Junior Graphic Designer

Newport Pagnell (Hybrid, min 2 days in the office)

Our client are looking for a Junior Graphic Designer who will be supporting the design and production of creative assets for websites, HTML emails, social campaigns, print materials, and new business proposals for a client base of major UK and global brands.

This role would suit someone who has recently graduated with a relevant degree, or has some recent experience and wanting to work within a busy and growing business.

Key Purpose & Responsibilities:

• Support the design and development of digital and print visual assets for email and social campaigns, site landing pages, core site pages and internal materials
• Interpret design briefs and client requirements, taking direction from senior colleagues to develop creative concepts that meet the intended purpose
• Create and adapt collateral and other materials for print using appropriate content creation technologies
• Assist with new media projects, including digital layouts, visual assets and basic production support
• Work with Solution Architects, Account teams, Creative Copywriters, designers and developers to understand requirements at proposal and project stage
• Assist with the creation of task flows, wireframes, mock-ups and visual design comps for review and feedback
• Prepare and supply design assets to web developers and support the communication of visual interaction designs through to completion
• Contribute ideas to enhance agreed specifications, where appropriate, to better deliver client objectives
• Provide design and artwork support to ongoing creative and development projects
• Make alterations to existing projects and assist with fixing design or artwork issues where required
• Communicate effectively with the Business Systems & Creative Operations Manager and wider team to support the smooth running of work and the department
  

Required skills and experience:

• A degree in graphic design or equivalent, however, it is essential that you have good knowledge of contemporary practices, processes, trends and technologies in layout, design and artwork production for both print and web-based environments.
• Good working knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud applications, particularly Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and Acrobat
• Some experience of digital design, motion graphics or designing for mobile platforms would be advantageous.
• Awareness and experience of developments in AI-enabled creative tools and a willingness to explore how they can support efficient, high-quality design work
• Basic general understanding of web technology and digital production processes
• Excellent communication skills – verbal, written, presentation.

This role is commutable from Milton Keynes, Bedford, Northampton, Newport Pagnell and Buckingham.

Enterprise Architect
6 Month Contract
Location: London (Onsite 4 days a week)
Rate: £900 - £1000 per day (INSIDE IR35)

We are working with a leading technology consultancy supporting a major Central Government programme and are looking to appoint an experienced DV Cleared Enterprise Architect to lead and shape enterprise architecture across a large, complex and highly regulated environment.

This is a senior role with responsibility for defining current, transition and target-state architectures, developing enterprise roadmaps, providing architectural assurance, and ensuring business, data and technology strategies remain aligned to long-term organisational objectives.

The successful candidate will act as a senior architectural authority, working across programmes, suppliers and delivery teams to ensure architectural coherence and strategic alignment.

Due to the nature of the work this role will be onsite fully time in central London.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the organisation’s Enterprise Architecture
• Define current-state, transition-state and target-state architectures
• Create and manage enterprise roadmaps aligned to strategic outcomes
• Ensure traceability between organisational objectives, capabilities, programmes, projects and technology investments
• Translate business strategy into actionable architectural roadmaps
• Provide independent architectural challenge and assurance across programmes and projects
• Align enterprise architecture with technology and data capability roadmaps
• Identify dependencies across business, application, data and technology domains
• Support investment prioritisation and capability sequencing
• Establish and maintain architecture governance processes, principles and standards
• Review architecture deliverables from internal teams and suppliers
• Identify and escalate architecture risks, issues and technical debt
• Maintain architectural decision records and assurance documentation
• Support legacy rationalisation and transition towards strategic target-state capabilities
• Ensure architecture remains coherent across multiple programmes and suppliers

Architecture Community Leadership

A key early objective will be improving visibility and coordination of architecture activity across the organisation.

