Applications Packager – Windows 11 / Intune / Active Directory
Gloucestershire (on-site requirement)
£500 per day
NPPV3 Clearance Required

A Gloucestershire-based public sector organisation is seeking an experienced Applications Packager to support the controlled release, testing and deployment of software across a secure enterprise environment.

This role sits within a highly regulated setting where governance, security compliance and structured release processes are critical. You will take ownership of packaging, validating and deploying applications aligned to defined Active Directory security groups and organisational access controls.

The Role

You will be responsible for:

• Packaging applications for a Windows 11 estate in line with enterprise standards
• Testing software releases to ensure stability, compatibility and compliance
• Deploying applications using Microsoft Intune within a secure, managed environment
• Managing releases based on assigned Active Directory security levels and group structures
• Ensuring appropriate documentation, version control and change governance
• Supporting troubleshooting and remediation of deployment issues

The environment demands a methodical, security-aware approach with a clear understanding of working within structured public sector change and release frameworks.

Essential Experience

• Extensive experience packaging applications within Windows 11 environments
• Strong hands-on expertise with Microsoft Intune for deployment and device/application management
• Deep understanding of Active Directory, including security groups and role-based access
• Experience operating within secure or compliance-driven environments
• Proven ability to manage testing, release and deployment cycles end-to-end

Security Requirement

Active NPPV3 clearance is essential. Candidates without current clearance cannot be considered.

The Opportunity

This is a contract opportunity within a Gloucestershire-based public sector organisation offering a day rate of £500 – £600, dependent on experience.

You will play a key role in ensuring secure, reliable software delivery across a sensitive operational estate where precision and governance matter.

Please apply at your earliest opportunity if you hold active NPPV3 clearance and bring strong Windows 11, Intune and Active Directory packaging expertise. 

Director of Product Portfolio & Investment
6 Month Contract
Location: Home / London
Rate: £800 - £900 per day (Inside IR35)

We are looking to recruit a Director of Product Portfolio & Investment for a leading software company on an initial 6 month contract. The role will focus on bringing financial discipline, strategic clarity and structured governance to its product investment landscape.

Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this is a high-visibility leadership role responsible for ensuring product capital allocation decisions are analytically robust, commercially sound and aligned to long-term value creation.

This role sits at the intersection of Product, Finance and Corporate Development — shaping how investment decisions are evaluated, prioritised and governed across a complex, multi-vertical portfolio.

This is a remote role with some travel into London when required.

The Role

This position is fundamentally about financial rigour and portfolio optimisation.

You will:

Portfolio Investment & Financial Modelling

• Build and own product P&L business cases across the portfolio
• Develop robust financial models including ROI, IRR, payback period, revenue forecasting and churn analysis
• Lead market sizing, unit economics modelling and scenario planning
• Ensure investment cases meet defined financial modelling standards
• Provide credible challenge and validation of assumptions

Capital Allocation & Prioritisation

• Create a unified view of product investments across business lines
• Establish structured prioritisation frameworks to maximise portfolio impact
• Identify interdependencies, conflicts and trade-offs across roadmaps
• Guide investment decisions based on financial and strategic return

M&A Business Case Support

• Partner with Corporate Development to build acquisition P&Ls
• Contribute financial modelling and portfolio analysis during due diligence
• Assess product and technology alignment from an investment perspective

Portfolio Governance & Planning

• Design scalable portfolio governance frameworks
• Establish consistent planning cycles and investment gates
• Embed performance tracking across all product lines
• Ensure investment decisions align with broader corporate objectives

Executive Advisory

• Provide portfolio performance insights and investment recommendations to the CPO and executive team
• Translate complex portfolio dynamics into clear, decision-ready narratives
• Represent investment rationale confidently in cross-functional forums

About You

You will bring a strong financial foundation combined with strategic systems thinking.

