Location: Telford Duration:Permanent Salary:up to circa £40k per annum (experience dependant) + Enhanced benefit package This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established and highly successful international engineering and manufacturing organisation. As the business continues to grow, they have an opportunity for a Sales Engineer to provide technical expertise to global customers and offer technical and commercial support. This is an excellent role for a technically minded and commercially astute professional who enjoys working on diverse projects across a variety of in industry sectors. As the Sales Engineer, you will be getting involved in: Supporting concept design activities for electro-mechanical equipment to meet client requirements. Preparing detailed technical and commercial proposal documents. Producing all required documentation in support of bidding projects. Conducting capacity planning and analysing automation systems. Keeping up to date with company products, industry developments, and competitor activity. We are looking for someone who has experience in: Working within a technical sales or engineering environment as a Sales Engineer / Technical Sales Engineer / Product Support Engineer / Quotations Engineer / Technical Estimator / Costings Engineer Ideally be degree qualified within and engineering discipline. Applying strong technical problem-solving skills both independently and as part of a team. Demonstrating solid technical knowledge and understanding of engineering principles. Producing high-quality written communication and documentation. Operating with commercial awareness and sound judgement. The application process: Our mission is to support our clients in their creation of an equal, diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to providing a barrier-free recruitment process, so if you require any reasonable accessibility adjustments within the application process, then please make it known at the earliest opportunity. We will carefully consider your details and advise you if we're able to progress with your application within 72 working hours.If you do not hear from us within this time your details wont be retained. So, if you're not successful on this occasion, do continue to respond to future roles we advertise. In the meantime, all good wishes and continued success with your search for employment. About Us Prince Personnel are an employment agency working on behalf of our client.Whether youre seeking a new permanent position, temporary assignment or contract youll find us easy to deal with.Located in thriving Telford, we focus on jobs in Shropshire, Staffordshire and North Wales.Prince Personnel specialise in commercial, accounts and finance and operations recruitment.With the best jobs around we are an independent agency working hard for you. Reference: AA26886

WS Solutions Architect Lead Cloud Transformation for Defence & National Security

Location: London

Salary: £70,000 - £90,000 + 10% bonus + £7,000 Tax-free DV Bonus

MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR DV CLEARANCE

Overview:

Were supporting a leading consultancy at the forefront of digital transformation, data intelligence, and national security. With a global footprint and deep expertise in cyber, cloud, and systems engineering, they work across defence, government, and commercial sectors to unlock secure digital advantage.

Theyre currently seeking an AWS Solutions Architect to lead and shape cloud adoption journeys for critical national infrastructure and defence clients.

The Role:

As an AWS Solutions Architect, youll work directly with clients to design, define, and implement cloud-native architectures and secure migration strategies within complex multi-account AWS estates. Youll take a technical leadership rolesetting cloud standards, shaping reusable migration patterns, and guiding engineering teams to ensure delivery excellence through automation and DevOps best practices.

This is a high-impact role, contributing to major cloud transformations that support national security and mission-critical services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead AWS cloud migration and enablement initiatives.
• Define cloud architecture roadmaps, reference patterns, and standards.
• Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code adoption across teams.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver repeatable, secure AWS solutions.
• Support architectural reviews and continuous optimisation of the AWS estate.
• Act as a technical escalation point for migration and deployment issues.

What Were Looking For:

• Proven experience designing AWS architectures in large-scale, complex environments.
• Expertise in cloud migration, security, networking, and AWS-native services.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tooling.
• Strong background in defining reusable patterns and automation-first approaches.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to guide both technical teams and stakeholders.
• Agile delivery experience (e.g. SAFe, ScrumScale).
• AWS certifications (Solutions Architect or Speciality domains) are a plus.
• Eligible for UK Security Clearance (or already cleared).

