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We’re Atom bank The bank that’s on a mission to make finance faster, simpler and way more human. We’ve ditched the stuffy banking model to build something that actually works for our customers, whenever and wherever they need us. To make this happen, we’re looking for like-minded people who can help us reach our goals and think differently. If you’re ready to build the future of banking, we’d love to meet you. What will your ‘typical’ day look like? Different that’s for sure…: As a Cloud Security Architect you are a technical leader and an accelerator. You’ll translate our strategic objectives into a robust security architecture that protects our customers while enabling the safe, rapid adoption of new services. You’ll partner with product and engineering teams to move away from “tick-box” compliance and toward a culture of security by design, ensuring a sustainable flow of value across our entire estate. In your first year, you’ll have the autonomy to build deep stakeholder relationships, contribute to our evolving security capability, and create the momentum needed to mitigate risks and reduce long-term technology debt. What you’ll be doing: • Leading Design: Architecting scalable, resilient, and secure solutions for new products and features., • Strategic Roadmapping: Developing aspirational “future state” architectures that bridge the gap between product ambition and technical reality, • Conversational Governance: Moving beyond rigid frameworks by engaging in ongoing coaching, communicating standards, and capturing architectural decisions (ADRs) in real-time., • Cultivating Commitment: Building strong ties with Value Stream leads to ensure security initiatives are prioritized and understood at the leadership level., • Modern Defense: Applying principles like Zero Trust and Defense-in-Depth to modern patterns like microservices, event-driven architecture, and serverless computing., • DevSecOps Integration: Partnering with DevOps to bake security directly into our CI/CD pipelines., • System Resilience: Proactively identifying architectural risks to improve system health and eliminate technical debt.What do we need from you?, • Deep experience in design, implementation, or consulting within a security context., • You’re a practitioner in at least one (ideally more) of these areas: Cloud Security, AppSec, Data Security, IAM, or Network Security., • You understand how to secure microservices and cloud-native environments (bonus points for GCP, Vertex AI, or Thought Machine)., • A systematic and disciplined approach to problem-solving with a high attention to detail., • You can navigate technology governance processes constructively and inspire others to deliver excellent technical outcomes., • Ideally, you hold a CISSP, CISM, or CCSP, and have experience with frameworks like NIST or ISO 27001., • Familiarity with Lean/Agile methodologies and “Value Stream” ways of working.What you’ll get from us?, • Salary up to £100k, • Remote first working, with monthly office visits., • Discretionary cash bonus, based on company and individual performance, • 4-day work week, • Incredibly generous company pension scheme (maximum of 13% of Atom input – you can put in more), • ‘All About Me’ fund: £200 per year to spend on personal development., • 22.5 days annual leave plus public holidays, • Private Medical Insurance, Health Cash Plan & Life Insurance, • Enhanced Parental Leave

Software Engineer Salary: circa £50k Location: Remote (UK-based with occasional team meetings) The Opportunity: Engineering for National Security Our client’s mission is to build and deliver secure, scalable collaboration solutions for the most security-conscious organisations in the UK. This is an environment where you can transform your individual talents into strengths within a creative, innovation-driven culture. Why This Role is Different This is not a place for rigid process followers. Our client actively embraces AI-augmented development, leveraging groundbreaking tools like Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor to amplify engineering capabilities. You will be encouraged to use these tools effectively while maintaining strong engineering fundamentals and critical thinking. What You Will Be Doing • Design and Develop: Architect reliable and secure software systems using modern technologies like TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, or Java., • Innovate with AI: Experiment with and evaluate new AI-powered development tools and practices, sharing those learnings with the wider team., • Collaborate Remotely: Engage with a distributed team through video, chat, and asynchronous documentation, valuing clarity and honesty in communication., • End-to-End Ownership: Take responsibility for software systems from initial conception and MVP through to live operation and decommissioning. What We Are Looking For • Technical Breadth: Experience with cloud platforms (AWS or GCP preferred) and containerisation tools such as Docker or Kubernetes., • Security Mindset: A security-conscious approach with an understanding of secure coding practices and how decisions impact security posture., • Professional Standards: A well-formatted CV that demonstrates your attention to detail and a career history focused on the IT sector., • Clearance Requirements: You must hold a British passport. While previous SC or DV clearance is a significant advantage, we simply need you to be clearable. Benefits and Culture • Flexible Working: A remote-first culture that has been distributed from the start, supporting different communication and collaboration preferences., • Continuous Learning: Dedicated time for experimentation, structured learning, and mentorship to help you master new approaches and technologies., • Inclusive Environment: A commitment to diverse thinking styles, offering reasonable accommodations throughout the application and employment process. If you’re a Software Engineer looking to do work with real impact, we’d love to tell you more. Click apply or reach out to for more information.

