21 of 21 Contract Technical Leadership Jobs in the North of England

Cyber Design Lead

Hiring Organisation
Hays
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450.0 - £500.0 per day + 500
solution design across cybersecurity initiatives. You'll produce architecture design documents, high-level designs, architecture patterns, decision records, risk assessments, and technical governance artefacts. The role requires someone comfortable presenting solutions to Design Authorities, senior stakeholders, and leadership teams, while providing technical leadership across cybersecurity transformation … large-scale IT and cyber transformation programmes. Strong understanding of both Enterprise Architecture and Solution Architecture. Ability to communicate complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Knowledge of security governance, risk management, threats, vulnerabilities, and incident response. Identity & Access Management 3+ years' experience with HashiCorp ...

Principal Engineer Software Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£50.00 - 67.47 per hour + None
unit testing and preparation for system testing. At Principal Engineer level, you will also take responsibility for delivering packages of engineering work and providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers. Key Responsibilities Design safety-critical PLC and SCADA application software for the Dreadnought Platform Management System. Develop … teams and external customers to support successful delivery. Take responsibility for the delivery of allocated engineering work packages, reporting to the Engineering Manager. Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to engineering colleagues. Communicate technical information clearly and work collaboratively with stakeholders at different levels. Identify engineering problems ...

Principal Mechanical Engineer - Platform Systems

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£50 - 68 per hour
Mechanical Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in the design and development of submarine hydraulic and actuation systems. This includes system-level design, technical leadership and the opportunity to steer design architecture across a major submarine programme. Core Duties Typical duties include (but are not limited … Provide technical leadership, owning design solutions and providing guidance to others. · Lead the technical assurance of the hydraulic systems, sub-systems and equipment for the next generation Royal Navy submarines. · Verify calculations are complete, checked by the appropriate SQEP and validate calculation meet technical intent. · Supporting ...

Technical Lead - C#, RESTful APIs

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£480 - £500/day
Technical Lead Software Engineer - .NET/Azure/Terraform + 6 month contract + £450 to £500 per day + Hybrid working from Leeds Location: Hybrid - occasional client-site visits to Leeds/London A leading public sector organisation is seeking a Tech Lead Software Engineer to lead … redevelopment of the (url removed) Profiles Manager and supporting services. This is a hands-on technical leadership role , requiring strong software engineering, architecture and cloud experience. You will provide technical direction while remaining close to the code, working with engineers and architects to deliver secure, scalable ...

Technical Lead- Virtualisation

Hiring Organisation
ECS
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £750 per day + Inside IR35 (Umbrella Company)
Technical Architect - Virtualisation Rate: £750 per day (Inside IR35) Location : Sheffield (5x per month) Length: 6 Months Role Profile We are seeking an experienced Technical Architect/Technical Lead to join a large-scale enterprise platform modernisation programme. This is a key opportunity for someone with strong … virtualisation expertise to take ownership of a technology domain or migration workstream and drive delivery from technical direction through to successful implementation. The role combines deep technical expertise with strong delivery leadership. You will be responsible for resolving complex technical challenges, managing dependencies and risks, and ensuring ...

Cyber IAM Design SME

Hiring Organisation
eTeam Workforce Limited
Location
Sheffield, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 554 Daily
through FCSA Umbrella) Role Description: The Design SME will play a key role in delivering and operating enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. Provides technical leadership across the IDAM 2.0 workstream, defining the target architecture and ensuring successful delivery of secure, scalable and supportable identity services. The position … will report to the program and be part of a dynamic and highly skilled team. You will also provide end-to-end engineering and technical design for the IDAM 2.0 programme, translating business, security and regulatory requirements into secure, scalable and supportable identity solutions. Acts as the technical ...

Senior DevOps Automation Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Anson Mccade
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
delivery pipelines. Supporting secrets management and secure automation practices using HashiCorp Vault. Driving governance, quality controls and engineering best practices. Mentoring engineers and providing technical leadership across delivery teams. What We're Looking For 10+ years' experience within DevOps, Platform Engineering or Automation-focused roles. Strong Ansible Automation … experience. Expertise with Jenkins, GitHub and CI/CD pipeline development. Strong Python engineering capability. Experience with HashiCorp Vault, Nexus and API integrations. Proven technical leadership and mentoring experience. Experience working within highly regulated enterprise environments. Exposure to IBM Z environments, z/OSMF or zOAU would ...