Solution Architect Azure Platform Migration

Location: London, UK
Work Mode: Hybrid (23 days onsite per week)
Type: Permanent / Contract

We are seeking a Solution Architect to lead discovery and architecture for migrating a retail groups digital platform into a new Microsoft Azure environment. The role involves assessing ~50 applications, producing Low-Level Designs (LLDs), and supporting a parallel build from scratch migration strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct discovery of 2025 PaaS applications and integrations including Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks.
• Design architecture using Azure App Service, Azure API Management, and Azure SQL Database.
• Implement DR strategy across UK South Azure Region and UK West Azure Region.
• Design security using WAF and Application Gateways.
• Review .NET / TypeScript code to identify hard-coded dependencies.
• Run a pilot migration to estimate effort, cost, and timelines.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Azure PaaS services
• IaC using Terraform or Bicep
• Azure networking (private endpoints, private DNS zones)
• Azure SQL database migration experience
• CI/CD pipeline implementation

Preferred

• Experience with parallel migration strategies and zero-downtime cutovers
• Strong stakeholder communication
• Background in software development

We are partnered with a financial client who are looking for an experienced Solution Architect to support payments technology change across multiple financial domains.

This is a contract role based in Chester 3 days per week. 6month duration initially.

Key Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end solution architecture and non-functional requirements.
• Shape high-level designs and guide delivery teams.
• Ensure solutions align with tech strategy and standards.
• Review designs, resolve technical issues, and support continuous improvement.

Skills & Experience

• Strong expertise in Corporate Payments and major payment schemes (SEPA, FPS, CHAPS, SWIFT).
• Regulatory change experience (PSD2/3, ISO 20022, Open Banking).
• API design, microservices, integration platforms.
• Cloud experience (AWS/Azure/GCP), DevOps, CI/CD, Docker/Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of Java, .NET, Python, JS/TS.
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
• 10+ years in financial services technology.

Desired

• TOGAF, Cloud Architect, or AI certifications.
• Degree in Computer Science or similar.

McGregor Boyall is an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on any grounds.

Job Title: Data Solution Architect (AWS, Data Engineering)
Location: Norwich, Norfolk (3 Days a week)
Job Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 Months The Role Your Responsibilities: (Up to 10, Avoid repetition)

• Experience as Solution Designer and should be currently working on Data Lake (Big Data) based projects.
• Guide the full lifecycle of a BI solution, including requirements impact analysis, platform selection, technical architecture design, application design and development, testing, and deployment.
• Ability to demonstrate structured consideration of multiple options (ideally comparing competing technologies, but even comparing different functional design approaches / options would be helpful); [eg Produce a KDD]
• Ability to present / discuss competing options and make a recommendation to key stakeholders [as per KDD, but ability to discuss with others to gain support and/or feedback]
• Ability to present recommended design to a governance group / authority, and to champion the design whilst responding to the group’s feedback.
• Thought leadership in Big Data space with proven expertise in delivering challenging assignment.
• Provide thought leadership for Data Management, Data Migration Strategy and Data Lake Solutions.
• Good knowledge on Data Modelling and able to translate Business requirements to Design and Data Models, technical designs and analytical solutions to meet business needs.
• Liaising with enterprise architects, solution designers, analysts, and development partners.
• Designing the BI Big data solution and application customization on an AWS Cloud based platform.
• Provide technical assistance to development team with day today technical issues.
• Undertaking the deployment of proposed solution.

Your Profile Essential skills/knowledge/experience:

• Good understanding of Data Lake and Big Data technologies.
• Understanding of AWS Services will be required.
• AWS native data services (S3, Lambda, Kinesis) etc.
• ETL/ELT solutions such as AWS glue, DBT, Data solutions such as Snowflake.
• Good understanding of Insurance Domain.

Desirable skills/knowledge/experience: (As applicable)

• BFSI domain experience (risk, fraud, AML, credit, customer analytics).
• Exposure to GenAI, LLMs, and vector databases.
• TOGAF or cloud architecture certifications.