Job Title: Principal DevOps Engineer II Industry: FinTech / Payments Technology Location: United Kingdom (Fully Remote) Salary: Up to £125,000 base + 9% bonus Type: Permanent, Full-time A rapidly growing global payments technology organisation is looking for a Principal DevOps Engineer II to help define and scale its enterprise DevOps platform. This is a senior technical leadership role focused on architecting and evolving the engineering delivery platform that supports both cloud and on-premise environments. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership, security teams, and developers to design scalable CI/CD architecture, improve developer experience, and implement platform standards across the organisation. This role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact by driving automation, improving delivery performance, and shaping DevOps culture across a modern engineering environment. The Role: • Define and own the architecture of the organisation’s engineering delivery platform, covering CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, secrets management, and infrastructure provisioning., • Lead the migration and implementation of GitHub Enterprise and GitHub Actions, building reusable workflow frameworks and enforcing automated security and quality gates., • Architect and manage secrets and credential management strategies using HashiCorp Vault., • Develop and manage artifact repository strategies, including promotion pipelines, vulnerability scanning integration, and multi-language ecosystem support., • Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform and configuration management through Ansible to enable fully automated environments., • Establish containerisation standards using Docker and Docker Compose to support consistent development and production environments., • Manage Cloudflare infrastructure including DNS lifecycle automation, WAF rules, and Zero Trust access policies., • Improve developer experience by building standardised pipeline frameworks that accelerate service delivery and reduce time-to-production., • Champion self-service and inner-source practices, creating shared tooling, documentation, and pipeline libraries for engineering teams., • Implement delivery metrics and dashboards to monitor deployment frequency, lead time for changes, and platform performance., • Provide technical leadership across engineering teams, identifying systemic delivery challenges and implementing scalable solutions., • Mentor senior engineers and contribute to raising DevOps standards through technical design reviews, documentation, and knowledge sharing. Skills Needed: • 12+ years of hands-on technical experience with strong foundations in software engineering and DevOps practices., • Proven experience delivering organisation-wide platform initiatives such as CI/CD architecture redesigns or DevOps platform migrations., • Strong coding ability in a statically typed language such as C# or Java., • Expert experience with GitHub and GitHub Actions including reusable workflows and automated pipeline frameworks., • Advanced Terraform expertise including module design, remote state management, and infrastructure policy enforcement., • Strong experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible., • Strong experience with HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and security integration., • Deep containerisation expertise using Docker and modern image optimisation practices., • Experience managing artifact repositories and CI/CD integration across multiple programming ecosystems., • Experience delivering infrastructure across cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or Oracle Cloud) and on-premise environments., • Strong understanding of DevOps security practices including SAST, dependency scanning, container security, and supply chain security., • Excellent communication and technical leadership skills. Benefits • Fully remote working (UK-based), • 5 days paid holiday plus bank holidays, • £5,000 annual certification and professional development budget, • £60 per month work-from-home allowance, • Private healthcare, • Additional benefits and performance-based incentives Research indicates that men will apply to a role when they meet only 50–60% of the requirements, while women and other underrepresented groups often look for a 90–100% match. If this role excites you but you don’t tick every single box, please still apply. We’d love to hear from you.

Lead Data Platform Engineer UK Remote Salary: £80,000 - £85,000 This is an opportunity to step into a highly influential Data Platform Engineering role where you will shape, optimise and own a modern Databricks Lakehouse environment. You will play a key role in driving engineering best practice, improving automation and enabling scalable data solutions across a growing data function. The Company They are a large, well‑established organisation known for combining deep technical expertise with a people‑first culture. With a nationwide presence and a modern approach to flexible working, they invest heavily in technology, innovation and colleague development. Their data function is expanding and plays a central role in supporting transformation, decision‑making and future AI initiatives. You will join a collaborative team that values engineering excellence, autonomy and continuous improvement. The Role As Lead Data Platform Engineer, you will: • Develop and deploy Databricks Lakehouse platform solutions within Azure., • Build and maintain automation for clusters, tagging, monitoring and platform operations., • Architect and design end‑to‑end data platform solutions focused on scalability, security and reliability., • Lead delivery using Databricks, PySpark, Spark SQL and Azure Data Factory., • Drive DevOps best practices including CI/CD, automated testing and infrastructure as code., • Collaborate closely with data engineers, ML engineers and wider technical teams to deliver robust platform capabilities., • Take ownership of key data platform projects and influence engineering direction., • Provide technical leadership and ensure standards, patterns and best practices are followed. Your Skills and Experience You will bring: • Strong commercial experience in Azure and Databricks, with deep knowledge of Lakehouse architecture., • Proficiency in PySpark, Python, SQL and Spark SQL., • Strong DevOps engineering skills including CI/CD, automated testing and deployment pipelines., • Experience with monitoring, logging and alerting solutions., • Ability to design, build and optimise cloud platform solutions., • Stakeholder management skills and confidence working across multiple teams., • API development experience., • Azure Data Factory knowledge is beneficial. What They Offer • Salary between £80,000 and £85,000 plus bonus., • Comprehensive benefits package and annual pay review., • Flexible by choice working environment with remote‑first culture., • 35‑hour working week promoting genuine work‑life balance., • Opportunities to shape platform strategy and contribute to future AI and automation initiatives. How to Apply If you are a strong Data Platform Engineer with deep Databricks expertise and want to take ownership of a modern Azure Lakehouse environment, please apply today.

