Canada Life UK has helped individuals, families and businesses secure their financial futures for over 120 years. We are evolving into a more modern, customer-centric, and engineering-led organisation. As we modernise our IT estate and shifting our focus towards cloud, SaaS/PaaS, and product-centric delivery models, we are creating engineering excellence and empowered teams.

Job Purpose

We are looking for Ruby on Rails Software Engineers to join our Home Finance Product Engineering team, who look after the systems that power our mortgage origination and servicing capabilities.

Why join us?

• Shape the future of Home Finance - Play a pivotal role in evolving our bespoke Ruby on Rails-based mortgage origination and servicing platform, building modern, resilient and scalable solutions critical to our Home Finance business.
• True empowerment and autonomy - You will work in a stream aligned product team with real influence over how we design, build and operate our applications. You’ll collaborate closely with your Engineering Manager, Product Owner and fellow engineers to deliver outcomes that matter.
• Modern engineering focus - Design, build, test, deploy and support software using agile and DevOps practices. You’ll contribute to automation, CI/CD pipelines and continuous improvement of our route to production.

Key Duties/Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy and support features on our Ruby on Rails, MySQL and JavaScript based mortgage platform.
• Participate fully in development activities - writing code, reviewing code and releasing changes into production within your product team.
• Work closely with your Product Owner, Engineering Manager and engineering colleagues to deliver secure, stable and scalable solutions that support Home Finance operations and customer outcomes.
• Apply agile and DevOps practices, balancing build and run responsibilities and improving reliability through automation and better engineering practices.
• Build, configure and support automated CI/CD pipelines across all environments up to and including production.
• Ensure deliverables meet Canada Life engineering standards and best practice, measured through OKRs, KRIs and engineering guardrails.
• Contribute to risk management, security, monitoring and troubleshooting in line with company, regulatory and legal requirements.
• Take ownership of your learning path, continuously building skills that benefit your team and platforms.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

Technical

• Ruby on Rails experience building MVC applications and APIs.
• Relational SQL databases (e.g. MySQL), including schema design, performance considerations and effective querying.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals including design, analysis, testing, code quality and secure coding.
• Experience designing, building, testing, deploying and supporting software using agile and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD).
• Understanding of cloud platforms, particularly Azure; experience with GCP is also valuable.
• Awareness of security practices, monitoring and troubleshooting in production environments.

Desirable

• Experience with React or other modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Exposure to containerisation and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in regulated financial services or mortgage origination/administration systems.

How you work

• Strong teamwork, communication and problem solving skills, able to collaborate across cross functional teams.
• Comfortable working within an agile development methodology and contributing to continuous improvement.
• Ability to plan and organise your work, prioritising effectively and taking responsibility for quality and integrity.
• Good judgement in problem solving and decision-making, able to identify root causes and propose pragmatic solutions.
• A mindset of continuous learning and staying up to date with evolving technologies and industry trends.

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.

This job is with State Street, an inclusive employer and a member of myGwork – the largest global platform for the LGBTQ+ business community. Please do not contact the recruiter directly.

We are seeking an Analytics‑focused Data Engineer to design and build trusted, analytics‑ready datasets on a modern AWS and Databricks data platform. This role is critical to enabling business intelligence, reporting, and advanced analytics by transforming raw data into well‑modeled, high‑quality, and performant analytics layers.

You will work closely with analytics, BI, finance, and product teams to ensure data is easy to consume, well understood, and reliable for decision‑making at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Analytics‑Ready Data Modeling

Design and implement analytics‑optimized data models (fact/dimension, star/snowflake schemas).

Build and maintain curated analytics layers (gold tables) in Databricks using Delta Lake.

Translate business requirements into clear, reusable datasets for dashboards and reports.

Support semantic consistency across metrics, dimensions, and KPIs.

Data Pipelines & Transformations

Develop and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks (Spark SQL, PySpark).

Transform raw and intermediate data into clean, documented, and performant analytics datasets.

Implement incremental processing, partitioning, and optimization techniques for BI workloads.

Ensure pipelines are resilient, observable, and production‑ready.

AWS Analytics Platform

Leverage AWS services such as S3, Glue, Redshift, Lambda, and IAM to support analytics use cases.

Integrate Databricks with AWS storage and security services.

Monitor pipeline execution, performance, and cost for analytics workloads.

Data Quality, Metrics & Trust

Implement data quality checks, reconciliation logic, and anomaly detection for analytics data.

Validate accuracy of business metrics used in executive dashboards and reports.

Support data lineage, documentation, and metric definitions.

Partner with stakeholders to ensure a single source of truth for analytics.

BI & Analytics Enablement

Support downstream tools such as Power BI, Tableau, or similar BI tools.

Optimize datasets for dashboard performance and concurrency.

Collaborate with analysts to improve query patterns and data usage.

Enable self‑service analytics through well‑designed datasets and documentation.

Required Qualifications

5-8+ years of experience in data engineering or analytics engineering roles.

Strong experience with Databricks for analytics workloads.

Advanced proficiency in SQL (complex transformations, window functions, performance tuning).

Solid experience with AWS‑based analytics architectures.

Strong experience with data modeling for analytics.

Proficiency in Python or PySpark.

