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📌 Position Title: AI Product Specialist 🌍 Location: Remote - Europe ⏰ Working Rhythm: Innovation is a 24/7 pursuit, but we value your downtime. While our typical working hours are 9am-5pm in your timezone, we embrace flexibility and trust you to manage your schedule to meet your individual needs and peak productivity times. Occasionally, longer hours may be to tackle challenges, support new releases, or contribute to time-sensitive initiatives. 📝 Contract Type: Permanent 🤝 Reporting To: Chief Product Officer 📅 Start Date: April 2026 Role We're looking for someone who lives at the edge of AI possibilities—someone who wakes up thinking about what they can build with the latest models, tools, and techniques. You're the kind of person who has strong opinions about Claude vs ChatGPT vs Gemini because you've actually shipped things with all of them. You experiment relentlessly, you vibe code like others scroll social media, and you want to build the future. As our AI Product Specialist, you'll be our internal R&D lab and strategic advisor rolled into one. You'll prototype agentic experiences, pressure-test new AI capabilities, and help me make smart bets on what we should build. You'll balance hands-on building with strategic thinking—shipping experiments fast while developing frameworks for how we should think about AI across our product. At Nexford we're building a new kind of university: one that's affordable, flexible, relevant, and 100% online. One that prepares learners for the careers of tomorrow, without the burden of student debt. Key Responsibilities • Ship rapid AI experiments: Build working prototypes of agentic workflows, conversational interfaces, and AI-assisted features. Move from idea to clickable demo in days, not weeks. You're comfortable with imperfect MVPs that teach us something and can help get buy in for deeper investment., • Develop strategic recommendations: Translate hands-on learning into actionable guidance for the CPO. Where should we invest our AI resources in?, • Stay bleeding-edge current: The AI space is rapidly changing, with new models and techniques regularly emerging. You’ll stay on top of the latest and encourage us to integrate new concepts., • Design agentic experiences: Go beyond chatbots and build fully agentic systems with orchestration., • Bridge technical and product thinking: Translate between what's technically possible and what creates real user value., • Cross-functional Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Nexford, including Learner Success, Academic Operations, Technology, and Marketing, to ensure a cohesive and seamless learner experience. Additionally, foster successful market introduction of new products, features, and experiences., • Data-Driven Decision Making: Utilize user research, data analytics, and learner feedback to assess product performance, identify areas for improvement, and inform future iterations., • Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous improvement, iterating on products and services based on feedback and data insights. Skills & Qualifications • 2-4 years working to ship features and products, with meaningful AI experience: You've built real features that real users have used. Bonus if you've worked on conversational AI, agents, or developer tools., • Vibe coding as a superpower: You can go from idea to working code fast. You're comfortable with Claude/Cursor/Copilot/Lovable/v0 and whatever comes next. You write code to think, not just to ship. You know when to polish and when to stay scrappy., • Deep curiosity about AI tools and techniques: You have strong opinions (weakly held) about RAG architectures, prompt engineering, function calling, fine-tuning, and when to use what., • Tinkerer mentality: You build side projects. You have a personal AI stack. You like to experiment., • Product taste alongside technical chops: You know the difference between a cool demo and a useful feature., • Clear communication: You can explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders to get buy-in and build a shared understanding. If you're passionate about transforming lives through education and have a proven track record of delivering exceptional customer experiences, we encourage you to apply!

Full-Stack Developer (.NET / Golang) Location: Remote-first (UK-based only) Salary: £40,000 – £50,000 Contract: Permanent About the Business: Our client is a leading technology business delivering real-time platforms and analytics to major sports organisations and broadcasters worldwide. Their cutting-edge systems process huge volumes of live sports data, powering everything from performance insights to simulations and streaming services. This is your chance to join a fast-moving, remote-first engineering team working on complex, high-performance systems at scale. The Role: We’re seeking a talented Full-Stack Developer with strong experience in Golang and .NET to play a central role in our development team. You’ll be building real-time APIs, WebSocket systems, and large-scale distributed applications, as well as contributing to frontend projects using React and Next.js. The role also involves working with AWS and Kubernetes to deliver cloud-native infrastructure that can handle thousands of concurrent connections. This is a hands-on position where you’ll be solving challenging problems, working on exciting live-data projects, and developing your expertise in Golang within a collaborative environment. Key Skills: Essential • Strong experience with Golang, • Solid background in .NET / C#, • WebSockets and real-time data processing, • API development and strong problem-solving ability, • Remote working experience with excellent communication skills Desirable • Node.js, • React / Next.js, • AWS and Kubernetes, • PostgreSQL, Redis (caching) Candidate Profile • Mid-level, • Self-motivated, proactive, and able to work independently, • Comfortable in a remote-first culture Important to Note: Some of the client’s projects involve supporting organisations in the gambling industry, so applicants must be comfortable working in this space.