Job Title: Senior Principal Consultant Solution Architect - Service Now Job Type: Contract (Inside IR35)Duration: 6 monthsWork model: RemoteJob Summary:

In this role, you will provide technical leadership to the team & work closely with client enterprise architecture team and client ServiceNow Teams

Responsibilities

• Provides technical leadership to the team
• Creates and maintains a detailed view of the existing architecture
• Designs and collaboration with Business Process Analysts and Developers in the creation of a High-Level Solution Design Document.
• Defines and communicates, at an architectural and design level, technical solutions aligned with business problems and systems architecture.
• Ensures technical governance process and policies are being adhered to.
• Provides architectural controls to ensure the correct technical solutions are used when delivering business solutions.
• Creates and maintains a detailed view of integrations
• Creates and maintains a Technical Implementation Roadmap.
• Resolves technical escalations, including responding to defects
• Participates in process workshops
• Works closely with client enterprise architecture team and client ServiceNow Teams
• Periodically Reviews Configuration to ensure Platform health
• Assesses instance health (performance, manageability, usability, scalability, upgradability, and security) by conducting ServiceNow Health Scan
• Reviews design and code per sprint to ensure quality
• Provides hands on assistance with the detailed design and implementation approach of selected projects.
• Ensures design is within the boundaries of Licensed modules else communicates changes in license to the client.
• Maintains expert knowledge of the ServiceNow platform, products, capabilities, and ecosystem.
• Assists in migrating configuration across instances
• Support COE in continuous development of training paths for professional advancement.
• Contribute to ongoing definition of best development and solution practices.
• Lead training workshops as means to spread experiences gained across the practice.

Qualifications we seek in you!

Minimum Qualifications / Skills

• Certified System Administrator (CSA) with two mainline certifications, such as customer service management (CSM).
• Experience on other modules like human resources service delivery (HRSD), IT service management (ITSM), governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), or IT operations management (ITOM) would be added advantage.
• Experience in greenfield implementation of two ServiceNow modules, with a strong understanding of their features.
• Proven ability to develop ServiceNow solutions that meet business requirements while adhering to ServiceNow best practices and standards.
• Demonstrated experience in providing technical guidance and leadership to development teams, overseeing the implementation of ServiceNow modules to ensure quality delivery.
• Extensive experience collaborating closely with customer stakeholders, client ServiceNow architects, and enterprise architects.
• Experienced in enabling new features as ServiceNow introduces them.
• Continuously upskill knowledge on ServiceNow features released with each update and patch.
• Ensure designs align with business requirements, maintainability, performance, and overall instance health.
• Familiar with ServiceNow features and experienced in preparing customer proofs of concept (POCs) and demos.
• Excellent communication skills for client-facing roles.

Preferred Qualifications/ Skills

• B.Tech / MCA / M.Tech / BSc (Computer) / B.E.
• ServiceNow Certified System Administrator (CSA)
• Experience on ServiceNow CSM would be preferred

Why join Genpact?

• Lead AI-first transformation Build and scale AI solutions that redefine industries

• Make an impact Drive change for global enterprises and solve business challenges that matter

• Accelerate your career-Gain hands-on experience, world-class training, mentorship, and AI certifications to advance your skills*

• Grow with the best Learn from top engineers, data scientists, and AI experts in a dynamic, fast-moving workplace

• Committed to ethical AI Work in an environment where governance, transparency, and security are at the core of everything we build

• Thrive in a values-driven culture Our courage, curiosity, and incisiveness - built on a foundation of integrity and inclusion - allow your ideas to fuel progress

Come join the 140,000+ coders, tech shapers, and growth makers at Genpact and take your career in the only direction that matters: Up.

Let’s build tomorrow together.

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Salesforce Developer/Technical Specialist - Automotive - £550 pd Inside IR35

Our client within the automotive sector is seeking an experienced Salesforce Developer/CRM Technical Specialist to support a major CRM transformation programme.

This role will work closely with the CRM SME on the data migration from Legacy CRM platforms and the build of new services within a modern, cloud-based IT landscape.

The successful candidate will be a hands-on technical specialist with strong database knowledge and proven experience delivering end-to-end CRM solutions across development, testing, and rollout.

Key Skills:

Strong database expertise, including:

• Oracle
• PostgreSQL
• Proven experience delivering end-to-end CRM/application development
• Hands-on experience with data migration and Legacy system decommissioning
• Experience working with CRM platforms (Siebel experience highly beneficial)

Solid understanding of modern integration architectures, including:

• AWS
• APIs
• Kafka integrations
• Experience integrating cloud services with Legacy/on-prem Oracle environments
• Automotive experience ideally

Rate: £550 per day Inside IR35

Duration: 3 months initially

Location: Hybrid/Farnborough (2 days per week on site)

This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-profile transformation programme within a globally recognised automotive environment, working on modern cloud-led architecture and large-scale CRM change.