Experience supporting BI, reporting, and analytics teams.

Nice to Have

Experience with Analytics Engineering / ELT patterns.

Familiarity with dbt or similar transformation frameworks.

Experience supporting finance or executive reporting.

Knowledge of data governance, metric catalogs, or data discovery tools.

Experience with streaming data for near‑real‑time analytics.

Exposure to regulated or enterprise analytics environments.

About State Street Across the globe, institutional investors rely on us to help them manage risk, respond to challenges, and drive performance and profitability. We keep our clients at the heart of everything we do, and smart, engaged employees are essential to our continued success.

We are committed to fostering an environment where every employee feels valued and empowered to reach their full potential. As an essential partner in our shared success, you’ll benefit from inclusive development opportunities, flexible work-life support, paid volunteer days, and vibrant employee networks that keep you connected to what matters most. Join us in shaping the future.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we consider all qualified applicants for all positions without regard to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, disability, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, citizenship, marital status, domestic partnership or civil union status, familial status, military and veteran status, and other characteristics protected by applicable law.

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Ready to architect platforms that operate at serious scale?

Software Architect - NestJS, NodeJS, Vue - .NET backgrounds welcome

• Portsmouth (Hybrid - 1-2 days per week onsite)
• Up to £110,000 + benefits

We’re partnered with a fast-scaling UK SaaS company building high-performance, data-driven platforms used by commercial teams to better understand and engage their customers.

They’re now looking for a Software Architect to shape the next generation of their customer-facing systems; designing scalable, cloud-first solutions capable of handling high data throughput and large data sets.

The Environment

The platform has evolved from a Microsoft / C# / .NET foundation into a modern stack including:

• NestJS, NodeJS, Vue
• Redis, SQL Server & Snowflake
• AWS (cloud-first architecture)

Strong .NET Architects who’ve worked in modern cloud and micro-services environments, or who can operate confidently across Node/TypeScript ecosystems, are absolutely encouraged to apply.

What matters most is architectural depth, SaaS scalability experience, and strong engineering principles.

The Role

This is ideal for someone who has progressed from hands-on engineering into architecture and still understands what great code and great systems look like.

You’ll:

• Design large-scale, high-performance SaaS architectures
• Lead microservices and event-driven design initiatives
• Champion DevOps-aligned architecture patterns
• Work across distributed/offshore teams
• Operate comfortably at both strategic and deep technical levels
• Influence AI architecture and modern data practices

What We’re Looking For

• 3-5+ years in a Software Architect role
• Strong engineering background (C#/.NET or modern JS/TS stacks)
• Experience within mature B2B SaaS environments
• Deep knowledge of cloud architecture (ideally AWS)
• Experience with microservices, event-driven systems
• Strong understanding of OLAP, OLTP, ETL & data warehousing
• DevOps-first mindset
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills

Interested?

If you’re an Architect who wants real influence in a scaling SaaS environment - without being boxed into one technology - this is a strong opportunity.

Apply now or contact us for a confidential discussion:

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

Senior AWS Data Architect (Contract)

• Length: 3 months (extendable)
• Day Rate: £450-£500 per day
• IR35 Status: Inside IR35
• Start: ASAP
• Location: London, Hybrid (2 days onsite)

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Senior AWS Data Architect to join on an initial 3-month contract, with a strong likelihood of extension. The role focuses on taking full ownership of diagnosing, stabilising, and optimising existing AWS data pipelines and improving overall architectural performance, cost efficiency, and reliability.
This position requires a hands?on expert with deep AWS data engineering knowledge and the ability to simplify, optimise, and modernise complex data pipelines.

Key Responsibilities

• Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and consistency issues in existing AWS data pipelines.
• Optimise and refactor pipelines using AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, AWS Lambda, and Apache Iceberg.
• Simplify existing data architecture to improve maintainability and reduce operational overhead.
• Assess and advise on converting Iceberg datasets into optimised Parquet formats.
• Implement solutions to improve pipeline stability and reduce AWS operational costs.
• Document existing architecture, identify technical debt, and create remediation strategies.
• Work closely with data engineering teams to drive adoption of best practices and modern design patterns.

Required Technical Skills

• 5+ years of hands?on experience with AWS data services, including:
  • AWS Glue (ETL jobs, crawlers, Data Catalog)
  • Amazon Athena (query tuning, partitioning strategies)
  • AWS Lambda (event?driven workloads)
  • Apache Iceberg (schema evolution, table formats, time travel)
• Deep understanding of Parquet, Iceberg, ORC and performance trade?offs.
• Proven track record of diagnosing and resolving complex pipeline performance issues.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with query optimisation.
• Experience with AWS cost optimisation for large?scale data workloads.
• Understanding of data consistency models and distributed system behaviours.

Preferred Qualifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Data Analytics.
• Knowledge of IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience with Apache Spark and distributed compute environments.
• Familiarity with data quality monitoring and governance frameworks.

Senior Software Developer required by a successful software company developing enterprise web application products for the medical sector.

C# is the primary programming language used in the team. They utilise a language extension library to facilitate functional programming with C#.

Any knowledge with F#, Haskell, Scala or similar functional language is imperative for any application - even if this is via personal projects, It doesn’t need to be commercial experience.

