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We're Hiring: Principal Business Analyst Location: Hybrid,1xday per week min in Marlow Department: Business Change Monday-Friday / Permanent We're looking for an experienced Principal Business Analyst to lead complex business change across Kensington. This is a high-impact role for someone who can translate business challenges into clear, practical solutions that improve ways of working and support strategic priorities. You'll work closely with senior stakeholders, project teams and product teams, leading analysis from discovery through to implementation and ensuring outcomes are clearly defined, commercially sound and successfully embedded. What You'll Be Doing Lead analysis across complex business problems, shaping the approach, defining requirements and partnering with Project Managers, Product Managers and the BA Manager to deliver the right outcomes. Influence business strategy, future operating models, processes, systems and capabilities through strong business architecture and analysis. Develop and maintain business architecture aligned to Kensington's strategic goals and change priorities. Build strong senior stakeholder relationships, influencing decisions and ensuring business needs are clearly understood and prioritised. Lead workshops to define outcomes, user requirements, data needs and high-quality business requirements. Support planning, estimation, impact assessment and change readiness across analysis, delivery, implementation and support activity. Work with Change Management, Business Implementation and IT colleagues to ensure requirements are delivered, adopted and benefits are realised. Essential Experience & Knowledge Proven experience as a Principal or Senior Business Analyst, ideally within financial services, a regulated environment or a relevant transferable industry. Experience leading business analysis across large, complex and/or regulatory projects and programmes. Strong business architecture experience, with the ability to connect analysis activity to wider strategic goals. Confident using formal and hybrid analysis techniques to define and document requirements within complex change programmes. Good understanding of agile, waterfall and hybrid delivery models. Strong communication, facilitation and influencing skills, with the ability to engage effectively across diverse teams and levels of seniority. Comfortable leading change, creating clarity and bringing people with you through complex transformation. Required Logical and analytical thinking, with the ability to create practical strategies and solutions. Strong planning, prioritisation and time management skills. Leadership, influence and clear communication to drive action. A positive, resilient and proactive approach, with confidence working through ambiguity. Self-motivation and the ability to manage competing priorities to tight deadlines. Why Join Us? Work on high-profile capital markets transactions Gain exposure to both Kensington Mortgages and Barclays Collaborate with experienced professionals across structured finance, treasury, risk and capital management Develop your technical, analytical and commercial expertise in a dynamic, highly regulated environment Play a key role in supporting strategic capital management and transaction execution If you're passionate about structured finance, data analytics and capital markets, and you're looking for an opportunity to make a real impact, we'd love to hear from you

AI Lead Location: Winsford, Cheshire Working pattern: Hybrid, two days per week onsite Salary: £65,000 to £75,000 Employment type: Permanent Exalto Consulting is recruiting for an AI Lead to help a software business expand the practical use of AI across its development and delivery teams. This is not a role for someone whose AI experience is limited to using coding assistants or running isolated proof of concepts. The business needs someone who has built and delivered AI solutions in production and can help others adopt AI in a structured and useful way. You will work across software development, testing, business analysis and requirements gathering, helping teams understand where AI can improve the delivery lifecycle and how those changes should be implemented. The role will remain technically involved, but the wider responsibility is to provide direction, build confidence and improve how AI is used across the organisation. Responsibilities Lead the adoption of AI across the full software development lifecycle. Identify practical AI use cases across development, testing, analysis and delivery. Work directly with technical teams to design and deliver production AI solutions. Guide developers, testers and business analysts on effective and responsible AI use. Support the development of AI enabled features within existing software products. Run workshops, technical discussions and stakeholder meetings. Explain AI capabilities, limitations and delivery options clearly to customers and internal teams. Help establish standards around AI governance, testing, security and quality. Support existing AI specialists by extending their work across the wider business. Experience required Commercial experience building and delivering AI solutions in production. A software development background, ideally using C# and .NET. Experience integrating AI into existing products, platforms or business processes. Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, data flows and cloud hosted applications. Experience leading technical change across several delivery functions, not only software development. Evidence of helping teams adopt AI tools, processes or ways of working. Confidence running customer or stakeholder meetings and explaining technical subjects clearly. The ability to remain technically credible while providing leadership and direction. Experience with Azure AI, Azure OpenAI, agentic workflows, RAG, AI agents or Microsoft Copilot would be useful, but practical delivery experience is more important than familiarity with specific tools. This role may suit an AI Lead, AI Enablement Lead, Principal AI Engineer, AI Technical Lead or senior software engineering leader who has already delivered AI in production and helped other teams adopt it.

