Project Support Officer – SC Cleared

Location: Bristol / Andover twice per week.
Duration: 6 Months
Daily Rate: Circa £300-£350 per day (Outside IR35)

You must hold an active SC clearance.

We are looking for a Project Support Officer to manage project schedules, dependencies, and benefits across Defence Digital programmes. You will ensure plans are accurate, risks are tracked, and progress is clearly reported to support effective delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and update detailed project schedules in Microsoft Project, including milestones, critical paths, and baselines.

• Identify, track, and report project dependencies across teams and stakeholders.

• Maintain benefits registers, monitor progress, and support reporting to decision boards.

• Assist with project coordination, documentation, and governance reporting.

• Support continuous improvement of scheduling, dependency management, and benefits processes.

• If you have cost modelling experience this will be very advantageous.

Essential Requirements

• Experience managing project schedules, preferably using Microsoft Project.

• Knowledge of WBS, task sequencing, critical paths, and baselines.

• Experience tracking dependencies and project benefits.

• Strong analytical, organisational, and communication skills.

• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid project methodologies.

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.

Transformation (Training) Lead

Duration: 6 months
Location: Bristol/Andover 2 days per week
Rate: Circa £400+ per day, OUTSIDE IR35.

We are seeking a Training Transformation Lead to modernise and integrate training across Defence Digital. You will define learning strategies, assess training needs, and drive the evolution of Defence’s training ecosystem to ensure personnel can confidently use new digital capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Training Strategy & Modernisation

• Lead the modernisation of training to support digital and data-enabled operations.

• Develop strategic roadmaps covering policy, process, tools, and workforce capability.

• Align Defence Digital programmes with enterprise learning strategies.

• Integrate training design with digital platforms and operational systems.

Training Needs & Development

• Conduct capability gap and training needs analysis.

• Develop targeted, blended learning solutions (classroom, digital, simulation, workplace).

• Support creation and continuous improvement of digital learning materials.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change

• Work with senior Defence stakeholders to align training with organisational priorities.

• Collaborate with Defence, industry, and academia on sustainable training solutions.

• Lead change activities and promote user-centric learning approaches.

Governance & Assurance

• Establish governance and quality assurance for training transformation.

• Ensure training products meet Defence standards and accreditation requirements.

• Contribute to business cases, benefits frameworks, and assurance artefacts.

Collaboration & Agile Delivery

• Participate in Agile planning to align training with capability delivery.

• Work with product teams and designers to embed training in development cycles.

• Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

Essential Requirements

• Proven experience leading training or learning transformation in Defence.

• Strong understanding of digital and blended learning methods.

• Experience in training needs analysis and capability-based learning design.

• Ability to implement training governance and assurance frameworks.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder skills.

• Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery settings.

• Self-starter comfortable in complex, evolving environments.

• SC clearance

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.

Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps, VMWare, Azure, 3^rd Line Support, Hybrid working

3^rd Line Infrastructure Engineer required for a leading organisation based in Kent.

The successful candidate will have a background providing 3rd line infrastructure technical support within a corporate environment.

Engagement is via umbrella company.
Hybrid working – 2 days per week onsite.

General responsibilities: –

• Manage incidents and report within SLA’s
• Monitor key infrastructure and respond to issues, including pre-emptive support for predicted issues
• Support projects teams
• Participate in investigations & remediation of Security related issues e.g. vulnerabilities or Security breaches
• LLD infrastructure design & build best practice
• Keeping technical Documentation updated
• Build working relationships with stakeholders and communicate effectively with staff of all technical ability & understanding

Skills and experience required: –

• Extensive 3rd line Infrastructure Technical Specialist
• BAU infrastructure support in an ITIL environment
• DevOps, Azure IAAS, PAA, Infrastructure as code
• Microsoft Windows technologies, Active Directory, WDS, DNS, DHCP, DFSR, Group Policy
• VMWARE / vSphere
• IT Cyber Security e.g. firewalls, antivirus, security patching, IDP/IDS
• SAN Technologies

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.

Role: Software Developer

Day Rate: £520p/d Inside IR35

Location: Central London (hybrid up to 2 days a week)

Clearance required: ACTIVE SC & NPPV3 clearance.

Duration: initial work package until March 2026 (scope for extension as a long-term programme)

We’re looking for an expert Full-Stack Java Engineer to join a high‑profile, fast‑moving government programme with a fixed deadline. You’ll work in a large team building microservices, scalable APIs, optimised SQL, and fully containerised deployments on AWS. You’ll also collaborate directly with senior stakeholders, turning complex problems into tested, working solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Build and deploy backend services with Java & Spring Boot

• Develop scalable APIs

• Optimise SQL for large datasets

• Work with DevOps on Docker and AWS deployments

• Shape architecture and technical direction

• Write clean, tested code and review others’ work

What You’ll Bring

• Expert Java (8/11/17+)

• Deep Spring Boot & microservices experience

• Strong AWS skills (EC2, S3, Lambda, IAM)

• Kafka / event‑driven systems

• SQL optimisation

• REST/JSON API design

• Docker proficiency

• Excellent communication skills

Nice to Have

• JavaScript / React

• Aurora / RDS

If you’re proactive, outcomes‑driven, and thrive in high‑stakes environments with strong stakeholder engagement skills, then please get in touch – [email protected]

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.

Data Engineer

£650-700/day outside IR35

3-month initial contract

Remote working – occasional site visits

Working with a leading financial services client who are looking for a Data Engineering Consultant.

Looking for someone who can act independently and deliver complex data products – work with stakeholders to understand requirements, engineer and deliver products.

