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Contract Principal Software Architect

Hiring Organisation
Spectrum IT Recruitment
Location
Uxbridge, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
integrations. Define clear service boundaries, ownership models and integration patterns . Support engineering teams in delivering scalable, maintainable and well-structured solutions. Assess existing systems and identify opportunities to simplify, consolidate and modernise platform capabilities. Support the evolution of legacy systems towards agreed target-state architectures through pragmatic … incremental change. Make and guide technical decisions around distributed systems, APIs, integrations, data and cloud architecture . Ensure security, resilience, observability, performance and scalability are incorporated into solution designs. Identify architectural risks, technical debt and platform constraints, and establish appropriate mitigation strategies. Provide technical review and architectural guidance ...

Senior Architect Private Cloud

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day Inside IR35 via Umbrella
with deep hands-on expertise in at least two of the following: Kubernetes/Containers , Kafka/Event Streaming , or VMware/Virtualization . Distributed Systems: Proven background in designing secure, fault-tolerant, high-performance distributed systems within regulated enterprise environments. DevOps & IaC: Practical experience with ...

Senior AI Engineer

Hiring Organisation
MarkIT Placements
Location
Didcot, Oxfordshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £700 to £900 per day
experience IR35: Outside IR35 Start Date: Immediate About the Role We are working with a fast-growing UK frontier technology company developing advanced AI systems for organisations operating in complex, high-stakes environments. The business is looking for a Senior Applied AI Engineer to take genuine technical ownership … production-grade agentic AI systems. This is a builder's role rather than an integration role . You will design and implement sophisticated AI systems from the ground up, make architecture-level decisions, write production-quality software and own features through to deployment. The focus is on turning rapidly ...

Senior Software Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Adecco
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £650/day Inside IR35
development teams. Required Skills & Experience Engineering & Development Extensive experience developing enterprise applications using: Python C#/.NET Core/.NET 8+ Strong experience designing distributed systems, APIs, and service-oriented architecture. Proven ability to lead technical delivery across multiple projects and teams. Experience defining engineering standards, design patterns ...

Senior Java Architect - Payments

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
City of London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £600 per day
modern engineering practices Architect payment solutions supporting real-time payments, cross-border transactions, settlement, reconciliation, and regulatory requirements Design integration patterns across enterprise systems, third-party providers, and banking platforms Drive iterative delivery, stakeholder engagement, demonstrations, and technical progress reporting Collaborate with Business, Integration, Data, and DevOps Architects … Financial Services, or other highly regulated environments Deep expertise in Java, Spring Boot, and enterprise-scale backend development Strong knowledge of microservices architecture and distributed systems Experience designing event-driven solutions using Kafka or similar messaging technologies Strong understanding of API-first architecture, REST services, and enterprise integration ...

Software Engineer X2 (Back end)

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
technical subject matter expert, driving engineering best practises and operational excellence in an Agile environment. Responsibilities: Design and deploy scalable, high-performance backend systems and platforms. Monitor, maintain, and optimise large-scale distributed systems. Automate deployments, infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management processes. Lead incident resolution, troubleshooting, and root … cause analysis activities. Ensure systems meet security, compliance, and resilience requirements. Collaborate with engineering, QA, DevOps, and support teams to enhance platform performance. Support capacity planning and initiatives for future scalability. Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures. Champion Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban. Required Skills & Experience: Strong experience ...

Engineering Lead

Hiring Organisation
Teksystems
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
initiatives. Technical Skills Essential Java REST APIs Ansible Software Engineering best practices CI/CD Automation Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP) Microservices Architecture Distributed Systems DevOps practices Observability and monitoring Beneficial Kubernetes Platform Engineering Event-Driven Architecture Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Infrastructure as Code Open-source technologies ...

Back End Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
part of a multi-year programme building a new enterprise knowledge platform from scratch, designed to connect AI services and applications securely with enterprise systems, tools, and data. This is a genuine greenfield opportunity where you'll help shape the architecture and build scalable, resilient services supporting AI agent … Architecture and Security teams What we're looking for Strong backend engineering experience with Java, Python, Node.js or similar Experience with APIs, microservices and distributed systems Understanding of event-driven architecture and messaging Experience with cloud, containers and Kubernetes/OpenShift Knowledge of enterprise security, authentication and authorisation ...

