Hybrid Fife

We are sourcing a Data Manager for a Fife-based manufacturing client, which will be a flexible, hybrid-working role.

You will take a hands-on role in improving the quality and governance of operational data across Kettle Produce, with responsibilities including:

• Taking ownership of data governance and master data processes across the business.
• Reviewing how jobs, orders, products and other critical records are created and maintained within TROPOS/Epicor.
• Mapping how information flows through planning, production, packing, packaging, warehousing, distribution and other business functions.
• Identifying where poor data, unclear ownership or weak processes are causing operational failures.
• Establishing clear rules around who can create, modify, approve and maintain critical data.
• Introducing appropriate validation, approval and change-control processes.
• Defining ownership and accountability for key data sets.
• Working with IT and operational teams to improve ERP configuration and supporting systems where appropriate.
• Identifying processes currently dependent on spreadsheets, manual intervention or individual knowledge and helping establish more robust alternatives.
• Improving data quality and developing processes to prevent problems rather than simply correcting them afterwards.
• Establishing useful measures for data quality, exceptions and recurring failures.
• Documenting processes and ensuring improvements become embedded in day-to-day operations.
• Working directly with stakeholders across the business to drive adoption of new processes and controls.

Who We're Looking For

We need someone who has done this before and understands the realities of introducing structure and governance into a busy operational environment.

You'll ideally have:

• Significant experience in Data Management, Master Data Management, ERP Data Governance or a similar role.
• Strong practical experience working with ERP systems; experience with TROPOS or Epicor would be particularly valuable.
• Previous experience within manufacturing, food processing, FMCG or another complex production environment.
• A good understanding of how ERP data ultimately affects real-world production and supply-chain operations.
• Experience designing and implementing data governance, ownership, approval and change-control processes.
• The ability to investigate problems across multiple departments and systems rather than viewing the ERP in isolation.
• Strong process-mapping and problem-solving skills.
• Confidence working directly with production, operational, commercial and technical teams.
• The ability to communicate effectively with everyone from shop-floor and operational teams through to senior management.

We are exclusively collaborating on sourcing a Test Automation Specialist for an Edinburgh client. This is hybrid working with 2 days in the Edinburgh office, and the remaining days working remotely. CANDIDATE MUST BE CURRENTLY LOCATED IN SCOTLAND!

1. In this key role, you’ll be undertaking and enabling automated testing activities in all delivery models
2. We’ll look to you to support teams to develop quality solutions and enable continuous integration and assurance of defect free deployment of customer value
3. You’ll be working closely with feature teams and a variety of stakeholders, giving you great exposure to professional development opportunities

What you'll do

1. You’ll be contributing to the transformation of testing using quality processes, tools, and methodologies, significantly improving control, accuracy and integrity. You’ll make sure repeatable, constant and consistent quality is built into all phases of the idea to value lifecycle at reduced cost or reduced time to market. It’s a chance to work with colleagues at multiple levels, and with cross-domain, domain, platform and feature teams, to build in quality as an integral part of all activities.
2. Supporting the design of automation test strategies, aligned to business or programme goals
3. Actioning and evolving more predictive and intelligent testing approaches, based on automation and innovative testing products and solutions
4. Collaborating to refine the scope of manual and automated testing required, the creation of automated test scripts, user documentation and artefacts
5. Designing and creating a low maintenance suite of stable, re-usable automated tests, which are usable both within the product or domain and across domains and systems in an end-to-end capacity
6. Applying testing and delivery standards by understanding the product development lifecycle along with mandatory, regulatory and compliance requirements

The skills you'll need

• Experience of automated testing, ideally from an Agile development or CI/CD environment.
• You'll be an innovative thinker who can spot opportunities and design solutions, alongside the ability to develop complex automation code.
• You'll also have a good understanding of Agile methodologies and experience of working in an Agile team, with the ability to connect everyday work to the strategic vision of the feature.
• Experience in end-to-end and automation testing using the latest tools recommended by the enterprise tooling framework
• A background in designing, developing, and implementing automation frameworks in new environments
• Experience of manual testing across customer digital journeys, along with knowledge of system integration, acceptance testing, and load, volume, and stress testing
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to colleagues at management level
• Good collaboration and stakeholder management skills (EDI)

We’re working in collaboration to source a Senior Site Reliability Engineer for a large UK client. The role is mostly working remotely, with only 1 day per week being required to work in the London office.

