk and Data Governance policies
Essential experience: Minimum 5 years’ experience within financial services, acting as a dedicated Product Owner, must have.
Defining and launching enterprise data platforms and services end-to-end must have
Delivering large-scale data transformation initiatives must have
SQL and NoSQL architectures are nice to have
Cloud or hybrid data platforms (Azure experience desirable)
Financial modelling, ROI definition, and KPI-driven decision making
Working with senior stakeholders and influencing without authority
Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery methodologies is a must-have
Two-stage interview to start asap. Data Product Owner

Our exciting client is seeking an Engineering Lead to build and lead small, high-performing Agile teams (4-8 engineers) delivering secure, scalable solutions within the UK National Security (NatSec) domain

Engineering Lead - AI, Cloud & National Security

Package - £110,000 - £120,000 + dv bonus + excellent package

Location - Cheltenham - Hybrid

Clearance - eDV Clearance Required

Overview

This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture, software engineering, and team leadership, with a focus on Software, AI, data platforms, and cloud-native systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor Agile engineering teams, driving high-quality, rapid delivery (DevSecOps)
• Own solution architecture, designing for secure and constrained environments.
• Lead the implementation of the “underpinning tech” for AI, including data pipelines.
• Act as a trusted advisor to UK Government stakeholders.
• Define technical roadmaps and support cloud transformation (AWS/Azure)

Core Skills

• Background in UK National Security / Defence / Government.
• Strong leadership experience in software engineering teams.
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java (+ TypeScript/Node.js desirable)
• Expertise in AWS or Azure, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)
• Strong grounding in SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB)
• Experience with CI/CD, microservices, TDD/BDD.
• Knowledge of secure system design.

Desirable (AI & Data)

• Vector DBs: Milvus, Weaviate, Pinecone
• Data orchestration: Airflow, Prefect, Dagster
• Search: ElasticSearch / OpenSearch
• AI frameworks: LangChain, Hugging Face
• MLOps: MLflow, Kubeflow

If you are looking for an opportunity to work on mission-critical systems at the forefront of UK National Security? Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.

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Lead Developer - C# .NET / AWS / Angular - Hybrid - Nottingham - £60,000 - £70,000

The Role

An exciting and innovative software house is looking for a Lead Developer to join their growing technology team.

This is a true 50/50 role, combining hands-on engineering with people leadership. You’ll remain close to the codebase, designing and building modern applications, while also leading, mentoring, and developing a mature team of engineers.

You’ll play a key role in shaping technical direction, driving best practices, and ensuring high-quality, scalable solutions are delivered globally. Alongside dedicated time for out-and-out coding, you’ll take ownership of team performance, support career development, and maintain a strong engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

Hands-on development using C# .NET, Angular, AWS and NoSQL

Lead and mentor a team of developers (1-to-1s, coaching, performance support, managerial admin)

Drive engineering best practices, code quality, and delivery standards

Support Agile delivery and continuous improvement

Contribute to architectural decisions and system design

Requirements

Strong experience with C# ASP.NET / .NET (9/10)

AWS (Azure may be considered)

TypeScript & Angular (18+)

NoSQL databases

Proven experience in a technical leadership in a lead developer role (or demonstratable experience leading others in a Senior position)

Experience mentoring developers and conducting 1-to-1s

Strong experience working in Agile environments

Desirable Skills

Messaging systems (RabbitMQ / MassTransit)

Experience with TDD / DDD principles

Microservices architecture

Maths or Physics background

The Company

The company is a leading software development firm creating nuanced solutions for the manufacturing sector. With ongoing investment in modernisation and cloud technologies, engineers are empowered to shape and drive technical delivery.

They have performed well throughout a turbulent economy, continuing a steady rate of growth and keeping the business moving forward. Tech is central to what they do so you will be given a range of tools and resources with full backing to go and determine what is the best development process on certain projects.

The salary for this role is between £60,000 - £70,000. This is a hybrid position offering 3 days WFH per week, alongside an excellent benefits package including a 5% matched pension scheme, life and critical illness cover, salary-sacrifice options, free parking, flexi time, plus 25 days holiday (increasing with service) plus bank holidays plus more.

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If you’re a Lead Developer, or Senior Developer looking to step up, who enjoys balancing hands-on coding with team leadership and wants to play a key role in delivering complex systems, this is a fantastic opportunity.

Apply now and don’t miss out!

Lead Developer - C# .NET / AWS / Angular - Hybrid - Nottingham - £60,000 - £70,000

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Software Engineer (Golang / AWS) Our client based in Greater Manchester is currently looking for skilled Golang Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure, high-performance software solutions in AWS. You will work closely with architects, front-end developers, QA, and product teams to deliver scalable services. This includes developing microservices, RESTful APIs, and leveraging serverless technologies while applying engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities: Build and maintain robust, scalable backend solutions using Go.