Test Automation Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Rullion Ltd
Location
Northampton, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
environment. Desirable Experience Previous experience working within the banking or financial services sector . Knowledge and experience of the payments landscape , including payment-related systems and processes. Experience working with distributed systems, APIs and modern web applications. Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines. ...

Full Stack Developer

Hiring Organisation
Digital Skills Ltd
Location
Manchester, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Hourly
Micro Frontends (MFE) and Backend-for-Frontend (BFF) architectures. Proven experience with AWS and cloud-based deployment environments. Knowledge of RESTful APIs and scalable distributed systems. Experience with Git, automated testing and modern software engineering best practices. Strong stakeholder engagement and collaborative working skills. Nice to Have Experience with ...

Technical Architect

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700 - £800/day
headless, API-first and composable commerce MACH Architecture Strong practical experience with: Microservices API-first design Cloud-native SaaS Headless architecture Event-driven and distributed systems Integration resilience and failure handling TypeScript/Node.js Strong hands-on TypeScript and Node.js development Ability to read, debug, review and write …/cart and checkout Customer journeys Promotions Payments Order management Experience integrating commerce platforms with CMS, PIM, payment, search, promotions, customer and order management systems is highly desirable. DevOps/SRE/Operational Engineering Strong experience across: CI/CD and deployment automation Infrastructure and configuration as code Automated ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Digital
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£65 - £73 per hour
backend services that connect the platform to third-party attraction providers. You will focus on scaling partner integrations, data ingestion, and building highly resilient distributed systems. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and maintain cloud-native backend services, utilizing event-driven patterns where appropriate. Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle … Solid understanding of Kafka or comparable event-streaming/messaging technologies. Extensive experience designing and integrating HTTP APIs with external systems. Deep understanding of distributed systems fundamentals (e.g., idempotency, retries, rate limiting) and CI/CD pipelines. Strong problem-solving skills with a collaborative, communicative approach. Nice ...

Senior .NET / AWS Engineer - Cloud Modernisation

Hiring Organisation
Method-Resourcing
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550 per day
native engineering AWS ECS Docker/containerisation Terraform and/or CloudFormation Event-driven or event-sourced architecture AWS SNS and SQS Microservices/distributed systems SQL Server CI/CD and automated deployment Most importantly, we're looking for engineers who have personally delivered this type ...

Senior Architect - Private Cloud

Hiring Organisation
Templeton and Partners
Location
Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
cluster operations networking upgrades multitenancy policy management observability and workload onboarding Strong Kafka architecture operations governance security and capacity planning experience Deep understanding of Distributed Systems Networking Fault Tolerance Performance Tuning and Capacity Planning Experience with Infrastructure as Code IaC and CICD practices Strong understanding of Security Controls ...

JAVA Roles

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
/CD, continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. Essential Skills Java 8+ Spring Boot/Spring Framework/Hibernate RESTful APIs and HTTPS Microservices and distributed systems Cloud development Unit and automated testing Agile/Scrum CI/CD and Git Jira or similar UML/SysML and Enterprise ...

DevOps / Application Engineer

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £650/day InsideIR35
Engineering or SRE. * Experience supporting business-critical, high-availability applications. * Good understanding of CI/CD, deployment, monitoring and software development lifecycles. * Knowledge of distributed systems, resilience, failover and capacity management. * Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across applications and infrastructure. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. * Proactive approach … following: * Financial Services, Capital Markets or Trading Technology experience. * Exposure to risk, trading or regulatory technology. * Cloud, containers and modern DevOps tooling. * Large-scale distributed or high-performance computing environments. Please apply for immediate interview! CBSbutler is operating and advertising as an Employment Agency for permanent positions ...

Java GCP Developer

Hiring Organisation
Square One Resources
Location
Basildon, Essex, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£460 - £560/day Order 56491
Responsibilities/Objectives Designing and building high-scale backend services using Java Developing secure and resilient identity and access management solutions Working on systems supporting high-volume transactional workloads in a regulated environment Applying Test Driven Development (TDD) throughout the software development lifecycle Required Skills/Experience Strongexperience … other regulated environments Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms Knowledge of OAuth, OpenID Connect, SSO, or authentication services Experience with microservices and distributed systems Exposure to cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS, or Azure Disclaimer Not withstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought ...