LEAD DATA SCIENTIST

Hiring Organisation
EUROPEAN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 per day
incidents into a trusted intelligence layer. The role is highly hands-on and combines data science, graph engineering, cybersecurity analytics, semantic modeling, and technical leadership to enable attack-path analysis, threat investigation, exposure prioritization, GraphRAG, and AI-assisted security operations. Key Responsibilities Design the Security Knowledge Graph architecture … threat intelligence, IAM, vulnerability management, cloud security, architecture, data engineering, and product teams to convert operational problems into reusable graph-powered capabilities. Own technical design reviews, coding standards, model validation, observability, performance tuning, security controls, documentation, and production-readiness gates. Mentor data scientists and engineers while remaining accountable ...

Lead Data Engineer

Hiring Organisation
WRK DIGITAL LTD
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
From £550 to £600 per day
join a growing data team and take ownership of a key data integration project. Working within a Microsoft-centric environment, you'll lead the technical onboarding of a new business-critical data source, ensuring the right architecture, processes, and data pipelines are in place to support reporting and analytics … across the organisation. This is a hands-on leadership role, ideal for someone who enjoys combining technical delivery with stakeholder engagement and team leadership. The Role You'll be responsible for defining and delivering the engineering approach for a new data source, working closely with Analytics, Power ...

Software Developer - Senior Consultant (Contract)

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
judgment matters as much as your keyboard, you will fit right in. The role Were looking for Contractors in Software Development (Senior level or Technical Lead) to help our major clients transform. Software developers at our client care about building products right and combine their own experience and approach … experience from discovery through to live is the priority. Contractors at our client follow the same principles as permanent consultants. The roles are varied, technical, and never confined to any one provider or solution. Requirements Due to the nature of this role, applicants must either currently hold active Security ...

Systems Engineer (Requirements & Acceptance)

Hiring Organisation
Matchtech
Location
Barrow-in-furness, Cumbria, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 42 - 56 Hourly
successful candidate will work independently or as part of a small team and will engage with senior stakeholders to facilitate requirement definition, resolve technical queries, and coordinate proposed changes. This role requires strong technical leadership, stakeholder management, and experience working within structured engineering environments. Key Responsibilities Facilitate … maturation and refinement of system requirements in collaboration with senior stakeholders. Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to resolve findings, technical queries, and capture proposed requirement changes. Arrange and participate in requirement-focused workshops and working groups involving multiple stakeholders. Engage with senior technical leaders, including Chief Engineers ...

V06639 - Principal Engineer - Software Engineering

Hiring Organisation
Outsource
Location
Barrow-In-Furness, Cumbria, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£9,783
support testing activities at all levels. Manage software configuration and maintain appropriate configuration control. Collaborate with engineering teams and external stakeholders to deliver technical solutions. Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentoring to engineering colleagues. Take responsibility for the delivery of engineering work packages, ensuring quality and technical ...

Edge Architect

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited trading as CBSbutler
Location
Merseyside, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£480 - £500/day
Inside IR35 | Predominantly Remote | 6-Month Rolling Contract We're looking for an experienced Senior or Principal Edge Architect to provide architecture leadership and design authority for a major enterprise Factory Edge programme. This is an opportunity to shape the architecture of a distributed edge computing platform supporting manufacturing … Merseyside Working arrangement: Predominantly remote Programme: Client Edge as a Service The role As Edge Architect, you'll own the target architecture and technical direction for an enterprise factory-edge hosting service, helping establish a standardised platform that can be deployed consistently across a geographically distributed manufacturing estate. ...

Design SME - IAM

Hiring Organisation
Vallum Associates
Location
South Yorkshire, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£550 - £600/day
Responsibilities: Produce High Level Designs (HLDs) and Low Level Designs (LLDs) for identity capabilities. Define end-to-end Technical Solutions across business, application, data and infrastructure domains. Translate business, security and regulatory requirements into technical solutions. Develop reference architectures, patterns and design standards for the programme. Define integration … resilience and performance. Produce architecture decision records (ADRs) and design documentation. Support governance through Architecture Review Boards and Design Authorities. Perform solution assurance and technical design reviews across supplier deliveries. Identify technical risks, assumptions, constraints and dependencies. Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with strategic architecture. Work ...