DevOps Engineer Location: Remote Role Overview Reporting to the Web Architect, the DevOps Engineer will play a key role in designing and implementing the technical backbone of the digital platforms. This role is crucial to supporting the “digital first” strategy with solutions that are flexible, scalable, and reliable. The DevOps Engineer will work closely with internal IT teams at all levels, requiring clear communication with colleagues of varying technical expertise. You will help guide the business through technical changes, documenting processes, and ensuring seamless integration of new solutions. This role demands a balance of technical expertise, stakeholder management, and a people-focused mindset to deliver high-quality solutions and support the company’s strategic objectives. Key Responsibilities • Define web platform architecture aligned with the business goals., • Work with Security and Infrastructure teams to ensure platforms are secure, compatible, and optimised., • Conduct design reviews to simplify and modernise web platform infrastructure., • Support the delivery of innovative digital solutions., • Maintain awareness of DevOps best practices and industry trends., • Perform other duties as required, aligned with the scope of the role., • Demonstrate professionalism in interactions with business teams and third parties., • Respond promptly and appropriately to requests from management or the business., • Shape and nurture a positive technical culture within the team., • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver user-focused experiences., • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders., • Engage stakeholders to guide digital solution decisions and explain IT/web concepts clearly., • Foster collaboration and strong business partnerships within the team and across the organisation., • Support team members and contribute to overall team success., • Identify training needs and support upskilling within the team., • Act responsibly and professionally at all times. Essential Knowledge, Skills & Experience • Strong understanding of infrastructure architectures and cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure)., • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Bicep or Terraform., • Knowledge of Agile development principles., • Awareness of architectural impacts on performance and security., • Strong technical documentation, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills., • Excellent interpersonal and time management skills., • Ownership mentality and pride in delivering high-quality solutions. Experience • 3–5+ years as a DevOps Engineer with a solid understanding of DevOps principles., • Hands-on experience deploying to Azure using Terraform or Bicep., • Implementing network and security best practices., • Working with patterns such as Headless, Microservices, and Event-Driven Architecture., • Degree in Computer Science, IT, or a related field.

About the role: This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking and innovative cloud engineering lead to join ROCK. The Principal Cloud & AI Engineer is a highly technical, hands-on role that provides both deep engineering expertise and architectural guidance as we embark on scaling our AWS and Azure services portfolio. The role requires leadership qualities to be able to coordinate and mentor engineers and delivery partners within the team. This individual will be directly responsible for designing, building, and optimising scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions. The role also offers the successful candidate to take a leading role in the definition and implementation of tooling, CI/CD pipelines operational processes, automation, and security practices to ensure ROCK’s cloud deployments are robust, efficient, and financially well-managed. Alongside daily engineering responsibilities, the Principal Cloud Engineer will shape technical best practices, drive continuous improvement, and mentor engineers, fostering a culture focused on growth, learning, and innovation that supports ROCK’s ambition to become an AWS Premier Partner. The role is instrumental in building and scaling the professional services and the operational cloud team, supporting the evolution from a single customer pod model to multiple delivery teams. A flavour of what you will be doing: Technical Solution Leadership • Provide hands-on leadership in designing, prototyping, deploying scalable solutions and PoCs across AWS, and ideally Azure., • Lead modernisation and migration of complex workloads, particularly Windows environments, to modern cloud platforms., • Architect secure, scalable, and cost-optimised cloud-native environments aligned with well-architected principles., • Act as technical SME, supporting presales initiatives and aligning technical solutions with client business goals., • Serve as technical design authority for AWS, guiding team architectural standards and decision making., • Support the delivery of AI/ML and Gen AI proof of concepts, leveraging cloud-native services. Cloud Strategy, Automation & Governance • Develop and refine cloud landing zones, infrastructure-as-code, and automation strategies across cloud platforms., • Lead the design and standardisation of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices across teams., • Support the review of migration readiness and modernisation assessments, using frameworks such as 7Rs., • Standardise tooling, and governance to improve technical efficiency and consistency across teams., • Stay current with and integrate emerging technologies (AI, ML, serverless) to maintain technical edge. People Leadership & Team Development • Provide technical mentoring for cloud excellence, focusing on best practices, CI/CD and operational excellence., • Foster continuous learning through knowledge sharing, peer mentoring, and structured training., • Drive adoption of standardised operating procedures while