Technical Delivery Manager

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£400 - £487/day
Stories Acceptance Criteria Definition of Ready (DoR) Definition of Done (DoD) Sprint Planning and Retrospectives Proven experience managing cross-functional agile teams operating within distributed and global delivery models. Strong understanding of the end-to-end software development lifecycle. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability … organizational change and innovation adoption at scale. Experience collaborating with outsourced vendors and external development partners. Understanding of scalable architecture patterns, client-server applications, distributed systems, and backend service design. Demonstrated experience mentoring engineering teams and process improvement functions. If you receive suspicious outreach claiming to be from ...

Enterprise Architect - Greenfield Banking Platform

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
architectural vision is actually executed Cloud and modern architecture Design and promote cloud-native, scalable, resilient and secure solutions on AWS Champion event-driven, distributed and microservices-based architecture Drive adoption of modern engineering practice including platform engineering, DevSecOps, API-first design and automation Ensure architectural decisions support resilience … services Track record of delivering large-scale technology transformation programmes Deep domain expertise in at least one of: banking platforms, payments, FX and treasury systems, or high-volume transaction processing Strong understanding of both legacy and modern technology estates Significant experience designing event-driven architectures, distributed systems ...

Performance Test Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Brio Digital
Location
London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£475/day
with monitoring and observability tools including: Splunk AppDynamics Grafana AWS CloudWatch Dynatrace Experience using Jenkins , GitHub , Jira and Confluence . Strong understanding of APIs, distributed systems and modern cloud architectures. Experience working within Agile delivery teams. Desirable Experience integrating performance testing into CI/CD pipelines. Knowledge ...

Private Cloud Principal Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£700/day 700 p/d
technologies Experience with Kafka and event streaming platforms Strong knowledge of private cloud technologies and enterprise virtualisation platforms such as VMware Excellent understanding of distributed systems, networking, scalability and performance engineering Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD toolsets Strong understanding of security,governance and operational ...

Technical Delivery Manager

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450/day Insde IR35
practices Experience driving organisational change and innovation initiatives Experience partnering with third-party vendors and external delivery teams Understanding of scalable architecture patterns, distributed systems, and backend service design What you'll get in return £450 per day Long-term contract until December 2026 Hybrid working arrangement ...

Software Developer

Hiring Organisation
Line Up Aviation
Location
Portsmouth, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£41.10/hour
What you'll be doing: The developer shall join a 7-member scrum team as part of a wider program to deliver a management systems for a new Satellite. The developer shall contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle and thus have solid experience in design (particularly … Developing in Spring with Hibernate Good Knowledge of developing REST within HTTPS Experience of developing within a microservice architecture Web Services using RESTful APIs Distributed systems Knowledge and use of software design patterns Agile Development Processes CI/CD delivery techniques Source code management ...

Senior Java Engineer - Contract - Gaming

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Manchester, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£400 - 500 per day
iGaming, online gambling, sportsbook or betting platforms – this is essential. Experience building highly scalable and high-throughput systems. Strong understanding of microservices and distributed systems. Experience working with APIs and event-driven architectures. Experience with cloud technologies and modern DevOps practices. Strong understanding of software engineering principles, clean code ...

Software Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Microtech Global Ltd
Location
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Perforce (P4) . Configure and resolve bottlenecks within Network Storage/NFS environments supporting heavy, data-intensive compute workloads. Core Technical Requirements Operating Systems: Deep hands-on experience with Linux administration and systems architecture. Development & Scripting: Strong proficiency in Python and shell scripting for infrastructure automation and tooling. … Perforce (P4). CI/CD: Proven track record of building, scaling, and maintaining deployment pipelines in Jenkins and GitHub Actions. Storage Systems: Solid understanding of network storage principles, particularly NFS mount configurations and troubleshooting. Preferred/"Nice to Have" Experience Hands-on exposure to distributed systems ...