Enterprise Architect (Event Bus / Kafka)

12 Month contract

£900 per day

UK Wide – limited on site presence

We’ve partnered with a leading Insurance firm as they look to bring in a contract Enterprise Architect with a strong technical background and exceptional leadership capabilities to join a leading enterprise organisation. This role focuses on delivering cutting-edge solutions around event bus implementation and integration within a complex enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leverage deep technology knowledge to drive strategic decision-making and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Lead the deployment of enterprise event buses, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.
• Oversee the on boarding of both consumers and providers to the event bus.
• Collaborate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders, including technical teams, business leaders, and compliance experts.
• Utilise expertise in Kafka to design, implement, and optimise event streaming solutions.

Required Experience:

• Extensive experience delivering in complex enterprise environments, ensuring alignment with compliance and service fundamentals.
• Proven track record of leading technology initiatives involving Kafka and event-driven architectures.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Technical and Solution minded

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Position: Senior Technical Architect
Contract Duration: 6 months
Location: Milton Keynes (3 days in the office, 2 days wfh)
Rate: £640 pd outside IR35
Clearance: Must have SC

Role Overview:

We are seeking an experienced Senior Technical Architect with expertise in networking and infrastructure technologies to deliver scalable, secure solutions within complex environments. The role involves designing architectures, leading automation initiatives, and supporting secure deployments in Public Sector environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement technical architectures using technologies like VMware NSX-T, Cisco ACI/Nexus, Palo Alto NGFW, Azure, AWS, and Hybrid Cloud.
• Automate network provisioning and enhance workflows using DevSecOps and CI/CD processes.
• Produce high- and low-level technical designs, adhering to frameworks like TOGAF.
• Support secure deployments aligned with NCSC, GDS, Cyber Essentials, and NIST standards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define and deliver technical requirements.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Expertise in networking protocols (TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VPN, SD-WAN).
• Experience with server/OS and network technologies, including SASE and virtualisation platforms (VMware VCD, VSAN, NSX).
• Strong background in public cloud migrations (Azure, AWS, M365).
• Proven ability to work in secure environments and manage security products.
• Familiarity with automation tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Certifications such as TOGAF, MCSE, VCP, CCNP (desirable).

SAP Solutions Architect – Manufacturing

Reading – 3 days per week in the office

£80,000 – £90,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Fantastic new permanent opportunity for an experienced SAP Solutions Architect with this market leading global manufacturing business based in Reading. Reporting into the Head of Enterprise, you will be responsible for key decision-making on Solution designs within the SAP Manufacturing process. You will ensure that business requirements are met while supporting the overall objectives for the business and adhering to Industry best practices.

You will combine your deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of business processes to design and implement solutions that contribute to the business’s overall success. You will be the bridge between business requirements and technical solutions, ensuring that systems enable and enhance the efficiency of business operations.

As a specialist of the Manufacturing functional area, you will work closely with the functional global process owner team to ensure that the solutions they design and develop will meet the requirements of the business; be compliant with overall Enterprise Architecture; and be as close to core standard as possible, with minimal change. You will also work closely with their delivery partners to ensure that what is built meets the design and technical specifications, is delivered to standards, is fit for purpose, and is fully documented.

Main responsibilities:

• Solution Design:
  • Develop comprehensive and fit-for-purpose solution designs.
  • Collaborate with Global Process Owners to gather, understand and analyse business related requirements and the processes that they support.
  • Translate these business requirements into effective solutions using the best-fit applications, collaborate with vendors to assess cost implications and ensure the complete impact is accessed and documented.
  • Ensure the design considers fit-with-standard, scalability, flexibility, future growth and assure the quality of the solution via the review and approval of testing outcomes, assess the impact on the existing solution for regression and maintain documentation updated.
• System Architecture:
  • Define and implement an optimised system architecture.
  • Plan and design the system landscape, considering factors such as performance, security, and integration related to Solutions.
  • Align the architecture with industry best practices, standards and Enterprise Architecture.
  • Evaluate and select technologies that offer a cost-effective solution for supporting all desired business processes. Selection should be made in collaboration with global process owners, and both implementation and maintenance expenses should be considered.
• Integration with Existing Systems:
  • Ensure seamless integration of solutions with existing systems.
  • Collaborate with other architects, developers, and integration teams to design effective interfaces and end-to-end integration across solutions.
  • Identify and resolve integration challenges to maintain data flow and business process continuity.
• Project Delivery:
  • Support delivery of projects to time, quality and budget.
  • Participate in the project planning to ensure there is full coverage of Solution activities and the timelines are realistic.
  • Collaborate and engage with 3rd party delivery partners to ensure that what is being built aligns with requirements and specifications.
  • Collaborate with project managers to identify and mitigate risks that could impact project delivery.
  • Accountable for creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation of the solution architecture, configurations, ensuring accessibility and compliance.