AV System Designer - High-profile immersive installation project2 Month contract
London Based Company - Hybrid
£400-550 Per day

A global studio specialising in designing and installing complex fixed AV and immersive installations have recently commenced work on a very high profile project and require an AV System Designer for an initial 2-month contract.

This AV System Designer role suits someone with proven experience in AV system design and can step into live projects and produce detailed technical documentation in REVIT. You’ll be designing system architecture within the building model, coordinating with MEP and architectural disciplines, and specifying equipment and mounting solutions for demanding physical environments.

What you’ll be doing:

• Producing AV system designs in REVIT including equipment positioning, spatial coordination and building services integration
• Creating 3D coordination models in REVIT showing equipment mounting, cable pathways and service coordination
• Producing equipment schedules, mounting details and construction documentation from the REVIT model
• Calculating optical requirements including projection geometry, sightlines and display positioning
• Supporting installation teams with technical queries and design clarifications

What they’re looking for:

• Proven AV System Designer with strong REVIT experience producing BIM-coordinated designs for fixed installations
• Experience designing AV systems for corporate, commercial, cultural or experiential environments
• Ability to work within multi-discipline REVIT environments and coordinate across architectural, structural and MEP models
• Experience with equipment families, custom content creation and spatial coordination in REVIT
• Comfortable specifying equipment, calculating system requirements and designing mounting solutions
• Able to work to tight deadlines on high-profile projects
• Immediate or near-term availability

Contract details:

• Initial 2-month contract with possible extension
• Day rate dependent on experience
• Central London studio environment

This AV System Designer contract suits an experienced professional working natively in REVIT, comfortable with BIM coordination and producing detailed equipment specifications and mounting solutions for complex physical environments.

The AV System Designer will join a globally recognised studio working on demanding immersive installations where REVIT proficiency and system design expertise are essential.

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Location: London
Salary: Up to £100,000

We are seeking an experienced Business Solutions Architect to join a high-performing team responsible for shaping and designing large-scale public sector managed services opportunities.

This role sits within a specialist solutioning and bid function, focused on developing compelling, deliverable service solutions for complex public sector programmes. The position plays a key role in opportunity shaping, service design, and bid leadership, ensuring solutions are commercially viable, operationally robust, and aligned with public sector procurement frameworks.

This is a business-led solution architecture role, centred on operating model design, service transformation, procurement alignment, and the development of high-quality bid responses.

Key ResponsibilitiesPublic Sector Opportunity Shaping

• Lead the qualification and shaping of public sector managed service opportunities, ensuring alignment with client objectives, procurement context, and organisational risk frameworks.
• Produce qualification papers, solution options, and strategic recommendations for internal governance forums.
• Interpret procurement documentation such as ITTs, SQs, DPS frameworks, and call-off mechanisms to inform solution strategy and bid approach.

Bid Strategy & Written Response Leadership

• Define and own bid strategy and win themes for public sector opportunities.

• Act as lead author and content owner for core solution sections of competitive bids, including:

  • Service delivery approach
  • Operating model design
  • Transition and mobilisation strategy
  • Transformation roadmaps
  • Social value and risk management

• Ensure responses are compelling, compliant, and aligned with evaluation criteria used within public sector procurements.

• Review and quality-assure content authored by contributors across the bid team.

Solution & Service Design

• Design end-to-end managed service solutions including:

  • Operating and governance models
  • Front, middle, and back-office service delivery models
  • Demand, workforce, and capacity planning
  • Transition, mobilisation, and service stabilisation
  • Transformation programmes aligned to policy and regulatory outcomes

• Ensure solutions are scalable, commercially viable, and compliant with public sector requirements such as transparency, auditability, and value for money.

• Clearly document solution assumptions, dependencies, risks, and mitigations.

Social Value & Public Policy Alignment

• Integrate social value propositions into service design and delivery models.