Data Engineering Consultant, key responsibilities:

• Take ownership of end-to-end of complex data products
• Work cross-functionally with non-technical stakeholders to understand data requirements
• Expert knowledge of SQL to query, analysis and model data
• Experience with Snowflake
• Using DBT for data transforms and modelling
• Data ingestion using Python
• Build foundations for business functions to be able to access the correct data and insights
• Experience working in large development teams

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.

Solution Architect – Limits Management

Rate – £600 – 650 Inside IR35

Duration – 6 months

Location – Canary Wharf – twice a week on site

A client of ours is going through a major IT modernisation. The ongoing programmes of work include improvements to business processes, generating staff capacity creation, IT transformation and embedding agile delivery methodologies. A key strategic focus of the IT modernisation is to replace outdated technology and introduce new technology in the Treasury and Operations capability.

You will:

• Work with their IT Architecture Team aligned to an IT Delivery Capability that delivers the transformation agenda and outcomes across multiple projects within the Treasury, Risk and Finance delivery capability. Participate in workshops, providing quality assurance and gathering requirements to shape project deliverables.
• Understand the As-Is Architecture components including processes, capabilities, applications, technologies and integration
• Formulate and document project artefacts that help to articulate desired direction of travel

Experience:

• Domain Expertise:
  • Extensive experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade Limits Management, Exposure Management, or Credit Risk solutions within a financial institution, IFI, MDB, or large commercial bank.
  • Strong understanding of credit risk concepts, including obligor hierarchy, group exposure, PD/LGD/EAD, concentration risk, country/sector limits, counterparty limits, and exposure aggregation methodologies.

• Solution Architecture & Design
  • Proven track record of delivering end-to-end solution architectures covering application, data, integration, and security architecture domains.
  • Hands-on experience producing High-Level Designs (HLDs), Detailed Designs (LLDs), data models, and interface specifications.

• Data & Integration Expertise
  • Deep experience with enterprise data models for credit, counterparty, and exposure reporting.
  • Strong understanding of integration design patterns (REST APIs, message queues, event-driven integration, ETL, batch processing).
  • Experience working with master data domains (Party, Facility, Instrument, Product, Country, Sector, Ratings).

• Technology & Platform Knowledge
  • Experience with industry-standard credit or limits platforms (e.g., Moody’s RiskAuthority, Algorithmics, Wolters Kluwer, Temenos Infinity/Transact credit modules, Finastra credit systems, or custom solutions).
  • Solid understanding of cloud-based architectures, especially Azure or AWS, including API gateways, security services, hosting models, DevOps, and infrastructure-as-code.

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.

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.

Interim Marketing Manager (B2B, Technology, Community, Content)

£350 – £400 a day via umbrella

3 Months Initially with the potential to extend

London | Hybrid (2 days in office, central London)

Early January Start

The Role

We are working in partnership with an exciting technology business to hire a B2B Marketing Manager to help foster and build a technology community through campaigns via events, press releases, blogs, emails and thought leadership campaigns.

You’ll be working in a very collaborative marketing function to deliver high quality content to a diverse audience of businesses.

You will lead on multi-channel marketing campaigns for some of our client’s flagship programmes. You’ll elevate their profile, drive engagement with key audiences, and create compelling content that brings what they do to life.

What You’ll Do

• Deliver integrated marketing campaigns across events, publications, open calls and more
• Create standout content. Blogs, press releases, email comms (Mailchimp), event copy and thought leadership
• Work collaboratively across the Marcomms team to ensure seamless delivery
• Monitor, analyse and report on campaign performance (Google Analytics, Salesforce)
• Manage external agencies, ensuring briefs, budgets and timelines stay on track
• Support video production

What You Bring

• Strong B2B marketing experience in tech, start-up or agency environments is essential
• Broad multi-channel marketing experience
• Excellent copywriting and communication skills
• Project management and organisational abilities
• Confidence working with analytics tools and performance data
• A collaborative approach and stakeholder-friendly mindset

You must be available to start a new role in January with a notice period of less than 4 weeks.

If this role is of interest, please apply!

Device Vulnerability, Governance & Lead
Hybrid working – 3 days on site
£500 – £750 per day (umbrella engagement)

Our client, a market leading national business, is looking to hire a contractor to consult Device Management and Security Vulnerability.

The is based on predominantly Microsoft Windows EUC technologies to assess vulnerability risk and application dependencies.

Working in a governance role, the successful candidate will address vulnerabilities on endpoints, especially those caused by applications not owned by a specific dept, team or individual. Also, the need to engage with third parties where applications owned by external companies are a potential risk.

A understanding of the detail of vulnerability remediation is also required e.g. Patching, Intune endpoint management.

Part of the project will be to analyse vulnerability data to identify root causes and develop solutions.

Knowledge and experience of security management tools highly beneficial e.g. Qualys, Defender.

Engagement via Umbrella Company Only; all taxes & NI deducted at source.

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.

Business Analyst
£550-£600 p/day (Inside IR35)
6-Month Contract
2-3 Days Onsite per Week – London

We are seeking a proactive and driven Business Analyst to support corporate function initiatives, with a strong focus on Finance and Revenue Operations. The successful candidate will play a key role in enabling change by conducting high-quality analysis and coordinating a range of critical deliverables.

Key Responsibilities & Requirements:

• Proven experience in business analysis across multiple domains, including business transformation, process improvement and technology change. A breadth of positive experiences is valued more highly than length of service alone.
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience within the Asset Management industry, with a solid understanding of sector-specific processes and practices.
• Strong proficiency in Power BI, with the ability to interpret and present data effectively.
• Hands-on experience using SQL to extract, manipulate, and analyse data from various database environments.

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.