Senior Test Engineer

Hiring Organisation
Invitise
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600/day
expectation to spend around 3 days a week on site. The successful Senior Test Engineer will define the overall testing strategy and provide technical leadership across multiple test engineering teams. You'll own delivery of testing activities against quality, time and cost objectives, act as the escalation point … leading test engineering teams Planning and coordinating functional and non-functional testing Managing and prioritising defects with the business Communicating test results to technical and non-technical stakeholders The following would be beneficial: AWS Automation testing SQL and working with large data sets You'll need to hold ...

Senior Backend Engineer (Java)

Hiring Organisation
Randstad Technologies Recruitment
Location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 - £500/day Inside IR35 via Umbrella
paced Agile environments, excels at navigating large existing codebases, and delivers production-ready software with minimal supervision. In this role, you will lead complex technical initiatives, influence system architecture, and leverage modern AI tooling (Claude and Codex) to accelerate delivery. You'll work cross-functionally with product managers, frontend … while elevating code quality and mentoring fellow engineers. Core Responsibilities Architecture & API Design: Build and maintain scalable, fault-tolerant backend microservices and REST APIs. Technical Leadership: Lead medium-to-large engineering initiatives, participate in design reviews, and establish engineering best practices. System Operations & Reliability: Troubleshoot complex production issues ...

Senior Oracle DBA - Blackpool/Hybrid £700Inside

Hiring Organisation
SmartSourcing Ltd
Location
Blackpool, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP 650 - 700 Annual
solutions. Drive improvements across data platform services and database environments. Act as a major incident manager and escalation point for critical service issues. Provide technical leadership and mentorship to senior engineering teams. Manage supplier relationships and ensure services align with best practice and contractual obligations. Contribute to risk … management activities and technical governance. Collaborate with senior stakeholders on technical strategy, design decisions, and implementation approaches. Essential Skills Experience Oracle Database Extensive Oracle RDBMS experience (11.2 - 23ai). Oracle RAC, ASM, AFD, HANFS and TAF. Dataguard setup, configuration and administration. RMAN backup and recovery. Oracle Enterprise Manager ...

Senior AI Prompt Engineer

Hiring Organisation
EUROPEAN SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS (UK) LIMITED
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£450 per day
platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise systems Define prompt engineering standards, patterns, and governance Evaluate AI output quality, performance, security, and cost Provide technical leadership and mentoring where required Essential Skills & Experience Senior-level experience in AI prompt engineering Hands-on experience with: Microsoft Copilot GitHub Copilot ...

Senior EC&I Design Engineer

Hiring Organisation
A5 Recruitment Ltd
Location
North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
House Warrington The CE&I Design Engineer will act as the Control Systems Lead and Intelligent Client for the MSSS SEP 3 Project, providing technical leadership and governance over the development and delivery of the control system solution by an appointed System Integrator. The role is responsible … control system design meets Sellafield requirements, nuclear safety requirements, operational needs, and applicable standards throughout the project lifecycle. The successful candidate will provide technical oversight through detailed design, implementation, testing, commissioning and handover. This role does not involve software development but focuses on specification, technical assurance, design review ...

Solution Architect (SAP S/4 HANA)

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£0.00 - 879.36 per day + inside IR35
design, technology governance and the development of business cases that secure investment and deliver measurable business value. The role combines architecture, business engagement and technical leadership. Youll be expected to understand business challenges, develop solution options, assess costs and benefits, and build compelling business cases that support decision-making … senior leadership level. Core Duties • Act as IM&T Solution Design Authority across projects, change initiatives and technology investments. • Lead the development of business cases, including option analysis, benefits, risks, costs and implementation approaches. • Work with stakeholders to capture requirements and translate business needs into practical technology solutions. • Produce ...

IAM Design SME (Zero Trust & Cloud Architecture)

Hiring Organisation
CBSbutler Holdings Limited
Location
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £540 per day + inside ir35
transformation programme at a leading UK bank, delivering next-generation Identity and Access Management (IAM) capabilities. This is a high-impact opportunity to take technical ownership of identity architecture, define secure cloud-native solutions and influence how identity services are designed, integrated and delivered across a complex global enterprise. … technical authority across the programme, translating complex security, business and regulatory requirements into robust, scalable and supportable designs. You'll be responsible for: Producing end-to-end High-Level and Low-Level Designs (HLDs/LLDs). Defining IAM architecture across Human, Agent and Workload Identity. Designing Zero Trust ...