Develop serverless applications in AWS (Lambda, SST).

Implement CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

Build and document APIs using OpenAPI standards.

Work with NoSQL data stores, including DynamoDB.

Apply strong security principles in all software design.

Collaborate in Agile squads to deliver solutions efficiently.

Explore GenAI tools to accelerate development.

Skills & Experience:

Proven experience developing software using Go.

Experience with AWS serverless architecture.

CI/CD and automated testing expertise.

RESTful API and microservices development.

Familiarity with DynamoDB or similar NoSQL databases.

Comfortable communicating complex technical issues clearly.

Knowledge of Agile/Lean methodologies.

What We Offer:

Hybrid working to balance remote and on-site time.

Career growth opportunities in a high-impact fintech environment.

Competitive benefits including pension, 2328 days holiday, wellness and charity days, birthday and wedding leave.

Interested? Please Click Apply Now!Software Engineer (Golang / AWS)

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Fully remote working for UK based Developer, candidates must have full UK working rights.

Salary 50k to 60k plus benefits

We are recruiting for a new Full Stack .Net Developer role for a Real-time Data Monitoring company based in the UK.

This company are looking for a Full Stack Developer with a strong background in C# and .Net technologies to join their remote development team. They produce a number of realtime data monitor services used by companies across the globe.

They are building a new set of products for the North American market as well as new services for their European customers.

This company are entering a lucrative scale-up time over the next 24 months (they are cash rich, profitable, self funded business) and this is an opportunity to join a small but growing development team, with an established product, who are hiring new developers to help build the next generation of their online data monitoring platform. This is a great time for somebody to join the team and who is looking for a fresh challenge in an exciting online company.

Ideally they are looking for a developer with a strong background in C#, .Net core, NoSQL databases, ElasticSearch and with some experience of building asynchronous, event-driven systems in Lambda + SQS, or equivalent patterns.

Ideal skills:

• Experience building systems with real users in production
• Strong, modern C# / .NET experience in production systems
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred; Azure / GCP also relevant)
• Experience building asynchronous, event-driven systems (e.g. Lambda + SQS, or equivalent patterns)
• Solid understanding of data modelling across relational and non-relational stores (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, Elasticsearch)
• Experience applying architectural patterns such as CQRS where appropriate
• Comfortable working with containerised applications (Docker)
• Proven experience designing and building secure, reliable APIs
• Testing mindset: writes maintainable, meaningful automated tests
• Comfortable working in modern development workflows (Git, CI/CD, code reviews)

Nice to haves:

• Experience with React
• Strong CSS / SASS skills and an eye for UI quality

If you are interested then please apply with your CV for immediate interview?

Data Product Owner (SQL/NoSQL)
Our trusted client, who we have partnered with for several years is hiring a Data Product Owner to play a pivotal role in the data modernisation programme. The chosen Data Product owner will have strong capabilities in launching data platforms and services end to end delivering large scale & complex data transformation initiatives partnering with data engineers, architects and the CDO. Our client is offering a basic salary of 95,000 + 25% bonus + 28 days holiday + 8% contributory pension + more to be based in Chatham, London and Wolverhampton on a hybrid basis.

To be successfully, the chosen Data Product Owner must have strong experience within the financial services domain coupled with experience of SQL & NoSQL architectures who has proven experience delivering data transformation initiatives aligning to SAFe/Agile ownership to be considered.

The ideal candidate will be will be a seasoned data leader or senior architect / analyst with a blend of experience across data, focusing on identifying and delivering value as part of a large-scale transformation initiative
Core responsibilities:

• Define and own the vision, strategy and roadmap for enterprise data platforms aligned to CDO and business strategy
• Partner with SMEs, architects, engineers and cross-functional leaders to shape high-value data solutions
• Translate product vision into a prioritised, value-based delivery roadmap
• Develop and validate business cases, presenting to senior stakeholders and C-level committees
• Establish clear success metrics, KPIs and measurable outcomes
• Lead ideation workshops to identify customer needs, pain points and innovative solutions
• Apply Lean Agile and SAFe practices, collaborating across Program Increment (PI) cycles

Champion best practice across data products including:

• BI dashboards and reporting
• Data APIs and feeds
• Cloud and hybrid data platforms
• ML models and services
• Data models and governance frameworks
• Master data management
• Act as the voice of the Data Platform, aligning technical capability with business demand
• Ensure full compliance with Risk and Data Governance policies

Essential experience:

• Defining and launching enterprise data platforms and services end-to-end
• Delivering large-scale data transformation initiatives
• SQL and NoSQL architectures
• Cloud or hybrid data platforms (Azure experience desirable)
• Financial modelling, ROI definition and KPI-driven decision making
• Working with senior stakeholders and influencing without authority
• Agile, Lean and continuous delivery methodologies

Data Product Owner (SQL/NoSQL)

Glasgow (2-3 days p/w on site)

£80,000 p/a

Overview

An excellent opportunity to join a well-regarded Ed-Tech organisation with a strong presence in Glasgow. You will have the opportunity to shape and build solutions used by students across the globe. Build and evolve a cloud-based product used at meaningful scale. This is a senior, hands-on role for an engineer who enjoys shaping technical direction, raising engineering standards, and helping multiple squads deliver reliably without stepping away from the code.