• Align solutions with public sector priorities such as:

  • Employment and skills development
  • Sustainability and environmental outcomes
  • Community and economic impact

• Ensure commitments are measurable, credible, and operationally deliverable.

Commercial & Contractual Contribution

• Work closely with commercial and finance teams to develop pricing models and cost narratives that support the solution.
• Contribute to the design of commercial constructs including fixed-price contracts, outcome-based models, gainshare arrangements, and service credit mechanisms.
• Provide solution-level insight into contractual risks, performance frameworks, and change mechanisms.

Leadership & Orchestration

• Coordinate subject matter experts across delivery teams and partner organisations to build integrated service solutions.
• Act as a senior leader within bid teams, setting direction, pace, and quality standards.
• Mentor colleagues in solution design, bid writing, and public sector procurement disciplines.

Governance & Delivery Handover

• Lead solution sign-off through internal governance processes.
• Ensure clear handover from bid to delivery, enabling successful mobilisation and service transition.

Skills & Experience Required

• Extensive experience designing public sector managed services or outsourced service solutions, ideally within complex or regulated environments.
• Proven track record leading solution design and bid writing for major public sector procurements.
• Strong understanding of public sector procurement frameworks, evaluation methodologies, and commercial models.
• Experience embedding social value and transformation outcomes into service design.
• Ability to translate complex service models into clear, persuasive written narratives for evaluation.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence senior leadership, partners, and governance boards.
• Experience mentoring and developing colleagues in solutioning and bid disciplines.

An IT Security Architect with a PCI DSS & cloud background (AWS, GCP OR Azure) is required to join our global client’s new UK cybersecurity team. The role is to lead the design and implementation of PCI DSS architecture on a global scale from their head office in central Manchester.

Skills & Experience Required:

• 5+ years of experience working in Cyber Security, PCI DSS within a cloud environment
• Have good Security architecture experience, ideally with a DevSecOps environment
• Excellent experience with PCI DSS and able to lead design
• Vulnerability management & Compliance
• Strong Security standard knowledge and experience, consulting on a range of security policies and standards such as GDPR, ISO, PCI, and NIST
• Confidence when speaking with stakeholders and clients
• Ideally, some relevant cybersecurity certifications - CISSP, CCSP, CISM etc

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of PCI DSS architectures, ensuring compliance with the highest security standards.
• Design and create secure Enterprise-Grade Architectures Across Cloud, Hybrid, and On-Prem Environments
• Conduct comprehensive risk assessments and threat modelling to proactively identify vulnerabilities and develop effective mitigation strategies
• Develop and maintain security policies and frameworks that adhere to industry standards such as NIST, ISO 27001, and CIS Controls

The client is looking to pay a starting salary of around £75,000, depending on experience. If you’re a confident and client-focused person, eager to join a global leader in technology, working on a range of projects with excellent development opportunities and with a diverse portfolio of work click ‘Apply Now’ or send your CV directly to Matthew . Leach @ circlerecruitment . com

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3-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £650 per day

London based - hybrid working - 2/3 days on site

Insurance sector

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define end-to-end architecture for solutions built on Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI).
• Design scalable, secure, and high-performance solutions aligned with Microsoft best practices.
• Architect integrations with Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, Azure services, Dataverse, and third-party systems.
• Establish solution patterns, reusable components, and reference architectures
• TOGAF or similar qualification
• Develop and implement Power Platform governance frameworks (environment strategy, DLP policies, security model).

Skills & Experience

7+ years of IT experience, with 3+ years focused on Microsoft Power Platform.

Deep expertise in:

• Power Apps (Canvas & Model-Driven Apps)
• Power Automate (Cloud & Desktop flows)
• Power BI
• Dataverse
• Power Platform governance & security

Strong understanding of:

• Azure services (Azure Functions, Logic Apps, API Management, Service Bus)
• Microsoft 365 ecosystem
• REST APIs and custom connectors
• Identity & access management (Azure AD/Entra ID)
• Experience implementing ALM using Azure DevOps or GitHub.
• API integration to external systems

Domain Knowledge:

• Knowledge of Insurance domain and specialty insurance
• Underwriting workbench or similar experience desirable
• Knowledge of Policy Admin, Claims platform integration
• Strong knowledge of solution architecture patterns and integration design.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited (“ARM”). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.

