We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Developer with strong Node.js expertise to join a growing engineering team. You will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining scalable backend services and cloud-native applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend applications using Node.js and TypeScript.
• Develop and consume RESTful APIs and microservices.
• Build scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud-native solutions.
• Work closely with stakeholders to understand business requirements and translate them into technical solutions.
• Participate in architecture discussions and technical design workshops.
• Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
• Conduct code reviews and champion engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior and mid-level developers.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimise system performance.
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, retrospectives, and backlog refinement.

Essential Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of commercial software development experience.
• Strong experience developing applications using Node.js.
• Proficient in TypeScript and modern JavaScript (ES6+).
• Experience building REST APIs and microservices.
• Strong understanding of asynchronous programming and event-driven architectures.
• Experience working with SQL and/or NoSQL databases.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Docker and containerised environments.
• Strong knowledge of software engineering principles, design patterns, and best practices.
• Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working within Agile delivery teams.

Platform Architect – Retail Media

• Rate; Up to £750 (inside IR35/via umbrella)
• Location; London – Hybrid working
• Duration; 6 month initial contract

We are looking for an experienced Platform Architect to support the continued development of a complex retail media platform.

The platform brings together campaign planning, media inventory, audience activation, measurement and reporting. As it continues to evolve, this role will provide greater consistency across its architecture, services, data models and engineering teams.

The role

You will work across Product and Engineering to define the target architecture and guide how the platform develops.

You will establish clear architecture standards, domain boundaries, service ownership and data principles. You will also support major platform changes by identifying dependencies, assessing technical options and creating practical transition plans.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Creating and maintaining platform architecture blueprints.
• Defining target state architecture and transition plans.
• Establishing consistent data concepts and models.
• Producing high level designs and architecture impact assessments.
• Supporting architecture reviews and governance.
• Identifying technical gaps, risks and dependencies.
• Leading technical discovery and targeted prototypes.
• Helping reduce technical debt and improve long term maintainability.

Experience required

You will have experience working as a Platform Architect, Solution Architect or Domain Architect within a complex technology environment.

You will bring:

• Strong platform architecture experience.
• Strong platform architecture and distributed systems experience.
• Experience defining architecture standards and reusable patterns.
• Experience working across multiple product and engineering teams.
• Retail Media experience is essential.

SC Cleared Performance Analyst | £400/day Inside IR35 | Telford Hybrid | 6 Months

Location: Telford (2-3 days onsite per week)
Rate: £400 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract Length: 6 Months
Clearance: Active SC Clearance Required

We’re seeking an experienced Performance Analyst to join a major digital transformation programme, helping shape data-driven decision making across critical services and products.

This is a key role focused on developing and evolving performance measurement frameworks, delivering actionable insights, and ensuring digital services are continuously improved through robust analysis and evidence-based recommendations.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Developing and maintaining performance measurement frameworks for digital services and products
• Defining, implementing and validating analytics solutions against agreed performance measures
• Analysing complex datasets to identify trends, opportunities and areas for improvement
• Producing compelling, evidence-based data stories that drive stakeholder understanding and decision making
• Supporting the iterative development of products and services through insight-led recommendations
• Ensuring the quality, accuracy and integrity of performance data and analysis
• Working with both quantitative and qualitative data sources to generate holistic insights
• Collaborating closely with multidisciplinary teams including user researchers, designers, delivery professionals and technical specialists
• Providing constructive challenge from a digital and data perspective to improve service outcomes

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience operating as a Performance Analyst within Agile digital delivery environments
• Strong understanding of performance measurement frameworks and KPI development
• Experience working with analytics platforms and performance reporting tools
• Ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights and recommendations for stakeholders
• Strong data analysis and storytelling capabilities
• Experience working with both qualitative and quantitative research and data sources
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to influence decisions through evidence-based analysis

Desirable Experience

• Government or public sector digital programme experience
• Experience working within multidisciplinary product teams
• Familiarity with user-centred design and evidence-led service improvement approaches

This is an excellent opportunity for an SC Cleared Performance Analyst to contribute to the delivery of high-impact digital services while working within a collaborative and forward-thinking environment.

Performance Analyst | SC Cleared | £400/day | Inside IR35 | Telford Hybrid | 6 Months

Service Designer | BPSS Eligible | Up to £470/day Inside IR35 | Worthing or Telford (Hybrid)

Location: Worthing or Telford (2 days onsite per week)
Rate: Up to £470 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract Length: 6 months
Clearance: BPSS eligible required

We’re looking for an experienced Service Designer to join a high-profile digital transformation programme, helping to shape and deliver user-centred public services that are simpler, faster and more effective.