• In this key role, you’ll improve, drive, and embed non-functional and operational characteristics such as availability, performance, efficiency, change management, monitoring, security, incident response, and capacity planning of our products and services
• You’ll enjoy significant stakeholder interaction, working in collaboration with engineers to ensure a principled approach to deliver change in a safe and secure way
• This is a chance to join an inclusive team with a collaborative ethos and a commitment to innovation and professional development
• You'll work from home some of the time, but you'll also spend a significant amount of time working from an office or hub

What you'll do

• Work closely with our feature team and other colleagues to meet defined service level objectives and continually improve systems and environments.
• Define error budgets that support finding the right balance between risk and reliability.
• Provide structure and help to our release process, suggesting and making improvements where possible.
• Help scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, evolving them by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
• Coach and provide guidance to colleagues and the wider team, leading where required.

In addition to this, you’ll:

• Proactively contribute new ideas and innovations to meet short-term and longer-term goals
• Continually balance and manage any potential risks
• Be accountable for the day-to-day health of both production and non-production environments and respond to any incidents as required
• Provide technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services
• Communicate incident status updates clearly and frequently to other teams, customers and stakeholders

The skills you'll need

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience, including as a Senior SRE with a proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks.
• Experience working with cloud-native microservices, including containerisation, management of Kubernetes workloads and API management.

• Hands-on experience with Azure, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and technologies such as PowerShell, JSON, Azure Bicep, ARM and Azure DevOps.
• The client is moving to Terraform, which is essential, moving from Bicep (desirable).
• Experience with Full Stack Observability using tools such as Grafana Stack, Log Analytics, AppInsights
• Excellent knowledge of DevOps processes and principles
• Knowledge of IT Service Management and automation of IT fulfilment processes through Orchestration and ServiceNow
• Strong communication skills with the ability to proactively engage with a wide range of stakeholders

SALARY INCLUDES 10% Benefits-As-Cash

• Act as a senior, hands-on engineer within the Platform & Infrastructure team.
• Design, build and operate a secure, resilient and scalable Azure infrastructure estate, including the associated CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, container and observability capabilities.
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, reference architecture, guardrails and reusable platform services, promoting consistency, automation, security, maintainability and operational excellence.
• Lead the design and implementation of software and infrastructure delivery automation using GitLab, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and appropriate DevOps and platform-engineering practices.
• Take ownership of complex technical designs, implementations and operational issues, managing risk and ensuring solutions are secure, supportable, and cost-effective.
• Embed security, resilience, compliance, monitoring and performance considerations throughout platform design and delivery, aligned with regulatory, Group and organisational requirements.
• Contribute to technical review, knowledge sharing and team capability development; maintain high-quality architecture documentation, standards, runbooks and operational procedures
• Support effective platform service management.

• Your profile

• Experience in low-level container mechanics and build pipeline optimisation.
• DevOps or SRE with deeper Docker internals, CI caching strategies, and command-line Kubernetes workload inspection.
• Proven experience in a senior platform, infrastructure or cloud engineering role, ideally within financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building and operating Microsoft Azure environments, including core computer, networking and storage services, with a sound understanding of identity, access management, network security, governance and cloud resilience.
• Demonstrable experience designing and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or comparable tooling, covering automated build, test, security assurance, deployment and release processes.
• Strong practical experience with containerisation and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes and Helm, alongside an understanding of GitOps principles such as declarative configuration and controlled environment promotion.
• Proven experience using Terraform to provision, configure and manage cloud and/or on-premises infrastructure, including the development of reusable, maintainable infrastructure-as-code patterns.
• Experience implementing or operating monitoring, logging and observability capabilities using tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities using PowerShell, Bash and/or similar languages, together with practical proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Python or Go.
• Able to write, maintain and review code used for automation, integrations, tooling and application support, with confident use of YAML for build, deployment and operational automation.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, such as Scrum or Kanban, and with collaboration and delivery tooling including Jira and Confluence.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts, decisions and risks clearly and appropriately to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong technical writing skills and attention to detail.
• Proactive in documenting solutions, engineering standards.

We are working in collaboration to source a Senior Platform Engineer. This role is working mostly remote, with the requirement to work in the London office only 1 day per week.

You will take on a high-profile role, which will see you design, build and improve platforms. You’ll be making sure that they are secure, scalable and available, collaborating across teams to share and re-utilise good practice and technology stack. If you’re passionate about cloud engineering, automation and enabling teams to move faster and safer, in this role hone your existing skills and advance your career.