encouraging innovation and improvement. What we need: • Proven experience in implementing and designing cloud solutions in AWS (currently holds or is willing to pass AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or DevOps Engineer Professional)., • Must have experience in Windows migration to AWS, Workspaces and monitoring and security services., • Extensive experience with landing zone development using Terraform IaC, CI/CD and git and GitOps., • Providing technical delivery experience and leadership through large complex projects and migrations., • Significant expertise in building AWS solutions, Azure experience, preferable but not essential., • Background in hybrid / on-premises integration (VMware, networking, storage), • Experience in supporting Cloud Operations / managed services., • Experience in delivering AI/ML and gen AI PoC’s advantageous. The ideal candidate: • Exemplary background in designing in AWS with AWS Pro certification. Azure certifications are also advantageous., • Continuous innovator, ability to support the success and implementation of new services and repeatable packaged solutions., • Strong leadership and communications skills with the ability to inspire., • Deep understanding of cloud operations frameworks, including well architected., • Exceptional communication skills for engaging both technical teams and non-technical stakeholders. This is an truly exciting opportunity as mentioned, to work across multiple projects and help define tooling as part of a fully remote and growing team. If interested, please apply or reach out to Jack directly!

Key Responsibilities: * Design our scalable, secure and cost-effective cloud hybrid data solution aligned with Omnia enterprise architecture and Army training objectives. * Design innovative data models and metadata systems to interpret and enhance business needs, promoting data as a strategic asset. * Develop transitional data architectures and road maps in alignment with Omnia digital transformation objectives, enabling the evolution of integrated training solutions. * Collaborate with cross-functional teams and partners to ensure data architectural integrity and alignment. * Translate complex technical concepts for a non-technical audience, fostering understanding and buy-in from stakeholders. * Support horizon scanning to identify and assess emerging technologies and determine their potential impact on leveraging data analytics to improve training delivery. * Membership and contribution to the Omnia Architecture Board(s) to review, define, refine and uphold data architectural principles, policies, and standards across Omnia Training. * Work with engineering teams to support and guide the implementation of a variety of solutions across multiple domains, in an agile environment. * Manage and lead prototyping and research activity as required to realise the best solutions. * Provide oversight and advice to engineers undertaking the design of data models and support the management of data dictionaries. * Ensure the security and compliance of data environments through the implementation of appropriate architecture principles, security controls and governance frameworks. * Author, review and contribute to technical documentation. * Produce High- and low-level design artifacts for data storage, processing, and retrieval systems. * Stay current with data technologies, making recommendations for use based on business value. Drive the adoption of these technologies. * Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Omnia Data Lakehouse, providing strategic guidance, technical oversight, and deep expertise in its architecture, implementation, and optimisation. Who we are looking for: The Data Architect will provide strategic and practical leadership across the data architecture landscape of the Army Collective Training Service (ACTS). This role is pivotal in shaping and governing the enterprise data architecture to ensure it aligns with the ACTS vision and supports data as a mission-critical asset. Working closely with the Data Lead, Enterprise Architect and Chief Engineer, you will design, evolve, and maintain a secure, scalable, and interoperable data architecture, leveraging cloud services from AWS, Azure, and OCP where appropriate. This role requires a systems-thinking mindset, strong stakeholder engagement skills, and the ability to work across engineering teams in a complex and evolving environment. Essential Skills and Experience: * Proven experience designing and implementing scalable, secure, and interoperable data architectures in complex environments with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and cloud-native data services including use of services like S3, Lambda, Glue, Data Factory, etc. * Experience designing and supporting implementation of large-scale data pipelines, data warehousing and Lakehouse technologies. * Strong skills in conceptual, logical, and physical data modelling using tools like ER/Studio, ERwin, or Sparx EA (preferred). Experience reverse engineering models from existing databases. * Proficiency in distributed data processing frameworks (e.g., Spark, Flink, Hadoop). * Experience with API management and gateway tools and services. * Experience of RESTful APIs for ingesting and exposing data. * Proven track record with data governance, quality, lineage, and security practices. * Experience with real-time/streaming data technologies, data Ingestion / ETL (e.g., Apache Kafka, Apache NiFi, Kinesis, Pub/Sub). * Experience in, or knowledge of, DevSecOps Tooling and Processes. * Self-starter with the ability to appropriately prioritise and plan complex work in a rapidly changing environment. * Strong critical thinker with problem solving aptitude. * A working knowledge of MoD or Government IT Security environments and requirements at various classifications. Desirable Skills and Experience: * Hands-on experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift). * Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation). * Experience with BI/visualisation tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker, Elastic Stack). * Knowledge of compliance frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA) and their impact on data systems. * Relevant Data and Architecture certification such as TOGAF, MODAF, AWS/Azure Certified Data Architect or Solutions Architect, DAMA Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP) JBRP1_UKTJ