Working within a multidisciplinary team, you’ll collaborate closely with user researchers, interaction designers, content designers, performance analysts, developers, policy specialists and stakeholders to design end-to-end services that deliver measurable outcomes for users and the organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading service design activities across complex digital services
• Creating high-quality service design artefacts including service blueprints, journey maps, personas, user flows and insight packs
• Designing accessible, user-centred services aligned to user needs and business objectives
• Working across organisational boundaries to influence and drive successful design outcomes
• Communicating service design recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Using storytelling, visualisation and design thinking techniques to bring research findings and service opportunities to life
• Identifying opportunities to improve services and measure the impact of design changes
• Supporting design-led transformation through coaching, collaboration and continuous improvement initiatives

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience delivering service design within complex environments
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end service design and user-centred design methodologies
• Experience producing service blueprints, personas, journey maps, user flows and other key design deliverables
• Ability to visualise and communicate complex services spanning multiple business areas
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills
• Strong understanding of user-centred design principles and accessibility best practice
• Comfortable working within multidisciplinary Agile teams
• Ability to influence, challenge constructively and drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups
• Experience coaching others and embedding design best practice

Desirable

• Knowledge or experience of CESA
• Experience working on large-scale government or public sector digital programmes
• Familiarity with GDS service standards and design approaches

This is an excellent opportunity for a Service Designer who enjoys tackling complex challenges and delivering meaningful improvements to public-facing services within a collaborative, multidisciplinary environment.

Service Designer | BPSS Eligible | Up to £470/day | Inside IR35 | Worthing or Telford Hybrid | 6 Months

Senior Software Engineer (Java, Spring Boot, Microservices)

Location: Fully Remote (UK-Based)

Salary: £60k-£65k plus Benefits

Looking business is looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join a high-performing technology team delivering large-scale digital transformation programmes. You’ll play a key role in designing, building and deploying cloud-native applications using Java, Spring Boot, AWS and Microservices, whilst providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers across the wider team.

Working within agile, multidisciplinary teams, you will contribute to architecture decisions, drive engineering best practices and help deliver scalable, secure and high-quality software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and maintain robust, scalable and secure software solutions.
• Build and enhance microservices-based applications using Java and Spring Boot.
• Contribute to architecture and technical design decisions.
• Collaborate with Product, DevOps, QA and business stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
• Drive best practices across coding standards, testing and CI/CD processes.
• Mentor and support junior and mid-level engineers.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and optimise application performance.
• Champion continuous improvement and adoption of modern engineering practices.

Key Requirements

• Strong commercial experience with Java and Spring Boot development.
• Proven experience designing and building Microservices-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience developing and deploying applications within AWS environments.
• Exposure to modern JavaScript frameworks such as React, Angular or Vue.js.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Knowledge of containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability and secure-by-design principles.
• Previous experience working within a Consultancy and/or Public Sector environment is highly desirable.

What’s on Offer

• Fully remote working.
• Ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Access to complex, large-scale transformation programmes.
• Collaborative engineering culture with genuine career progression opportunities.

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GitHub / GitOps Strategy Consultant

Location: Remote (occasional travel as required)
Duration: 6 Months
Start: ASAP
Rate: Up to £900 per day (Umbrella Engagement)

The Opportunity

We’re supporting a leading UK financial services organisation on a major GitHub and GitOps transformation programme and are seeking an experienced GitHub / GitOps Strategy Consultant to help shape the adoption approach.

This is a strategic and architecture-led engagement focused on assessing, governing and planning the rollout of a GitHub-based self-service operating model across the organisation. You’ll work closely with Programme Management, Enterprise Architecture, Security and wider technology teams to evaluate the solution, define the adoption roadmap and provide recommendations around governance, migration and best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the suitability of a GitHub-based GitOps operating model within a large enterprise environment
• Define adoption, governance and implementation recommendations
• Evaluate repository, pipeline and code migration requirements
• Produce architecture, assessment and implementation documentation
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security and Delivery stakeholders
• Drive standards, best practices and platform governance across the GitOps workstream
• Provide strategic guidance throughout the programme lifecycle

Required Experience

• Strong experience with GitHub Enterprise, GitOps, GitHub Actions and platform automation
• Knowledge of Identity Governance (IGA), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and TypeScript
• Experience delivering platform, DevOps or GitOps transformations within large, regulated organisations
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Background in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps or cloud technologies
• Experience operating at architecture, strategy or technology leadership level
• Ability to own and lead a workstream across multiple business and technology teams

Detection Engineer (SOC / SIEM / Splunk)

£450 per day | Outside IR35 | 9-Month Contract

Active SC Clearance Required | London (1 day per month onsite)

A leading consultancy is looking for a Detection Engineer to join a high-profile cyber security programme supporting critical public sector services. This role offers a unique blend of detection engineering and SOC operations, providing the opportunity to develop and optimise advanced detection capabilities while helping protect large-scale cloud environments.