What you'll do

• Ensure that our platforms are robust, value for money and continuously optimised.
• Ensure the technology stack is constantly enhanced by adding new features and ensuring defects are resolved in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the code base and make sure that it is clean, elegant, reusable, and easy to maintain and extend.
• Proactively perform code and design peer reviews
• Ensure platforms and operational issues, defects, and maintenance activities are prioritised appropriately and provide highly available and performing solutions
• Own, develop and improve platform engineering tools, processes and ways of working
• Pioneer new ideas to improve platform delivery lifecycles from design, code, automation to effective operational support

The skills you'll need

• At least 10 years of hands-on experience in cloud platform engineering, designing and operating secure, scalable and high‑performing Azure platforms.
• Experience in a fast-paced engineering environment and contributing to improving overall engineering maturity.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Azure design, build and deployment using CI or CD.
• Good collaboration and interpersonal skills 
• Experience with real-time logging and monitoring
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building and deploying Microsoft Azure services, including PaaS and AKS, using CI/CD
• Strong Azure administration expertise, including Landing Zones, CAF principles, Hub & Spoke networking and cloud security best practices
• Proficiency with IaC and automation tools such as Bicep, Terraform, PowerShell, JSON, Azure DevOps or Jenkins
• Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerisation and API Management
• Experience with real-time monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, AppInsights and Grafana
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft technologies including Azure Entra, Microsoft 365 and Endpoint Manager
• Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible, along with strong communication and stakeholder skills
• Experience with cloud database technologies such as MongoDB, Cosmos DB, SQL PaaS services including optimisation, performance tuning and high availability
• Strong networking knowledge across VNet design, firewalls, routing, private endpoints, WAFs and network security groups
• Understanding of compliance and regulatory standards including PCI DSS, financial‑services governance, secure-by-design principles, data protection and change control rigor

SALARY INCLUDES 10% Benefits-As-Cash

We are collaborating in sourcing a Principal Engineer for a large UK client. You will work from the Edinburgh or London offices, with 6 days per month working in the office, and the rest remotely. This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective. You’ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability. You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents

What you'll do

• Create great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.
• Work with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures.
• Design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

You’ll also be:

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you'll need

• Significant experience in software engineering, along with significant and demonstrable experience in designing and delivering large scale enterprise web applications, with deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot Microservices, ReactJS, SQL, Databases, MongoDB, DevOps, CI/CD and Test Automation.
• Experience implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.
• Ability to shape technical direction, uplift engineering standards and drive meaningful impact across the client’s digital capabilities.

You'll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Proven experience of deploying workloads in public or private cloud, alongside test-driven development using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing, and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs, and in working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions

PLEASE NOTE THE SALARY INCLUDES BENEFITS-AS-CASH

London or Edinburgh (6 days per month in the office)

We are collaborating to source a Principal Engineer for a large UK client. You will work from the London or Edinburgh office, working in the office 6 days per month, and the rest remotely.

• This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective. You’ll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank’s overall software engineering capability. You’ll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents

What you'll do

• Create great customer outcomes via engineering and innovative solutions to existing and new challenges, and technology designs which are innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust.
• Work with software engineers in the production and prototyping of innovative ideas, engaging with domain and enterprise architects to validate and leverage these in wider contexts, by incorporating the relevant architectures.
• Design and develop software with a focus on the automation of build, test and deployment activities, while developing the discipline of software engineering across the business.

You’ll also be:

• Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
• Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
• Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques

The skills you'll need

• Coding is KEY to this role with essential skills in Java, Postgres, MongoDB, AWS (essential), and Snowflake.
• Significant experience in software engineering, along with significant and demonstrable experience in designing and delivering large-scale enterprise web applications, with deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot Microservices, ReactJS, SQL, Databases, MongoDB, DevOps, CI/CD and Test Automation.
• Experience implementing programming best practices, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.
• Ability to shape technical direction, uplift engineering standards and drive meaningful impact across the client’s digital capabilities.
• Experience in managing a team of 3-5 Software Engineers.

You'll also need:

• A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
• Proven experience of deploying workloads in public or private cloud, alongside test-driven development using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing, and unit testing tools
• A background in designing or implementing APIs, and in working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
• The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions

PLEASE NOTE THE SALARY INCLUDES BENEFITS-AS-CASH