Principal Identity & Access Lead London or Milton Keynes (2 days on site) 75 - 85k + 15% bonus We are working with an established organisation who are embarking on a significant digital transformation programme and are seeking a Principal Identity & Access Lead to shape and deliver their enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) strategy. The role will play a pivotal role in protecting critical systems, data, and business services by leading the evolution of the organisation's IAM capability. Working closely with the CISO and senior stakeholders, you will design, implement, and continuously enhance IAM and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions that strengthen resilience, support regulatory compliance, and enable secure business transformation. Key responsibilities include: Own and drive the enterprise IAM vision, roadmap and strategy, ensuring identity security capabilities support organisational goals and regulatory expectations Lead the selection, deployment, integration and ongoing optimisation of IAM and PAM solutions Champion identity governance and access management best practices across the organisation, influencing stakeholders at all levels Lead the design and operation of robust IAM and PAM controls that protect critical systems, data and business services Drive a culture of least privilege, accountability and access governance through effective control frameworks and stakeholder engagement Deliver insightful reporting and executive-level briefings on IAM risk, compliance, maturity and control effectiveness Lead a team of IAM Analysts Experience with IAM and PAM tools such as SailPoint, CyberArk, Delinea or similar is essential. If you're passionate about building secure, scalable identity services and enjoy working across technology, architecture and business teams, please apply now.

Principal Marketing Analyst, Crawley; 9-month contract; Inside IR35 We currently have a requirement for a Principal Marketing Analyst based in Crawley working for a Thales UK Limited This role will be responsible for providing analysis and insight of markets and competitors relating to the Integrated Airspace Protection (IAS) business winning activity and offer development. The business winning component of the role is significant and entails the provision of black hat, value prop, partnering / make-team-buy and price to win analyses relating to major prospects Key Responsibilities: Support to business winning activity, to include daily tracking of relevant contract notices and distribution to Sales team in a timely fashion Analysis of data to provide synthesis of key market characteristics & competitor profiling: o Market: Construction of forecast models to provide insight on market size, profile, geography and timescales. Generating market analysis from these forecast models to provide input to PLMs in support of business case decision reviews. o Competitor: capabilities, product offerings, pricing datapoint research; potential partner organisation identification. Supporting the UK Strategy & Marketing Plaza business intelligence system on a daily basis by screening & uploading news articles, reports & analyses etc ensuring that they do not contain any information above company internal or any classified or company sensitive material. Responsibilities may also include providing support to the main system administrator, covering: o Providing usage reports, as required o Co-ordinating training for users Supporting the strategic business planning process and MoD key account managers by providing supporting analysis to inform market trends & drivers, market sizing and competitive intensity Stays appraised of key competitor marketing messages and proactively shares these with Comms and the Strategy & Marketing Sector leads to improve company product positioning Skills and Experience required Essential Research - able to identify the best way to research a new problem. Understands all the tools available to them, Willing to approach individuals to gather primary intelligence Forecasting - Able to use appropriate advanced mathematical modelling techniques and build assumptions where little data exists to generate long-term market projections and derive clear recommendations in which the business has confidence, despite market uncertainty Trends, Patterns and Models - Able to identify trends and patterns within data they have modelled. Seeks to identify what is driving any trends and is able to explain the impact Experience Experience of undertaking market and competitor analysis in the UK defence market Presentation Ability to synthesise outputs from analysis to insights and implications to the business and present findings in a clear and compelling way. Desirable Experience of Market Analysis in the Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance and/or Electronic Warfare domain Strategic Business Planning Experience of undertaking Strategic Business Planning Morson is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy.