The company has a fully remote working policy with no requirement to visit an office.

Essential experience:

Functional programming experience or a vested interest in functional programming even in personal projects

C#

Knowledge of one or more functional programming languages eg Scala, Haskell, F#

SQL

Experience in any of the following areas would be advantageous

Functional programming in C#

Language-ext

Domain driven design

Property-based testing

Domain specific languages

TypeScript

Healthcare or medical industry experience

If you are seeking a role of this nature, please get in touch for more information.

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

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Job Title:EFX Trading Application Support (Japanese speaker)

The Skills You’ll Need: FX, Money Market, Japanese

Your New Salary: £60,000 per annum

Permanent, Hybrid

Start: ASAP

Working hours: 9-5

Japanese speaking EFX Trading Application Support- What You’ll be Doing:

• Provide real-time production support for FX trading applications, handling incident resolution, root-cause analysis, and swift service restoration.
• Monitor application performance, run start-of-day checks, maintain system health, and support change and release cycles.
• Serve as a key liaison between traders, IT teams, and global stakeholders to ensure business continuity and regulatory compliance.

Japanese speaking EFX Trading Application Support - The Skills You’ll Need to Succeed:

• Japanese language skills (spoken and written) to coordinate effectively with Tokyo-based counterparts.
• Strong technical background in application support, including SQL, Unix, and knowledge of e-trading workflows or financial markets.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues in live trading environments, with clear communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Please follow us on Linkedin: company/people-first-team-japan

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

People First is committed to increasing diversity, and maintaining an inclusive workplace culture. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their ethnicity, race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, age, marital status or whether or not they have a disability.

People First (Recruitment) Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent and fixed term contract recruitment and as an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. Please note that by applying for this job you accept our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy which can be found on our website.

In short: A high-growth fintech is looking to bring on a Senior AI Engineer to build and ship production-grade scam intelligence that runs before payments clear. You’ll turn multi-source signals (transaction context, counterparty intelligence, behavioural patterns, unstructured evidence) into reliable, explainable risk decisions - under real-world constraints like latency, uptime, and auditability. About the company: The company is building a payment intelligence layer for banks - running real-time “investigations” on payments to provide rich context on the counterparty and situation. The goal: intercept scams while ensuring genuine payments flow smoothly. They’re early-stage, moving fast, and working on problems where correctness, security and reliability are non-negotiable. Who we’re looking for You’re a hands-on ML/AI builder who’s comfortable owning the full loop: data → modelling → deployment → monitoring → iteration. You care about practical decisioning (not just metrics), you’re thoughtful about trade-offs (customer experience vs protection), and you’re excited about building systems that are explainable and bank-grade. What you’ll do

• Build and ship scam risk models and signals (typology classification, risk scoring, decision logic)
• Engineer features across heterogeneous data: transaction context, behavioural sequences, counterparty signals, network/graph patterns, and unstructured evidence
• Design calibrated outputs (scores + reason codes) that are actionable and explainable for banking workflows
• Own evaluation end-to-end: leakage avoidance, cost-sensitive metrics, thresholding, phased rollouts, and post-incident learning
• Productionise ML: packaging, deployment, monitoring, drift detection, and retraining strategies
• Collaborate closely with backend/product teams to integrate intelligence into real-time payment flows
• Work alongside agent/LLM workflows for evidence gathering and synthesis, while keeping the decision core predictable and auditable Must-haves:
• Strong experience shipping applied ML into production (not just experimentation)
• Strong Python + ability to write maintainable, tested code
• Strong SQL + comfort working directly with messy, high-volume data
• Solid modelling judgement: calibration, leakage, bias, thresholding, cost trade-offs, monitoring/drift
• Experience building decisioning systems where reliability, latency, and explainability matter Nice-to-haves:
• Experience in fraud/scams, payments, risk, trust & safety, AML, or adjacent domains
• Familiarity with graph/network features and entity resolution style problems
• Experience with MLOps tooling (model registry/MLflow, feature stores, orchestration)
• Comfort with cloud-native/event-driven systems and working closely with platform/backend engineers
• Experience integrating unstructured signals (text/embeddings/RAG style pipelines) into decision systems Why join
• Work on a mission with real-world impact: stopping scams before money leaves
• Build real-time, bank-grade ML systems with ownership end-to-end
• Early team + high autonomy + meaningful technical decisions

Location: Central London - 3–4 days onsite each week

Salary: £ Negotiable + benefits

We are supporting an enterprise-level client who is investing heavily in a modern cloud data platform that will sit at the centre of its data strategy. This programme will enable more advanced analytics, reporting and insight across multiple business functions.

We are looking to appoint three experienced Senior Data Engineers with strong Azure and Snowflake expertise.

The Role

This is a senior, hands-on engineering position within a high-performing data team. You will play a key role in shaping, developing and enhancing a large-scale Azure-based data platform, ensuring it is scalable, reliable and built to enterprise standards.

The position requires regular collaboration with stakeholders and an onsite presence in Central London 3–4 days per week, so this is not a fully remote role.