Role Details • Job Title: IAM Architect, • Work Model: Hybrid ( 2 to 3days), • Location (if hybrid/office based): Leeds/Bradford, • Duration of Assignment: 6 Months Role Description (Please include a brief outline of the impact this role will have, including overview of customer industry and projects, access to cutting-edge technology etc.) We are seeking an experienced IAM Architect with strong expertise across Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) to support a major BFSI customer in the UK. The role will be responsible for defining, shaping, and governing the target-state architecture for IGA and PAM capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise security strategy, regulatory obligations, and business priorities. The successful candidate will play a key role in security transformation initiatives, driving robust identity governance, privileged access controls, compliance, and risk reduction across a complex regulated environment and implementation. This role requires a strong combination of strategic architecture capability, technical domain depth, and stakeholder management across security, infrastructure, application, risk, audit, and business teams. Key Responsibilities (Up to 10, Avoid repetition), • Define and maintain the target-state architecture for IGA and PAM across workforce, third-party, and privileged identities, • Lead the design of scalable and secure identity controls covering identity lifecycle management, access governance, privileged access, least privilege, and segregation of duties, • Develop architecture principles, standards, policies, patterns, and roadmaps for IGA and PAM transformation programmes, • Provide architectural leadership for onboarding applications, platforms, and infrastructure into IGA and PAM services, • Design and review solutions covering joiner, mover, leaver processes, access requests, approvals, certifications, role modelling, SoD controls, privileged account vaulting, elevation, session management, and break-glass access, • Support product and vendor evaluations, including RFP responses, technical assessments, and solution selection activities, • Ensure all solution designs align with UK BFSI regulatory, risk, audit, and compliance expectations, • Work closely with engineering, operations, security, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and adoption of identity capabilities, • Review current-state IAM controls, identify architectural and control gaps, and recommend improvement opportunities, • Provide design assurance, governance, and sign-off for IGA and PAM initiatives Key Skills / Knowledge / Experience (Up to 10, Avoid repetition), • Proven experience working as an IAM Architect, Security Architect, or similar architecture role in large enterprise environments, • Strong hands-on architectural experience across both IGA and PAM domains, • Demonstrable experience in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector, preferably within the UK Strong understanding of identity governance principles including:, • Joiner, mover, leaver processes, • Access requests and approvals, • Access certifications and recertifications, • Role modelling and role-based access control, • Segregation of duties, • Policy-based access governance Strong understanding of privileged access controls including:, • Privileged account discovery, • Password vaulting, • Privileged session management, • Just-in-time / just-enough access, • Elevation and delegation controls, • Break-glass access, • Service and shared account governance, • Experience designing integrations across on-prem, cloud, hybrid, and SaaS environments, • Good knowledge of identity and security protocols such as SAML, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, LDAP, SCIM, Kerberos, and API-based integrations Experience working with one or more enterprise IGA and PAM solutions such as:, • SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Entra ID Governance, • CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust, One Identity PAM Person Specification Client Facing and Lead for IDAM Workstream. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned IAM professional with deep architecture experience across both governance-led identity controls and privileged access security. They will be comfortable operating in a complex BFSI environment, engaging senior stakeholders, and translating security, risk, and regulatory requirements into practical and scalable architecture outcomes. Lead Implementation E2E and ensure benefits are realised. JBRP1_UKTJ