This is a 2-month, UK-based contract. While the role is remote, we have offices in both Cardiff and Brighton. Note: We are looking for candidates who can start immediately. Part of the Rocket Science Group, Atomic Theory comprises a multinational team of seasoned AAA veterans with roots extending from Blizzard, PUBG, Epic, and Unity. We have a track record of delivering player-centric, AAA-quality experiences, and we're unwavering in our commitment to performance, accessibility, and the meticulous attention to the engineering tools and frameworks that underpin exceptional gameplay. But Atomic Theory is also more than just a studio; for us, it's a sanctuary, a place where our diverse experiences can intersect and combine to carry our solutions to the next level. We're dedicated to aiding studios and publishers in navigating the toughest challenges across today's game development landscape -- and with offices in Albany, NY, Brighton, UK and Cardiff, UK, we thrive at the opportunity to Get Sh!t Done on a global scale. Our passion for gaming is at the core of everything we do, inspiring us to collaborate seamlessly. We're not afraid to take on big challenges and push for bold, innovative solutions. Every decision we make is guided by the goal of delivering maximum value and creating a significant, positive impact on our projects. By consistently going above and beyond, we transform every interaction into an exceptional partnership, building trust and delivering excellence. ABOUT THE ROLE: We are seeking a talented and versatile Game Developer to join our growing co-dev team. In this role, you will draw upon your broad technical experience to help build high-quality game systems and features across a variety of projects. You will contribute to designing, implementing, and evolving gameplay, systems, and tools that help our partners deliver excellent player experiences. You will have the opportunity to work across both proprietary and commercially available game engines, and you should be comfortable adapting to new technologies, workflows, and problem spaces as projects evolve. An ideal candidate is passionate about games, enjoys tackling a wide range of technical challenges, and has a track record of delivering great player and customer experiences across different areas of game development. WHAT YOU'LL DO: Feature Development: Implement, maintain, and collaborate on gameplay features, systems, and tools within proprietary and commercially available game engines. Generalist Development: Work across multiple areas of game development such as gameplay, systems, tools, or engine-level code, depending on project needs. Critical Problem Solving: Use strong debugging and analytical skills to investigate and resolve complex technical issues across multiple systems. Technical Design: Collaborate with designers, artists, and product leads to break down requirements and deliver practical, player-focused solutions. Code Review: Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and help maintain high standards of code quality and maintainability. WHAT WE VALUE: Strong Technical Skills: Professional experience developing games using modern game engines, with proficiency in C++ or similar languages and solid mathematical fundamentals. Engineering Excellence: A commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and efficient code, with a focus on quality and best practices. Breadth of Experience: Comfort working across different systems and disciplines within game development, with a generalist mindset. Team Collaboration: Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with engineers, designers, producers, and project leads. Problem Solving: A proactive and thoughtful approach to identifying, diagnosing, and resolving technical challenges. Passion for Gaming: A genuine enthusiasm for games and a desire to help create engaging, high-quality experiences for players. Interest in Learning: Curiosity and eagerness to learn new technologies, engines, and practices to remain adaptable and effective. WHAT YOU MAY ALSO HAVE: Console Experience: Experience developing for current-generation consoles such as Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, or Switch. Mentorship Skills: Experience supporting or mentoring less experienced developers as they build new skills. Stakeholder Communication: Experience working with internal or external partners to gather feedback, provide technical input, and solve problems collaboratively. A FRIENDLY NOTE FROM THE RECRUITMENT TEAM: Let us do the work for you: Even if your profile isn’t an exact match for all of the qualifications listed above, we still want you to apply. Our team members come from a variety of different industries, not all of which are immediately relevant to game or software development, and we welcome all candidates of similarly varied backgrounds, communities, and identities. Rocket Science is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a worry-free workplace void of discrimination or harassment. Rocket Scientists are expected to foster and champion an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to feel included and is afforded the respect and dignity they deserve. Rocket Science does not accept unsolicited résumés from recruiters, employment agencies, or staffing firms. #li-remote

Location: Remote (United Kingdom) Salary: £55,000–£70,000 DOE, with room to grow as the company grows Contract: Full-time, 40 hours per week Reports to: Engineering Leadership You must already have the right to work in the UK, as we're unable to sponsor visas for this role. About the Role We're looking for a Senior DevOps & Platform Engineer to join our engineering team and take technical ownership of our cloud platform, infrastructure and operational tooling. You'll work alongside our software engineers to build, maintain and improve the AWS and Kubernetes platform that powers OpsPilot, while continuing to evolve our CI/CD pipelines, observability platform, security controls and compliance processes. This is a hands-on engineering role. You'll combine platform engineering, infrastructure automation and software development, helping to create a reliable, secure and scalable platform that enables the whole engineering team to deliver software with confidence. You'll be trusted to shape technical standards, improve developer experience through automation, and ensure our platform continues to support both our engineers and our customers. Ideas carry the same weight here regardless of who they come from or how long they've been with the company. You'll be judged on the strength of your thinking, collaboration and engineering decisions rather than your title. Success in this role will be measured by the reliability, security and maintainability of our platform, the quality of the engineering practices you help establish, and your ability to work collaboratively across the team. About OpsPilot OpsPilot is an AI-powered observability and operational intelligence platform, helping engineering and operations teams detect, understand and resolve production issues faster while increasingly automating operational workflows. As a team, we build and operate the same kind of platform we sell. The operational challenges we solve internally often become the next capabilities we deliver to customers, giving every engineer the opportunity to directly influence the product. Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering • Own and maintain our AWS and Kubernetes platform., • Develop and maintain infrastructure using OpenTofu / Terraform., • Improve our CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation., • Maintain and evolve our observability platform., • Define and maintain engineering standards for infrastructure, deployments and platform operations., • Monitor cloud costs and identify opportunities for optimisation. Engineering Collaboration • Work closely with software engineers to improve platform capabilities and developer experience., • Build tooling and automation that improves developer experience and engineering productivity., • Share knowledge and provide guidance on infrastructure, cloud technologies and operational best practices., • Help establish practical engineering standards that support reliable software delivery. Security & Compliance • Own and maintain our SOC 2 compliance programme., • Improve security controls and engineering best practices., • Work with the wider engineering team to ensure compliance activities become part of normal engineering workflows. Product Engineering • Contribute to technical design and architecture., • Develop internal platform capabilities and customer-facing features for OpsPilot., • Use AI-assisted development and automation where it improves engineering outcomes. Skills & Experience Essential • Around 4+ years' relevant experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure or a closely related role. We're far more interested in your approach and trajectory than a long CV, so don't be put off if you're towards the lower end of that range., • A track record of helping development teams adopt new practices or ways of working. This matters more to us than any individual technology and is something we'll explore as much in the interview as on your CV., • Able to influence engineering practices through collaboration, technical leadership and strong communication rather than formal authority., • Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes in production., • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and practices., • Experience developing production software, not just operating it., • CI/CD and infrastructure automation., • Experience working within production SaaS environments. Desirable • Experience with OpenTofu or Terraform., • Experience with SOC 2 or ISO 27001, ideally including coordinating or running audits., • Experience with the Grafana LGTM stack or similar observability platforms., • Experience working with multi-tenant SaaS platforms., • AI-assisted development or prompt engineering. More important than any individual technology is how you approach engineering. We're looking for someone who enjoys solving problems properly, improving systems rather than simply maintaining them, and leaving both the platform and the engineering team in a better place than they found them. If that sounds like you, we'd encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every technical requirement. Our Tech Stack Cloud & Platform: AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), Docker Infrastructure & CI/CD: OpenTofu, Terraform, GitHub, GitLab Observability: OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir Development: Go, Python, Next.js AI Tooling: Claude, Gemini, used day to day throughout our engineering workflows. What We Offer • Fully remote within the UK., • Flexible working hours., • A small engineering team of six to eight developers where you'll have genuine ownership and influence., • A modern cloud-native technology stack., • AI integrated into day-to-day engineering workflows., • Minimal bureaucracy and a flat engineering structure. Our Interview Process Our interview process is straightforward, usually consisting of two or three conversations with no technical coding tests. We're far more interested in how you think, communicate and approach engineering problems than how quickly you can complete an artificial coding exercise. If this sounds like the kind of challenge you're looking for, we'd love to hear from you.

Role Overview \n \n We are seeking an experienced Scala Developer to join a dynamic team working on high-impact projects. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Scala and Play Framework, with a passion for building robust, scalable backend services and APIs. This is a fully remote contract role with an immediate start. \n \n Key Responsibilities \n \n\n • Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Scala and Play Framework.\n, • Implement RESTful endpoints, manage request/response lifecycle, and handle authentication/authorization flows.\n, • Write clean, idiomatic Scala code and apply functional programming principles where appropriate.\n, • Develop and maintain automated tests (unit and integration) and support test automation initiatives.\n, • Collaborate with product owners, UX designers, QA, and other engineers in an Agile environment (Scrum/Kanban).\n, • Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, and pair programming sessions.\n, • Troubleshoot and resolve production issues; contribute to reliability and observability (logging, metrics, alerts).\n, • Assist in defining CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Concourse).\n, • Produce concise technical documentation and handover notes.\n\n \n Must-Have Skills & Experience \n \n\n • 3+ years professional experience with Scala.\n, • 2+ years hands-on experience with Play Framework (controllers, routing, forms, HTTP filters).\n, • Strong understanding of functional programming concepts and idiomatic Scala (immutability, monads; familiarity with Cats or Scalaz is a plus).\n, • Experience designing and consuming REST APIs, including JSON validation/serialization (Play JSON, Circe).\n, • Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL) and/or NoSQL (MongoDB), including schema design and query optimization.\n, • Proven experience writing unit and integration tests (ScalaTest, Specs2, Mockito, etc.).\n, • Familiarity with sbt and dependency management.\n, • Experience with Git and branching strategies.\n, • Good understanding of HTTP, web security best practices, and performance considerations.\n, • Experience working in Agile teams and participating in ceremonies.\n\n \n If you're interested, feel free to reach out to me on Krishan.Seenundun@Stealth-it.com