What You Will Be Doing

* Building and enhancing scalable data pipelines using Azure and Snowflake

* Developing and improving ETL / ELT processes across batch and micro-batch workloads

* Working extensively with Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Azure Storage and Azure Functions

* Designing and maintaining data warehouse structures including star and snowflake schemas

* Applying recognised data warehousing approaches such as Kimball and Inmon

* Writing and optimising complex SQL queries to support analytics and reporting

* Ensuring strong data governance, quality, validation and reconciliation processes

* Partnering with BI teams to enable effective reporting solutions

* Contributing to architectural decisions around performance, scalability and infrastructure

* Identifying and resolving issues to improve platform reliability and efficiency

What We Are Looking For

* 7+ years in software engineering or development

* 5+ years working within data-focused environments

* At least 2 years hands-on experience with Azure cloud data platforms

* Strong expertise across the Azure Data Platform including Data Factory, SQL, Storage and Functions

* Proven experience in SQL development and data modelling

* Experience building both periodic batch and micro-batch data pipelines

* Solid understanding of enterprise data warehouse design and loading strategies

* A minimum of 1 year hands-on experience with Snowflake

* Experience working with large-scale enterprise datasets

* Strong analytical mindset with a clear focus on data integrity and performance

Desirable Experience

* Advanced Snowflake performance tuning and optimisation

* Python and or Databricks exposure

* Experience designing full end-to-end data platform architectures

* Background supporting enterprise BI ecosystems

* Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices

Additional Details

* Visa candidates will be considered

* Salary is open and negotiable depending on experience

* Immediate requirement

If you are an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong Azure and Snowflake expertise and are comfortable with a London-based hybrid working model, we’d love to hear from you

Job Title: Contract Data Analyst

Location: Hybrid, Occasional visits to North London Office

Contract Duration: 3 months

Company Overview: A medical equipment services organisation in the UK & Ireland, committed to delivering innovative solutions and exceptional service to our clients. We seek a skilled Data Analyst to join our team on a contract basis to support our ERP implementation project, migrating to Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Job Description:

Role Overview: The Data Analyst will help model and prepare data for migration to new systems. This will include the modelling of master data. The role will involve taking the lead with data cleansing.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data modelling, data cleansing, and de-duplicating data. This role will involve carrying out data migration as part of our ERP and Finance systems projects.

The business operates a medical equipment and consumables operation that includes sales, training, installation, and field service.

The company is growing rapidly and is currently in the (Apply online only) people range.

The project scope is to replace the current Field Service solution with D365 Field Service and implement D365 Business Central for Finance and Operations. Further project phases are under consideration for Commercial, Sales and Training.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform data modelling to structure and organise data effectively.

• Cleanse and de-duplicate data to ensure accuracy and consistency.

• Execute data migration tasks for ERP and Finance systems.

• Mapping data sets to master data + cleansing/enriching/transformation

• Build and optimise SQL queries for data extraction and manipulation.

• Utilize Excel and Access to manipulate and analyse data.

• Understand and work with relational databases.

• Use tools to automate data cleansing processes.

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of proven experience as a data analyst or in a similar role.
• Ability to extract data from SQL Databases
• Proficiency in SQL for building and optimising queries.
• Advanced skills in Excel and Access for data manipulation.
• Strong understanding of relational databases.
• Experience with data migration in ERP and Finance systems.
• Familiarity with tools for automating data cleansing.
• Apply a structured approach to data modelling and quality
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with specific ERP systems (e.g. Dynamic 365, Oracle & SAP).
• Knowledge of data governance and best practices.
• Certification in data management or related fields.

Finance Systems Administrator - Permanent - London (Hybrid) - 50,000 per annum

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an Finance Systems Administrator to join our London based law firm on a permanent basis.

Key Responsibilities

Develop expert knowledge of the firm’s practice management system, providing proactive user support and promoting best practice across finance and non-finance teams
Liaise with software providers and IT to identify, escalate and resolve system issues promptly
Develop and execute SQL queries and reports to extract, analyse and present data for regular and ad hoc reporting needs
Design, build and maintain dashboards and reports in Power BI, translating business requirements into effective analytical solutions
Support system changes and enhancements, ensuring effective technical delivery and user adoption
Identify process improvement opportunities and recommend efficiencies across finance operations
Deliver system training to finance and non-finance users
Maintain appropriate system controls to ensure compliance with SRA, AML and HMRC requirements
Assist with implementation of new features and applications, including configuration, UAT, data reconciliation and documentation
Provide team cover and support additional duties as required

Key Experience

Strong SQL skills, with experience developing queries and reports
Strong Power BI skills, including dashboard and report development
Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
Good understanding of accounting and finance principles
Experience with a legal practice management system, ideally Elite 3E
Relevant experience within a law firm
Excellent verbal and written communication and interpersonal skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Ability to learn new systems and procedures quickly and work both independently and collaboratively

Finance Systems Administrator - Permanent - London (Hybrid) - 50,000 per annum

In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon DGH Recruitment Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position.