Lead Solutions Architect Bristol / Edinburgh / Leeds (Hybrid – 2 days per week in the office) A leading financial services organisation is seeking a Lead Solutions Architect to play a critical role in shaping the architecture behind large-scale digital transformation initiatives. This position sits at the heart of a major platform responsible for delivering colleague and customer services across insurance, pensions, and investment products. This is not a maintenance-focused architecture role. It is an opportunity to define architectural direction, modernise legacy capability, and help build scalable, intelligent platforms that support the organisation’s long-term digital strategy. You will work closely with Product Owners, Engineering teams, and Enterprise Architecture to design and deliver complex, high-impact solutions across a distributed engineering landscape spanning the UK and international teams. Key Responsibilities • Define and lead target solution architectures across APIs, microservices, colleague platforms, CCaaS telephony, robotics, and AI-enabled automation, • Drive the modernisation and simplification of service-driven architectures, enabling scalable and resilient digital platforms, • Shape the data strategy to support actionable intelligence and improved decision-making at scale, • Guide engineering teams in implementing secure, reliable, and scalable architectures, • Work across multiple feature teams to balance delivery speed with long-term architectural strategy, • Support the transformation of back-office operations and customer service capabilities through modern technology and automation, • Collaborate with architecture and engineering leadership to establish standards, patterns, and best practices Key Experience Required • Proven experience leading architecture across complex, multi-system transformation programmes, • Deep knowledge of API-led architectures and microservices, including event-driven and publish/subscribe patterns, • Strong understanding of web architecture, security, and scalable distributed systems, • Experience designing systems with authentication, single sign-on (OAuth), and encryption (in transit and at rest), • Demonstrated ability to define architectural standards, frameworks, and patterns, • Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to influence engineering and product teams Desirable Experience • Cloud platform experience (GCP preferred, though Azure or AWS is also valuable), • Experience with contact centre / CCaaS platforms such as Genesys Cloud, NICE, or AWS, • Leadership or mentoring of other architects, • Experience experimenting or prototyping new approaches across different technology stacks, • Familiarity with content management frameworks and digital experience tooling Working Environment • Hybrid working model with two days per week in the office, • Locations available in Bristol, Edinburgh, or Leeds, • Agile and flexible working options, including hybrid arrangements and job share opportunities Benefits • Generous pension contribution of up to 15%, • Annual performance bonus, • Share schemes including free shares, • 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, • Flexible lifestyle benefits and wellbeing initiatives, • Strong parental leave policies and family support programmes This role offers the opportunity to work on high-impact digital transformation programmes, influence architectural strategy across large platforms, and help shape the future technology landscape of a major financial services organisation. If you would like to learn more, please apply or reach out for a confidential discussion.

Lead Technical Architect Pay up to £99,836, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work-life balance. Do you want to lead on the modernisation of systems that deliver billions of pounds in payments every week to citizens who rely on our support? As a Lead Technical Architect in DWP Payments, you'll operate at one of the highest levels of architectural leadership within DWP Digital. Payments is one of the most critical service areas in government, responsible for ensuring accurate, reliable and timely payments to millions of people. We are one of the biggest payers in the UK, across benefits and pensions and we're modernising our payments estate. We are moving away from legacy systems and designing future-proofed, event-driven, API-led architectures that are resilient, scalable and secure. You'll guide the technical strategy for major transformation initiatives, shaping how our next-generation payments platform will work. You'll provide expert architectural leadership across cloud, on-premise and hybrid environments, and work with multidisciplinary teams to design and govern high-risk, high-impact solutions. You'll collaborate closely with delivery teams and senior stakeholders, offering clear options and recommendations that influence technology decisions at scale. This is an exciting time to join us. The scale is huge, the challenge is real, and the opportunities for impact are significant. You'll help transform the backbone of one of the UK's largest public services. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? • You know how to design microservice and API-led architectures, and you understand the tools, techniques and best practices behind them., • You have hands-on experience with event-based architectures, including pub/sub models, data streaming and modern integration patterns., • You can design architectures that span cloud, on-prem and hybrid environments, and understand networking, security, middleware, databases and integration., • You use architecture principles, standards and patterns to guide design, making sure solutions align with strategy., • You've shaped or supported delivery across agile, waterfall and hybrid environments, from initial concept all the way to go-live., • You can take complex business needs and turn them into clear, traceable technical solutions that stakeholders can understand. As a Lead Technical Architect, you'll have a strategic role shaping how our Payments team designs, builds and operates the platforms that deliver billions in payments safely and reliably. We're taking on a major modernisation - moving from complex legacy systems to modern cloud-based, event-driven architecture. You'll help lead that change, ensuring our new platforms are robust, secure, flexible and future-ready. You'll work across multiple teams and programmes, guiding architectural direction, setting standards and ensuring solutions meet both technical and business needs. You'll inspire, mentor and support the architecture community, helping others grow and ensuring consistent and high-quality design across the organisation. Leadership in this role means influence: setting strategy, supporting communities, guiding decisions and creating clarity in complex environments. You'll solve some of the biggest and most important challenges in government technology: modernising legacy payment systems, improving resilience, handling huge volumes of data, and ensuring that millions of people get the right payment at the right time. Your impact will be felt in the reliability and security of services that people depend on every day. This is a role for someone who thrives on complexity, embraces large-scale transformation and wants to leave a lasting legacy in public service. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to We offer pay up to £99,836. That's £75,026 salary plus a Government Digital and Data Allowance of up to £24,810 subject to our assessment of your capability at interview Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £21,735 per year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: • Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies, • Time off volunteering and charitable giving, • Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP', • Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more, • Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference, • Sports and social activities, • DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards, • Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards 2024, • Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. 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Role Details • Job Title: IAM Architect, • Work Model: Hybrid ( 2 to 3days), • Location (if hybrid/office based): Leeds/Bradford, • Duration of Assignment: 6 Months Role Description (Please include a brief outline of the impact this role will have, including overview of customer industry and projects, access to cutting-edge technology etc.) We are seeking an experienced IAM Architect with strong expertise across Identity Governance & Administration (IGA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) to support a major BFSI customer in the UK. The role will be responsible for defining, shaping, and governing the target-state architecture for IGA and PAM capabilities, ensuring alignment with enterprise security strategy, regulatory obligations, and business priorities. The successful candidate will play a key role in security transformation initiatives, driving robust identity governance, privileged access controls, compliance, and risk reduction across a complex regulated environment and implementation. This role requires a strong combination of strategic architecture capability, technical domain depth, and stakeholder management across security, infrastructure, application, risk, audit, and business teams. Key Responsibilities (Up to 10, Avoid repetition), • Define and maintain the target-state architecture for IGA and PAM across workforce, third-party, and privileged identities, • Lead the design of scalable and secure identity controls covering identity lifecycle management, access governance, privileged access, least privilege, and segregation of duties, • Develop architecture principles, standards, policies, patterns, and roadmaps for IGA and PAM transformation programmes, • Provide architectural leadership for onboarding applications, platforms, and infrastructure into IGA and PAM services, • Design and review solutions covering joiner, mover, leaver processes, access requests, approvals, certifications, role modelling, SoD controls, privileged account vaulting, elevation, session management, and break-glass access, • Support product and vendor evaluations, including RFP responses, technical assessments, and solution selection activities, • Ensure all solution designs align with UK BFSI regulatory, risk, audit, and compliance expectations, • Work closely with engineering, operations, security, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery and adoption of identity capabilities, • Review current-state IAM controls, identify architectural and control gaps, and recommend improvement opportunities, • Provide design assurance, governance, and sign-off for IGA and PAM initiatives Key Skills / Knowledge / Experience (Up to 10, Avoid repetition), • Proven experience working as an IAM Architect, Security Architect, or similar architecture role in large enterprise environments, • Strong hands-on architectural experience across both IGA and PAM domains, • Demonstrable experience in the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance (BFSI) sector, preferably within the UK Strong understanding of identity governance principles including:, • Joiner, mover, leaver processes, • Access requests and approvals, • Access certifications and recertifications, • Role modelling and role-based access control, • Segregation of duties, • Policy-based access governance Strong understanding of privileged access controls including:, • Privileged account discovery, • Password vaulting, • Privileged session management, • Just-in-time / just-enough access, • Elevation and delegation controls, • Break-glass access, • Service and shared account governance, • Experience designing integrations across on-prem, cloud, hybrid, and SaaS environments, • Good knowledge of identity and security protocols such as SAML, OAuth2, OpenID Connect, LDAP, SCIM, Kerberos, and API-based integrations Experience working with one or more enterprise IGA and PAM solutions such as:, • SailPoint, Saviynt, One Identity, Entra ID Governance, • CyberArk, Delinea, BeyondTrust, One Identity PAM Person Specification Client Facing and Lead for IDAM Workstream. The ideal candidate will be a seasoned IAM professional with deep architecture experience across both governance-led identity controls and privileged access security. They will be comfortable operating in a complex BFSI environment, engaging senior stakeholders, and translating security, risk, and regulatory requirements into practical and scalable architecture outcomes. xrnqpay Lead Implementation E2E and ensure benefits are realised.