(SC needed) Fully Remote Solution Architect - AWS/Data/Event Driven Architecture/Solution architects - Application/Dev background

Our client is looking for a strong generalist Solution Architect with an active SC Clearance ideally with strong Data Platform experience, Integration Architect experience, Application and Technical Architect skills.

Skills

• AWS site and AWS preferred.
• Kafka ideal.
• Opensource Technologies.
• Experience from large scale CRM data platform environments (any massive customer database exposure).
• A range of Solution, Application, Application Integration, with any Cloud (AWS ideal) from a Dev/Application angle with infra understanding.
• Long term multi-year program of work.
• Required to bringing a clear understanding and practical application of architecture and delivery methodologies such as: TOGAF, Zachmann, MODAF or SAFe.
• The contract will be REMOTE with some client visits. You could be based anywhere in the UK.
• Must already have an active SC Clearance

Contract role - Inside IR35 - Remote

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Solution Architect - Investment Banking - Payments - Accounting services - SDLC - Contract (Initial 12 months, to be extended further)

Responsibilities

• Describes the solution intent and the associated operating environment, determines the primary systems/subsystems and their interfaces, defining non-functional requirements.
• Ensures the solution is fit for purpose by working with stakeholders, vendors/service providers. In parallel, evaluating the impact of strategic design decisions.
• Working with both business and technology to create the solution intent and architectural vision.
• Leads rapid shaping of a high level architecture with details filled in with emerging business requirements; ensures architecture is flexible and modular and designed to adapt easily.
• Utilizes the defined best practices, templates and documentation to create architectural designs.
• Works with Product Manager/Owner to plan and prioritize technology focused backlog items for the architecture runway.
• Clarifies the architecture for the development teams to support implementation, and provides solution options to resolve any impediments.

Required Skills

• Domain knowledge of Payments, Accounting Services, Liquidity Management, Receivables, Trade & Supply Chain Finance, Commercial Card domains (some or all preferred).
• Driving a shared service strategy and performance culture.
• Drives best practices approach to the continuous improvement of our products, processes and tools.
• Relevant IT experience (SDLC- Waterfall/Agile).
• Able to lead and contribute to automation, causal analysis and development of shared/common solutions.
• Translating complex concepts into multiple architectural views aimed at varying audiences.
• Broad based IT knowledge and experience. (Financial Software, Middleware, Databases).

Contract role - inside IR35 - 3 days a week in office - candidate can be based in Manchester/Liverpool/Stoke/Birmingham

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Location: Knutsford or Northampton (Hybrid)

Join a leading tech-driven organisation as a Solution Architect, shaping and delivering modern, scalable systems that drive innovation and business transformation.

What you’ll do:

• Design and implement secure, resilient cloud and distributed solutions.
• Leverage AWS/Azure/GCP, containerisation, and serverless technologies.
• Balance business needs, risk, and technical trade-offs to deliver real value.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define strategy and architectural direction.
• Guide and mentor teams, driving best practice and technical excellence.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience architecting modern distributed systems.
• Strong stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.
• Hands-on cloud architecture experience (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Background in financial services (desirable).

A great opportunity to lead strategic technology change and shape the future of enterprise architecture.

We’re looking for a Digital Architect to help shape and govern digital solutions that deliver exceptional customer experiences and power a large-scale digital transformation.

You’ll work in a fast-moving, agile environment, collaborating closely with product, engineering, and delivery teams to design digital services that are scalable, secure, and built to perform.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing and governing modern digital applications and services that promote a strong digital culture
• Working with internal teams and external partners to ensure solutions align with agreed architectural principles and standards
• Supporting product teams with pragmatic, business-focused technical solutions
• Ensuring all designs align with the wider enterprise architecture vision and governance frameworks
• Championing modern engineering practices, including test-driven and behaviour-driven development

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience designing and architecting digital solutions, ideally in complex or large-scale environments
• Strong knowledge of mobile platforms, CRM, eCommerce, and cloud technologies (Azure and/or AWS)
• Experience with microservices architecture, APIs, and recognised architecture frameworks (eg TOGAF)
• A solid understanding of GDPR, data protection, and cyber security principles
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Travel 1-2 times a week to Burton on Trent

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.