DGH Recruitment Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business

Job Title: GCP FinOps Engineer

Location: Newport, UK (Hybrid)

Contract Duration: 6 Months

IR35 Status: Inside IR35

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced GCP FinOps Engineer to optimise cloud spend, performance, and operational efficiency across large-scale data analytics and containerised workloads. You will work closely with engineering, data, and product teams to embed cost-efficient architectures, enforce financial governance, and implement best practices across Google Cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Optimise large-scale data analytics workloads via partitioning, clustering, query rewrites, storage format improvements, and lifecycle policies.
• Tune containerised microservices by recalibrating CPU/memory requests, improving autoscaling efficiency, and restructuring workload placement on cost-efficient compute.
• Redesign workflow orchestration pipelines for parallel execution, higher concurrency, and offloading heavy tasks to lower-cost execution environments.
• Analyse distributed data-processing pipelines to right-size worker types, adjust scaling thresholds, and adopt low-cost compute for batch workloads.
• Reduce log-processing and storage overhead through log-level standardisation, routing rules, exclusion filters, and retention optimisation.
• Implement storage-tiering strategies based on access patterns and enforce lifecycle rules to minimise cold data retention costs.
• Improve relational database performance through index tuning, connection optimisation, and instance right-sizing.
• Enhance horizontally scalable database performance via autoscaling policies, index improvements, and mitigation of read/write hotspots.
• Build dashboards, budgets, alerts, and guardrails to drive ongoing cost governance and financial accountability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to embed cost-efficient architecture patterns and operational best practices.

Key Skills / Knowledge

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of GCP data services, including indexing, slots, pruning, partitioning, and clustering.
• Expert-level Kubernetes & GKE resource tuning.
• Hands-on experience with Dataflow pipelines and worker optimisation.
• Strong Airflow/Composer knowledge (DAG design, scheduling, PodOperator).
• Deep understanding of Cloud Logging, routing, sinks, and exclusion filters.
• Experience with Cloud Spanner autoscaling, indexing, and schema optimisation.
• Cloud SQL performance tuning and indexing.
• Ability to analyse billing data, resource consumption, and quantify cost savings.
• Experience using GCP Cost Explorer, Recommender API, and Billing Export.
• Build dashboards, alerts, and budget guardrails for cost governance.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, data, and product teams.
• Structured problem-solving mindset; ownership-driven, proactive, and independent.

Job Title: Azure Cosmos DB Developer
Location: London (Hybrid 1 day per week onsite mandatory)
Contract Type: Contract
Duration: 6 Months
Rate: £(Apply online only)/day (Inside IR35)
Industry: Financial Services

Azure Cosmos DB Developer Contract London (Hybrid)

We are seeking an experienced Azure Cosmos DB Developer to join a major global financial services organisation undergoing significant transformation across its application and data engineering landscape.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the modernisation of critical platforms within a highly regulated, enterprise-scale environment.

You will play a key role in delivering high-performance, cloud-native data solutions using Azure services, ensuring scalability, resilience, and operational excellence.

The Role

You will support the transformation of mission-critical systems, driving technical excellence in data engineering and cloud-native development. The role requires strong hands-on expertise in Azure Cosmos DB, Spark, and distributed computing concepts.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop cloud-native applications using Azure Cosmos DB (SQL API & Mongo API)
• Design and optimise NoSQL data models
• Implement partitioning and indexing strategies for performance optimisation
• Optimise RU consumption and query performance
• Work with Cosmos DB Change Data Feed (CDF) and Spark integrations
• Develop reusable libraries using C#/.NET or Node.js
• Build CI/CD pipelines using GitLab
• Implement automated testing frameworks
• Collaborate with architecture and DevOps teams in a microservices ecosystem
• Ensure compliance with security and governance standards

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Cosmos DB
• Query optimisation and throughput management expertise
• Experience with Cosmos DB Change Data Feed (CDF)
• Strong PySpark and Spark distributed computing knowledge
• Experience integrating Spark with Cosmos CDF
• High proficiency with Cosmos DB SDKs (.NET, Java, Python, Node.js)
• Deep understanding of partitioning, indexing, and consistency models
• Experience with Azure services (Azure Functions, App Services, AKS, Logic Apps)
• CI/CD experience (GitLab preferred)
• Strong problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills

Desirable

• Advanced proficiency in C#, ASP.NET, and .NET Core
• Strong object-oriented design principles

Why Apply?

• Work on enterprise-scale financial platforms
• Contribute to high-impact digital transformation initiatives
• Hybrid working model with flexibility
• Opportunity to shape secure, scalable systems within a regulated environment

If you are a Cosmos DB specialist looking for your next contract engagement within financial services, we would love to hear from you.

Salesforce Developer (Marketing Cloud, SFMC, Apex, SQL, CRM) Fully Remote Permanent

Charles Simon Associates are currently recruiting for a Salesforce Developer on a permanent basis for one of our fast-growing clients based in Manchester.

This Salesforce Developer will play a key role in implementing Salesforce Marketing Cloud (SFMC) before continuing development across the wider Salesforce platform including CRM, integrations and ongoing platform enhancements.

This is not a marketing-only role. The business requires a strong Salesforce Developer with Marketing Cloud experience who can support both the marketing implementation and long-term Salesforce platform development.

