Sits in the product part of the business - software used by public sector

central Product team - backlog of work that requires additional UX designer resource

Manager notes - Looking for a good all-rounder - no specific sector experience but good at stakeholder management, running workshops and getting hands-on multitasking.

“It’s someone who makes Civica’s software easier and more intuitive for end users — working with clients to understand what frustrates them, redesigning journeys, and creating prototypes that developers then build.”

What is a UX Designer?

A UX (User Experience) Designer is someone who makes software:

• Easy to use

• Logical to navigate

• Clear and intuitive

• Accessible for all users

They don’t just “make it look nice” — that’s more UI.
UX is about how it works and how it feels to use.

UX or User Experience - phrases to look for

Questions:

• “How do you typically approach a new product or feature?”

• “Tell me about a workshop you’ve run.”

• “What tools do you use day-to-day?” (Figma should come up naturally.)

• “How do you test whether your designs actually work?”

Try and get people at £450 - but up to £500

Inside IR35

Technical Architect
6 Month Contract
Location: Home / Andover (Hybrid)
Salary: £700 - £750 per day (Inside IR35)

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Technical Architect for a leading technology consultancy on an initial 6 month contract. The successful candidate will design and deliver complex, large-scale technology solutions that meet both business and technical needs, ensuring architectural integrity and delivering to time, cost, and quality standards.

This is a hands-on, senior technical role where you will influence solution design, drive adoption of best practice, and mentor teams while working closely with clients in highly regulated environments.

This is a hybrid role and you will be required to work 2 days a week at customer site in Andover. Due to the nature of the work valid SC Clearance is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design of large and highly complex systems, ensuring quality, performance, and compliance.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across the project lifecycle to embed architectural considerations into all phases of delivery.
• Provide technical guidance, governance, and mentorship to development and delivery teams.
• Evaluate technical designs, changes, and proposals, making recommendations and assessing associated risks.
• Develop technology roadmaps and evaluate emerging technologies to inform future solutions.
• Act as a technical authority during client engagements, proof-of-concepts, and pre-sales activities.
• Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices, including security and compliance considerations.
• Support internal capability development, including mentoring junior staff and promoting knowledge sharing.

Experience & Skills Required

Technical & Architectural Expertise

• Extensive experience designing and delivering complex technology solutions, ideally in public sector, government, or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, NAF, or Zachman.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and DevOps/CI-CD practices.
• Strong understanding of Web Applications, Microservices, APIs, authentication/authorization protocols, and data architecture.
• Knowledge of secure software development practices, GDPR, OWASP, and NCSC cloud security principles.
• Experience delivering AI-based solutions, real-time data integration, or IoT solutions is advantageous.

Consultancy & Leadership Skills

• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience providing guidance to senior stakeholders and influencing solution design across multiple teams.
• Track record of mentoring and developing internal teams, promoting best practices and capability growth.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to provide innovative solutions in complex environments.

Essential

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in highly regulated environments (government, defence, or equivalent).

Technical Architect
Permanent
Location: Home / Andover (Hybrid)
Salary: £90,000 - £100,000 (+ benefits)

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Technical Architect for a leading technology consultancy. The successful candidate will design and deliver complex, large-scale technology solutions that meet both business and technical needs, ensuring architectural integrity and delivering to time, cost, and quality standards.

This is a hands-on, senior technical role where you will influence solution design, drive adoption of best practice, and mentor teams while working closely with clients in highly regulated environments.

This is a hybrid role and you will be required to work 2 days a week at customer site in Andover. Due to the nature of the work valid SC Clearance is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the technical design of large and highly complex systems, ensuring quality, performance, and compliance.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams across the project lifecycle to embed architectural considerations into all phases of delivery.
• Provide technical guidance, governance, and mentorship to development and delivery teams.
• Evaluate technical designs, changes, and proposals, making recommendations and assessing associated risks.
• Develop technology roadmaps and evaluate emerging technologies to inform future solutions.
• Act as a technical authority during client engagements, proof-of-concepts, and pre-sales activities.
• Establish and enforce architectural principles, standards, and best practices, including security and compliance considerations.
• Support internal capability development, including mentoring junior staff and promoting knowledge sharing.

Experience & Skills Required

Technical & Architectural Expertise

• Extensive experience designing and delivering complex technology solutions, ideally in public sector, government, or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, NAF, or Zachman.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and DevOps/CI-CD practices.
• Strong understanding of Web Applications, Microservices, APIs, authentication/authorization protocols, and data architecture.
• Knowledge of secure software development practices, GDPR, OWASP, and NCSC cloud security principles.
• Experience delivering AI-based solutions, real-time data integration, or IoT solutions is advantageous.

Consultancy & Leadership Skills

• Excellent communication skills, able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience providing guidance to senior stakeholders and influencing solution design across multiple teams.
• Track record of mentoring and developing internal teams, promoting best practices and capability growth.
• Strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to provide innovative solutions in complex environments.

Essential

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Experience in highly regulated environments (government, defence, or equivalent).