hackajob is collaborating with Leonardo to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Job Description: Salary Range: £53,269 - £68,000 Leonardo UK operates a grade-based salary framework with broad bands. The salary range shown reflects the approved grade band for this role, or a narrower hiring range published within that band, and is benchmarked against the external market. Exceptions above the standard range are managed through governance controls to protect internal equity. Your impact At Leonardo, our Principal Data Engineers lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable data solutions that underpin critical defence, government, and commercial operations. As a technical authority and people manager, you'll guide engineering teams through the full data lifecycle-transforming raw data into actionable insight across hybrid and cloud environments. This role blends technical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and team development, offering the opportunity to shape data strategy and capability across multiple programmes. Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers. What you will do as a Principal Data Engineer Provide technical leadership and oversight for data engineering delivery within your team Lead the design, implementation and maintenance of end-to-end data solutions: acquisition, integration, storage, processing, and analysis Implement scalable data solutions using big data architectures and workflow management systems Guide the development of tools for data-driven insights and task automation Continuously test and monitor systems to improve performance and reliability Research and adopt emerging technologies Work with cloud platforms and diverse operating systems Support development and deployment of machine learning models Collaborate with DevOps Engineers, Data Scientists, Analysts and Cyber Consultants Mentor and coach junior data engineers to build team capability, while managing project tasks across your own and their workloads. Support technology assessments, feasibility studies, and roadmap development Engage with stakeholders and customers, presenting and defending technical solutions Manage a small team of direct reports, providing guidance, mentorship and support for their career development Support the effective operation of the wider team through utilisation tracking, chairing team meetings and resource management What you'll bring Demonstrated leadership in data engineering, with experience managing and mentoring others. Ability to take ownership of engineering delivery and drive team performance. Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills. A proactive mindset with a commitment to continuous learning and capability development. Proven ability to work across disciplines and collaborate effectively in multi-functional teams. A strategic approach to problem-solving and technical decision-making. Core Areas (must have): Strong Python and SQL skills Experience with ETL flows, data pipelines, and orchestration tools Understanding of database architecture (SQL and NoSQL) Experience with cloud technologies Experience with cloud platforms Experience with CI/CD practices Experience with big data tools e.g. Spark, Hadoop, NiFi Experience managing direct reports, providing regular guidance and performance feedback Ability to create delivery plans with estimated timelines for personal and team workloads Experience supporting ML model deployment and DevOps collaboration Desirable: Degree in STEM, Data, AI, or Programming-related field Awareness of data security best practices Experience with designing data architecture Experience with scaling infrastructure and code, (e.g. Kubernetes) Exposure to Ansible and Terraform Understanding of ML algorithms and deployment This is not an exhaustive list, and we are keen to hear from you even if you might not have experience in all the above. The most important skill is a good attitude and willingness to learn. Security Clearance This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government's Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV). For more information and guidance please visit: Why join us At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work-life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we're here to help you thrive. Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year. Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution. Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity). Rewarding Performance : All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme. Never Stop Learning : Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning. Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme. Tailored Perks : Spend up to £500 annually on flexible benefits including private healthcare, dental, family cover, tech & lifestyle discounts, gym memberships and more. Flexible working: Flexible hours with hybrid working options. For part time opportunities, please talk to us about what might be possible for this role. For a full list of our company benefits please visit our website. Leonardo is a global leader in Aerospace, Defence, and Security. Headquartered in Italy, we employ over 53,000 people worldwide including 8,500 across 9 sites in the UK. Our employees are not just part of a team-they are key contributors to shaping innovation, advancing technology, and enhancing global safety. At Leonardo we are committed to building an inclusive, accessible, and welcoming workplace. We believe that a diverse workforce sparks creativity, drives innovation, and leads to better outcomes for our people and our customers. If you have any accessibility requirements to support you during the recruitment process, just let us know. Be part of something bigger - apply now! Primary Location: GB - Bristol - Coldharbour Lane Contract Type: Permanent Hybrid Working: Hybrid

We at Qualient are seeking an experienced Senior Active Directory Consultant with 15+ years of experience, based onsite in London Position: Senior Active Directory Consultant Employment Type: Temp/Contract Location: Onsite in Central London (SW1 - London Underground Network) Duration: 4-6 months Hours/Week: 30-40 hours Team Size: 3 Consultants (including a Principal Consultant and an AD Analyst) Role Overview We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Active Directory Consultant to investigate, assess, and provide remediation recommendations for the client's Active Directory (AD) system and authentication methodologies. The consultant will deliver a comprehensive assessment report, identify areas of concern, and propose prioritized remediation steps in alignment with best practices and compliance requirements. Key Responsibilities Phase 1 - Investigation Conduct interviews with personnel to clarify existing AD and authentication processes. Review the current Active Directory architecture and design. Evaluate compliance with design standards, policies, and industry best practices. Assess security configuration of Active Directory against current threat models. Evaluate configuration and health of: AD replication services DNS Authentication and authorization configurations Managed File Share access (NTFS/SMB) SQL databases and local server permissions Review data attributes within AD for consistency and accuracy. Assess access controls, including: Nested and cyclic groups Remote access Linux SSH access controls Deliver a comprehensive report detailing all findings, vulnerabilities, and configuration gaps. Phase 2 - Remediation Planning Analyze data collected from the investigation phase. Provide a prioritized roadmap of remediation steps with estimated levels of effort. Recommend architectural and process improvements to align with best practices and compliance. Deliver updated reports for review and approval. Must-Have Skills & Experience Strong documentation and reporting skills. Advanced PowerShell Scripting experience. Proven expertise in reviewing Active Directory architecture for compliance and optimization. Extensive knowledge of SQL databases and local server permissions. Deep understanding of nested and cyclic groups in AD. Strong experience with: Remote access controls Linux SSH access controls