Health & Safety Consultant | Bolton \n Fixed-term Contract (Circa 5 Weeks) – Immediate start \n Competitive Day Rate | 37.5 hour week \n \n About the Role: \n \n TSA Riley’s Health & Safety team are seeking to hire an experienced Health & Safety Consultant to work in a fast-paced retail environment for national client who own a large chain of stores throughout the UK. \n \n This is a fixed-term contract for approximately 5 weeks, and the successful candidate will be paid a competitive day rate and split their time between our Bolton office and site visits in the north and Midlands regions. \n \n This is an exciting opportunity for a Health & Safety Consultant to join an established and professional team with the primary purpose of supporting and advising the project team. This will require a hands-on approach, excellent communication skills to liaise effectively with all stakeholders. \n \n Duties & Responsibilities: \n \n Typical duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: \n \n\n • Carrying out health & safety audits at small to medium sized businesses using iAuditor/Safety Culture Software.\n, • Producing reports and action plans.\n, • Support pre-construction activities with clients.\n, • Producing policies, risk assessments, COSHH assessments, safe working practices.\n, • Helping Clients with SSIP Accreditations (CHAS, SMAS etc.).\n, • Developing close working relationships with Clients.\n, • Communicating at all levels from CEO to shop floor workers.\n, • Delivery of training and coaching.\n, • Advising on Wellbeing initiatives specifically aimed at the construction industry.\n, • Reviewing RAMS and CPPs.\n, • Administrating projects using iManage software.\n, • Conduct workshops and advise the client with regards to CDM.\n, • Preparing health and safety files.\n\n \n Experience and Qualifications Required: \n Essential Qualifications: \n \n\n • NEBOSH General Certificate or equivalent\n, • CSCS card\n\n \n Skills & Experience: \n \n\n • Prior experience of carrying out the Health & Safety Consultant role or a similar equivalent role with a reputable construction contractor, consultancy or developer is desired.\n, • Experience of working in a Health & Safety role across a range of sectors within the construction built environment is essential.\n, • Prior experience of operating in a principal design role is desired.\n, • Has the ability to be dynamic and solve problems.\n, • The ability to work effectively with internal and external stakeholders and effectively communicate and strategic recommendations.\n, • The ability to quickly use and learn new client reporting systems.\n, • Ability to review risk assessments in a working environment and advise on reasonably practicable control measures.\n, • Knowledge of RAMS.\n, • Good communicator with the ability to self-assess.\n, • Demonstrably strong report and document writing skills.\n, • Strong IT skills are essential.\n, • Strong planning and organisational skills are desired with demonstrable experience of successfully working on multiple contracts and/or client accounts concurrently.\n, • Full UK driving license is essential as regular travel to regional sites will be required.\n\n \n Who we are: \n \n TSA Riley has a 130-year heritage dating back to 1890 when Henry Riley Esq first established a quantity surveying practice in London. In Asia Pacific we trace our roots back to the 1980s through the merging of several respected, small project management and advisory firms. \n \n Now, in the 21st century, we're defining and pioneering a new way of helping our clients drive greater value and impact from their built assets. \n \n Plan. Deliver. Optimise. We call this project consulting. \n \n We provide expert strategic, commercial and operations advice; project and cost management; carbon advice; and dispute resolution. This uniquely broad range of services - across the project lifecycle - means we understand the interdependencies at every stage. We combine this with hands-on experience and personalised service to drive greater value, impact and certainty for our clients' projects. \n \n Our Values: \n \n\n • We win together: Collaborate openly, learn from each other and succeed as one global team.\n, • We own it, always: Act with integrity and take responsibility to deliver with purpose.\n, • We focus on what matters: Striving for high standards to create meaningful, lasting and sustainable impact.\n, • We are curious: Embrace agility and change, explore ideas and turn our curiosity into progress.\n\n \n TSA Riley is an Equal Opportunity Employer: \n \n We welcome applications from candidates who are interested in working with us but are not able to commit to a full-time role and/or would require forms of flexible working. Additionally, we provide hybrid working as standard practice. \n \n We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application. \n \n recruitment@tsariley.uk \n \n No Agencies Please

My client in North West England is looking to appoint a talented SEND Power BI Developer on a Contract basis. The role supports performance monitoring of the SEND DMP and SEND service decision-making. You will work with the Data Group, SEND Business Analyst, the Capita lead and the head of Service for SEND. About the role: Based in Central London (Hybrid - 2 days on site): • Design and develop visually compelling and interactive Power BI dashboards and reports., • Translating business requirements into technical solutions Connecting to a variety of data sources (Capita, SQL Server, Excel, SharePoint, APIs, etc.)., • Model data efficiently (e.g. star schema) for performance and scalability., • Collaborate with DMP Data Group and SEND Head of Service to define KPIs, metrics, and reporting needs., • Work with the BA and Capita lead to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security across reports., • Work with the SEND Business Analyst, IT and data teams to improve data pipelines and infrastructure. About you: You will have the following experiences: • Local Authority experience with SEND data is essential, • Extensive experience with Power BI development, SQL, star schema, etc., • Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, • Ability to elicit requirements and apply into appropriate visualisation What's on offer: • Salary: £500 per day, outside IR35 *negotiable based on experience *please submit your CV with the rate you require • Hybrid working, • Contract type: Contract, • Hours: 09:00 -17:00 Monday to Friday How to apply • Once your CV is received, if you are successful you will be contacted., • Due to the extremely high number of applications, it may not be possible to contact every applicant. As such, if you are not contacted please assume you have not been successful on this occasion. About Spencer Clarke Group Here at Spencer Clarke Group, we pride ourselves on connecting you with the best career opportunities; our experienced Consultants have extensive market knowledge and will also provide expert career advice along the way. When you join us, you will receive: • Access to a wide range of temporary and permanent opportunities, • Free DBS checks, • Post Placement Aftercare, • Loyalty reward scheme and regular competitions for our agency professionals INDSCGJS