Senior Golang DevOps Engineer
6 Month Contract
Location: Remote
Rate: £550 - £600 per day (INSIDE IR35)

We are looking to recruit a Senior Golang DevOps Engineer for a leading software company. The DevOps Engineer will take ownership of complex system components and lead technical decisions within a cloud-native environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical design decisions and own complex services/components
• Work closely with engineering, product, and platform teams
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Drive continuous delivery best practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues using modern observability tooling

Required Experience

• Strong commercial experience with Golang and/or C#/.NET (ideally both)
• Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Modern DevOps practices
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• CI/CD pipelines built with GitHub Actions
• Automated testing strategies
• Health checks and resilience patterns
• AWS services including ALB, IAM, and core networking
• Relational databases: Postgres and/or MSSQL on AWS (RDS and/or Athena)
• Monitoring and observability using Datadog
• Comfortable working autonomously in ambiguous environments
• Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum / Kanban)

Nice to Have

• Log aggregation configuration
• Automated testing frameworks (e.g. Playwright)

“We’re looking for an SC-cleared C#.Net developer to work on a major law enforcement technology programme with Civica. It’s primarily remote, with occasional travel to London, and involves developing and maintaining applications using C#, .NET, APIs, Docker, and SQL. Because of the nature of the work, active SC clearance is essential.”

Manual Tester

SC and NPPV3 (from Warwickshire)

Civica client: The Home Office

NLEDS (National Law Enforcement Data Programme)

Remotely - occasional London.

£450 - 500  Inside IR35

6 months

Project Manager
Permanent
Location: Remote - UK
Salary: £55,000 - £65,000 (+ benefits)

Skills: Software / Digital projects, Understanding of SDLC, SC Clearance

We are looking to recruit an SC Cleared Project Manager for a leading technology. In this role you will work closely with central government and public sector organisations to support the delivery of software and digital solutions for external customers.

This is a great opportunity for a Project Manager who has experience delivering small-scale projects or workstreams within a structured project environment and is looking to develop further within a professional delivery function.

The Role

You will be responsible for supporting and delivering projects from initiation through to closure, working closely with senior project managers, technical teams, suppliers, and client stakeholders. On smaller projects (typically under £100k), you may take full ownership of delivery, including scope, resources, budget, and outcomes.

Due to the nature of projects valid SC Clearance is required.

Key Responsibilities

Project Delivery

• Deliver multiple small projects end-to-end or support a Senior Project Manager on larger programmes
• Ensure projects follow defined delivery frameworks and governance processes
• Manage project teams and third-party suppliers to deliver agreed outcomes
• Ensure smooth handover into support at project closure

Stakeholder Management

• Act as a key point of contact for clients throughout the project lifecycle
• Build strong working relationships with customer and internal stakeholders
• Support customers through change and adoption of delivered solutions

Planning & Governance

• Produce and maintain project plans, schedules, RAID logs, and documentation
• Track progress, risks, issues, and dependencies, implementing mitigation where required
• Provide clear and accurate status reporting to internal and external stakeholders

Financial Management

• Manage project budgets and cost tracking
• Produce forecasts and financial updates to support commercial objectives

Quality & Compliance

• Ensure deliverables meet quality standards and relevant security or regulatory requirements
• Contribute to continuous improvement through lessons learned and best practice sharing

Experience & Skills Required

• Minimum 2 years’ experience delivering projects, ideally for external customers
• Experience delivering software or digital solutions
• Understanding of the software delivery lifecycle
• Strong planning, organisation, and communication skills
• Experience managing scope, schedule, risks, and resources
• Exposure to change management activities
• Confident producing project documentation, reports, and forecasts
• Experience using tools such as MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint

Desirable

• PRINCE2 and/or Agile/Scrum certification
• Experience working with public sector clients
• Exposure to data platforms or data delivery frameworks

• Have you supported in preparing budgets, forecasts and financial analysis?
• Have you produced financial information for inclusion in monthly management accounts ?
• Have you do any Month end management accounts work? including delivery of month end close, ensuring integrity of postings and timely input of transactions and reconciliation of designated nominal accounts
• Have you done any Year-end accounting and support?
• Have you assisted with the preparation of the Statutory reporting, and collation/completion of year end audit schedules 
• Do you have any Experience in preparing management accounting reports for cost/profit centres
• Do you have any project accounting/reconciliation skills
• Do you have any Multi-currency business experience
• Are you Part-Qualified or Qualified AAT, or studying CIMA

Technical Product Manager
6 Month Contract
Location: Home based
Rate: £550 - £600 per day (Inside IR35)

The Opportunity

We are looking to recruit a Technical Product Manager for a leading technology consultancy operating in the public sector technology space who require a Technical Product Manager to join the business at a key point of transition and growth. This role sits at the intersection of product, technology, and delivery, and will suit someone who is highly structured, technically credible, and comfortable operating in a change environment following acquisition or organisational transformation.

The Role

As Technical Product Manager, you will take ownership of translating high-level product direction into clear, actionable work for engineering teams. You will play a critical role in improving ways of working, re-establishing momentum within the development function, and supporting teams as they align to the organisation’s preferred product and delivery practices.

You will work closely with development teams, stakeholders, and existing product staff to ensure clarity, consistency, and delivery focus, while maintaining a pragmatic, supportive approach.

Key Responsibilities

• Break down product epics into well-defined, prioritised user stories
• Write clear, testable acceptance criteria, ideally using BDD / Gherkin syntax
• Act as a credible day-to-day partner to development teams, providing clarity and direction
• Support and re-energise teams that may be demotivated following organisational change
• Provide short-term guidance and hands-on support to existing team members who are not yet working in the organisation’s preferred product model
• Bring structure, consistency, and transparency to backlog management and delivery processes
• Balance short-term delivery needs with longer-term product outcomes

Skills & Experience Required

• Strong experience working in SaaS environments
• Highly numerate, with exposure to financial concepts or finance-related domains (any finance background considered)
• Proven ability to translate complex requirements into clear, concise user stories
• Experience writing acceptance criteria, preferably in BDD (Gherkin) format
• Confident and credible working closely with software engineers and technical stakeholders
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a calm and pragmatic leadership style
• Comfortable operating in environments undergoing change, integration, or post-acquisition transition