You likely come from:

• FP&A
• Corporate Strategy
• Product Operations within a SaaS environment
• Portfolio management in a PE-backed software business

You will have:

• Demonstrable experience building and defending P&L models
• Deep understanding of IRR, ROI, payback period and churn analysis
• Strong commercial judgement and financial credibility
• Experience working across multi-product B2B software portfolios
• Confidence influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority
• Exceptional executive communication skills

Highly Desirable

• Experience in a PE-backed or high-growth SaaS organisation
• Exposure to M&A evaluation and due diligence processes
• Track record establishing portfolio governance frameworks
• Experience operating across competing product priorities

Enterprise Architect
Permanent
Location: Home / Andover (hybrid – 2/3 days a week onsite)
Salary: £100,000 - £120,000 (+ benefits)

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Enterprise Architect for a leading digital solutions provider. This role will see you working within a secure Defence environment, helping translate strategic business objectives into practical, scalable and secure technology roadmaps.

You will play a pivotal role in shaping enterprise-wide architecture vision, ensuring technology strategy aligns with operational outcomes across complex, multi-disciplinary programmes.

The Role

As an Enterprise Architect, you will operate across business, data and technology domains, guiding stakeholders through architectural decision-making and ensuring best practice is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.

You will:

• Own and develop enterprise architecture vision, strategy and roadmaps (as-is, to-be and transition states)
• Translate business strategy into technology and data delivery plans
• Lead cross-cutting architectural capabilities that enable organisational change
• Establish and govern architecture principles, policies and standards
• Ensure adherence to corporate, industry and national security standards
• Collaborate with delivery, engineering and security teams to embed architecture across programmes
• Provide architectural oversight across portfolios and transformation initiatives
• Contribute to bids and proposals as a pre-sales architect where required
• Mentor and develop internal architectural capability and standards
• Identify and assess emerging technologies, evaluating their strategic relevance and impact

You will engage confidently with senior stakeholders, providing authoritative advice that balances value for money, scalability, sustainability and risk.

About You

You will be a strategic thinker with strong consultancy skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

You will bring:

• Proven experience operating as an Enterprise Architect within complex organisations
• Experience aligning business strategy to enterprise-wide technical roadmaps
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF essential; Zachman desirable)
• Practical experience using modelling tools such as Sparx Enterprise Architect
• Experience working across multi-disciplinary delivery teams
• Knowledge of secure development practices and solution security principles (e.g. OWASP, NCSC guidance)
• Understanding of data protection best practice (e.g. GDPR)
• Experience establishing architecture governance and standards
• TOGAF certification

Highly Desirable

• Experience working within secure or Defence environments
• Active SC clearance or eligibility to obtain clearance
• Experience within UK Central Government
• Familiarity with ArchiMate or similar modelling languages

• Leading the full lifecycle delivery of a large-scale SD-WAN deployment
• Establishing and maintaining robust programme governance and reporting
• Managing complex interdependencies across technical, operational and commercial workstreams
• Providing strong vendor oversight and performance management across major network suppliers
• Holding suppliers to account against contractual obligations and delivery milestones
• Engaging senior stakeholders across technical, operational and executive levels
• Managing risk, assurance, service transition and operational readiness

• Direct experience leading a substantial SD-WAN rollout (ideally 300+ sites; minimum comparable multi-hundred site deployment)
• Extensive network infrastructure programme delivery experience
• Proven vendor management expertise across large, challenging suppliers
• Strong commercial awareness and experience managing supplier performance within contractual frameworks
• Gravitas and credibility with senior stakeholders
• Experience operating within highly sensitive, security-conscious environments

Test Manager
Permanent
Location: Gloucester/Home (Hybrid)
Salary: £53,000 - £57,000 plus excellent benefits

We are looking to recruit a Test Manager for a public sector organisation going through a period of modernisation. You will design, lead, and oversee all testing activities across all projects and workstreams. As you will be responsible for developing the function you’ll be required to have hands on technical testing capability. This role is critical in ensuring that business requirements are met through robust quality assurance processes and effective team leadership.

This is a hybrid role. During the first 3 – 6 months, you will be expected to work on-site 2 – 3 days per week. Once fully settled, this is likely to reduce to approximately one day per week.

