AND Digital

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Tech Practice Principal - Backend Lead Location: Hybrid: Client Site, AND Digital office, Remote. Proximity to Reading / Thames Valley is key Core Tech: Node.js, API Integration, Microservices, Microsoft Azure Cloud AND Introduction At AND, we accelerate the development of digital capabilities. In practice, that means helping ambitious leaders and organisations build the teams, products, processes and even operational structures they need to close the digital skills gap within their organisation today, so that they thrive tomorrow. Clients rely on our experience, agility and craft skills across tech and business strategy, software development, AI and product management to address some of the toughest challenges facing their businesses. We bring aboard thinkers, tinkerers, passionate software craftspeople and inspiring technologists to help us solve these challenges. Together, we're united by a sense of pragmatism, purpose and a deeply-held belief that digital products and technology alone won't transform a business or save the world: it's the people that count. The Opportunity We are looking for a Backend Lead to take the technical helm of a high-profile digital project. As a Lead, you won't just be overseeing delivery; you'll be the technical heartbeat of the backend services that power complex website and mobile app environments using Node. This role is perfect for a hands-on technical expert who enjoys scaling complex microservices in the cloud while taking accountability for managing a distributed backend engineering team to deliver exceptional outcomes for the client. Key Responsibilities Technical Excellence & Execution Hands-on Engineering: Lead by example by remaining hands-on, committing high-quality code primarily in Node to power cloud-deployed digital websites (React/Node) and mobile applications (React Native/Node). Architectural Stewardship: Work closely with Technical Architects to ensure the long-term health of our backend ecosystem, orchestrating integrations with platforms like Commerce Tools, Bloomreach, and Amplience alongside a separate Salesforce backend team. You will also oversee support for these backend systems. Engineering Culture: Set the "gold standard" for backend engineering routines. Drive a culture of technical pride, ensuring robust API design, secure cloud deployment practices, and insightful code reviews. Team Leadership & Delivery Management Delivery Accountability: Operates in "Project Mode," taking full accountability for managing your team to deliver on-time backend outcomes, while ensuring adherence to budgets and high quality. Distributed Team Management: Act as the bridge between onshore stakeholders and a distributed team of Onshore and Nearshore Backend Devs: You will actively manage this team's day-to-day delivery to maintain velocity and ensure consistent backend standards across geographical boundaries . Technical Mentorship: Support the growth of developers on your project, fostering a high-achieving, collaborative environment through technical coaching and peer reviews. Stakeholder Management Collaborative Influence: Navigate a multi-faceted stakeholder landscape. You will be equally comfortable discussing API design with frontend and mobile engineers as you are discussing business value and roadmap priorities with Senior Executives (C-suite/CxO level) to help them achieve their business ambitions. What You'll Bring Backend Mastery: Extensive professional experience with Node and modern backend microservices. Cloud Expertise: Solid experience building and deploying scalable backend services in cloud environments, with practical, hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure being highly advantageous. Team Management & Delivery: Proven experience managing and leading distributed Onshore and Nearshore backend development teams. You know how to maintain velocity and quality to successfully deliver project outcomes when the team isn't in the same room. Consultative Mindset: The ability to build trust quickly, evaluate options, and translate complex business requirements into actionable backend technical designs. Equal Opportunities Statement At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We're on a mission to close the world's tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. Since 2014, we've worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology. That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world. About you: You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams Solution Director - Engineering As a Solution Director, you are expected to develop and drive the growth of our client accounts. Using your combined deep and broad technical subject matter expertise, client engagement skills, and knowledge of our propositions and solutions, you will build trust and credibility with senior client stakeholders to identify opportunities where we can help them achieve their goals and business ambitions. What you'll bring to the table: As a Solution Director, you are expected to develop and drive the growth of our client accounts. Using your combined deep and broad technical subject matter expertise, client engagement skills, and knowledge of our propositions and solutions, you will build trust and credibility with senior client stakeholders to identify opportunities where we can help them achieve their goals and business ambitions. Exploring client problems Act as a high-level trusted advisor for equivalent C-suite stakeholders in your area of expertise (CPO/CTO/CDO), providing expert guidance and influencing their thinking and ambitions. Build a deep understanding of the client's core business, strategy, and ambitions, identifying where technology and modern engineering approaches can unlock value. Nurture relationships to build a network within the client, developing insight