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

Senior Interaction Designer
Permanent
Location: UK – Remote
Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 (+ benefits)

Skills: Interaction Design, UX Design, Prototyping, User-Centred Design, GDS / GOV.UK Design System

We are looking for an SC Cleared Senior Interaction Designer to join a digital consultancy delivering complex, user-centred services across UK Central Government and the wider public sector.

This is a role for an Interaction Designer with real depth in their discipline — someone who can look beyond individual screens and understand how users move through an end-to-end service.

You’ll work across discovery, alpha and delivery, translating complex user, business and technical requirements into clear, accessible and intuitive digital experiences. Working within multidisciplinary teams, you’ll collaborate closely with User Researchers, Content Designers, Service Designers, Developers and client stakeholders to create solutions that are desirable, feasible and effective.

Due to the nature of the work valid SC Clearance is essential.

What you’ll be doing

• Leading interaction design activities across discovery, alpha and delivery
• Translating user needs and complex requirements into clear, usable interactions
• Creating wireframes, prototypes, interaction models and reusable design patterns
• Rapidly prototyping ideas to support user research and evidence-based decision making
• Working closely with User Researchers to test designs and iterate based on findings
• Collaborating with Content Designers and Service Designers across the wider end-to-end experience
• Working directly with Developers to ensure designs are technically feasible and implemented effectively
• Facilitating workshops and collaborative design sessions with clients and stakeholders
• Championing accessibility, inclusive design and user-centred design principles
• Supporting and influencing design decisions across multidisciplinary delivery teams

What we’re looking for

• Strong professional experience within Interaction Design, UX Design or Product Design
• Demonstrable experience designing complex digital services rather than purely visual interfaces
• Strong wireframing and prototyping capability
• Experience designing accessible and inclusive digital experiences
• Confidence working directly with customers and senior stakeholders
• Experience facilitating workshops and collaborative design sessions
• Strong understanding of user-centred design and evidence-led iteration
• Experience working closely with Developers and multidisciplinary delivery teams
• An understanding of the relationship between interaction, service and content design

Highly desirable

• Previous experience delivering services within UK Government or the wider public sector
• Experience working within GDS / Government Digital Service environments
• Familiarity with the GOV.UK Design System
• Understanding of the Government Service Standard and service assessments
• Experience working across discovery, alpha, beta and live service phases
• Previous consultancy or client-facing experience

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

Skills: Content Design, UX Writing, User-Centred Design, Accessibility, GDS / GOV.UK Standards

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Content Designer for a leading technology consultancy delivering user-centred services across the UK public sector.

This role would suit someone who cares as much about solving user problems as they do about writing great content. You’ll work collaboratively across multidisciplinary teams, helping public sector clients create services that are clear, accessible and genuinely easy for people to use.

Working across the full service lifecycle, you’ll use research and evidence to understand user needs, develop content strategies, create and test content, improve information architecture and continually refine services based on user feedback.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing clear, concise and accessible content around identified user needs
• Working closely with User Researchers, Service Designers, Interaction Designers and other specialists
• Creating and maintaining content across different stages of the service lifecycle
• Testing content with users and using research findings to improve designs
• Contributing to content strategy, information architecture and service design decisions
• Ensuring accessibility and inclusive design principles are embedded throughout the service
• Helping clients understand the role content plays within the wider user experience
• Working across a variety of public sector digital transformation programmes

What we’re looking for

• Strong professional experience within Content Design
• Excellent written communication skills and the ability to simplify complex information
• Good understanding of accessibility and inclusive design
• Experience designing content based on user needs and research
• Confidence participating in or supporting user research and content testing
• Understanding of content strategy and information architecture
• Awareness of wider user-centred and experience design practices
• Experience working within multidisciplinary Agile delivery teams
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills

Highly desirable

• Previous experience delivering digital services within UK Government or the wider public sector
• Familiarity with Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and ways of working
• Experience using the GOV.UK style guide and design principles
• Understanding of the Government Service Standard and assessment process
• Experience working within consultancy or client-facing environments

• data lifecycle asset management, on-site data destruction, data recovery and equipment disposal services 
• Defence government customer base and man utd
• Based in Alsager – onsite 5 days a week

• “Can you talk me through the business operationally today — headcount, sites, warehouse operation, field teams and roughly what the Head of Operations will have responsibility for?”

• Background – warehousing, waste / environmental services

• 4 temp warehouse workers – that could start this week – manual labour in a warehouse. Ideally car drivers – might need to pick up data for destruction

• Forklift licence would be good – 2 to have it. Hours are 8am – 4pm. It’s £13 per hour – Rob Brichiu – he’s been there 10+ years, wife also works there

• Ops Manager
• Most of clients are NHS and police, a lot of GP surgeries, internal asset management system
• Hardware, laptops etc – containing data
• Their system records laptops and memory sizes
• Destroy the data onsite – and there is a record of that – and in many cases they shred the hard-drive
• Things that can be refurbished and recycled and sold on
• Managing new assets for the customers – imaging new kit
• System is cloud based so clients also have access
• Refurb and sell on a wholesale process
• Or can be broken down into parts
• Issue – space in the warehouse – stock sits there for too long and could be managed better – could refurb and do it quicker
• This role is de-facto number 2 – could potentially become the MD – current owner could step back – eg Geoff was Steve’s number 2
• MD never on site
• Peer group that don’t report into him
• Need to be good politically

• New client services director is starting next week – eg client success, account management – he used to be a customer but was made redundant. He’s being paid £55k
• Is an external finance director
• Sales person – only part time
• That’s the SLT – this person needs to lead the SLT

• Business needs more documented processes – streamline, ,where can we make money / improvements, troubleshooter fixer

• Make decisions based on commercial reasons

• Budgets will be tight

• Need to manager relationship upwards to David (MD) – been doing this 20 years

• Too much hardware sitting around and losing value

• 25 clients, 30 employees

• £3m turnaround

• £1.5m budget

• Labour is the biggest

• Warehouse is in the typically dirty – there is a Sainsburys & starbucks

• Not a nice fancy office

• Will be a capex spend to be managed - £150k – working with David MD

• Run operations, thinking logistics (not 3PL warehouse) – someone used to managing teams of 50 or less

• Opportunity to grow the business there could be an incentive to do that

• Up to £80k – could be £70k + 10% bonus

• Someone by the end of November

• A lot of the workforce are eastern European

• Interview – meet on Teams – the final shortlist of 3

• Need to see the site before they accept an offer – 2^nd interview

• Away W/C 28^th Sept – in the UK – pick up messages but not ideally do any interviews

• Also away from 16^th Oct, and W/C 19^th Oct

• Geoff technically working a day a week

• Junior role is £40k + £5k bonus

• Geoff is in the business on Tuesday