Spencer Rose Ltd

D365 CE Development & Support Specialist City of London (hybrid - 2 days per week in office) Up to £86,000 + Excellent benefits A great opportunity has opened for an experienced D365 CE Development & Support Specialist to join a high-performing technology function delivering modern CRM solutions, high-quality engineering, and robust application support across a complex environment. This role suits someone who enjoys a blend of hands-on development, solution design, and 2nd/3rd-line application support, working closely with internal teams, suppliers, and partners to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable CRM platforms. The organisation is pleased to offer this on a hybrid basis with 2 days per week in their London office, therefore you must be within a reasonable commuting distance of this location. Responsibilities: Work with business users and SCRUM team to ensure business requirements are defined and agreed, co-ordinating requests for enhancements and developments for IT controlled applications. Work with the Development Manager to design, develop, optimize and support CRM applications following development best practices, using the appropriate tools and adhering to the most efficient development process. Deliver development and enhancement activities in support of the business raised change requests and releases working closely with the CDITO Teams, Partners and Suppliers Solution architecture and design Quality Assurance, including quality planning and controls for both the business and its suppliers Advice and guidance to business users in support of their application requirements Follow the IT Release Management process and control all IT application releases to the business environment including: Reviewing release planning Discovery, documentation, resolution and escalation of release dependencies, risks and issues Adherence to IT Change Management process and controls Formal communications to management and stakeholders Coordination of Environment and Configuration Management Coordinate release approval and closure Design, develop and optimise Dynamics 365 CE applications. Work with business users and SCRUM teams to refine requirements and deliver enhancements. Lead end-to-end release management, including planning, risk control, and change governance. Provide 2nd/3rd-line support, triaging incidents and coordinating with suppliers. Monitor CRM applications and proactively resolve issues. Contribute to solution architecture, documentation, and continuous improvement. Skills & Experience: Dynamics 365 CE customisation (workflows, plugins, APIs, integrations). Power Platform: Power Automate Azure services: Logic Apps, API Management, ADF, SSIS. Strong experience delivering data solutions in high-volume environments. Advanced T-SQL and SQL stored procedure expertise. KingswaySoft for integrations and migrations. CI/CD pipelines, Git branching, Visual Studio. Strong Agile/SCRUM background and understanding of OWASP Top 10.

Python Developer Watford, Hertfordshire (Hybrid) £70,000 - £75,000 per annum + Excellent benefits On behalf of an industry Leading organisation, I am seeking a Python Developer with strong production experience building high-throughput, message-driven platforms. This role suits someone comfortable working on real-world, always-on systems where reliability, performance, and clear engineering judgement matter as much as clean code. The business is pleased to offer this role on a hybrid basis with a non-negotiable 3 days in office; therefore, you must be within easy reach of their Watford-based offices. Responsibilities: Collaborate closely with Principal Engineers. Provide technical guidance, insight, and mentorship to other engineers. Participate in peer reviews and offer constructive feedback. Support product stakeholders in shaping the roadmap. Contribute to best practices and engineering standards across the wider engineering organization. Participate in modern software development practices including pairing, code reviews, documentation reviews, testing, and continuous delivery. Translate requirements into implementable technical specifications and tasks. Maintain accurate and reliable technical documentation. Provide regular updates on progress, timelines, risks, and dependencies. Lead troubleshooting and incident resolution, including occasional out-of-hours support. Ensure unit tests are implemented and fit for purpose. Research and evaluate new technologies that could benefit the organisation. Design and develop high-quality Python software that meets complex business needs. Ensure code, documentation, and testing align with engineering standards. Deliver solutions that meet acceptance criteria, performance expectations, and operational reliability. Integrate products with monitoring and support tooling. Experience/Skills required: Experienced Senior Engineer who can make sound trade-offs, design for scale, and contribute to complex systems without over-engineering. Strong engineering judgement and real-world delivery experience. Senior-level experience designing and building production Back End services in Python (3.10+). Strong background in high-throughput, message-based or event-driven systems. Proven experience building API-first services, with a focus on performance, reliability, and maintainability. Python Back End development, primarily using FastAPI and modern API patterns. Strong understanding of RESTful API design, schema validation, and OpenAPI/Swagger. Experience working with messaging and eventing platforms such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, MQTT, or similar. Cloud-native development experience is essential (ideally on Azure). Hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker) and orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes. Exposure to building and supporting shared or internal libraries used across multiple services.