into their business, needs, and challenges. Advise and guide strategy and solutions thinking Proactively engage and spend time with clients to understand and explore their needs and pain points, exploring options, proposed solutions, and providing ongoing expert advice. Guide, advise, and influence on how technology-across cloud, AI, integration, and full stack engineering-can help address their challenges. Input and partake in data-based conversations and work with the Data Solution Director to make sound recommendations to clients. Constructively challenge client thinking to set them on the right path to achieve their desired outcomes. Provide clients with tangible examples of how you have deployed AI in an engineering capacity. Identify opportunities and support deal development Identify opportunities where we can help develop and build the right solutions for the client, including helping the client to build the business case internally. Support the development of proposals and shaping of opportunities for both existing clients (with the Head of Client Services) and new potential clients (with CP), playing a key role in presenting our technical capabilities and engineering excellence to build client confidence. Fully understand our propositions and solutions delivered to other clients, particularly in areas of domain expertise such as modern application development, full stack architectures, and platform engineering. Solution design Inspire and support the client by providing a vision and defining their business and technical requirements. Translate business requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient architectures, leveraging modern full stack engineering practices (front-end, back-end, APIs, data, DevOps, and cloud). Provide recommendations on how we can leverage AI-based solutions to improve, enhance, expedite solutions and/or engineering practices. Guide and mentor build teams, overseeing solution design and delivery to ensure it aligns with the original vision and delivers expected business value. Ensure the technical integrity of solutions through architectural governance and engineering best practice. Develop our propositions and Practice Area IP Actively provide feedback on our propositions to help maintain, develop, and evolve them as needed. Contribute to the development of the Practice Area through sharing best practices, reusable assets, and refining methodologies-particularly in areas of software architecture, full stack engineering frameworks, and delivery models. Team leadership and development Guide and develop ANDis on engagements, in their Practice Areas and Clubs, helping to grow and elevate technical capabilities across the business. Mentor engineers and architects in modern engineering disciplines, fostering a culture of technical excellence, experimentation, and continuous learning. Why join AND Digital? We're building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we're organised into regional 'Clubs' of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole. Our Practice Areas act as a 'second home' for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy. Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves. By joining AND, we'll provide: 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice). Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you. Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash. Life Assurance. Income Protection. Eye test + first pair of glasses. Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave. Equal Opportunities Statement Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we're committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We're actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Who We Are: AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We've been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014. We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or 'Clubs') so that our partners are always prioritized by a regional team close to them. This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years. Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world's digital skills gap. What you'll bring to the table: As a Lead Data Engineer, you'll help our clients deploy and maintain data pipelines in a production-safe manner, using the latest technologies and with a DataOps culture. You'll work in a fast moving, agile environment, within multi-disciplinary teams, delivering modern data platforms into large organisations. Your responsibilities: Develop pipelines that brings data to life for decision making, either delivering insight or for more sophisticated data science applications Experience in being hands on with data, applying the practicalities of quality, flow, and organisation of information, and an understanding of data modelling approaches. Be comfortable working in a fast moving, agile environment, within multi-disciplinary teams, delivering modern data platforms into large organisations. Previous practical experience of using both SQL and task orchestration software (eg. dbt, Airflow/Prefect/Dagster or equivalent) to develop production-grade pipelines that bring data to life Strong Snowflake experience is preferred, and Databricks experience would be a bonus Practical hands-on experience of at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and experience of associated technologies (for example with AWS: DynamoDB, Redshift, Kinesis Pipelines, Glue, Lambda, QuickSight, etc) Hands-on dataops experience (eg. CI/CD, version control, IaC, etc.) Have experience adopting a Data Product mindset, ensuring datasets are discoverable, addressable, trustworthy, and self-describing for downstream consumers. Ability to bridge the gap between technical engineering and business value, translating stakeholder needs into robust data product specifications. Why join AND Digital? We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving. By joining AND, we'll provide: Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people's lives. A "Blended Working" model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery. A dedicated career scrum team, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self. An annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated days off so you don't have to study in your own free time. Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members. A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself. Benefits 25 days holiday allowance + flexible bank holidays 2 days per year for volunteering Share scheme A £1000 flexifund to use on a personalised list of benefits such Gym membership, Cycle to Work Scheme, Health, dental and optical cash plan PLUS many more Equal Opportunities Statement At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Looking for an Affiliate Java/Angular Tech Lead - 2 days a week in Leeds. 5 month contract to start in October and finish in February. Who We Are: AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We've been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014. We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (or 'Clubs') so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them. This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe with plans for global expansion in the next couple of years. Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world's digital skills gap. What you'll bring to the table: The Lead Product Developer plays a pivotal role in the build and delivery of remarkable products, they will advocate for software quality and technical vision for AND and our clients, work on large-scale projects and support the team to grow in their roles. Key responsibilities will include: • Lead and guide the development of the team, providing direction and oversight of the technical delivery for the digital products and cross cutting initiatives they are responsible for • Help establish and follow a set of engineering principles and best practices to ensure consistency and quality in the engineering process are upheld • Feed engineering insight and experience into the wider Strategy and Architecture team to identify opportunities to improve engineering • Provide mentoring and coaching of more junior members of staff to enhance and improve the team's capability • Bring an energetic and proactive approach to tackling complex technical challenges, encouraging creative problem-solving and continuous learning within the team Key skills and experience required: • Proven development experience of working as a Lead Engineer in a commercial development team with an expert understanding of Java, Typescript & Angular and wider experience in different tools and frameworks across the stack • Knowledge of AWS cloud technologies • Experience working with agile methodologies • The ability to take clients wider business concerns into account when making technical decisions and dealing with the challenges from stakeholders that come with this. • Experience of implementing architecture, DevOps, performance or security and an understanding and ownership of best practice as a Lead Engineer (eg. TDD, SOLID, XP) Why join AND Digital? We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving. Equal Opportunities: At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. About us: AND Digital are a tech company focused on accelerating digital delivery and dedicated to closing the digital skills gap. We've been helping organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams since 2014. We believe our work should always leave a legacy for the client. We do this through close relationships with our offices (aka 'Clubs') so that our partners are always prioritised by a regional team close to them. This unique model has driven success for our clients and ourselves, evidenced by our remarkable organic growth since 2014. Today we number more than 1,300 people with Clubs all over the UK and Europe and the US, with plans to continue global expansion. Join us - and help us fulfil our mission to close the world's digital skills gap. Solution Director - Data & AI: As a Solution Director, you play a critical role in growing our client accounts by shaping complex transformation opportunities into executable solutions. Working closely with Client Partners and Client Services Directors, you act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders (CIO, CDO, CTO, CPO) and lead the co-creation of solution architectures, delivery models and roadmaps that address their most important business challenges. You operate at the intersection of strategy, technology and commercial delivery, translating client ambitions into clear, scalable solutions that our teams can build and operate. By collaborating with clients to design the architecture, team structure and delivery approach early in the opportunity lifecycle, you help move engagements from early exploration to confident proposal and commitment. A key part of the role is enabling account growth: identifying where our capabilities can unlock value for clients, shaping opportunities aligned with our propositions, and ensuring there are no surprises at proposal stage by validating the technical and delivery approach together with the client. In this role you combine deep technical expertise, commercial awareness and strong client influence to design solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes while building long-term strategic partnerships. What You'll Do: 1. Lead our propositions and Practice IP Be a visible leader in the Data community; driving consistency, quality, and innovation. Develop training and mentoring to grow internal capability. 2. Engage with clients Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite stakeholders (CTO/CDO/CPO). Build relationships that uncover client challenges and opportunities. • Show the art of the possible in Data & AI, connecting innovation to measurable outcomes. 