You will:

• Establish and lead an Enterprise Architecture Community of Practice
• Create a regular architecture forum across multiple architecture disciplines
• Improve visibility of architectural work and decision-making
• Promote collaboration, standardisation and reuse
• Reduce duplication and conflicting architectural approaches
• Strengthen engagement between embedded architects, programme teams and suppliers

Business, Data and Technology Architecture

The role will work across multiple architecture domains, including:

Business Architecture

• Enterprise capability modelling
• Operating model development
• Strategic business requirements
• Traceability from organisational objectives through to delivery

Data Architecture

• Alignment with enterprise data strategy and data capability roadmaps
• Information architecture consistency
• Enterprise data governance and information management
• Data platform interoperability

Technology Architecture

• Assessment of the current technology landscape
• Technology modernisation and transition planning
• Identification of technology risks and opportunities
• Alignment with strategic technology roadmaps
• Exposure to areas including Zero Trust Architecture, Agentic AI and Event-Driven Architectures

The role will also support work relating to Identity and Access Management, enterprise integration, user lifecycle management and cross-domain information sharing.

Architecture Frameworks and Tooling

The role will make use of:

• ArchiMate
• NATO Architecture Framework (NAF)
• Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Confluence / Prolaborate
• Jira
• MOD and Defence Digital architecture standards where applicable

Essential Experience

• Significant Enterprise Architecture experience within large and complex organisations
• Experience within Central Government, Defence or another highly regulated environment
• Strong understanding of Enterprise Architecture frameworks and methodologies
• Strong experience using ArchiMate
• Experience developing enterprise roadmaps and transition architectures
• Architecture governance and assurance experience
• Experience influencing senior stakeholders and strategic decision-making
• Experience coordinating architecture across multiple suppliers and delivery organisations
• Strong understanding across business, data, application and technology architecture domains
• Experience using Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Experience creating and managing architecture repositories and models

Desirable Experience

• Previous MOD, Defence Digital or DE&S experience
• Experience with the NATO Architecture Framework
• Experience establishing or leading architecture communities of practice
• Large-scale transformation programme experience
• IAM architecture experience
• Experience working alongside CTO and CDO functions
• Experience within agile product, programme or portfolio delivery environments

This is an excellent opportunity for a senior Enterprise Architect to take a leading role within a complex Central Government transformation programme, combining strategic architecture, governance, stakeholder engagement and practical delivery leadership.

Senior Data Architect
6 Month Contract
Location: London (Onsite 4 days a week)
Rate: £800 - £900 per day (INSIDE IR35)

We are looking for a DV Cleared Senior Data Architect to take a leading role in defining and evolving enterprise-wide data architecture within a complex Central Government environment.

This is a senior architecture position requiring much more than data modelling alone. You will work across enterprise architecture, data governance, data platforms, information management, metadata and emerging AI capabilities, helping ensure that data is treated as a strategic organisational asset.

You will work closely with senior business and technical stakeholders, Enterprise Architects, Data Engineering teams and governance functions to establish target-state architectures, architectural standards and roadmaps across a large and complex organisation.

Due to the nature of the work this role will be onsite fully time in central London.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the enterprise data architecture and target-state roadmap.
• Develop conceptual, logical and physical data architectures and models.
• Establish clear links between business objectives, information requirements, data assets and technology solutions.
• Provide architectural leadership across data governance, data quality, metadata and information management.
• Define data architecture principles, standards, reference models and reusable patterns.
• Work closely with Data Engineering teams on the design and evolution of enterprise data platforms.
• Support data integration and interoperability across multiple systems and domains.
• Develop approaches to data cataloguing, classification, lineage and metadata management.
• Support modern data architecture patterns including data products, data mesh, data fabric and cloud-based data platforms.
• Ensure enterprise data is appropriately governed and prepared for AI, Machine Learning and advanced analytics use cases.
• Produce and maintain enterprise architecture artefacts and contribute to architecture governance and design authorities.
• Facilitate architecture workshops and engage confidently with senior business, technical and operational stakeholders.

Essential Experience

We are particularly interested in candidates with strong experience across several of the following areas:

• Enterprise Data Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• Data modelling – conceptual, logical and physical
• Data governance and information management
• Metadata management and data catalogues
• Data quality and Master Data Management
• Data platform and data warehouse architecture
• Data integration and interoperability
• Cloud-based data architectures
• Architecture governance and standards
• Data architecture supporting AI / Machine Learning / advanced analytics
• Architecture repositories and modelling tools

You should be comfortable operating at both strategic and technical levels – able to establish enterprise architecture direction while retaining sufficient technical depth to work effectively with engineers, platform specialists and delivery teams.