Presales Solutions Architect - Apps Modernisation, Azure, DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, Jenkins, GitHub - £85,000 - £95,000 + car allowance + £10k bonus - UK Wide

Do you want to join an exceptional business offering great progression?

Hit the ground running and start converting a huge pipeline?

Be part of an exceptional Presales team in a big growth phase?

Working with a leading Solutions and Services Provider to find their next Apps Modernisation Presales Architect. Your job will be to support to the sales team, do the discovery with the client, produce high level solution design, statements of work defining professional services through to managed services.

You will both commercially and technical astute and be adding value at all stages with the client.

Technical expertise

• Apps Modernisation
• DevOps - Azure
• CI/CD Pipelines and automation - Jenkins, Github, Gitlab, CircleCI
• Cloud/Hyperscale landing zones

Responsibilities

• High level design
• RFP’s/RFI’s
• Chalk and talk presentations
• Be both commercially and technically strong.
• Produce high-quality documentation to standardise solution architectures
• Implement processes and templates ensuring they are available across internal teams for customer use
• Assist with technical guidance on a variety of products and solutions across a range of customer sizes and types and evangelise the team’s capabilities.
• Act as a trusted adviser to customers through building knowledge of their environments.
• Driving and evangelising services capabilities to their customer base. Differentiating through its productised services, consulting capability and cloud expertise.

Presales Solutions Architect - Apps Modernisation, Azure, DevOps, CI/CD, IaC, Jenkins, GitHub - £85,000 - £95,000 + car allowance + £10k bonus - UK Wide

We are looking for experienced consultants with strong expertise in Oracle E-business Suite HCM modules to support ongoing projects. The ideal candidates should have strong technical capabilities along with functional understanding of HR and Payroll processes.

Key Skills Required

Strong experience in Oracle EBS HCM modules, including:

• Core HR
• Payroll (preferably UK Payroll)
• Absence Management
• Benefits

Strong technical expertise in:

• Oracle PL/SQL
• Custom Forms
• Oracle Reports
• Fast Formula development

Experience working with:

• EBS APIs, Open Interfaces, Concurrent Programs
• Experience in data conversions, integrations, and interfaces
• Ability to troubleshoot issues and provide production support
• Understanding of HR and Payroll business processes
• Experience working on support and enhancement projects

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support technical solutions within Oracle EBS HCM modules
• Develop complex PL/SQL packages, procedures, functions, and triggers
• Build and maintain Custom Forms and Oracle Reports
• Develop and maintain Fast Formulas for payroll and HR processes
• Collaborate with functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimize existing code

Applications Engineer - HV Substations - Stafford - £70-£75 per hour (Umbrella) - 12-Month Contract - Inside IR35

An opportunity is available for an Applications Engineer to support the preparation of tenders, bids and technical proposals for electrical substation projects. The role focuses on developing technical solutions for HV substation systems and preparing high-quality documentation to support competitive bid submissions.

You will work closely with both engineering and commercial teams during the tendering process, helping define technical scope, equipment specifications and overall system solutions.

Key responsibilities include:

• Preparing tenders, bids and technical proposals for HV substation projects
• Developing technical solutions and defining equipment specifications
• Producing technical documentation to support bid submissions
• Working collaboratively with commercial and engineering teams during tender stages
• Supporting the development of competitive and technically robust proposals

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong experience within the power transmission or distribution sector
• Solid knowledge of HV AC substation design and primary plant
• Understanding of protection systems, control/SCADA, telecoms and metering
• Experience in engineering, applications or tendering roles within power transmission or similar sectors
• Ability to work within multidisciplinary bid and engineering teams

Working pattern and package:

• 12-month contract
• £70-£75 per hour (Umbrella)
• Inside IR35
• 37.5 hours per week
• Office-based Tuesday-Thursday (08:00-16:30)
• Friday office hours 08:00-13:00
• Some home working available on Monday and Friday

