Job Title: .Net Developer
Max rate: £450 pd inside IR35
Clearance required: SC Cleared and eligible for DV Clearance
Nationality Requirement: British Citizen
Location: two days in the office, three remote, the office being at Porton Down, near to Salisbury.
Sector: Public

Responsibilities:

• Document the existing architecture, database structure, and interface map for the SharePoint or .Net estate at client’s site using available documentation and staff interviews.
• Assess and document the backup approach, data retention, and test procedures, ensuring alignment with policies.
• Review and document current monitoring, event management, service continuity, and access control for the SharePoint or .Net estate.
• Identify and document software environments, storage methods, and migration processes through environments to Live.
• Contribute to the Knowledge Transfer (KT) plan, attend KT sessions, and document insights.
• Create an operations manual, skills matrix, and central repository for all documentation.
• Complete the Application Database and identify risks for the Risk Register.
• Develop a Continuous Improvement Plan and a technical roadmap for the estate.
• Review automation, ITSM tooling, configuration database, and capacity management for improvement opportunities.
• Establish the current licensing position and work with the Transition Manager and SMEs to ensure smooth transition.

Role: Lead Platform Engineer

Location: Remote, with some travel to Corsham

Rate: £500 outside IR35

Clearance: DV (or SC willing to undergo DV).

We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to help us build the D2S Platform, a cloud-native Kubernetes environment for defence applications.

Key responsibilities

The Lead Platform Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories.

• transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery

• provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues

• ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available

• have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems

Knowledge of and ability to implement solutions for:

• VMware / Similar virtualisation platforms

• OpenShift / Kubernetes

• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code

• Infoblox / DNS

• TLS certificate management

• Dell Data Domain / backups

• Dell PowerScale / storage

Desirable Qualifications

• ITIL Foundation

• Cloud certifications, e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

A central government organisation are looking for a DevOps engineer for a minimum of 6 months. With pay rates ranging from £550 to £620 per day inside IR35.

You must have valid SC clearance to apply for this role.

Key skills in:

• AWS
• Cloud Formation or Terraform
• Nginx
• Linux administration
• Packer
• Collaboration tools (Git, Jira, Confluence, etc)

Must have experience in:

• Working within an agile context with the use of CI/CD.
• Articulate a logical design, and understand how this translates to physical infrastructure
• Defining and working with the constraint of NFRs such as cost, scalability, availability
• The must have skills will determine how well they will be able to integrate into our way of working and
• The principals we use when making strategic and long-term decisions.

Other:

• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Hashicorp tools (Packer, Consul, Vault, etc)
• Other networking technologies

If you are readily available, apply online and I will be in touch

Machine Learning Engineer

£700-800/day overall assignment rate to umbrella

Fully remote

6 month initial

A FTSE 100 retail client are on the look for a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer to join their data science function to drive cutting-edge ML technology across the business.

Machine Learning Engineer, key skills:

• Significant experience working as a Data Scientist/Machine Learning Engineer
• Solid knowledge of SQL and Python’s ecosystem for data analysis (Jupyter, Pandas, Scikit Learn, Matplotlib).
• GCP, VertexAI experience is desirable (developing GCP machine learning services)
• Timeseries forecasting
• Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, including data structures, algorithms, data modelling and software architecture
• Strong knowledge of Machine Learning algorithms (e.g. Logistic Regression, Random Forest, XGBoost, etc.) as well as state-of-the-art research area (e.g. NLP, Transfer Learning etc.) and modern Deep Learning algorithms (e.g. BERT, LSTM, etc.)

Machine Learning Engineer, timeseries, forecasting, VertexAI, GCP

Technical Business Analyst – Open Banking
£500 – £600 Inside via Umbrella
6 Months initially with extensions to follow
Hybrid – 2-3 days per week on site in London

I am looking for a Technical Business Analyst to come and work on an interim basis for a Financial Services client of ours as they roll out their Open Banking Solution.

This person will need to have experience within Financial Services and specifically, open banking.

