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About Scrumconnect Consulting Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning digital consultancy, recognised for delivering impactful technology solutions across UK government departments. Our work has positively influenced the lives of over 40 million UK citizens. With a strong commitment to user-centred design and agile delivery, we continue to build innovative digital services that truly make a difference. Overview: We are seeking a seasoned Data Lead to define and deliver a comprehensive data strategy for large-scale, citizen-facing services used by millions. This role involves assessing current data capabilities, defining a future vision, and architecting a roadmap to achieve it while building and leading the team required to deliver. Key Responsibilities: Data Strategy & Governance Lead the end-to-end data strategy across services Assess current ( as-is ) and future ( to-be ) states of data platforms and pipelines Develop a short- to medium-term strategic roadmap aligned with broader organisational and government data strategies Define and implement policies, standards, and governance frameworks for secure and scalable data services Technical Leadership & Architecture Select and evolve data engineering tools, frameworks, and methodologies Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture and technical strategies Lead delivery of complex data engineering initiatives across multiple systems Design solutions balancing functional and non-functional requirements Team Design & Delivery Define optimal team structure, including roles, skills, and capacity Build and lead multidisciplinary data teams (engineers, analysts, data scientists) Mentor and guide team members to ensure high-quality delivery Oversee implementation of data platforms, pipelines, and analytical models Standards, Compliance & Quality Ensure adherence to data governance, security, and compliance standards Embed data quality, lineage, and protection practices across systems Contribute to enterprise-wide data policies and regulatory compliance Required Experience & Skills: 10+ years of experience in data engineering, data science, or analytics Proven experience defining and executing data strategies in complex organisations Strong expertise in cloud-based data platforms (AWS preferred) Experience with modern ETL/ELT tools and data pipeline frameworks Solid understanding of data modelling, warehousing, and transformation best practices Experience across the data science/ML life cycle from prototype to production Experience working in public sector or regulated environments, with knowledge of GDPR and related standards Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including engaging senior stakeholders Proven leadership, mentoring, and team-building capabilities Tech Stack: Google Analytics Google BigQuery Looker Studio Google Tag Manager Desirable Experience: Experience in public sector or citizen services (eg, benefits systems) Exposure to government frameworks or large-scale transformation programmes Security clearance (BPSS, SC, or DV) or willingness to obtain Diversity & Inclusion At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences, and we actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, underrepresented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements.

As a Senior Data Engineer within the Data Engineering team, you will play a key role in building, enhancing, and maintaining our enterprise data platform on Snowflake. You will develop and optimise scalable data pipelines and models that bring data from core business systems into Snowflake, enabling analytics, reporting, and data-driven insights across the organisation. You will translate the data platform strategy into high-quality technical solutions, ensuring our Snowflake environment is reliable, well-structured, and performant. You will champion engineering best practices and contribute to standards that improve the quality, consistency, and usability of data assets. Your work will ensure the business has access to trusted, timely, and well-modelled data to support decision-making, operational reporting, and the foundations for advanced analytics and future AI/ML capabilities. Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities Snowflake Data Engineering Delivery Design, build, and maintain high-quality data pipelines and models in Snowflake to support business analytics, BI, and operational reporting needs. Data Architecture Implementation Translate the defined data architecture and standards into implemented solutions including ingestion, transformation, storage, and performance optimisation. Pipeline Development & Orchestration Develop robust ELT/ETL pipelines using dbt and workflow/orchestration tools (e.g., Argo Workflows), ensuring reliability, maintainability, and adherence to engineering best practices. Performance & Cost Optimisation Implement Snowflake warehouse configurations and query optimisation techniques to ensure efficient usage and predictable cost. Data Quality & Governance Execution Apply data quality checks, lineage tracking, and security standards across the data estate. Ensure compliance with data policies, InfoSec controls, and regulatory requirements as required. Tooling & Feature Adoption Leverage Snowflake capabilities (Tasks, Streams, Snowpark, Time Travel, Secure Data Sharing) to improve automation, reduce manual effort, and enhance data accessibility across the business. Collaboration & Support Work closely with analysts, data consumers, and business stakeholders to support data product delivery, troubleshoot data issues, and enable effective usage of Snowflake datasets. Enablement for Analytics & Data Science Implement dimensional models that provide clean, well-structured, reusable datasets for reporting, scenario modelling, and emerging ML/AI use cases. Monitoring, Reliability & Operations Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and cost-management processes for Snowflake and data pipelines to ensure a stable and well-maintained platform. Continuous Improvement of Engineering Practices Contribute to shared engineering standards to simplify development and accelerate delivery across the team. Knowledge & Skills Proven experience in delivering cloud-based data engineering solutions, ideally with Snowflake. Strong hands-on proficiency with SQL, Python, and dbt for data transformations, modelling, and pipeline automation. Practical experience with Snowflake and RBAC management. Experience with data ingestion and replication tools such as Airbyte, Fivetran, Hevo, or similar. Working knowledge of cloud services (AWS preferred). Strong understanding of data modelling and data governance principles. Experience supporting BI/reporting tools (Power BI) and enabling them through well-designed Snowflake data models. Solid knowledge of CI/CD and version-controlled development practices in git. Desirable Enterprise System Familiarity Exposure to CRM (Salesforce), BSS/OSS (Netadmin), Call Centre, Telephony, or similar enterprise data sources. Data Migration Experience Participation in migrating data platforms (e.g., PostgreSQL or other cloud RDBMS) into a data warehouse like Snowflake with minimal disruption and strong data validation controls. Change & Adoption Support Experience supporting business teams during platform transitions (e.g., training, documentation, user onboarding, issue resolution). Best Practice Contribution Experience contributing to naming conventions, schema standards, environment management, testing frameworks, and security patterns for data platforms. Continuous Learning & Innovation Interest in staying up to date with the latest technologies, modern data stack tooling, and best practices to contribute to ongoing platform evolution. Infrastructure as Code Exposure to Terraform would be advantageous. Gigaclear is a growing Fibre Broadband (FTTP / FTTH) company, developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city.

Senior Technical Programme Manager - HR Technology (EMEA Lead) Contract Length: 12 Months Location: London Working Pattern: Hybrid working (via Umbrella Company, inside IR35) Are you a Director-level technology delivery leader with experience operating in Tier-1 Financial Services and global, matrix-driven environments? Our client is seeking a senior EMEA technology led to take full accountability for the regional delivery of a first-of-its-kind global HR technology transformation, integrating a single global SAP SuccessFactors platform with complex downstream enterprise systems. This role sits at the heart of a Tokyo-driven global programme, with close partnership across New York, APAC and EMEA, and requires confidence, authority, and technical credibility to build capability while delivering at pace in an evolving global landscape. Key Responsibilities Regional Ownership & Leadership: Provide Director-level accountability for all EMEA IT technical delivery within the Global Horizon programme, acting as the senior regional owner for HR technology integrations. Global Collaboration: Work in close partnership with global technology leadership and delivery teams across Tokyo, New York and APAC, aligning EMEA outcomes to global standards, roadmap and governance. Enterprise Integrations: Own the delivery of SAP SuccessFactors integrations (or similar) into downstream enterprise platforms, including Identity & Access Management, Finance, Compliance, and data platforms, ensuring secure, scalable and compliant solutions. Delivery Governance: Establish and operate robust delivery governance in a maturing global environment, covering planning, dependencies, risk, change control, and executive reporting. Team Build & Mobilisation: Design, recruit and lead EMEA delivery teams (including analysts, architects, and integration delivery capability), and manage third-party vendors to deliver against programme objectives. Senior Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary EMEA technology interface into the Global Horizon Programme Office, providing clear visibility of progress, risks, trade-offs and required decisions to senior stakeholders. What You Bring Proven Seniority: Director- or Programme Director-level experience leading large-scale global technology delivery within Financial Services or similarly regulated environments. Global Delivery Experience: Demonstrable experience operating in matrix organisations with global headquarters oversight, balancing regional execution with global governance and standards. Integration & Technical Credibility: Strong background delivering enterprise HR platforms (e.g. SAP SuccessFactors or similar) with a clear focus on downstream system integrations, not HR functional configuration. Financial Services Maturity: Experience delivering technology change under FS regulatory, risk, security, and data protection controls, engaging with Risk, Compliance, and InfoSec stakeholders. Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to establish credibility quickly, lead senior multidisciplinary teams, and influence decision-making at programme and executive level. Challenges You Will Tackle Delivering a unified global HR technology outcome within an organisation transitioning from regional autonomy to global alignment. Establishing effective delivery structures, governance and capability in parallel with execution, in the absence of a mature global PMO. Building and scaling EMEA delivery teams while navigating evolving scope, architecture and global programme direction. Why Join Us? Global Impact : Play a pivotal leadership role in the first truly global technology programme of its kind for the organisation. Senior Visibility: Operate in a high-profile role with direct exposure to global technology and HR leadership. Meaningful Challenge: Ideal for experienced leaders who thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and enjoy building structure where little previously existed. We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention. Adecco is a disability-confident employer. It is important to us that we run an inclusive and accessible recruitment process to support candidates of all backgrounds and all abilities to apply. Adecco is committed to building a supportive environment for you to explore the next steps in your career. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.

Overview We are searching for a Business Systems, Delivery & Change Manager to lead our business systems, digital platforms, and technology change portfolio. This senior technology leader will ensure our portfolio delivers measurable value, supports operational excellence, and aligns with organisational strategy. You will provide leadership across business systems management, project delivery, and strategic change - ensuring solutions are well-designed, well-governed, and successfully adopted. The role combines people leadership, technology governance, and delivery oversight, guiding cross-functional teams and suppliers to ensure that technology change is delivered safely, consistently, and effectively across the business. Responsibilities Define and own the strategic direction for business systems, ensuring alignment to Solus' technology roadmap and business goals. Prioritise the change portfolio, balancing strategic needs, operational risks, dependencies, and capacity. Make decisions on technology investments, supplier contracts, and commercial evaluations. Approve and govern system changes, ensuring security, architectural integrity and operational stability. Own the standards and frameworks for delivery, change governance, business analysis, release management, and system lifecycle management. Make people-leadership decisions including performance management, capability development, and team structure. Evaluate and manage risk across systems, projects and change activity, ensuring regulatory, audit and security requirements are fully met. Strategic Leadership: Build and deliver a long-term strategic roadmap for business systems, integrations, data flows, and platform evolution. Provide leadership across the delivery and change capability, setting expectations for quality, pace, and governance. Work closely with the CIO to ensure alignment between infrastructure, cloud, platforms, business applications and change. People Leadership & Team Development: Lead a multi-discipline function (Business Analysts, Change Leads, Delivery Leads, Systems SMEs) ensuring capability, performance, and progression. Develop team members through coaching, mentoring, training and succession planning. Create a high-trust, high-performance culture that empowers colleagues and encourages continuous improvement. Ensure the team manages documentation, processes and business knowledge to reduce key-person dependencies. Delivery & Change Ownership: Own the full lifecycle of technology change: intake, analysis, prioritisation, design assurance, delivery oversight, adoption, and benefits tracking. Ensure delivery teams follow agreed standards (Agile, hybrid, or waterfall where appropriate) with consistent governance. Oversee delivery risks, RAID management and cross-functional dependencies. Ensure systems changes are safe, secure, tested, and supported at go-live. Business Systems Management: Oversee the lifecycle of key business systems - including upgrades, vendor management, integrations, and enhancement roadmaps. Ensure systems are secure, resilient, and compliant, supported by well-maintained documentation and change records. Act as escalation point for system incidents, recurring issues, platform concerns and supplier escalations. Drive simplification, standardisation and rationalisation of systems to reduce complexity and improve user experience. Stakeholder Leadership: Build strong relationships with business leaders, operational managers, suppliers, and technology partners. Communicate complex technical and delivery topics clearly at senior level. Represent Technology at governance boards, steering groups, and executive