Where purpose meets career Diverse Project Exposure: • End‑to‑end ownership of technical solution design and delivery for client engagements., • Design and delivery of client‑facing digital solutions, powered by AI including Agentic, and secure by design including the use of Sovereign components as required., • Responsibility for owning and driving technical delivery., • Mentoring junior team members as part of solution delivery. Professional Development: We prioritize career advancement within a collaborative team environment. Whether you are looking to move into leadership or deepen your technical expertise, we provide the support to help you achieve your career goals. About Atos Amplify We partner with business leaders to amplify impact and deliver measurable business outcomes with resilience and certainty - leveraging human experience, AI -powered insights, and deep industry expertise. Our consulting and advisory services support our customers confidently navigate a digital transformation journey to embrace a digital future beyond technology - delivering measurable value, operational efficiency that drives ROI and long-term impact. The Role We are seeking an experienced Consulting Solution Architect to join the Architecture practice within Atos Amplify UK&I. The role combines client architecture advisory, solution design, and technical delivery accountability across complex digital transformation programmes. You will lead technical workstreams, shape solution architectures, manage senior client relationships, and contribute to the growth of the practice. You will bring a strong passion for delivering digital transformation through architecture, designing solutions that can be successfully implemented within client contexts. You are an experienced problem‑solver who thrives in complex, ambiguous environments, works confidently in regulated industries, and engages senior stakeholders with clarity, credibility, and authority, supported by a strong interest in architecture development and emerging digital technologies. Skills we can’t do without: • Experience designing and delivering solutions on hyperscaler platforms such as Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud., • Ability to design solutions encompassing applications, cloud, and integration architectures, including microservices, APIs, and event-driven systems., • Good understanding of AI concepts, architectures and integration patterns, including Agentic, MLOps and data pipelines., • Good understanding of security & compliance requirements including how they are applied to solution design and delivery., • Strong client-facing consulting skills, including workshop facilitation and hypothesis-led analysis., • Experience delivering digital transformation projects across waterfall and agile methods., • Experience with resolving complex technical challenges balancing architectural purity with delivery constraints, • Experience with TOGAF (or equivalent) and ArchiMate modelling, • Public sector delivery experience or experience within a regulated industry. Additional Requirements: • UK mobility required, with regular client-site engagement., • Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain higher clearance. Working Model: Hybrid working model with a balance of client site, office, and home working. Benefits: • Pension Scheme - contributions matched up to 10%, • Private medical cover, • Income Protection, • Life Assurance, • 25 days paid leave + National Holidays, • Flex benefits program

Full-Stack Engineer Location: London (Hybrid) Salary: Up to £80,000 + benefits We have partnered with a well-funded, founder-led technology startup operating in the sports and media space, building next-generation systems for processing and analysing live content in real time. As the platform scales, they’re hiring a Full-Stack Engineer to design and deliver high-performance systems across real-time data pipelines, modern frontend applications, and AI-enhanced product features. What You’ll Do as a Full-Stack Engineer: • Own the end-to-end delivery of real-time video, data, and AI-driven analysis across a modern digital content platform., • Design and build resilient backend services using Java and cloud-native infrastructure., • Develop modern, high-performance frontend applications using TypeScript and a modern JavaScript framework., • Architect and maintain real-time data pipelines using event-driven systems and streaming technologies., • Work across cloud-based serverless and containerised infrastructure to deploy scalable, production-ready systems., • Integrate LLM APIs and AI-powered workflows into product functionality and engineering processes., • Leverage AI coding assistants and modern development tooling to accelerate development and automate workflows., • Collaborate closely with a small, high-trust engineering team to ship features quickly and reliably., • Take ownership of system architecture, infrastructure decisions, and production deployments. Core Technology Stack: • Backend: Java, distributed messaging systems, relational databases, Docker, infrastructure as code, • Frontend: TypeScript, modern JavaScript frameworks, • Infrastructure: Cloud-native serverless and containerised environments, • AI Tooling: Regular use of AI-powered development tools and coding assistants What We’re Looking For in a Full-Stack Engineer: • A polyglot engineering mindset with the ability to work across multiple languages and systems., • Strong experience building backend services and distributed systems., • Ability to read, understand, and contribute to Java-based systems., • Frontend experience with modern frameworks such as React, Vue, Svelte, or similar technologies., • Hands-on experience integrating LLM APIs from leading providers., • Regular use of AI tools and coding assistants to increase development velocity and automate workflows., • Strong engineering fundamentals including testing, documentation, security, and performance optimisation., • Comfort working in fast-moving environments where ownership, clarity, and delivery are expected. Nice to Have’s as a Full-Stack Engineer: • Experience in sports technology, live event data systems, or digital media platforms., • Exposure to streaming technologies or real-time data processing frameworks., • Strong experience designing data architectures and large-scale distributed systems. This is a rare opportunity for a Full-Stack Engineer to help shape a real-time digital platform from an early stage, working with modern cloud infrastructure and AI-augmented engineering workflows to deliver high-impact systems.

IT Security Architect - AWS - Manchester 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, • 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 Circle Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Earn yourself a referral bonus if you refer somebody else who fills the role! We also offer an iPad if you refer a new client to us and we recruit for them. Follow us on Facebook - Circle Recruitment , Twitter - @Circle_Rec and LinkedIn - Circle Recruitment. JBRP1_UKTJ

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