Skills / Experience:

• Financial Services
• Open Banking experience and knowledge of UK Open Banking standards
• Banking platforms
• Leading requirements gathering
• Excellent stakeholder management both internally and externally

Infrastructure & Application migration consultant, migration, hybrid

This assignment has been deemed OUTSIDE of IR35.
Hybrid working – circa twice per week onsite

Our client, a leading finance company, is currently undertaking a large-scale migration programme including application migration. Including several legacy systems and applications running on out of support Microsoft operating systems.

The successful candidate will work with the project team to design and implement a migration plan focussing on potential vulnerabilities. This is then highlighted at PEN test and cyber security audits.

You will also consult on how to fix these applications and ensuring no operational risks when they are updated and slows down deployment of updates.

We are looking for an individual to work with end users and application experts to understand the business requirements of the application. Then come up with a plan to either…

Upgrade the host O/s and ensure the applications works
OR
Offer a replacement application that is fully supported
OR
Isolate the applications in such a way that the security vulnerabilities that the legacy o/s and these legacy applications pose, is removed and that updates on the current network does not affect the legacy area.

Finally, you will then implement, test and document the solution for all the required legacy applications.

Candidate will have a number of the following skills listed below: –

• Windows Server 2008 – 2022
• Security Vulnerabilities
• Application infrastructure
• Cloud (Azure)
• Domain Structures
• Scripting
• Group Policy
• FoxPro
• Access 97

Data Privacy and Governance Lead – DPIA

Rate – £550 per day inside IR35 (Umbrella)

Location – London, Bristol, York (50% on site)

Duration – 6 months

An exclusive Financial Services client of ours is looking for an experienced Data Privacy and Governance Lead to join their Customer and Marketing team to deliver against the required Data Governance operation and Data Governance business standards looking at Customer Data such as marketing preference and all information across apps and e-mails (Contact information, marketing preferences).

This role is 70% Data Privacy, 30% Governance focused.

Experience and skills required.

• Data Privacy and Governance Lead experience
• Complex projects
• Change understanding
• DPIA – (GDPR, PECR etc.)
• Risk based approach and data ownerships
• Financial Services
• Customer / marketing experience
• Martech / OneTrust cookies

Interview

1 stage on teams – Experience and CV conversation

Programme Test Manager (Retail) / £600pd – £650pd (Umbrella) / 6 Month contract / Remote – South East

A UK household name and Major retailer are looking for a Programme Test Manager on a contract basis. The Programme Test Manager will be responsible for driving the testing strategy across multiple large programmes of work and managing the internal and external stakeholders.

The right candidate will have a previous experience of managing the end to end testing within the retail industry.

Skills / Experience

• Experienced Programme Test Manager
• Retail experience
• Experience of managing end to end testing for large, complex programmes of work
• Strong stakeholder management
• Creating and Implementing Test Strategies
• Managing 3^rd parties

Research Analyst

£550-575/day overall assignment rate to umbrella

6 month contract

Cambridge – two days a week on-site

Working with a household name client who are currently in the market for a Research Analyst contractor to work cross-functionally with stakeholders to make informed business decisions.

Research Analyst, key skills:

• Strong data and analytical skills
• Background in computational and behavioural sciences
• Extensive excel knowledge
• Data modelling tools
• Reporting and presenting
• Statistically explain observations from data

Business Analyst – London Markets Insurance
3 Months initially with extensions to follow
Hybrid – 2 days per week on site in Central London
£525 – £575 Outside IR35

Business Analyst – London Markets Insurance

I am looking for a Business Analyst with specialty insurance experience to work across a large number of projects / initiatives within a change function. Someone with experience of working on more business focused projects, ways of working, integration etc would be great.

*London Markets experience is essential

Experience needed:

• Strong Insurance experience, and certainly this will need to be within Specialty / London Markets
• Strong core BA skillset
• Experience of working on more business focused projects around processes, ways of working, integration etc.
• Any experience of post-merger integration would be amazing, but not essential.