forums. Financial Leadership: Manage budgets for systems, suppliers, licences, and delivery resources. Ensure cost-effective delivery and maximise value for money from suppliers and change activity. Qualifications Degree in IT, Technology, Business Management or related field. Strong evidence of leadership in technology delivery, business systems or change management. Certifications beneficial: ITIL (governance & service management) Agile/Scrum/Scaled Agile Project/Programme Management (PMP, MSP, Prince2) Change Management (APMG/PROSCI) Experience managing budgets, suppliers and enterprise-scale change functions. Skills and experience Strong leadership capability: team leadership, coaching, performance management. Deep understanding of business systems, integrations, software delivery lifecycle, and enterprise change management. Ability to oversee complex delivery portfolios, balancing capacity, risk and value. Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills across senior levels. Knowledge of technology strategy, architecture governance, and vendor management. Strong analytical, commercial and problem-solving skills. Experience managing multidisciplinary teams in fast-paced environments. Ability to constructively challenge, make decisive recommendations, and deliver difficult messages. Demonstrated ability to shape culture, drive behavioural change and embed new ways of working. Who are Solus? Solus, who are owned by Aviva, are one of the UK leaders in vehicle repairs, returning cars to the road in just 11 days on average and a 4.6/5 star customer rating. With an award-winning apprenticeship programme and winners of other recognised industry awards Solus are proud to be shaping the future of vehicle repair. Why Join Solus? We have so much to offer when it comes to being a Solus colleague: Competitive salary based on location, skills, experience, and qualifications. Bonus opportunity tied to your performance and the overall success of Solus. Company pension scheme with employer contributions. 33 days' holiday (including bank holidays), with the option to buy or sell up to 5 days. Save money with up to 40% discount on Aviva products and other retailer discounts. Share in Aviva's success through the Aviva Save As You Earn scheme. Supportive policies including parental and carer's leave. Wellbeing focus with tools like Group Income Protection and 24/7 GP access. At Solus, we value inclusivity and welcome all applicants. If you're excited but don't tick every box, we encourage you to apply-your unique skills might be just what we need. We guarantee an interview for disabled applicants meeting the minimum criteria-just email us after applying to let us know. Ready to join us? Apply online today, and our team will be in touch within 14 days.

Role Title: Business Architect Duration: contract to run until 31/03/2026 Location: Knutsford, Hybrid 2-3 days onsite (non-consecutive) Rate: up to £750 p/d Umbrella inside IR35 Role purpose/summary Our client is looking for an Architect with overarching capabilities to work with various business workstreams and senior business stakeholders within the bank. with experience in Current account journeys including lending, account switching and is experienced with managing responsibilities for designing, developing, and implementing technology solutions for complex core banking & current account business problems, ensuring that systems are scalable, resilient, and secure. Also, to ensure it aligns with the overall business and IT strategies, by translating business requirements into actionable technical designs and maintaining the current and target state architecture. Key Skills/requirements Leading design and technical architecture for loans, banking accounts - current and savings along with operational platforms with focus on scalability, resiliency, security, and regulatory compliance Develop solutions and designs that align with business goals and enterprise architecture strategies. Collaborating with project managers, product owners, and business analysts to align solutions with business requirements and risk controls for current accounts Translate business requirements into comprehensive architectural designs, functioning as a blueprint for successful solution implementation. Advising business and product teams, supporting technical delivery and innovation in the banking landscape Advise on, and make decisions about, suitable technologies for projects within the domain, often challenging vendor solutions to ensure alignment with organizational strategy. Drive consistent, innovative solutions that meet both strategic and operational goals for the client's current account & core banking functions. Design and facilitate end-to-end solutions, define integration patterns, and ensure processes within the domain are efficient and aligned with business needs. Skills and Qualifications Deep knowledge of core banking systems, with platforms like Temenos Transact being a plus. Proficiency with data technologies, including Real Time data streams and batch processing. Ability to assess and manage risks related to solution design and delivery. Understanding of banking cost drivers and ability to optimize solutions for cost-effectiveness. Strong ability to communicate complex architectural concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!