Pathfinder

REMOTE POSITION Business Development Consultant required by a fintech and MPS firm offering you the chance to take ownership of financial adviser (IFA) relationships, develop your commercial skills and rapidly progress your career in a growing business. You'll be working with a mix of inbound and proactively gained opportunities, developing your own network, building long term relationships and helping convert financial adviser (IFA) interest into long term business. For the right person, it's a chance to build on existing sales experience or move beyond adviser support, administration or pure account servicing and take a more commercial role within the industry. This isn't a "hard sell" Business Development role. Instead, success will come from a consultative, service-led, relationship-driven approach where the conversion into customer comes from awareness and trust. You'll be trained and supported. You'll be given warm inbound leads to follow, relationships to manage and attend industry events and conferences where you'll form your own new contacts and develop existing ones. The right candidate will have: Experience of financial adviser (IFA) or adviser-facing environments Experience in a sales, account management or client-facing role Confidence speaking with professional clients Strong relationship development skills Proactive and positive attitude Offer: Starting salary of up to 45,000 (dependent on experience, more junior candidates will be considered) Bonus structure Remote working Private medical insurance Private contributory pension Generous holiday allowance Employee share participation scheme Paid study support Career progression plan and regular salary reviews If you're currently working in business development, relationship management, account management or adviser support and have experience working with IFAs, financial advisers, wealth management firms or investment management professionals, apply now.

Cloud & Platform Lead Engineer required by a large, Manchester based SaaS provider where you'll serve as the team's cloud engineering authority. You'll join at a particularly interesting point in the company's evolution as it invests heavily in the modernisation of its software platforms and infrastructure. With a major digital transformation underway and AI becoming an increasingly important part of the technology strategy, the role offers the chance to help shape the future cloud and platform estate of a large SaaS business. The right candidate is likely to be a senior Site Reliability Engineer or Cloud, Platform or DevOps leader with a strong combination of Azure and AWS experience, already operating at the intersection of engineering, architecture and technology leadership, and who is comfortable bring hands-on while leading, defining standards, guiding investment decisions and delivering initiatives. In return, you'll join a stable and growing SaaS business offering an attractive salary and strong benefits package including an annual bonus, private medical insurance, life assurance, enhanced pension contributions, flexible benefits, ongoing learning and development opportunities, and an initial 26 days holiday including your birthday off. Requirements: Experience in Site Reliability, Cloud, Platform or DevOps engineering roles, including technical leadership. Experience designing and supporting cloud native solutions across Azure and AWS environments. Experience defining cloud and platform architectures, Infrastructure as Code approaches, automation strategies and reusable engineering patterns. Experience working with senior technology and business stakeholders to shape technical direction and platform improvements. Experience building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar tooling. Experience with monitoring, observability and operational support using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Datadog. Experience managing cloud cost optimisation and governance. Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes. Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash and PowerShell. Good understanding of cloud networking, security, secure coding practices and compliance requirements. If you're a Site Reliability Engineer, Cloud & Platform Engineer, hands on Platform Architect, Principal DevOps Engineer or Cloud Consultant, looking to play a key role at an early stage of a major technology transformation, apply now!