Principal Data Engineer - Hybrid (London/Winchester) We're seeking a hands-on Principal Data Engineer to design and deliver enterprise-scale, cloud-native data platforms that power analytics, reporting, and Real Time decision-making. This is a strategic technical leadership role where you'll shape architecture, mentor engineers, and deliver end-to-end solutions across a modern AWS/Databricks stack. What you'll do Lead the design of scalable, secure data architectures on AWS. Build and optimise ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and streaming data. Deploy and manage Apache Spark jobs on Databricks and Delta Lake. Write production-grade Python and SQL for large-scale data transformations. Drive data quality, governance, and automation through CI/CD and IaC. Collaborate with data scientists, analysts, and business stakeholders. Mentor and guide data engineering teams. What we're looking for Proven experience in senior/principal data engineering roles. Expertise in AWS, Databricks, Apache Spark, Python, and SQL. Strong background in cloud-native data platforms, Real Time processing, and data lakes. Hands-on experience with tools such as Airflow, Kafka, Docker, GitLab CI/CD. Excellent stakeholder engagement and leadership skills. What's on offer £84000 salary + 10% bonus 6% pension contribution Private medical & flexible benefits package 25 days annual leave (plus buy/sell options) Hybrid working - travel to London or Winchester once/twice per week Join a company at the forefront of media, connectivity, and smart technology, where your work directly powers millions of daily connections across the UK.

Job Title: Lead Security Solution Architect- PAM Location: Hybrid-London, UK (Days/Week Onsite) Duration: 6months+ 550GBP/Day Inside IR35 Project Overview CLIENT is working on a strategic Identity and Access Management programme and is re-shaping the way Authentication, Federation, Privileged Access Management, Access Governance, Secrets Management and API Security is done across the bank. One of the pillars of that programe is Privileged Access Management (PAM). CLIENT is working on uplifting controls and capabilities in privileged access for the Group and introducing the strategic password vaulting solution that will enable to meet strategic requirements. We are seeking an experienced Lead Security Solution Architect that can complement an existing team of Solution Architects to progress with designs of different components of the PAM solution and other supporting systems it will need to integrate with as part of the end-to-end journey. Security Solution Architects manage end-to-end solution design and are responsible for delivering architecture design documents in line with functional and non-functional business requirements, strategies, principles, standards, and patterns. Alongside the creation of high-level designs, Security Solution Architects will be required to record key decisions, design deviations, and technical risks and issues where appropriate. Security Solution Architects should be comfortable presenting and sharing solutions at design authorities and senior leadership & stakeholders. The Lead Security Solution Architect will provide technical thought leadership and direction to their project team and may represent the project/programme as subject matter expert. This role will require someone experienced in managing a team of on-shore and off-shore resources to deliver High- and Low-level designs to the required quality and standard. Principal Preferred Requirements Cybersecurity Expertise: Significant experience and proven technical depth within one of the following domains of cybersecurity; security operations & incident response, threat & vulnerability management, identity & access management, cryptography, infrastructure, network, application, data, cloud Broad background across information technology with the ability to communicate clearly with non-security technical SMEs at a comfortable level Experience in both operational and transformation cybersecurity roles or a clear working understanding of both perspectives Experience working in large-scale IT transformation programmes Experience working with PAM solutions such as CyberArk, Centrify, Delinea and OneIdentity Preparing end-to-end configuration of the strategic PAM capability - including on-prem deployments as well as Cloud native toolings Assisting in preparation of demonstrable journeys on the configured PAM tooling Platform & Technology: BizzDesign, Archi, or generic UML visualisation experience for high-level designs High proficiency and expertise in Jira for project & tasks management Working proficiency in Confluence for documentation Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities Architecture & Design: Produce, manage, and update end-to-end solution designs in line with reference architecture & business requirements (including High and Low Level Designs Articulate and publish key design decision records and options to ensure all solutions follow a logical, transparent decision-making process Articulate, publish, and ensure approval of any design deviations resulting in technical debt Ensure any technical risks or issues arising from a solution design are recorded and mitigated. Produces, manages and translates the requirements into the architecture for that solution, ensuring technology and services meet the customer needs and expected business outcomes Ensures the design of the solutions are efficient, timely and cost effective throughout the project life cycle Clear understanding of both the motivations of the business and technical security Promote strong documentation and clerkship Governance: Ensures all high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, deviation requests, and technical risks or issue records undergo architectural and project governance processes Ensure all architecture artefacts undergo appropriate peer review prior to design authority presentation Present publications at technical design authorities for input, feedback, and approval Risk and Dependency Management: Effectively manages and escalates both technical and project risks or issues Articulates solutions and remediation steps to technical risks & issues Ability to map design decisions to resultant technical risks & issues to articulate the cause and rationale which leads to any negatively impacting change Leadership & Teamwork Provides technical thought leadership to the Design Team and the Project Ability to manage a project team of technical architects, engineers, and/or analysts Ability to take a deputised role in programme management-related tasks where necessary Qualifications & Certifications: Masters or doctorate degree in cybersecurity, computer science, software engineering, or related field CISSP/CISM certification or other broad cybersecurity industry-recognised certificate SABSA or TOGAF certified preferred Priyanka Sharma Senior Delivery Consultant