Remote / WFH / hybrid opportunity Our client, a Contemporary Art Business / Gallery portfolio are seeking a dynamic B2B / Trade Sales Consultant / Business Developer / BDM with a flair for design. You will focus on developing and nurturing relationships with interior designers — ensuring their art consultancy becomes an essential part of their project delivery. You will be based remotely but working very closely with the MD who is based in Wiltshire & she will give you the guidance & opportunity to progress your career - this is an exciting new venture in an established business. Involves: • Identifying, engaging, and securing new Business to Business (B2B) / Trade partnerships within the interior design sector, • Managing the full new business / onboarding lifecycle: from lead generation and outreach, through to contract agreement, forecasting, and smooth client handover - outreach can involve cold calling so you should not be phone shy & have a tenacious approach!, • Maintaining accurate lead tracking, activity logging, and reporting via CRM, • Acting as a brand ambassador and solutions based expert to ensure design partners feel prioritised Requires: • A proven track record in B2B or Trade sales — preferably within art, interior design, or the creative/luxury sectors, • A natural relationship-builder with strong verbal and written communication skills, • Someone who is confident in generating and converting leads, with a commercial mindset and a client-first attitude, • Self-motivated and organised, capable of managing a pipeline and working independently in a remote setting, • Comfortable using CRM platforms (HubSpot or similar), LinkedIn, and email marketing tools to support outreach and reporting, • A genuine interest in art, interiors, or design — you’ll be talking to creatives every day! APPLY NOW! PS Recruits are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy. Unfortunately, due to the volume of response, only successfully shortlisted candidates will be contacted. By applying to this role your personal details will be submitted to PS Recruits. You can request our privacy statement at any time. You may have had exposure to one or several of the following: luxury / art / fine art / luxury / luxury hospitality / high end residential / interior design / design / sales / luxury sales / art broker / business development / new business / networks / graduate /business development manager / CRM / HubSpot / outreach / BDM / Area sales / trade sales / commercial sales / bespoke products / B2B sales / interior design sales / interior solutions / networking / remote / WFH / hybrid / B2B art sales / Business to business sales / luxury kitchen sales / SDR / Sales Development Representative / BDE / Business Development Executive / graduate sales / interiors sales / trade business

Grafana Labs is a remote-first, open-source powerhouse. There are more than 20M users of Grafana, the open source visualization tool, around the globe, monitoring everything from beehives to climate change in the Alps. The instantly recognizable dashboards have been spotted everywhere from a NASA launch and Minecraft HQ to Wimbledon and the Tour de France. Grafana Labs also helps more than 3,000 companies -- including Bloomberg, JPMorgan Chase, and eBay -- manage their observability strategies with the Grafana LGTM Stack, which can be run fully managed with or self-managed with the , both featuring scalable metrics (), logs (), and traces (_). We’re scaling fast and staying true to what makes us different: an open-source legacy, a global collaborative culture, and a passion for meaningful work. Our team thrives in an innovation-driven environment where transparency, autonomy, and trust fuel everything we do. You may not meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If this role excites you, we’d love you to raise your hand for what could be a truly career-defining opportunity. This role is available for candidates located in the UK, Germany, Spain, Ireland and Sweden. The Opportunity: Application Core Services (AppCore) is a group within Platform, in the Foundations department. Foundations produces the Internal Engineering Platform (IEP) and partners closely with our Cloud, Enterprise, and Grafana teams. Our team develops the essential systems driving Grafana's business operations. We utilize the grafana.com platform to engineer bespoke integrations and solutions that unify the diverse technical ecosystem of a modern software enterprise. The team owns important domain areas that help keep both our customer workflows and internal business processes running smoothly. AppCore is made up of multiple squads, each focused on one or more of these domains. Our work includes maintaining the billing engine responsible for customer usage calculation, automating provisioning after a customer signs a contract, integrating with cloud marketplaces such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, and building and maintaining the user portal our customers rely on to manage their accounts. This is a team working at the intersection of product, platform, and business operations. The systems we build are critical to how Grafana scales. We are looking for engineers who enjoy solving complex workflow and systems problems, improving reliability and developer experience, and building software that directly supports both customers and internal stakeholders. As a company we are remote-first and global, we embrace people of different experiences and backgrounds to build diverse teams where every person brings a unique perspective to the software. Engineers at Grafana also have the opportunity to contribute to Open Source communities and collaborate across teams beyond their immediate scope. What You’ll Be Doing: The AppCore Stacks squad owns the systems that create, configure, reconcile, migrate, and operate Grafana Cloud stacks at scale. A stack is the customer-facing Grafana Cloud environment that connects an organization to Grafana and the backend services it uses, including Mimir, Loki, Tempo, plugins, dashboards, data sources, and stack-level configuration. Our work sits at the intersection of product, platform, and operations. We build the control-plane services and workflows that keep stack state aligned across grafana.com, Stack State Service (SSS), Hosted Grafana, cloud regions, and the underlying Grafana Cloud infrastructure. When this domain works well, customers get reliable stack creation, safe configuration rollout, predictable migrations, and fewer manual operational interventions. • Design, build, and operate reconciliation systems, including the SSS backend, to track desired stack state, detect and repair drift across stack templates, grafana.com state, Hosted Grafana, and actual customer stack configuration, • Collaborate across SSS, grafana.com, and deployment configurations to ensure stack lifecycle workflows remain reliable, observable, and resilient, • Improve operational efficiency by reducing deployment complexity (e.g., aiming for single PR regional SSS deployment) and contributing to the Stack Config Reconciliation project, • Manage rollout mechanisms for provisioned plugins, dashboards, data sources, Grafana versions, release channels, and stack-level configuration, • Support new region and cluster rollouts, including the operational paths required to bring stacks online safely in new Grafana Cloud regions, • Improve incident response and recovery paths for stack