3. Shape solutions Translate complex business needs into compelling, value-driven Data & AI solutions. Guide teams to deliver against vision and ensure robust, outcome-focused delivery. Support business case development and pre-sales. 4. Drive growth Identify, qualify, and shape new opportunities across AND. Partner with Client Teams to develop deals, coach others, and influence outcomes. Achieve a leveraged revenue impact target of around €1m+. 5. Lead and inspire Provide senior oversight, coaching, and technical challenge across engagements. Champion excellence and act as a role model for proactive, positive leadership. What You Bring to the table: Deep expertise in data platforms, AI/ML, cloud architectures, and analytics, translating technology into practical, scalable solutions. Strategic and commercial mindset, connecting technology choices to business outcomes and growth opportunities. Hands-on builder mentality - willing to roll up sleeves, work with engineers and architects, and get "feet in the mud" to move solutions forward. Strong problem-solving and solution design capability, navigating ambiguity and turning complex challenges into clear approaches. Influential communicator and leader, able to align stakeholders from boardroom to delivery teams and take ownership from concept through execution. Why join AND Digital? We have three values: wonder, share, and delight. These values inform how we work with clients, and our culture: what it feels like to work for AND. We believe collaboration, ambition, curiosity and fun can drive innovation by creating a better environment for problem-solving. By joining AND, we'll provide: Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and the chance to produce meaningful work that makes a difference to people's lives. A "Blended Working" model, meaning you will be able to work in a range of locations from; your home, in your clubhouse, on a client, as well as just a change of scenery. You will be supported by a dedicated growth team, an engaged Practice Area community, and extensive learning resources, designed to help you reach your career goals and develop the skills you need to be your best self. Monthly and quarterly team socials - on us - ranging from after work drinks, to driving experience days with your fellow club members. A safe environment for you to be yourself and challenge yourself. Benefits 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays Pension plan Working from home allowance and budget for home set up Commuting allowance PLUS many more For a full list of benefits - click here Equal Opportunities Statement At AND Digital we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We are actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. We're on a mission to close the world's tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. Since 2014, we've worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology. That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world. About you: You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams What you'll bring to the table: Support, evolve, and maintain the company's core visual identity, including logos, typography, color palettes, and comprehensive design systems. Working with the wider AND team, you will help define core brand positioning, target audience personas, and messaging frameworks. Translate market research and insights into actionable brand guidelines. Design and produce a wide range of marketing materials, including internal assets, one pagers, high stake pitch decks, and Google Slide presentations. Ensure all created materials rigidly align with brand guidelines, tone of voice, and overall business standards. Craft highly optimised, conversion oriented visual content, including social media ads, landing pages, email graphics, and web banners. Translate complex business concepts into clear, engaging visuals and client friendly messaging. Support branding and logistical efforts for client events, industry conferences, and internal initiatives. Develop and manage branded event materials. Support website branding and content updates, collaborating closely with internal teams and external web partners to strengthen brand visibility. Support the Content Manager with creation of engaging content for our website, blogs, email campaigns, and social channels. Coordinate multimedia initiatives, including the end-to-end development, planning, execution, and promotion of company podcasts. Assist with managing marketing projects from concept through delivery, keeping timelines, approvals, and execution on track. Why join AND Digital? We're building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we're organised into regional 'Clubs' of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole. Our Practice Areas act as a 'second home' for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy. Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves. By joining AND, we'll provide: 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice). Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you. Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash. Life Assurance. Income Protection. Eye test + first pair of glasses. Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave. Equal Opportunities Statement Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we're committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We're actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Observability Architect 12 Month FTC Who We Are We're on a mission to close the world's tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. Since 2014, we've worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology. That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world. About you: You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams Role Objective Lead the assessment, design, and optimisation of the observability strategy for the co-location migration programme. Ensure logging, metrics, tracing, alerting, and operational dashboards provide comprehensive visibility across the new infrastructure and application estate, enabling the successful migration of the tightly-coupled monolithic platform with minimal operational risk. Identify gaps in the existing observability capability and recommend enhancements to tooling, processes, and architecture where required. Key ResponsibilitiesObservability Assessment & Strategy Review the current observability architecture across infrastructure, networks, middleware, databases, and applications. Assess existing logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and monitoring capabilities to determine readiness for the co-location migration. Develop an observability strategy that supports both migration activities and long-term operational support. Recommend enhancements or platform uplifts where current tooling does not provide sufficient visibility or resilience. Baseline Performance Analysis Analyse telemetry, monitoring data, dashboards, and operational trends from completed migration waves. Establish performance baselines for compute, storage, networking, application response times, and transaction throughput. Identify recurring operational issues and use historical insights to improve migration readiness. Define measurable service health indicators to compare pre- and post-migration performance. Monolithic Application Monitoring Design comprehensive monitoring for the tightly-coupled monolithic application estate, with particular emphasis on latency-sensitive interdependencies. Create real-time dashboards that provide operational visibility across infrastructure, middleware, databases, messaging, and application components. Ensure end-to-end transaction tracing is available to rapidly identify bottlenecks and service degradation. Validate monitoring coverage prior to each migration wave. Logging & Trace Management Review and standardise centralised logging across all migrated environments. Ensure consistent log formats, metadata, correlation IDs, and traceability across systems. Validate log ingestion, retention policies, indexing, and search performance. Ensure operational teams can rapidly investigate incidents using correlated logs and distributed traces. Alerting & Operational Readiness Review and optimise alert thresholds to minimise both missed events and unnecessary alert noise. Implement intelligent alerting aligned to business services and critical customer journeys. Define migration-specific alerting for infrastructure failures, application degradation, latency increases, replication issues, and capacity constraints. Support operational readiness activities including rehearsals and production cutover monitoring. Compliance & Audit Ensure observability solutions meet financial services regulatory requirements for auditability, log retention, security, and data governance. Validate access controls and security monitoring for observability platforms. Support evidence gathering for internal governance, audit, and regulatory reviews. Platform Improvement Evaluate the suitability of existing observability platforms and recommend improvements where required. Assess opportunities to improve automation, anomaly detection, service health monitoring, and predictive alerting. Define standards and best practices for observability across future migration phases. Stakeholder Collaboration Work closely with Infrastructure Architects, Application Architects, Platform Engineering, Security, Operations, and Migration teams. Provide technical guidance during migration planning, testing, dress rehearsals, and production cutovers. Produce architecture documentation, monitoring standards, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer materials. Required Skills & Experience Extensive experience designing enterprise observability solutions within large-scale infrastructure or data centre migration programmes. Strong knowledge of metrics, logging, distributed tracing, and application performance monitoring (APM). Experience monitoring latency-sensitive, business-critical enterprise applications. Strong understanding of infrastructure, virtualisation, networking, storage, databases, and middleware monitoring. Experience implementing centralised logging and observability best practices. Knowledge of financial services operational resilience, audit, and regulatory requirements. Ability to analyse complex operational telemetry and identify performance bottlenecks. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Why join AND Digital? We're building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we're organised into regional 'Clubs' of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole. Our Practice Areas act as a 'second home' for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy. Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves. By joining AND, we'll provide: 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice). Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you. Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash. Life Assurance. Income Protection. Eye test + first pair of glasses. Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave. Equal Opportunities Statement Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we're committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We're actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Architect 12 Month FTC Who We Are We're on a mission to close the world's tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. Since 2014, we've worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology. That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world. About you: You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams What you'll bring to the table: Lead the design, validation, and operational readiness of disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities for the production estate during the migration to the new colocation environment. The role is responsible for ensuring that rollback, failover, backup, and recovery strategies are fully documented, tested, and compliant with financial services regulatory expectations, while minimising operational risk throughout the migration programme. Key ResponsibilitiesRollback Strategy & Production Readiness Own the review, validation, and formal sign-off of the production rollback strategy for the tightly coupled monolithic application estate. Develop and maintain detailed, step-by-step rollback runbooks covering planned and emergency recovery scenarios. Coordinate rollback rehearsals with infrastructure, application, database, and operations teams to validate execution times and dependencies. Identify rollback risks, decision points, and business impacts, ensuring clear go/no-go criteria are established for production releases. Disaster Recovery Planning & Testing Design and execute comprehensive disaster recovery exercises covering infrastructure, applications, databases, and supporting services. Validate backup integrity, restoration procedures, and end-to-end recovery processes within the new colocation environment. Ensure disaster recovery testing satisfies internal governance, audit requirements, and financial services regulatory expectations. Produce evidence packs, test reports, lessons learned, and remediation plans following each exercise. Business Continuity & Operational Resilience Review and enhance Business Continuity Plans (BCPs) for critical production services. Ensure business continuity processes align with operational resilience objectives and business impact assessments. Work with business stakeholders to validate continuity arrangements for critical services and operational teams. Support crisis management planning and major incident response exercises. Hybrid Infrastructure Risk Management Assess resilience risks across hybrid environments spanning remaining on-premises infrastructure and the new colocation platform. Validate resilience of shared services, including identity, networking, storage, monitoring, messaging, and database platforms. Ensure inter-site dependencies are understood, documented, and appropriately mitigated. Monitor and manage risks associated with transitional operating models during migration. Recovery Objectives Define, validate, and monitor Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs) for all in-scope services. Confirm infrastructure and application architectures are capable of meeting agreed recovery objectives. Identify gaps between current capabilities and business recovery requirements and drive remediation activities. Work closely with solution architects and engineering teams to optimise recovery capabilities. Governance, Risk & Compliance Ensure disaster recovery and business continuity documentation meets organisational governance standards. Support internal audit, risk management, and regulatory assurance activities. Maintain risk registers relating to resilience, recovery capability, and migration readiness. Provide formal readiness assessments and recommendations to programme governance boards prior to production cutovers. Required Skills & Experience Proven experience designing and implementing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity solutions within enterprise environments. Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure or data centre migration programmes. Strong understanding of high-availability architectures, replication technologies, backup platforms, and failover mechanisms. Experience defining and validating RTOs and RPOs for mission-critical services. Knowledge of financial services operational resilience and disaster recovery expectations. Familiarity with hybrid infrastructure environments spanning on-premises, colocation, and cloud platforms. Strong stakeholder management skills with experience working across infrastructure, application, security, operations, and business teams. Excellent documentation, governance, and risk management capabilities. Why join AND Digital? We're building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we're organised into regional 'Clubs' of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole. Our Practice Areas act as a 'second home' for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy. Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves. By joining AND, we'll provide: 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice). Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you. Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash. Life Assurance. Income Protection. Eye test + first pair of glasses. Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave. Equal Opportunities Statement Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we're committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We're actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. AWS Cloud Architect 12 Month FTC Who We Are We're on a mission to close the world's tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. Since 2014, we've worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology. That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world. About you: You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams Objective Govern configuration management and state consistency while designing and executing the end-to-end testing strategy to validate the colocation environment for the tightly-coupled migration. Key Responsibilities Drift Analysis: Compare the successfully migrated dev/non-prod environments against production to identify and fix configuration drift. Monolith Landing