Infrastructure Architect London, Docklands (Hybrid) £100,000 - £110,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus On behalf of an industry Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect additionally with a background in Security Architecture. The Infrastructure Architect will possess broad knowledge in Cloud Infrastructure, Platforms and Cyber Security with a focus on capability enhancements and continuous improvement. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring the design meets architectural principles and security standards. The organisation offers hybrid working with a non-negotiable 2 days a week in their London office, therefore you must be within reasonable commuting distance to London. Responsibilities: Author High Level Solution Design, Solutions Overview and Conceptual Architectures. Design and architect solutions based on technical and business requirements. Develop and document architecture blueprints and best practices. Act as a lead Architecture on projects Contribute to the development & management of Infrastructure Strategy Contribute to the continuous improvement of Architecture within the business Contribute to product roadmaps & reference architectures. Provide technical guidance to team members and stakeholders. Skills/Experience required: At least 8 years' experience in an Infrastructure Architecture capacity additionally with experience in authoring Cyber Security Architecture. Experience in a regulated financial services environment (banking/insurance preferred) Experience in IaC (nice to have) Automation experience highly advantageous - eg Ansible/Jenkins (alternatives considered). Knowledge of networking design and principles in both public cloud and traditional data centre Knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures. Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and services to complement AWS offerings. Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders Broad knowledge of Networks & Security Identify & recommend opportunities for efficiency. Stay updated on new features and capabilities & best practices. Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity. Share knowledge with the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture. Experience with cloud security solutions and services

DevOps Engineer - CI/CD, SQL, Azure DevOps Up to £70,000 Croydon My client, a rapidly growing business platform supporting innovative insurance teams, is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their expanding data function. This is a high-impact role offering significant exposure across the organisation, with opportunities to shape database delivery processes, improve development workflows, and contribute to the future of a cloud-first data platform. You'll be responsible for building and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, automating database deployments, and driving quality across the SDLC to ensure reliable, high-quality releases. You'll work closely with developers, analysts, and stakeholders to deliver automation-first solutions and help scale a platform built entirely in the cloud. Key Responsibilities: Design, implement, and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for database development and deployment Collaborate with developers to integrate database changes seamlessly into the SDLC Develop and enforce quality gates for schema validation, data integrity checks, and migration testing Build and maintain test automation frameworks for database processes (unit, integration, regression, performance) Ensure version control best practices for database objects, scripts, and configurations Implement and monitor rollback/recovery mechanisms to minimise deployment risk Optimise pipeline performance and resolve bottlenecks across build, test, and release processes Maintain environment consistency across dev, test, staging, and production systems Contribute to platform governance by defining and documenting best practices for database QA and DevOps Tech & Environment: Microsoft Azure (including Azure SQL) Azure DevOps, GitHub, YAML pipelines SQL Server (preferred), schema change management, migrations T-SQL, PowerShell (desirable) Power BI, Excel (with future integration of Python, GIS, and other tools) You Should Have: 3-4 years' experience as a QA Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Database QA Specialist with CI/CD focus Strong understanding of database systems, preferably SQL Server Proven experience building automated database pipelines (schema, migration, testing) Proficiency in SQL queries, stored procedures, and test scripts Familiarity with cloud-first environments and version control best practices Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with a proactive, detail-oriented approach If this sounds like the role for you, APPLY and a consultant will be in touch.

Linux Application Support Engineer London, Docklands (Hybrid) £80,000 - £90,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus On behalf of an industry Leading financial services business, I am seeking an experienced Infrastructure Application Support Engineer to provide 2nd line support for the organisations Lunix/Unix application services. The company operates hybrid working where you will be expected to commit to a non-negotiable 2 days a week in their London office, therefore applicants must be based within a reasonable commuting distance. Responsibilities: Provide 2nd line production operational support for Linux/UNIX application services, many of which are business critical. Be a point of contact for stakeholder communications for the Service Operations teams including Unix Application, Unix Infrastructure support and Unix DBA Support Provide remote and onsite support for internally developed business critical applications and 3rd Party vendor packages through Dev, Test, UAT and Prod. Manage and escalate problems as appropriate. Provide 24/7 on-call cover on a rotational shift basis. Ensure that the BAU Service is prioritized, and all faults, incidents and problems are responded to in an efficient manner without negatively impacting SLA's and reporting metrics in place. Investigate defects or problems; work with the internal Development team and external vendors to identify workarounds and support any fixes that are required as part of service improvement. Implement Changes or fixes to applications. Support other technical changes being made which affect the organisations Business Systems. Follow the Change Management procedure and other standard practices in installing and configuring applications in Test and Production environments. Upgrade or maintain software at a time when the impact to the business is minimized. Participate in regular Disaster Recovery testing activities. Create, maintain, and review operational process and support documentation. Participate in planned weekend work as required. Through example and behaviour, strive to provide peer leadership to other team members ensuring a level of excellence is achieved in delivering the service. Participate in the successful release and transition of new IT services into support, meeting the team's service acceptance criteria. Skills/Experience required: Must have strong experience of supporting critical production applications in a Redhat Enterprise Linux, command line, environment. Must have strong experience of supporting Applications using Amazon Web Services (AWS). Experience of supporting IBM WebSphere MQ Experience of supporting Swift messaging applications. Ability to perform diagnostic and troubleshooting of AWS Product set such as EC2, Lambda, EKS, ECR, Workspaces, EBS, EFS, S3, RDS MSSQL, Route 53, VPC, Cloud Formation Strong experience in working with ticket systems such as Service Now and an understanding of priorities and SLA's. Experience of Release Management processes for the deployment of application packages from development through to production environments. Strong documentation and technical writing skills. Ability to collaborate effectively with Development teams and other operational support teams (Service Management and Engineering), to support the end-to-end service. Knowledge of ITIL framework (understanding of Incident, Problem, Change) Experience with WebSphere Application Server and Apache Tomcat Experience with maintenance of SSL Certs for ISVA/LDAP/WebSphere components. Scripting skills in languages such as Shell and Python Strong experience of supporting proprietary developed business critical banking applications. Experience of running queries against PostgreSQL and DB2 databases. Supporting Applications in a windows environment (preferred) Experience of providing cross training on application solutions and operational processes to colleagues. (preferred) Professional qualifications/certifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent Prior IT operational support experience across business-critical Production environment, infrastructure, applications and database services Industry standard IT certification - AWS/RHEL/IBM MQ (preferred) ITIL certification (preferred).