What you’ll be doing:

• Define the scope, approach, resources, and schedule of testing activities to ensure business requirements are realised.
• Develop and maintain a test strategy and test plan.

• Establish and enforce testing standards, methodologies, and best practices.
• Ensure compliance with quality assurance processes.

• Collaborate with project managers, developers, business analysts, and stakeholders.
• Communicate test progress, results, and issues clearly and effectively.

• Lead and manage a team of tester(s) (manual and/or automation). Both direct reports and Subject Matter Experts (SME) from other areas on the business.
• Assign tasks, monitor progress, and provide guidance and support.

• Identify potential quality risks and develop mitigation strategies.
• Make go/no-go decisions based on test results and risk assessments. (depending on results)

• Track and report on key quality metrics (e.g., defect density, test coverage, business acceptance, managing issue resolution).
• Provide insights and recommendations for continuous improvement.

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in test management.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies and QA processes.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to manage risks and make critical decisions.
• Familiarity with automation tools and frameworks (desirable).
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and project management
  principles (Agile, Prince2, Waterfall)
• Experience with test management tools (e.g. JIRA, TestRail, HP ALM).
   

Benefits:

• Company pension.
• Employee discounts.
• Free onsite parking.
• Onsite gym.
• Onsite canteen.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Hybrid and flexible working.
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme.
• 24 days annual leave, rising to 29 after five year’s continuous service. In addition to, Bank Holidays.

.Net Developer
12 Month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Home/Newport Pagnell (2 days per week onsite)
Salary: £60,000 - £66,000 plus Benefits

My client are looking for a .Net Developer to play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining high‑quality, scalable solutions across their client platforms. This role requires deep expertise in the Microsoft development stack, with a strong focus on C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL Server, and modern design principles. You will ensure that the platforms deliver exceptional performance, usability, and long-term maintainability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coding complex web‑based solutions within Visual Studio using C# ASP.NET MVC.
• Experience working with an ORM such as Entity Framework and Dapper.
• Design, build and maintain SQL Server databases using SQL.
• Experience creating, maintaining and optimising Azure DevOps build and release pipelines.
• Knowledge of T‑SQL programming and creating stored procedures.
• Expert understanding of database design principles.
• Follow recognised web standards for security and resilience.

• Interpret business requirements and map them to a technical solution.
• Provide documentation at all stages of the project delivery to support the build of the solution.
• Follow agreed coding standards and best practices.
• Adhere to project timelines and budgets.

• Provide realistic estimates for programming hours for projects and tasks, based on information provided by the account team.
• Actively and positively contribute in meetings that help set the technical direction of the team (standards, processes, strategic initiatives, reusability of code).
• Support the Business Analyst with appropriate information to identify and document technical aspects of the solution.

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in developing web applications in C#, ASP.NET MVC v4, v5
• Proven experience in developing presentation layers using ASP.NET, HTML 4/5, Angular, JSON, JavaScript, JQuery and CSS
• Proven experience in managing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps (ADO) and automate deployments.
• Hands-on experience with ADO DevOps for source control, build/release pipelines, and deployment automation.
• Proven experience in relational database design and implementation.
• Proven experience in developing web services REST/SOAP.
• The ability to communicate with delivery team members, internal and external clients in a professional and concise manner.
• Understanding of latest security and OWASP standards.
• A strong team player.
• Excellent communication and project management skills.

• 6+ years in event production and content creation within an events agency or similar environment.
• Strong technical knowledge of AV systems, staging and environments
• Some knowledge of live digital event platforms and delivery process.
• Proven experience in creative ideation and content development for live and virtual events.
• Excellent communication, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Advanced capability in Microsoft Office Suite; with particular attention to PowerPoint.
• Budget management and supplier negotiation experience

• Experience managing global events, international suppliers and large-scale productions.
• Familiarity with end-to-end objective led event design.
• Familiarity with ROI methodology and event performance measurement.
• Experience of audience facing PowerPoint amends and tidy
• Familiarity with Adobe suite applications

• Original notes:

   

  Pre-sales Product - EdTech

  1. UK - Remote.  )Sales office - London)
  2. US - Remote - trying to break the US market, office in Chicago.

  Within 2 hours of an airport.  