Location: Fully Remote
Salary: £65,000 £70,000 per annum D.O.E

Skills/Requirements for the Salesforce Developer:

• Extensive experience as a Salesforce Developer
• Strong Apex development experience
• Experience with Salesforce Marketing Cloud / SFMC
• Strong SQL skills
• Experience building integrations using Salesforce APIs
• Experience with Lightning Web Components (LWC)
• Strong understanding of Salesforce CRM data models
• Stakeholder communication skills

The Salesforce Developer will be responsible for:

• Supporting in the creation of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform from scratch
• Developing marketing automation solutions (email, journeys, SMS, push)
• Building integrations between Salesforce CRM and Marketing Cloud
• Supporting ongoing Salesforce platform development
• Developing Lightning Web Components to extend Salesforce functionality
• Working with internal stakeholders on requirements
• Supporting future enhancements across the Salesforce ecosystem

Start date is ASAP for the Salesforce Developer.

Please send an up-to-date CV to be considered for the Salesforce Developer

Salesforce Developer (Marketing Cloud, SFMC, Apex, SQL, CRM) Fully Remote Permanent

Contract
Daily Rate: 600 - 650 (inside IR35 via umbrella)
Contract Length: 6 months initially
Location: Hybrid Working - 2/3 days onsite per week

Our client, a leading organisation in the tech sector, is seeking a talented C# .NET Developer to join their dynamic team on a contract basis. If you are passionate about software development and are eager to tackle exciting challenges, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

As a C# .NET Developer, you will:

Understand business requirements and design applications that meet those needs.
Engage in business data analysis to inform application design and development.
programme in Visual C#.NET while utilising both Oracle and SQL Server databases.
Conduct unit testing and ensure quality assurance (QA) for all developed applications.
Implement solutions in production and disaster recovery environments, providing support to users.
Prepare and maintain technical documentation related to your projects.

In addition to new application development, your role will also encompass supporting existing C# and .NET applications. You will work closely with the IT department to provide general IT support and maintain the environments where applications are hosted.

Additional Responsibilities:

Define database objects required for various systems and interact with SQL and Oracle Database Administrators in both London and New York.
Provide scripts for database inquiry languages (T-SQL for SQL Server and PL/SQL for Oracle) to enable data analysis based on business requirements.
Support the setup of system distribution methods for Citrix and application servers for both web and Windows applications.
Troubleshoot systems during failures and implement solutions, including code fixes and SQL scripting, while checking Windows Servers and databases.
Follow the Development Team’s Change Management Control procedures to secure proper approvals prior to production updates.
Update versions of MS .NET Framework and MS Visual .NET platform as needed to ensure existing systems run smoothly in the production environment.
Liaise with relevant support teams such as Technical Support, Network and Infrastructure, and Database Administrators when business users encounter system issues.
Assess the impact of data processing loads on SQL and Oracle databases and propose alternative solutions when necessary.
Actively assist in rolling out changes through coordination with the Release team and maintain a change history of applications.
Communicate effectively with primary support Helpdesk staff in both London and New York to provide necessary system support.
Be available for occasional out-of-office hours support during weekdays and weekends.

If you are a proactive C# .NET Developer looking for a challenging opportunity to showcase your skills, please apply now with your CV and a brief cover letter detailing your relevant experience.

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You will be ensuring high-quality service delivery, process optimization, and team resilience in a high-pressure, regulated environment. The position combines strategic oversight, team leadership, and hands-on guidance on complex escalations while fostering a supportive culture and driving continuous improvement.

You will have some of the following skills and experience;

• Proven experience in IT support management or solutions engineering leadership, preferably in healthcare, medical imaging, or regulated environments (5+ years, with 3+ in a leadership role).

• Technical Depth: Strong knowledge of networking, hardware, software troubleshooting, PACS, DICOM/HL7, and image routing solutions.

• Tool Proficiency: Experience with Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Server OS, Microsoft Azure-based installations, and support platforms like Zendesk for issue tracking and resolution.

• Leadership Skills: Demonstrated ability to lead teams in high-pressure environments, mentor engineers, conduct training, and drive operational/process improvements.

• Customer Resilience: High self-esteem and resilience to manage demanding client interactions while maintaining trust and delivering results.

• Core Competencies: Excellent problem-solving, organizational, interpersonal, communication, and motivational skills; ability to thrive under pressure while supporting team well-being.

• AI Familiarity: Knowledge of AI/ML tools or concepts (e.g., supporting AI-driven support agents or diagnostics).

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to play a key role in an excellent client’s large-scale platform migration programme focused on consolidating multiple payment and card-processing systems into a unified global ecosystem. The successful candidate will bring expertise in system migrations, ETL/data transformation pipelines, and cross-functional collaboration. You will work with engineering, product, operations, compliance, and partner teams to define and govern architecture that delivers secure, compliant, resilient, and high-performing outcomes.

This can either be a mainly remote or hybrid role depending on what the successful candidate prefers. As well as competitive salary’s, our client offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture for the migration and consolidation of regional card-processing and payments platforms into a modern, unified global environment.
• Design and own large-scale data migration and ETL processes, including data mapping, transformation logic, orchestration, validation, lineage, and implementation.
• Translate complex business requirements into:

• Data models and data flow diagrams
• Sequence diagrams
• Migration runbooks
• Integration specifications and architectural patterns

• Provide hands-on technical guidance to engineering teams during solution buildout, ensuring alignment to architectural standards.
• Collaborate with compliance functions to ensure architectural designs meet regulatory obligations (e.g., PCI-DSS, PSD2, AML, GDPR, electronic money regulations).
• Promote security-by-design across all components, focusing on card data handling, encryption, tokenisation, and access controls.
• Facilitate technical workshops and architecture design reviews with internal teams and external partners.