Skills Required:

• Proven experience as an SAP Solution Architect.
• Extensive knowledge of SAP technologies and a strong focus within SAP Manufacturing.
• Strong technical skills in SAP S/4 HANA architecture, configuration, and customisation.
• Ability to design and implement complex SAP solutions to meet business requirements.
• Strong understanding of SAP integration technologies and methodologies, data migration, and system landscape design.
• SAP certification e.g., SAP S/4HANA for Manufacturing (desirable).
• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and communication skills.
• Strong negotiation and conflict-resolution abilities.
• Effective planning, organisation, and delegation skills.
• High energy, tenacity, and enthusiasm for delivering results.

For any further queries regarding the role, please contact Danny Palmer at danny.palmer@sandersonplc.com

Automation Architect/Consultant

Basingstoke – Hybrid (typically 2-3 days per week)

Salary to £80,000 plus a generous package

Sanderson Government and Defence are working on a really interesting opportunity in the Hampshire area for someone to come in as an Automation Architect. You will be working across a range of public sector customers using low-code platforms to automate their processes and ultimately deliver value to the client.

We are reasonably open minded on background – you could be something along the lines of a Solutions Architect or a Technical BA, so long as you have a strong commercial acumen and ideally some experience with a common low-code platform.

This will involve working across a number of projects and so organisational and time management skills are a must have. The client is more than happy to provide some training on the technical front, so even if you don’t feel like you are a fit technically please still apply.

Rate- £600-700

Location- Kent (2 days a week on site)

Duration- 6 months

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement, and manage comprehensive security architectures that address both internal and external threats.
• Identify vulnerabilities, assess risks, and establish mitigative strategies to protect assets.
• Design solutions to secure our infrastructure, applications, and data by collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.
• Act as a subject matter expert on security protocols, best practices, and compliance requirements.
• Monitor and analyse security incidents and develop proactive solutions to mitigate emerging threats.
• Establish security awareness and knowledge transfer programs to upskill IT and development teams on best practices and emerging trends.
• Serve as a mentor for team members, leading training initiatives to boost the security capabilities of the organisation.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs and align security solutions with company objectives.

Qualifications:

• Information Technology, or related field. Equivalent experience will be considered.
• Extensive knowledge of cybersecurity frameworks, risk management processes, and security standards (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001).
• Hands-on experience with network security, identity and access management, data encryption, and incident response.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and securing cloud-based applications.
• Strong understanding of threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and SIEM tools.
• Demonstrated experience in knowledge sharing, upskilling, and leading training initiatives.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or equivalent are preferred.

Senior Solution Architect

£650-700/day overall assignment rate to umbrella

Hybrid working – one day a week in Yeovil

6 month initial contract

Seeking an experienced Senior Solution Architect to lead the end-to-end lifecycle of a Dynamics 365 implementation project for a retail client.

Solution Architect, key skills:

• Ability to own the full lifecycle of the Dynamics 365 implementation
• Develop and maintain detailed documentation for the solution architecture, design decisions, and governance processes
• Conduct solution reviews at each phase of the lifecycle, ensuring adherence to standards and project goals
• Establish and oversee governance frameworks
• Collaborate with stakeholders

Senior Solution Architect, D365, Retail

Infrastructure Architect – Permanent – SC or DV

• Location: Basingstoke
• Type: 5 days on-site
• Salary: £75,000 – £80,000 + DV Bonus (Once Attained) + Company Performance Bonus + Car Allowance
• Clearance: Active DV Preferred – otherwise SC.

One of the UKs largest technical partners of the MOD are looking to add to one of their existing Architecture teams. You will join a multi skilled agile team that comprises of security, service and management where teamwork is central.