  Norwegian company - 200 staff (15 are UK), most are Bangalore)

  Salary for the UK 55k 
  US - depending on market rate $75 -  $80 preference is to recruit someone on the East Coast. I'll be able to find out a bit more on US benefits next week once I've spoken to Andrea. 

  Hours for the UK are generally 37.5 not 40. 

  Ishan Kolhatkar

  Ishan Kolhatkar
  Global Client Evangelist
  London, UK
  Inspera
  +44 20 7438 2060
  ishan@inspera.com
  www.inspera.com / LinkedIn

   

   

  **Important **

  We would like to assess your online presentation skills. A large proportion of the demonstrations we carry out are online. 

  Please provide a link to a video created by you in which you demonstrate how to use any piece of software. You must assume that the viewer is digitally literate, i.e. knows how to use a computer generally, but you are showing them how to use a specific function. 

  The video must be no longer than 5 minutes.  

  Please do not spend any time editing the video to add titles, captions or subtitles.

  Previous examples have included:

  1.    Creating a pivot table in Microsoft Excel
  2.    Demonstrating functionality in a SaaS platform
  3.    Editing a photograph using an online photo editor

  You are not restricted to these examples.

  While videos will be deleted at the end of the recruitment process, please ensure that you are mindful of the data onscreen during your presentation. Please do not share any personal or sensitive information.

   

   

   

  • Tailored demos and technical deep dives
  • Subject matter expert – Bridge academic workflows (assessment, governance, integrity policy) with technical implementation (SaaS, LMS integrations, APIs, LTIs).
  • Values-led selling – Position Originality not just as software, but as a strategic integrity solution in an AI-driven education landscape.
  • Customer-facing & global – Remote UK-based, but supporting international regions, occasional travel, flexible hours for demos.

   

  Inspera Originality – main product

   

  Communicating complex academic integrity concepts, institutional processes, and technical requirements to a variety of key stakeholders

   

  Someone from higher education

   

  Jody was a teacher and then became a BD manager- we placed on £55k

   

  What % is demos vs discovery vs tender support – 70% demos but depends on demand

   

   

  A lot of similarities but some changes

   

  Cecilia – equivalent of Ishan for Originality product – has a solid ant plagiarism background

   

  Was Sales Director

   

  Reports to CRO – Cecilia works closely with Ishan, no longer originality

   

  This product is more of a softer sell – will be customer demos, navigate the platform, where to click

   

  This will be more a value based sell – not just tech but also can learn to understand how to wrap this into more pedagogical setting – present the platform

   

  Prospects are experienced using Turnitin – know products – and understand the values

   

  Helpful having someone from HE, or direct experience of anti plagiarism platforms

   

  Tom Peroni and Tom Ashworth – from competitors

   

  Thinks the UK candidate pool is better

   

  Learning management, blackboard –

   

   

  100% remote – Cecilia is in Sweden – travel to conferences and events

   

  Additional language

   

  12:30pm catch up call on Fri 27^th

   

  Phil Lillicrapp Talent Acquisition Delivery Manager +44 (0)121 661 3864 phil.lillicrapp@datacareers.co.uk www.datacareers.co.uk Book a call with me here

   

   

UKIC DV needed - not MOD DV via UKSV

The profile you’re really looking for:

• Linux Systems Engineer

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

• DevOps Engineer (ops-heavy)

• Systems Engineer with scripting

• Ex-forces / defence ops engineers (very relevant in Harrogate)

Likely to hold UKIC DV:

Intelligence / Gov

• GCHQ

• NCSC

• MI5

• SIS (MI6)

Defence primes with intelligence programmes

• BAE Systems (Applied Intelligence / DI)

• Northrop Grumman

• Raytheon

• Leidos

• Lockheed Martin

• QinetiQ

• Serco (intelligence contracts)

• Jacobs (defence/intel work)

Niche secure consultancies

• Roke

• Bridewell (some roles)

• Darktrace (certain programmes)

• Certain cyber security SMEs working into HMG