misalignment, reconciliation failures, plugin rollout issues, and Hosted Grafana integration failures, • Partner with Product, Hosted Grafana, Infrastructure, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads on customer-impacting stack lifecycle work, • Contribute to roadmap planning, technical design, OnCall improvements, and long-term simplification of stack operations, • You will help own the production behavior of the systems you build. That includes improving runbooks, dashboards, alerts, reconciliation safety, rollout controls, and recovery procedures. You should be comfortable debugging across service boundaries and making careful changes in systems that affect customer stacks What Makes You a Great Fit: At Grafana, we actively embrace AI-assisted and agentic development practices, integrating these technologies into both our engineering workflows and the systems we deliver. We encourage our engineers to thoughtfully leverage AI tools to enhance every stage of the lifecycle, from design and implementation to testing, documentation, and operations. We also look for strategic opportunities to embed agentic capabilities within our services to eliminate toil, bolster reliability, and ensure that complex customer workflows remain resilient and safe. We are seeking a Backend Engineer who thrives on building production systems where correctness, scalability, and operational clarity are paramount. As a remote-first organization, you should be comfortable collaborating asynchronously across time zones and taking full ownership of the critical systems powering Grafana Cloud. Our team is small and operates with a high degree of independence; you will be expected to lead major projects, coordinate across service boundaries, and help define the technical direction for our domain. You will be particularly successful in this role if you enjoy solving challenges related to stateful systems, eventual consistency, and reconciliation loops. We value engineers who can take ambiguous lifecycle requirements and transform them into explicit, modular solutions. You should be adept at breaking down complex systems work into safe, iterative increments while clearly communicating technical tradeoffs to both internal stakeholders and adjacent product teams. Some things you might be expected to do could include: • Writing efficient, readable, and easy to maintain code, • Implementing new microservices or systems, • Collaborating with teammates and other departments to reach consensus on proposed solutions, • Coordinating with product and UX when needed, • Responding to customer requests and feedback, • When ready, participating in our follow-the-sun OnCall rotation, • Participating in team decisions, such as roadmap planning and prioritization Requirements: • You have at least 1 year of fully remote work experience, • You have some experience working on a SaaS platform and are familiar with common distributed systems concepts (e.g., scalability, multi-tenancy, HA)., • Have professional experience with Golang and be willing to work across both backend service and application code, • Care deeply about developer and user experience and the quality of the products that you work on, • Have some experience contributing to the delivery of projects, from initial brainstorming to shipping a product to the customer., • You write clean, well-tested software that other engineers can understand, operate, and maintain, • Can take on well-defined tasks, break them down, and execute iteratively to deliver working solutions and gather feedback., • You are willing to collaborate across teams and ensure your work is aligned with the needs of other squads and external stakeholders., • Familiarity with Kubernetes in AWS, GCP, or Azure, and exposure to infrastructure-as-code tooling (Helm, Terraform, Jsonnet, etc.)., • Experience participating in blameless incident response and contributing to post-incident reviews. Bonus Points For: • Experience with TypeScript/Node.js, • Experience with Kubernetes control-plane patterns, operators, reconcilers, or desired-state systems, • Experience with Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform, Flux, Argo, or similar deployment/configuration tooling, • Experience working on SaaS provisioning, tenancy, regional expansion, plugin rollout, or customer lifecycle systems, • Experience with incident response involving configuration drift, partial failure, or cross-service state mismatch Compensation & Rewards: In United Kingdom, the compensation range for this role is GBP 72K - GBP 90K. Actual compensation may vary based on level, experience, and skillset as assessed throughout the interview process. All of our roles include Restricted Stock Units (RSUs), giving every team member ownership in Grafana Labs' success. We believe in shared outcomes—RSUs help us stay aligned and invested as we scale globally. *Compensation ranges are country specific. If you are applying for this role from a different location than listed above, your recruiter will discuss your specific market’s defined pay range & benefits at the beginning of the process. Why You’ll Thrive at Grafana Labs: • 100% Remote, Global Culture - As a remote-only company, we bring together talent from around the world, united by a culture of collaboration and shared purpose., • Scaling Organization – Tackle meaningful work in a high-growth, ever-evolving environment., • Transparent Communication – Expect open decision-making and regular company-wide updates., • Innovation-Driven – Autonomy and support to ship great work and try new things., • Open Source Roots – Built on community-driven values that shape how we work., • Empowered Teams – High trust, low ego culture that values outcomes over optics., • Career Growth Pathways – Defined opportunities to grow and develop your career., • Approachable Leadership – Transparent execs who are involved, visible, and human., • Passionate People – Join a team of smart, supportive folks who care deeply about what they do., • In-Person onboarding - We want you to thrive from day 1 with your fellow new ‘Grafanistas’ to learn all about what we do and how we do it., • Balance is Key - We operate a global annual leave policy of 30 days per annum. 3 days of your annual leave entitlement are reserved for Grafana Shutdown Days to allow the team to really disconnect. *We will comply with local legislation where applicable. Equal Opportunity Employer: We will recruit, train, compensate and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, disability, age, veteran status, and all the other fascinating characteristics that make us different and unique. We believe that equality and diversity builds a strong organization and we’re working hard to make sure that’s the foundation of our organization as we grow. Grafana Labs may utilize AI tools in its recruitment process to assist in matching information provided in CVs to job postings. The recruitment team will continue to review inbound CVs manually to identify alignment with current openings. #LI-Remote For information about how your personal data is used once you’ve applied to a job, check out our .