Key Skills & Experience

• Experience as a Solution Architect in fintech, payments, card issuing/acquiring, or financial services.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale platform, system, and data migrations.
• Hands-on expertise in designing ETL and data integration pipelines (Python, SQL-based orchestration, cloud-native ETL tools, messaging ingestion).
• Solid understanding of data engineering concepts with practical experience in SQL Server, MongoDB, Synapse, Fabric, and Snowflake.
• Familiarity with card-processing systems, scheme integrations, authorisation flows, transaction life cycles, and settlement processes; knowledge of cryptographic key migrations (e.g., EMV, PEK) is advantageous.
• Experience architecting microservices, REST APIs, event-driven architectures, and secure cloud services (Azure).
• Exceptional communication and collaboration skills, capable of working with senior stakeholders, external partners, and technical teams.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on technical problem solving.

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

Hybrid working - This leading and exciting Insurer are seeking a detail-oriented and organised Motor Insurance Pricing/Data Practitioner to join their Pricing and Underwriting team.

They’ve built the kind of pricing infrastructure every pricing professional aspires to work with:

• High-quality, accessible data
• A fast, flexible rating algorithm - deploy changes in hours
• Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) that enable fast, transparent, and controlled model development
• An operating model that gives complete autonomy to pricing professionals to dream up an idea and get it live

If you’re passionate about using data, tech, and creativity to push the boundaries of insurance pricing, we’d love to hear from you.

Role Purpose

This role focuses on end-to-end customer pricing, covering both risk and margin for the Insurer. It is a highly autonomous role within a specialized team.

Key Responsibilities

• Optimization: Identify pricing opportunities across segments to maximize profitability and market competitiveness.
• Innovation: Develop new features, tools, and models for advanced pricing sophistication.
• Monitoring: Analyse claims performance to ensure accurate calibration, especially regarding inflation and trends.
• Automation: Build automated processes to improve operational efficiency

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Extensive skills within Motor Insurance Pricing and Data
• Commercial Mindset: Motivated by driving tangible business value through data-driven decisions.
• Technical Proficiency: Skilled in data analysis and modelling techniques.
• Requires experience with analytical tools (e.g., Python, SQL, R) and a background in insurance pricing or data science.

The company are offering an impressive salary and benefits package and this is an exciting time to join this highly progressive Insurer.

SQL DBA 6 Months Contract - Inside IR35 - Security Clearance

Job Description

We re on the lookout for an experienced SQL DBA (Database Administrator) to join our client s database team.

In this role, the SQL DBA will work across several different projects, handling tasks independently, making informed decisions, and collaborating effectively with the team. The work includes installing, migrating, and supporting BI stacks within the business.

The SQL DBA will be involved in the testing, implementation, and post-deployment support of SQL systems, and you’ll play a part in the operational management of the applications developed following a DevOps approach.

SQL DBA Responsibilities:

• Develop robust SQL and database solutions.
• Lead migrations of BI stacks from older versions (such as 2008 R2 and 2012) to newer versions (2016/2019).
• Take ownership of code reviews and actively participate in peer reviews.
• Configure and maintain SQL Server Databases
• Performance tuning and optimization
• Experience with High Availability and Disaster Recovery processes
• Support the full data lifecycle, contributing to an agile working environment
• Provide coaching and mentoring to colleagues when necessary
• Experience with Terraform, Git and PowerShell is a plus

This role is based in central London, the SQL DBA will be required onsite 2 days per-week.

My client also requires the SQL DBA to hold current, valid Security Clearance for this role.

To discuss this exciting SQL DBA opportunity in more detail, please APPLY NOW for a no obligation chat with your VIQU Consultant. Additionally, you can contact Ruby Ufton, by exploring the VIQU IT Recruitment website.

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Cloud Infrastructure Engineer 8 months SC Cleared Hybrid - London

My customer is looking for an SC Cleared Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with strong cloud and Infrastructure-as-Code expertise to support the delivery of a large-scale Infrastructure Transformation project.

This role requires a Security Cleared Cloud Infrastructure professional with solid, hands-on experience with DevOps, Terraform, and GitHub.

Responsibilities of the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer:

• Lead the complete transition of applications into the Azure environment.
• Create Automation by implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub.
• Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) working with tools such as Terraform.
• Provide SRE-level support, troubleshooting, and incident resolution for complex cloud environments.
• Coach less-experienced engineers and champion collaborative knowledge-sharing.
• Installing and configuring Windows based systems.
• Integrate PowerShell automation with database operations
• Writing clear and concise documentation.

Essential Skills of the Cloud Infrastructure Engineer:

• Must hold an Active SC Clearance.
• Must have experience completing large scale transformation projects.
• Must have extensive hands-on experience:
  • Azure DevOps
  • PowerShell
  • SQL
  • CI/CD pipelines
  • GitHub
  • Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
• Desirable hands-on experience:
  • Kubernetes
  • C# development
  • Packer
  • Helm
  • AKS
  • Flux

The successful Cloud Infrastructure Engineer must be available to work 2 days a week onsite in Central London.