Your role will involve:

• The successful candidate will work as part of a multi skilled agile team, where teamwork is paramount. The role will be challenging and varied, where cross training is expected, and challenges shared.
• Reporting into the CTO Lead Architect for the customer, the post holder will own all aspects of the delivery of technical proposals, ensuring they are aligned to the client’s vision.
• The role will require the ability to interact and work well with multiple internal areas as well as senior customer stakeholders, ensuring collaboration and closer working across the delivery lifecycle and will include the managing of 3rd parties and requests for change ensuring there is no impact upon the overall architectural solution.

Your experience

• Client facing skills at a senior level with the ability to communicate ideas and thoughts to senior executives
• Extensive knowledge of the design and implementation of secure, highly resilient, large-scale infrastructures
• Experience of working directly with customers to define and elaborate infrastructure requirements.
• Experience of deploying production implementations with successful project completion and service transition
• Experience of designing Infrastructure solutions to be compliant with security standards
• Experience in the development and delivery of software using Agile Methodologies
• knowledge of Microsoft Windows systems administration within an enterprise environment – delivery of configuration change via GPO, Registry, Filesystem, Powershell cmdlets or, WMI, as well as Windows Update and patching mechanisms, including Windows Installer

Your benefits:

• 25 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)
• Pension – Double matching contributions of up to 10%
• Life assurance
• Companywide incentive plans
• Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)
• Perks at work – employee discounts
• Employee assistance programme / virtual GP

If you’re interested in the aboce and would like to learn more, reach out to [email protected]

Enterprise Architect – Construction / Utilities

Rate – £725 – £800 Inside IR35 (umbrella)

Duration – 6 months (Scope for 18 months work)

Location – Essex / Durham (Must be willing to travel to Durham office)

We’re recruiting for a well known company sitting within the Water Industry as they look for an Enterprise Architect to provide support to one of their Transformation Programme’s currently ongoing.

Key skills/experience

• Experience in capital delivery / engineering / construction would be preferable
• Ability to create a technical enterprise architecture aligned to architectural best practice (TOGAF, Zachmann etc)
• Experience in working within a bi-modal IT environment (ITIL and agile frameworks)
• Experience of waterfall / systems V projects essential
• Experience of engaging varied stakeholders to create an overarching enterprise architecture leveraging existing systems landscape, requirements and other artefacts
• Good communication skills, comfortable running stakeholder workshops

Key Deliverables

• Develop an enterprise level architecture incorporating a view of outcomes, business functions, roles, applications, networks and data sources
• Organise and run stakeholder workshops to facilitate alignment across business functions
• Highlight any interim target states as part of architecture evolution

Interview

2 stage interview process online

• 1st stage – Technically focused questioning and experience review
• 2nd stage – soft skills, culture and environment conversation

Job Title: Security Architect (FortiSIEM)
Contract Length: 3 months
Rate: £500-£530 (inside IR35)
Location: London (Hybrid)

About the Role:
We are seeking a highly skilled Security Architect with hands-on expertise in FortiSIEM to join our team on a 3-month contract. This hybrid role, based in London, will focus on optimising and enhancing security operations. If you’re experienced in designing SOCs with FortiSIEM and have a deep understanding of security technologies, we want to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and manage FortiSIEM within the security operations environment.
• Design and establish best practices for SOC architecture using Fortinet products.
• Onboard new log sources and develop custom connectors for integration with FortiSIEM.
• Review and analyse existing network architectures, providing recommendations for improvement.
• Apply technical knowledge to enhance Operation Technology (OT) security strategies.
• Conduct comparisons and evaluations of different security tools, providing expert insights.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven hands-on experience with FortiSIEM.
• Expertise in SOC design using FortiSIEM and other Fortinet products.
• Experience with onboarding log sources and developing custom connectors.
• Solid understanding of OT Security.
• Ability to assess and recommend improvements to network architecture.
• Strong knowledge of network and cloud security fundamentals and security tools.

Location:
London (Hybrid working arrangement).

Location: Fully remote

Clearance: BPSS

Duration: 6 months

Rate: £650-700/day INSIDE IR35

Public sector client is urgently requiring experienced Azure Architects.

• Azure Full stack developer
• Integration Development
• Microsoft Fabric
• At least 5+ years of experience