Architecture Experience

Experience with some of the following would be highly beneficial:

• TOGAF
• ArchiMate
• Sparx Enterprise Architect
• NAF / MODAF / NATO architecture frameworks
• UML / BPMN
• Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
• Agile delivery environments

Background

You will ideally bring significant experience working as an Enterprise Data Architect, Data Architect, Solution Architect or Enterprise Architect with a strong data specialism.

Experience within Central Government, Defence, military, national security or another complex highly regulated environment would be particularly valuable.

We are looking for someone who combines strong technical credibility with excellent stakeholder skills – someone capable of understanding the wider enterprise, challenging existing approaches and providing clear architectural direction across complex data programmes.

Data Engineer
6 Month Contract
Location: London (Onsite 4 days a week)
Rate: £700 - £800 per day (INSIDE IR35)

Skills: Python, Azure, Kubernetes, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, DV Clearance

We are looking to recruit a DV Cleared Data Engineer for a leading technology consultancy. This will be joining an established defence programme requiring additional engineering support across an existing data platform.

You will be responsible for building, maintaining and improving new and existing data pipelines within a secure MoD environment.

Due to the nature of the work you will be required to work on site in London 4 days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain robust data pipelines using Python
• Work across Azure environments on the low side
• Support data engineering workloads within Kubernetes environments on the high side
• Develop and maintain workflows using Apache Airflow
• Work with Apache Spark for large-scale data processing
• Support the ongoing development and improvement of established data pipelines
• Help ensure data remains within MoD-owned infrastructure in line with data governance requirements
• Work within an existing long-running programme requiring additional delivery capacity

Essential Skills

• Active DV Clearance
• Strong Python data engineering experience
• Experience with Azure
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
• Experience with Apache Airflow
• Experience with Apache Spark
• Strong background building and maintaining production data pipelines

Desirable

• Previous experience working within a Palantir environment
• Experience delivering data solutions within secure defence or government environments

User Researcher
Permanent
Location: UK – Remote
Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 (+ benefits)

Skills: User Research, UX Research, Qualitative Research, User-Centred Design, GDS / Government Digital Services

We are looking for an SC Cleared User Researcher to join a digital consultancy delivering user-centred services across UK Government and the wider public sector.

This role would suit someone who is naturally curious, confident engaging with both users and stakeholders, and keen to influence the wider service rather than simply produce research reports.

You’ll plan and deliver research throughout the service lifecycle, helping multidisciplinary teams understand user needs, behaviours and motivations and turn those insights into evidence-based decisions.

Due to the nature of the work valid SC Cleared is required.

What you’ll be doing

• Planning and delivering qualitative user research across digital services
• Selecting appropriate research methods based on user and service needs
• Conducting interviews, usability testing, contextual research and other research activities
• Analysing findings and translating them into clear, actionable insights
• Communicating research effectively to designers, developers, analysts and stakeholders
• Facilitating workshops and collaborative sessions
• Working closely with Interaction Designers, Content Designers and Service Designers
• Ensuring user needs remain central throughout discovery, design and delivery
• Helping teams identify assumptions, validate ideas and make evidence-based decisions
• Contributing to the wider design and improvement of end-to-end services

What we’re looking for

• Strong professional experience within User Research / UX Research
• Excellent qualitative research skills
• Experience independently planning and facilitating research
• Strong interviewing, usability testing and research analysis capability
• Ability to communicate complex findings clearly and concisely
• Confidence presenting insights and recommendations to stakeholders
• Experience working within multidisciplinary delivery teams
• Strong understanding of user-centred design principles
• Comfortable facilitating workshops and collaborative sessions
• Interest in wider service design and experience improvement

Highly desirable

• Previous experience delivering research within UK Government or the wider public sector
• Experience working within GDS / Government Digital Service environments
• Understanding of the Government Service Standard and service assessments
• Experience conducting research across discovery, alpha, beta and live services
• Experience researching with users who have accessibility or assisted-digital needs
• Previous consultancy or client-facing experience