Readiness: Validate that the targeted colocation environment is fully staged, patched, and matched to on-prem production specifications for remaining tightly-coupled workloads Data Masking Compliance: Verify that financial non-production environments migrated to date strictly adhere to regulatory data anonymisation rules. Release Coordination: Enforce strict freeze windows and change management controls on the colocation environment to ensure total stability prior to the final cutover. Performance & Latency Testing: Design and execute stress tests on dev/test infrastructure to simulate the heavy traffic and latency constraints of the tightly-coupled monolithic group. Regression & Integration Strategy: Define the test cases required to prove that interconnected financial applications function flawlessly post-migration without breaking downstream systems. User Acceptance (UAT) Governance: Coordinate with business units to manage UAT sign-offs on the new colocation infrastructure, ensuring compliance audits are fully documented. Why join AND Digital? We're building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we're organised into regional 'Clubs' of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole. Our Practice Areas act as a 'second home' for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy. Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves. By joining AND, we'll provide: 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice). Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you. Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash. Life Assurance. Income Protection. Eye test + first pair of glasses. Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave. Equal Opportunities Statement Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we're committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We're actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. AWS Cloud Architect 12 Month FTC Who We Are We're on a mission to close the world's tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology, combining human expertise, emerging tech and AI to deliver better outcomes, faster. Since 2014, we've worked side-by-side with clients to solve complex challenges, build high-performing teams, and create lasting capability. As technology continues to evolve, we believe the most successful organisations will be those that combine the best of both: human ingenuity AND intelligent technology. That belief is embedded in everything we do. We call it the genius of the AND: deep expertise AND practical delivery, innovation AND responsibility, ambitious work AND sustainable careers. Through our Guide, Build and Equip approach, we help organisations embrace change, deliver meaningful impact, and develop the skills they need to thrive in an increasingly agentic world. About you: You care deeply about producing high-quality work that delivers real value You're comfortable navigating ambiguity and solving complex problems collaboratively You bring strong expertise in your craft, alongside a willingness to keep learning You communicate clearly and build trust quickly with clients and teammates You're pragmatic, adaptable and outcome-focused You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others grow You value low-ego collaboration and enjoy working as part of multidisciplinary teams What you'll bring to the table: As a Cloud Architect, you will act as a hands-on cloud expert who has experience with building cloud platforms. You will work across the Cloud Engineering BU's portfolio of clients. As a result, you will: Be a specialist in Amazon Web Services (AWS), holding relevant AWS certifications, ideally at the Professional level. Use your expert tech knowledge to influence the direction of projects. Able to design Cloud Platforms with the ability to incorporate best practices from cloud providers into the design. You will either implement these platforms solo, or as part of a bigger team. Experience in leading/managing people onsite with clients, but being a team player as part of a team of engineers within AND. Good at both writing documentation and presenting solutions, able to clearly express complex thoughts. Flexible and responsive to people and client needs and opportunities, able to balance conflicting demands on time and priorities. Growth mind, naturally curious and challenging and process minded. Knowledge of containerisation, orchestration (Kubernetes), and serverless architectures Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) using tools like Terraform or Cloud Formation, CI/CD pipelines, Jira and Jenkins You will also be driving: Accelerations to our partner status competencies with major cloud providers Helping out with pre-sales engagements Creating content for marketing, sales, clients, the BU, and the rest of AND Be able to give/receive feedback Why join AND Digital? We're building a culture where talented people can do meaningful work, continue growing, AND enjoy the journey along the way. Our model is designed to build belonging and connection: we're organised into regional 'Clubs' of no more than 80 people, so you (and our clients) get the benefits of that small company feel while also being connected to a larger whole. Our Practice Areas act as a 'second home' for our ANDis - a place where you can innovate and learn with like-minded experts who care deeply about their craft, support each other generously, and believe the best ideas come from collaboration, not hierarchy. Our culture is rooted in our values of Wonder, Share and Delight, and shows up through five traits that we celebrate and nurture in all our ANDis: we value curiosity, ambition and a growth-mindset. We are deeply client-centric. Most important of all we are human - we create an inclusive environment where people feel trusted, supported and able to be themselves. By joining AND, we'll provide: 25 days