Salary - £90,000 + discretionary bonus Hybrid working - x2 days per week based in London Spencer Rose are partnered with a leading financial services organisation who are on the look out for a Senior Network infrastructure Engineer. Within this role, the Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for optimizing their network and data centre infrastructure, monitoring network alerts as well as troubleshooting various network technologies. The Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer will have the following experience - Responsible for the configuration and maintenance of their data center and cloud network architecture Responsible for solving operations tickets through troubleshooting any connectivity issues Developing and maintaining operational documentation, including runbooks, network diagrams, and configuration records Adhere to strict change management process to deploy Firewall rule change requests, scheduled firmware upgrades and other network build, changes, or maintenance activities The Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer will need to have the following skills/experience - Must have in-depth experience of working in a multi-vendor Firewall environment (Checkpoint, ASA, Fortinet), that involves implementing & troubleshooting Firewall rule changes, NAT & VPN in a segmented network with multiple layers of Firewalls Extensive experience across Datacenter Infrastructure - Cisco ACI deployment & Cisco NX-OS Extensive knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies including routing protocols, route redistribution, manipulation, and filtering. Proven experience with deploying and troubleshooting issues related to WLAN Must have a background working within either Banking, Financial Services or Insurance

Purple Team Analyst/Cyber Security Analyst - £90,000 base + bonus London - Canary Wharf - 2 days in the office Financial Services Purple Team Analyst/Cyber Security Analyst The Company This financial services business supports a truly global client base, managing trillions of dollars each day. They are looking to hire a Purple Team Analyst/Cyber Security Analyst into a newly created role to support increased Purple Teaming activities within the SecOps Function Purple Team Analyst/Cyber Security Analyst The Role The successful applicant for the Purple Team Analyst/Cyber Security Analyst will be responsible for: Planning, managing and running all Purple teaming activities across the SecOps and wider technology estate Producing playbooks and other documentation relevant to both Purple Teaming and the wider SecOps team Supporting the Threat hunting teams with related activities Engage in security reviews for integrations and new service s Assist with escalations from the SOC team Support with Security risk assessments for all high impact projects Review and update Security protocols to mitigate current threats and best practice Acting as a Subject Matter Expert for Purple Teaming within the wider IT Security Team Purple Team Analyst/Cyber Security Analyst Your background The successful candidate for the Purple Team Analyst/Cyber Security Analyst will have experience with: Planning and executing Purple tests Hands on IT Security analysis and security engineering in particular: Security systems Securing Networks On - call experience Malware analysis, Intrusion detection and Incident Response across a hybrid estate Ensuring a risk based approach to security Monitoring and tuning technical IT Security Controls The ideal Purple Team Analyst/Cyber Security Analyst will need strong people skills and the ability to work across and with multiple teams in the business To find out more, click the apply button now, or call to speak to Abigail Moss. We invite individuals from underrepresented groups to apply for any of our roles and are committed to supporting accessibility needs.

Infrastructure Architect London, Docklands (Hybrid) £100,000 - £110,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus On behalf of an industry Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect additionally with a background in Security Architecture. The Infrastructure Architect will possess broad knowledge in Cloud Infrastructure, Platforms and Cyber Security with a focus on capability enhancements and continuous improvement. This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring the design meets architectural principles and security standards. The organisation offers hybrid working with a non-negotiable 2 days a week in their London office, therefore you must be within reasonable commuting distance to London. Responsibilities: Author High Level Solution Design, Solutions Overview and Conceptual Architectures. Design and architect solutions based on technical and business requirements. Develop and document architecture blueprints and best practices. Act as a lead Architecture on projects Contribute to the development & management of Infrastructure Strategy Contribute to the continuous improvement of Architecture within the business Contribute to product roadmaps & reference architectures. Provide technical guidance to team members and stakeholders. Skills/Experience required: At least 8 years' experience in an Infrastructure Architecture capacity additionally with experience in authoring Cyber Security Architecture. Experience in a regulated financial services environment (banking/insurance preferred) Experience in IaC (nice to have) Automation experience highly advantageous - eg Ansible/Jenkins (alternatives considered). Knowledge of networking design and principles in both public cloud and traditional data centre Knowledge of hybrid cloud architectures. Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and services to complement AWS offerings. Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders Broad knowledge of Networks & Security Identify & recommend opportunities for efficiency. Stay updated on new features and capabilities & best practices. Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity. Share knowledge with the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture. Experience with cloud security solutions and services