Working within a Security Operations Centre (SOC), you’ll be responsible for building and tuning detections, investigating security incidents, and improving the effectiveness of security monitoring across AWS and Splunk environments.

The Role

As a Detection Engineer, you will operate at the intersection of security operations, threat detection, and cloud security. You’ll work closely with SOC analysts, engineers, and stakeholders to develop high-fidelity detections, reduce false positives, and strengthen overall security visibility.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with Splunk and AWS security monitoring experience who enjoys both hands-on threat analysis and detection development.

Key Responsibilities

Detection Engineering

• Develop, test, and optimise Splunk SPL correlation searches and alerting logic.
• Create and maintain detection use cases aligned to attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• Build AWS-focused detections leveraging CloudTrail, GuardDuty, IAM activity, and VPC Flow Logs.
• Tune and enhance detection content to improve alert accuracy and reduce false positives.
• Develop signatures and detections using Sigma, YARA, and IDS-based rules where appropriate.
• Map detection coverage against the MITRE ATT&CK framework.

SOC Operations

• Monitor and triage security alerts within Splunk SIEM.
• Investigate security incidents including phishing attacks, credential abuse, malicious process activity, and suspicious network traffic.
• Support incident response activities through containment and escalation procedures.
• Maintain detailed security case documentation and investigation notes.
• Contribute towards operational metrics including MTTD and MTTR targets.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Active SC Clearance (required).
• 1-3 years’ experience within a SOC Analyst, Security Analyst, Detection Engineer, or Security Operations role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Splunk and SPL query development.
• Experience building, tuning, and maintaining SIEM detection rules.
• AWS security monitoring experience including:
  • CloudTrail
  • GuardDuty
  • IAM
  • VPC Flow Logs
• Understanding of cyber attack techniques and threat detection methodologies.
• Knowledge of incident triage, investigation, and escalation processes.
• Experience working with Windows, Linux, authentication systems, and endpoint security logs.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Desirable Skills

• Experience with Cribl.
• Knowledge of OCSF schemas and security data normalisation.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and NICE Cybersecurity Frameworks.
• Experience with Sigma, YARA, or IDS signature development.
• Exposure to Splunk SOAR, Cortex XSOAR, or other automation platforms.
• Scripting experience in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Experience working within UK Government or public sector environments.
• Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform exposure.

Content Designer

Content Designer | BPSS Eligible | £450 per day | Inside IR35 | 6 Months | Primarily Remote

We’re recruiting for an experienced Content Designer to join a major public sector digital programme, helping to create clear, accessible and user-focused content for high-profile digital services.

This is an excellent opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary Agile team, shaping content that helps users complete tasks quickly and confidently while improving overall service experience.

The Role

As a Content Designer, you’ll work closely with stakeholders, researchers, designers and delivery teams to understand complex business challenges and transform them into simple, intuitive user journeys and content.

You’ll use evidence from user research, analytics and feedback to create, test and iterate content, ensuring services meet user needs while adhering to accessibility and content design best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Create content that meets user needs and simplifies complex information and processes
• Write, edit, publish and continuously improve digital content
• Use user research, analytics, feedback and data to inform content decisions
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams within an Agile environment
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders while maintaining content quality and user focus
• Contribute to content strategies, standards and reusable content patterns
• Use prototyping techniques to communicate ideas quickly and effectively
• Manage priorities across multiple deliverables in a fast-paced delivery environment

Essential Experience

• Proven Content Designer experience within Agile digital delivery teams
• Strong user-centred design mindset
• Experience creating content for complex digital services
• Ability to interpret user research, data and analytics to drive decisions
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Experience developing content standards, patterns and strategies
• Comfortable working collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams
• Experience using prototyping approaches to test and validate content concepts

Clearance & Eligibility

• BPSS eligible
• Mandatory: 5 years continuous UK residency

Contract Details

• Role: Content Designer
• Contract Length: 6 Months
• Rate: £450 per day
• Engagement: Inside IR35
• Location: Primarily Remote within the UK
• Occasional travel may be required depending on project needs

If you’re passionate about creating content that genuinely improves user experiences and enjoy working within modern Agile delivery teams, we’d love to hear from you.