Responsibilities

Design, build and maintain production services and customer-facing features, from early discovery through to release and operation.

Provide technical leadership across multiple squads: clarify goals, reduce ambiguity and help teams converge on pragmatic solutions.

Partner closely with Product and Design to turn outcomes into shippable increments, keeping communication crisp and expectations aligned.

Set a high bar for engineering quality: architecture, code health, testing discipline, observability and operational readiness.

Work with reliability/operations colleagues to improve uptime, performance, incident response and capacity planning.

Own and improve delivery ways of working: estimation approaches, planning, prioritisation, and predictable execution against epics.

Continuously modernise existing systems; simplify, automate, and remove friction to increase delivery speed.

Contribute to the technical roadmap for your domain, balancing near-term delivery with longer-term platform evolution.

Collaborate on cross-cutting initiatives such as security, data and applied AI where they improve product outcomes.

Required Experience

Significant commercial software engineering experience, operating at a senior/staff level.

Comfort leading through influence: you can align teams, coach engineers, and drive decisions without relying on hierarchy.

A strong sense of ownership and follow-through. You should be comfortable being accountable for outcomes, not just tasks.

A bias for action paired with good judgement: you can move quickly while managing risk in production systems.

Evidence of improving how teams work (quality, delivery, reliability, developer experience) and challenging the status quo constructively.

Clear communicator who can tailor detail for different audiences: engineers, product partners and leadership.

Deep capability in at least one mainstream programming language and ecosystem, with the range to be effective in others.

Practical experience designing and running cloud-native services, including infrastructure, deployment and operational tooling.

Confidence diagnosing complex issues in distributed systems (performance, reliability, tricky production defects).

Strong grasp of data storage and access patterns, with hands-on experience across relational and/or NoSQL databases.

Comfort working with modern engineering practices: automated testing, code review, CI/CD, observability and secure-by-design thinking.

Curiosity about emerging approaches (including applied and agentic AI) and the ability to adopt them responsibly where they add value.

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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Scala Developer with solid functional programming understanding is sought on a remote basis by an international software house based in the UK.

This Scala Developer would be joining the innovation arm of the business tasked with building complex, highly scalable greenfield solutions utilised worldwide to deliver critical infrastructure. As such experience working on enterprise level applications would be a plus.

This Scala Developer will be joining a collaborative, continuous improvement focussed environment working within a mature estate but with scope to upskill in modern automation & containerisation technology.

With a real commitment to employee wellbeing and personal development this Scala Developer can expect long term commitment to remote, flexible working and a clearing defined progression path with 2 self promotion opportunities a year alongside companywide commitment to wellbeing by providing a best in class physical and mental wellbeing program.

This Scala Developer should have most of the following key skills:

• At least three years commercial scala programming
• Strong framework experience (Akka, Play etc)
• Relational database experience - PostgreSQL - MongoDB, NoSQL
• RESTful API design and integration experience
• Solid unit test understanding - Spec2, scalaTest etc
• Experience working in a TDD/ BDD driven environment
• Containerization experience - Docker, Kubernetes etc
• Awareness of cloud technologies would be useful

This Scala Developer will receive:

• Starting salary of up to £80,000
• Long term remote working
• Company ownership shares
• electric company car scheme
• long term hybrid working
• Flexible working hours
• 2 promotion and salary review opportunities each year
• Best in class physical & mental wellbeing scheme
• Private pension scheme
• Training and personal development budget and time allocation
• Wellbeing protection (death in service, critical illness cover, income protection)
• Extensive career progression opportunities
• 25 days holiday plus bank holiday with holiday buy & sell scheme
• Choice of technology

So if you are a Senior Scala Developer who likes the idea of building enterprise applications within a well-established friendly team then please apply now to be considered and for further details.

Scala Developer
Up to £80,000
Scala, REST Api, NoSQL, TDD/ BDD, functional programming, CI/CD, Play, Akka

Our client based in Greater Manchester is currently looking for skilled Golang Software Engineer to design, develop, and maintain secure, high-performance software solutions in AWS. You will work closely with architects, front-end developers, QA, and product teams to deliver scalable services. This includes developing microservices, RESTful APIs, and leveraging serverless technologies while applying engineering best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain robust, scalable backend solutions using Go.
• Develop serverless applications in AWS (Lambda, SST).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Build and document APIs using OpenAPI standards.
• Work with NoSQL data stores, including DynamoDB.
• Apply strong security principles in all software design.
• Collaborate in Agile squads to deliver solutions efficiently.
• Explore GenAI tools to accelerate development.

Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience developing software using Go.
• Experience with AWS serverless architecture.
• CI/CD and automated testing expertise.
• RESTful API and microservices development.
• Familiarity with DynamoDB or similar NoSQL databases.
• Comfortable communicating complex technical issues clearly.
• Knowledge of Agile/Lean methodologies.

What We Offer:

• Hybrid working to balance remote and on-site time.
• Career growth opportunities in a high-impact fintech environment.
• Competitive benefits including pension, 2328 days holiday, wellness and charity days, birthday and wedding leave.

Interested? Please Click Apply Now!Software Engineer (Golang / AWS)

+8 months +Hybrid in Reading +Inside IR35 +£80 - £85 ph +SC cleared role Skills: +MOD +Data Engineer +Python We're seeking an adaptable, proactive Senior Data Engineer to build and scale data capabilities within a greenfield environment across critical Defence and Aerospace programmes. ⚠️ Essential Requirement: You must have hands-on experience working with aerospace engineering or operational data-such as aircraft platform data, sensor outputs, test datasets, or other high-volume technical data sources. This is a key role where you'll help shape secure, scalable data platforms from the ground up, so a can-do attitude, adaptability, and a passion for innovation are vital. What You'll Be Doing Design, build, and maintain end-to-end data solutions (ingestion, integration, storage, processing, analysis) Develop data pipelines, automation, and analytical tools to drive insight Work with complex aerospace datasets in secure, mission-critical environments Research and implement emerging data technologies Collaborate with Data Scientists, DevOps, Analysts, and Cyber teams Support machine learning workflows and deployment Work across cloud platforms and secure environments Lead small work packages and mentor junior engineers Contribute to architecture and design decisions What You'll Bring Proven experience as a Data Engineer, with ownership of deliverables Essential: Experience working with aerospace engineering or sensor data Strong Python and SQL skills, including pipeline optimisation Solid understanding of SQL & NoSQL database architectures Experience with ETL pipelines and orchestration tools Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) Exposure to Docker and APIs Ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate effectively Strong problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills

\* Leading Digital Transformation Consultancy \* Hybrid-working (Manchester + Home-based) \* c£60,000 to £75,000 per year (DOE) \* Plus an excellent company benefits package (including Private Healthcare, Bonuses, Professional Accreditations and Subscriptions, 25 days Annual Leave + Bank Holidays, etc.) The Opportunity: We are supporting a leading IT Consultancy operating at the forefront of digital services and transformation across the UK public sector are seeking an experienced Senior Data Engineer to play a key role in designing and delivering modern, scalable data platforms that support critical national services. Working within collaborative, multi-disciplinary teams, you will take ownership of end-to-end data engineering delivery across greenfield and transformation initiatives. You will influence technical direction, guide engineering best practice, and support the development of high-quality, robust data services that operate at enterprise scale. You will be consulting across modern cloud ecosystems and data technologies, with opportunities to deepen expertise in Python, SQL, cloud-native data tooling, orchestration platforms and streaming technologies across AWS, Azure and GCP. Skills and Experience: \* Proven experience delivering production-grade data engineering solutions within complex environments \* Strong Python skills for building, testing and operating scalable data pipelines \* Experience working with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) \* Strong SQL expertise and experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL or Microsoft SQL Server \* Experience working with NoSQL technologies such as DynamoDB, MongoDB or similar \* Hands‑on Kafka (or equivalent streaming) and workflow orchestration (Airflow) experience \* Strong understanding of data architecture patterns including data lakes, warehouses and event-driven architectures \* Experience of consulting across Agile delivery environments, implementing data quality, validation and monitoring frameworks Role and Responsibilities: \* Lead the design, build and delivery of data platforms and services across the full engineering lifecycle \* Own technical delivery of data pipelines, models and platform components, ensuring solutions are robust, scalable and maintainable \* Design, develop and deploy ETL/ELT pipelines to ingest, transform and optimise large-scale datasets \* Build and operate event‑driven architectures (Kafka) and orchestrate workflows (Airflow) \* Apply strong data architecture principles across data lakes, warehouses and event-driven solutions \* Develop and maintain streaming pipelines using technologies such as Kafka \* Implement monitoring and observability solutions using tooling such as Prometheus and Grafana \* Ensure data quality, validation and governance processes are built into engineering workflows \* Act as a trusted technical advisor to clients and stakeholders (client-facing), translating business requirements into robust engineering solutions \* Support delivery planning activities, including estimation, risk identification and dependency management \* Mentor and support other engineers, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence Applications: Please contact Edward Laing here at ISR to learn more about our client and how they are leading the way in developing the next generation of technical solutions through innovation and transformational technology?