My client in Northwest England is looking to appoint a talented SEND Business Analyst on a Contract basis. A set of KPI's for both the programme and the SEND service have been developed to monitoring of performance against the DMO mitigations. These are now ready to develop further and we require an experienced SEND Business Analyst to support this development. About the role: Based in Northwest England (remote): • Support finalising and prioritising the KPI's for the dashboard., • To determine or improve the business systems and processes we require to collect the data Improve data inputting and collection efficiency., • Support the development of the SEND and DMP dashboard., • Support the development of the dashboard alongside the data team and the Power BI developer., • Support the Head of Service with developing performance management for SEND managers and their teams. About you: You will have the following experiences: • Local Authority experience with SEND analyses is essential, • Experience with Power BI Development, • Full understanding of SEND KPI's, performance and intelligence data., • Excellent stakeholder engagement skills. What's on offer: • Salary: £500 per day, outside IR35 *negotiable based on experience *please submit your CV with the rate you require • Hybrid working, • Contract type: Contract, • Hours: 09:00 -17:00 Monday to Friday How to apply • Once your CV is received, if you are successful you will be contacted., • Due to the extremely high number of applications, it may not be possible to contact every applicant. As such, if you are not contacted please assume you have not been successful on this occasion. About Spencer Clarke Group Here at Spencer Clarke Group, we pride ourselves on connecting you with the best career opportunities; our experienced Consultants have extensive market knowledge and will also provide expert career advice along the way. When you join us, you will receive: • Access to a wide range of temporary and permanent opportunities, • Free DBS checks, • Post Placement Aftercare, • Loyalty reward scheme and regular competitions for our agency professionals INDSCGJS

Course Developer & Skills Coach – Service Designer Apprenticeship (Level 6) Contract: Full-time Location: Remote (UK) with occasional in-person meetings and workshops in London Salary: £37,500 – £40,000 per annum, dependent on experience Start Date: ASAP Closing Date: Sunday 24th May 2026 (We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We encourage early applications.) Join KnowledgeBrief At KnowledgeBrief, we believe in the joy of learning. For over 20 years, we’ve supported organisations and professionals to grow through evidence-based leadership, management, and professional development programmes. Our approach combines academic insight with practical application, delivered through our innovative platform and expert-led programmes. We are a values-driven organisation, committed to authenticity, high-quality learning, and creating meaningful impact for our learners, clients, and colleagues. About the Role We are looking for an experienced and passionate Service Designer to join our Operations team as a Course Developer & Skills Coach for the Level 6 Service Designer apprenticeship programme. This role works closely with the Curriculum Innovation Manager, Digital Learning Team, and wider Operations function to design and deliver engaging apprenticeship learning experiences aligned to the ST0894 Service Designer standard. You will play an important role in shaping the learner journey from curriculum design through to delivery, coaching, and EPA preparation. This is an opportunity to help professionals develop the skills to design, prototype, and improve services that create meaningful impact for users and organisations alike. As part of a growing and evolving curriculum team, you will contribute to the continuous improvement of our programmes, digital learning experiences, and learner outcomes. Key Responsibilities • Design and develop curriculum content aligned to the Service Designer apprenticeship standard and EPA requirements, • Deliver engaging workshops, coaching sessions, and group learning experiences, • Support learners to apply service design principles within real workplace contexts, • Collaborate with the Curriculum Innovation Manager and Digital Learning Team to create high-quality learning materials and assets, • Monitor learner progress, conduct tripartite reviews, and support learners towards successful completion and EPA readiness, • Contribute to standardisation, quality assurance, and continuous improvement activity across programmes, • Build positive relationships with learners, employers, and colleagues across the organisation, • Maintain accurate learner records and support compliance requirements Experience, Skills & Qualifications Essential • Occupational experience in service design, UX, or a related field, • Strong understanding of user research, journey mapping, service blueprinting, prototyping, and systems thinking, • Experience designing learning, curriculum, or training materials, • Experience coaching, mentoring, or supporting professionals in development, • Strong understanding of adult learning principles, • GCSE English and Maths (or equivalent) Desirable • Degree in service design, UX, design, or a related discipline, • Teaching qualification such as AET, DET, or PGCE, • Assessment or quality assurance qualification such as CAVA or IQA, • Experience delivering apprenticeship standards, • Experience using digital learning tools or platforms Interpersonal Fit We’re looking for someone who: • Is aligned with our values and culture, • Brings curiosity and a passion for learning, • Communicates clearly and builds strong relationships, • Takes ownership and delivers with quality, • Works collaboratively and supports others Why Work With Us? At KnowledgeBrief, we are committed to creating an environment where people feel supported, challenged, and able to grow. You’ll benefit from: • Dedicated monthly CPD time to support your development, • 5.6 weeks’ annual leave plus bank holidays, • Two-week company closure over Christmas and New Year, • Company sick pay, • Access to our Employee Assistance Programme and wellbeing support, • Opportunities to contribute to cross-team projects and organisational growth, • A remote-first environment with opportunities to connect in person Our Commitment to Safer Recruitment and Inclusion KnowledgeBrief is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of learners, and all colleagues are expected to share this commitment. Offers of employment are subject to pre-employment checks, including right to work, references, and DBS check. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all backgrounds. Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process. Application Process • Submit your CV via BambooHR, • Initial screening with the People & Culture Team, • Interview stage(s) with the hiring team during the week commencing 25th May 2026, • Final decision and feedback We aim to keep our recruitment process timely, transparent, and respectful. Ready to Apply? If this opportunity aligns with your experience and aspirations, we would love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and we will be in touch. The Hiring Team KnowledgeBrief