bookable holiday + flexible Bank Holidays Pension: 6% of salary paid by AND Digital with a further 2% paid by you (can be increased by choice). Aviva healthcare cover (including pre-existing condition cover) for you. Flexibenefit: £1000 assigned to you via our benefits portal to select or upgrade the benefits that suit you the most. Any unused allowance from the £1000 can be taken as cash. Life Assurance. Income Protection. Eye test + first pair of glasses. Parental Benefits: Generous Enhanced Maternity and Enhanced Partner (Paternity) Leave. Equal Opportunities Statement Diversity and inclusion are hugely important to us, and we're committed to providing equal opportunities for all. We're actively recruiting for a diverse and inclusive workforce so want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel safe and empowered to let us know if you need any adjustments to be made to your application or interview process, so please speak to our recruitment team.

hackajob is collaborating with AND Digital to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Contract Product Manager - Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) Location: Fully Remote (UK) Contract: Immediate start until end of June 2027 (with potential extension) Who We Are AND Digital are on a mission to close the world's tech skills gap. We help organisations navigate the future of technology by combining human expertise, emerging technologies and AI to deliver better digital products, stronger teams and lasting capability. Since 2014, we've worked alongside clients to solve complex business challenges through our unique regional Club model, building long-term partnerships that deliver meaningful outcomes. Today we're over 1,300 people across the UK, Europe and the USA, with ambitious plans for continued growth. Join us and help shape the future of digital. The Role We're looking for an experienced Contract Product Manager to join a major digital transformation programme supporting products and services within the UK's Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) landscape. The programme focuses on improving the digital experience for customers who generate renewable electricity and export surplus energy back to the National Grid. You'll help shape products that simplify customer journeys, improve operational efficiency and support the UK's transition to a smarter, low-carbon energy system. This is a fully remote contract open to candidates based anywhere in the UK. Working alongside Engineering, Design, Data and business stakeholders, you'll define product strategy, prioritise delivery and ensure solutions create measurable value for both customers and the business. Key Responsibilities Define and deliver product vision, strategy and roadmaps aligned to business objectives. Understand customer needs, market trends and regulatory requirements within the renewable energy sector. Own and prioritise the product backlog, ensuring delivery teams remain focused on the highest-value outcomes. Translate customer and business requirements into clear user stories and acceptance criteria. Work collaboratively with Engineering, Architecture, Design and Data teams to deliver scalable digital products. Analyse customer, operational and commercial data to inform prioritisation and product decisions. Collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders across Product, Operations, Regulatory, Commercial and Customer teams. Lead Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews and retrospectives. Continuously measure product performance using customer insights, KPIs and data to drive ongoing improvements. Balance customer needs, commercial priorities and technical constraints to maximise product value. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience as a Product Manager delivering digital products within Agile environments. Strong experience developing product roadmaps and managing complex product backlogs. Experience using customer insights and data to drive product strategy and prioritisation. Excellent stakeholder management skills across technical and business teams. Experience working closely with Engineering, Design and Data throughout the product lifecycle. Strong customer-centric mindset with experience in product discovery and problem definition. Commercially aware with the ability to balance customer outcomes, delivery priorities and business value. Comfortable working within complex, cross-functional delivery teams. Highly Desirable Experience Experience within the Energy , Utilities or Net Zero sectors. Experience delivering digital products relating to the Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) , distributed energy, renewable generation or smart energy services. Experience working with products or services involving: Solar PV Electric Vehicles (EV) Battery Storage Wind Energy Hydro Power Anaerobic Digestion Micro-Combined Heat & Power (Micro-CHP) Understanding of customer journeys associated with exporting renewable electricity, smart metering or energy management. Experience working within regulated environments or alongside industry regulations and policy. Ideal Background We're particularly interested in Product Managers who have worked within organisations focused on: Energy & Utilities Renewable Energy Net Zero & Sustainability Smart Energy EV Charging & Infrastructure Solar & Distributed Generation Clean Technology (CleanTech) Energy Technology Platforms The ideal candidate will have experience building customer-focused digital products that simplify complex energy journeys, use data to inform decisions and support the transition to a low-carbon future. Equal Opportunities AND Digital is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and experiences and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We will make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process where required.