Apply now to speak with VIQU IT in confidence. Or reach out to Matt Farrell via the VIQU IT website.

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Location: Central London - 3 4 days onsite each week
Salary: £ Negotiable + benefits

We are supporting an enterprise-level client who is investing heavily in a modern cloud data platform that will sit at the centre of its data strategy. This programme will enable more advanced analytics, reporting and insight across multiple business functions.

We are looking to appoint three experienced Senior Data Engineers with strong Azure and Snowflake expertise.

The Role

This is a senior, hands-on engineering position within a high-performing data team. You will play a key role in shaping, developing and enhancing a large-scale Azure-based data platform, ensuring it is scalable, reliable and built to enterprise standards.

The position requires regular collaboration with stakeholders and an onsite presence in Central London 3 4 days per week, so this is not a fully remote role.

What You Will Be Doing

• Building and enhancing scalable data pipelines using Azure and Snowflake
• Developing and improving ETL / ELT processes across batch and micro-batch workloads
• Working extensively with Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL, Azure Storage and Azure Functions
• Designing and maintaining data warehouse structures including star and snowflake schemas
• Applying recognised data warehousing approaches such as Kimball and Inmon
• Writing and optimising complex SQL queries to support analytics and reporting
• Ensuring strong data governance, quality, validation and reconciliation processes
• Partnering with BI teams to enable effective reporting solutions
• Contributing to architectural decisions around performance, scalability and infrastructure
• Identifying and resolving issues to improve platform reliability and efficiency

What We Are Looking For

• 7+ years in software engineering or development
• 5+ years working within data-focused environments
• At least 2 years hands-on experience with Azure cloud data platforms
• Strong expertise across the Azure Data Platform including Data Factory, SQL, Storage and Functions
• Proven experience in SQL development and data modelling
• Experience building both periodic batch and micro-batch data pipelines
• Solid understanding of enterprise data warehouse design and loading strategies
• A minimum of 1 year hands-on experience with Snowflake
• Experience working with large-scale enterprise datasets
• Strong analytical mindset with a clear focus on data integrity and performance

Desirable Experience

• Advanced Snowflake performance tuning and optimisation
• Python and or Databricks exposure
• Experience designing full end-to-end data platform architectures
• Background supporting enterprise BI ecosystems
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices

Additional Details

• Visa candidates will be considered
• Salary is open and negotiable depending on experience
• Immediate requirement

If you are an experienced Senior Data Engineer with strong Azure and Snowflake expertise and are comfortable with a London-based hybrid working model, we d love to hear from you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced IT professional to join our IT & Systems Department.

We are looking for a confident IT Project Manager to work with our DevOps team and newly formed Project Management Office to support the development, direction, and delivery of IT services covering college infrastructure, including on-premise, SaaS and cloud services across storage, network, firewalls, and management systems.

What you will be doing on a daily basis, working with stakeholders, executive c-suite and IT teams to deliver critical modern systems for the business. Provide IT Project management support for all Company Core strategic projects. Technical knowledge required: Cisco networking, Firewalls, Windows Server, SQL, Database Concepts, AD, Virtualisation, Microsoft 365 / Azure, IP telephony, Power Shell, SCCM and Intune.

The ideal candidate will hold Azure accreditation (AZ-900 or equivalent), Prince2 and ITIL certificated. Have a minimum of 5 years experience working in an enterprise environment as an IT Project Manager.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB

To support the delivery of critical large IT projects as part of the colleges project management office. You will be responsible for leading large projects to ensure the delivery of the business transformation strategy to modernise IT.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Define the scope, goals, deliverables and project plan with schedules for multiple projects.

Estimate costs, manage budgets and correctly allocate resources.

Proactively identify risks, solve technical or personnel issues, and implement contingency plans to ensure projects are successful.

Act as the main point of contact, providing regular status updates, and aligning project goals with business objectives.

Motivate, coach, directing and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver project deliverables.

Utilize project management tooling to monitor progress and maintain comprehensive project documentation.

Support service transition from project to production ensuring a support model with monitoring is in place for go live.

Ensure projects are delivered to a high-standard meeting requirements, control processes and regular quality assessments.

Manage and plan release schedules for deliverables as part of change control.

Ensure to review any relevant legislation that could impact the project.

Challenge the accepted way of working within WHC Group and encourage colleagues to think differently and innovatively.

This is a full time, permanent position, based primarily at our Watford site with travel between our other sites as required (hybrid working pattern available).

The closing date for applications is Friday 20th March 2026.

You’ll have the full support of a dynamic team and opportunities to bring your ideas to the role. Training and development are at the heart of everything we do so you’ll be actively encouraged to upskill.

You can access a wide range of discounts and benefits including a cycle-to-work scheme, free on-site parking, generous pension, generous holiday scheme, time off at Christmas, early finishes on a Friday and the opportunity to work from home.

Connect2Employment is a trading style of Luton & Kent Commercial Services LLP - A joint venture between Luton Borough Council & Commercial Services Kent Ltd. Connect2Employment is an equal opportunities Employment Agency & Business. It positively encourages applications from all suitably qualified and eligible candidates.