gravity9 is seeking a Technical Lead / Solution Architect to lead the design and build of a secure metadata catalogue platform for a UK public sector client. The platform will serve as a centralised index for discovering, governing, and controlling access to data distributed across multiple independent domains — enabling authorised parties to locate and retrieve data without the catalogue itself holding or having visibility of the underlying data. This is a greenfield build requiring strong architectural judgment, hands-on delivery capability, and the ability to work within a multi-vendor environment where the catalogue integrates with separate data storage and encryption services provided by other technology partners. Duration 15 weeks Commitment Half-time for the first 4 weeks (design phase); full-time for the remaining 11 weeks (build and integration) Working model Mostly remote with periodic onsite attendance Security clearance BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) required Residency UK resident required Technical Scope The contractor will be responsible for leading the design and delivery of the API layer and application logic. A dedicated database consulting engineer will handle MongoDB cluster configuration, schema design, indexing, and performance tuning — the contractor will collaborate closely with them but will own the application-layer delivery. Architecture & Design (Weeks 1–4, half-time) • Design the Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) model, including policy attributes (clearance level, nationality, group/role, context), enforcement points, and decision logic, • Design the RESTful API architecture, including endpoint structure, request/response contracts, and error handling patterns, • Map out query patterns, access flows, and integration touchpoints with external systems (data storage and encryption services provided by partner organisations), • Collaborate with the database consulting engineer on schema design, search strategy, and encryption approach to ensure the API layer aligns with the underlying data model, • Contribute to Infrastructure as Code design for deployment (Terraform or similar) Build & Implementation (Weeks 5–15, full-time) • Build a RESTful API layer in Java implementing full catalogue functionality: – CRUD operations for metadata records – Advanced search capability leveraging Atlas Search – ABAC enforcement on all API operations, ensuring search results and data retrieval are filtered by the requestor’s access attributes – Secure storage and retrieval of encrypted key material (shard keys) via CS-FLE • Implement unit tests to validate functional correctness, • Build automated data load and stress testing harnesses for the combined API and cluster deployment, • Perform integration testing against external partner systems (or appropriate stand-ins) to validate end-to-end data creation and retrieval flows, • Produce API documentation and integration guides for consuming systems, • Support knowledge transfer and handover activities in the final weeks of the engagement Essential • Java development — strong hands-on capability building production RESTful APIs (Spring Boot or similar framework), • MongoDB — solid working experience with MongoDB, including querying, aggregation pipelines, and integrating MongoDB into Java application layers, • Atlas Search — practical experience designing and implementing search solutions using Atlas Search (or Lucene-based search within MongoDB), • Security & encryption — experience with Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CS-FLE) or equivalent application-layer encryption patterns; understanding of key management concepts, • Infrastructure as Code — experience with Terraform or equivalent for deploying and managing application infrastructure, • API design — ability to design clean, well-documented RESTful APIs suitable for integration by multiple consuming systems, • Testing — experience with load/stress testing tools and approaches for validating API performance under realistic conditions, • Technical leadership — proven ability to make architectural decisions, produce design documentation, and communicate technical trade-offs to both engineering and non-technical stakeholders Desirable • Experience designing and implementing Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC) systems; familiarity with policy-as-code frameworks (e.g. Casbin, OPA, or XACML-based systems), • Experience with metadata standards such as DCAT, Dublin Core, or IES, • Experience working in UK public sector or defence environments, • Familiarity with multi-classification or multi-tenancy access models, • Experience with event-driven architectures and asynchronous processing patterns, • Understanding of consistency patterns in multi-service architectures (e.g. saga pattern, eventual consistency), • Knowledge of data mesh or federated data architecture concepts, • Experience integrating with third-party data storage APIs (e.g. S3-compatible interfaces) Working Context • The contractor will work as part of a small, focused delivery team operating within a multi-vendor programme, • The catalogue integrates with separate data shredding/storage and encryption services delivered by other organisations — the contractor will need to collaborate across these boundaries but will not be responsible for those components, • All work will be conducted via VPN access to the client’s cloud environment, • The client operates within a security-conscious environment; the contractor must be comfortable working within defined information handling and access constraints, • The role includes a knowledge transfer component in the final weeks of the engagement, including API documentation and integration guides for the client team Your application has been successfully submitted! _ We appreciate your interest in this position. 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Job Description Senior Electrical Design Engineer Read on to find out what you will need to succeed in this position, including skills, qualifications, and experience. Purpose Manage quality and technical aspects of electrical engineering designs. Working Location Manchester, UK Contract Type Permanent position Key Responsibilities • Provide design deliverables that satisfy safety and quality requirements. Produce design calculations and drawings for the water industry. Direct and develop CAD technicians and more junior designers and graduates. Direct, prepare scopes for, and check the output of subcontract electrical design teams. Liaise with equipment suppliers and manufacturers. Prepare design investigations, reports, and specifications. Design in compliance with relevant technical, professional, and group standards. Ensure project change for the design package is fully implemented and recorded. Estimate hours required for design packages. Present and attend meetings and design presentations. Required Qualifications and Experience • 10 years relevant design experience in the water industry. Significant experience in LV design. Graduate or HND. Good level of IT capability. Registered with a professional body and working towards chartership. Preferred Qualifications and Experience • Chartered engineer. Experience in control and/or telecoms engineering. Experience with ATEX. Experience in HV, LV, and ICA designs. Awareness of construction methods and materials. Knowledge of engineering drawing practices. Key Skills • Communication. Results focused. Strong technical knowledge. Developer of self and others. Problem solving. Technical main discipline. xwwtmva Technical subsidiary discipline.

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