Solution Architect within Corporate Banking and domain knowledge in Payment Gateways & Vendor Products, including Cross Border and Regional Clearing Regulations. Must have designed solutions for applications, executing blueprint/roadmaps for modernizing Legacy payment flows. Utilizing defined best practices, templates and documentation to create architectural designs. By applying to this job you are sending us your CV, which may contain personal information. Please refer to our Privacy Notice to understand how we process this information. In short, in order to supply you with work finding services, we will hold and process your personal data, and only with your express permission we will share this personal data with a client (or a third party working on behalf of the client) by email or by upload to the Client/third parties vendor management system. By giving us permission to send your CV to a client, this constitutes permission to share the personal data that would be necessary to consider your application, interview you (Phone/video/face to face) and if successful hire you. Scope AT acts as an employment agency for Permanent Recruitment and an employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the Terms and Conditions, Data Protection Policy, Privacy Notice and Disclaimers which can be found at our website

Lead Security Architect - SC Cleared - Full time onsite - £640 per day

One of our government clients is looking for an experienced Lead Security Architect to join them for a 6 month contract. They are offering £640 per day, inside IR35

Our client is based near Milton Keynes - commutable from Northampton, East Midlands, Bedford, Luton or Central London. As you will support a secret classification customer service with a high dependency on system access from site, this role will require 5 days onsite working per week.

This role is working in a Security Cleared environment. You will need to be SC or DV (developed vetting) cleared or eligible to undertake SC or DV Security Clearance.

As the Lead Security Architect, you will act as a lead for all IT Security Aspects in relation to the design, delivery and ongoing maintenance of IT services delivered by our client.

Skills and Experience:

• Strong working knowledge of IT risks, cyber security, and computer operating software
• Advanced understanding of security protocols, cryptography, and security
• Experience implementing multi-factor authentication
• Great communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience implementing security solutions
• Comfortable working on a team
• Understanding of ISO 27001

If you think you’d be a good fit for this role, please apply here. We look forward to hearing from you!

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We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.

Job Title: AEP Enterprise Architect
Location: Shoreditch (Hybrid/Remote)
Duration: 6 months contract initially
Max. Budget: £760 per day Inside IR35

The Opportunity:
The Enterprise Architect (EA) serves as the primary technical driver for closing sales opportunities and supporting existing customer success with their marketing technology programs through value realization.

For client’s Top 50 customers, the EA engages with customer Technical, Marketing and C-Suite teams in evaluation of current-state technology and business objectives to deliver future-state marketing technical architectures, digital engagement roadmap management and Art of the Possible digital experiences.

Skills that Set You Apart:
One or more current Adobe Certified Expert certifications in Adobe (AEP, AJO, Analytics/CJA, RTCDP, Target or Workfront)
Recent experience building enterprise level return on investment focused Business Cases for technology transformations
Hands-on experience architecting and/or delivering native, Flutter or React-Native mobile applications
Experience leading a revenue focused Book of Business including sales pipeline via Salesforce/Microsoft Dynamics, scope/contract review and Value Realization measurement.
Familiarity and usage of generative AI solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:
Past experience in a consultative role supporting large-scale enterprise digital marketing ecosystems in the role of Architect/Principal Consultant or employee Marketing/Technical leader.
Working knowledge of end-to-end digital marketing journey including Adtech (CDP/DMPs, DSPs, etc.), Marketing Automation, omni-channel personalization, Content Management/Generation, CRM, Media Execution and Reporting/Insights.
Significant hands-on experience using enterprise platforms (Adobe, Salesforce, Oracle, Microsoft, etc.) with an emphasis on REST APIs, Cloud Storage, Structured/Unstructured Data, Security and Data Ingress/Egress.
Ability to communicate complex ideas which tells a story to support Adobe’s POV and/or recommendation to technical, marketing and C-Suite audiences
Ability to quickly diagnose challenges and opportunities and produce a future state architecture.
Strong written and verbal communications skills with particular expertise in PowerPoint and Lucid Chart/Visio
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (CS), Digital Marketing or MBA or equivalent experience
TOGAF Certified Professionals preferred.

If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.