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NatWest Group

<div><div><div><p>Location Manchester, United Kingdom</p>
</div><div><p>Job typePermanent | Contract typeFull Time</p>
</div><div><div><p>Mostly Remote</p>
<p></p><div><div><p>You&rsquo;ll spend most of your time at home, working with your team digitally. You&rsquo;ll come into an office or hub at least twice a month to collaborate with your colleagues.</p>
</div></div></div></div><div><div><p>Managerial / Technical Lead</p>
<p></p><div><div><p>This is a general indication and doesn&rsquo;t always reflect day-to-day responsibilities. Check the job description for full details.</p>
</div></div></div></div></div><p>#R-00284150</p><br>
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</div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Job description</b></h2>
<p>This role is based in the United Kingdom and as such all normal working days must be carried out in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p></p><div><p>Join us as a Lead Specialist Data Architect, People &amp; Other Functions Data Management</p>
<p></p><ul><li>We&rsquo;ll look to you to provide deep expertise to guide the development of complex architectures, including advising on process design, technology selection and integration approaches</li>
<li>You&rsquo;ll contribute to defining the overall architectural vision, strategy, principles, standards and patterns, aligning them with business objectives, and acting as a thought leader for the bank</li>
<li>This is a chance to actively contribute to the growth of the architecting capability and community across the bank, including thought leadership and sharing knowledge such as best practices, proven solutions and key learnings, and contributing to the community of practice</li>
<li>You&rsquo;ll mainly work from home, staying connected with your team digitally, and spend at least one day per week in the office</li>
</ul><p></p><p><b>What you'll do</b></p>
<p></p><p>As a Lead Specialist Data Architect, you&rsquo;ll be leading the definition of the strategic target architecture and roadmap for the People, Marketing, LG&amp;RA and Corporate Affairs functions, assuring it&rsquo;s aligned with the strategy and the bank&rsquo;s strategic target architecture.</p>
<p></p><p>You&rsquo;ll also be promoting and driving the adoption of the shared capabilities available by creating playbooks, educating stakeholders, and collaborating with peers on identifying use cases for adoption.</p>
<p></p><p>Your other key responsibilities will include:</p>
<p></p><ul><li>Leading the realisation of enterprise and solution architectures, working as part of development teams throughout the engineering development lifecycle</li>
<li>Providing technical guidance, resolving architectural impediments, and championing the adoption of architecture patterns and practices</li>
<li>Partnering and engaging with key stakeholders to define and evolve architectures that deliver business value</li>
<li>Promoting a DevOps mindset by working as part of development teams to embed architecture guidance in CI/CD pipelines</li>
<li>Leading with specialism subject matter expertise to assure the quality of solution architecture within delivery programmes of high architectural significance or high architectural risk</li>
<li>Identifying opportunities and threats to current and target architectures, escalating to the Architecture Council for consideration or decision making</li>
<li>Partnering with the Enterprise Data Transformation (EDT) programme and Function Data Product Factory teams to shape, support and govern the development of Data Products, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture standards, data management policies and strategic objectives</li>
</ul><p></p><p><b>The skills you'll need</b></p>
<p></p><p>To make an impact with us, you&rsquo;ll need expert knowledge in an area of specialism, including a deep understanding of business use cases and emerging trends that drive organisational success. You&rsquo;ll also need expert knowledge of modern technologies such as Cloud, microservices and AI, along with agile architecture and DevOps practices.</p>
<p></p><p>You&rsquo;ll bring extensive experience of overseeing and assuring the quality of architecture designs, including conducting comprehensive architecture and design reviews to validate that solutions meet business needs and comply with architecture standards, with a focus on risk management and governance.</p>
<p></p><p>Furthermore, you&rsquo;ll need:</p>
<p></p><ul><li>Extensive experience of defining and developing strategic target architectures</li>
<li>High proficiency in engaging with partners from across the business to define architectures that deliver tangible business outcomes</li>
<li>Experience of leading collaborative decision-making processes, partnering with senior business and technology colleagues to articulate and evolve architectural direction while ensuring adherence to key architecture principles and alignment with strategic goals</li>
<li>Experience of identifying and advocating for strategic investment opportunities that enhance the organisation's architecture goals</li>
<li>Experience of crafting compelling business cases to influence senior stakeholders to secure investment for architecture initiatives</li>
<li>Extensive people capability development experience, including mentoring, supporting professional development, encouraging knowledge sharing across architecture teams and promoting best practices</li><br>
</ul></div><p></p><div>
</div></div></div><div><div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Your benefits breakdown</b></h2>
<p>Here&rsquo;s a quick look at what your pay package and annual leave could look like if you get accepted for the role. We have a wide range of benefits to support you in your working life and beyond.</p>
<p>Tap each segment for details.</p>
</div><div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Your pay package</b></h3>
<div><p>100% Base pay This is your base pay package that you take home every month.</p> <p>+10% Pension funding This is monthly funding paid towards your pension.</p> <p>up to +10% Benefit funding This is monthly funding paid towards a range of benefits you can choose from.</p>
</div></div></div><div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Your leave allowance</b></h3>
<div><p>30 days Annual leave You&rsquo;ll also have the opportunity to purchase up to 5 additional days off.</p> <p>3 days Volunteering Take time off to support the causes you&rsquo;re passionate about.</p> <p>3 days Training Take time to build the skills you need to grow your career.</p>
</div></div></div></div><div><div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Total rewards package</b></h3><br>
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</div></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Welcome to our Spinningfields hub</b></h2>
<p>Spinningfields is Manchester&rsquo;s leading leisure, retail, and business district and home to some of the most incredible architecture, restaurants, flagship stores, and bars the city has to offer.</p>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Key facts:</b></h3>
<ul><li>Space for 1,345 colleagues from various teams across the bank</li>
<li>Our outdoor roof terrace has panoramic views of the city</li>
<li>Opened in 2023</li>
</ul></div></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><div><div><div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Our tech stack</b></h3>
<p>Here&rsquo;s just some of the technologies we use.</p>
</div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Front end</b></h3>
<div><ul><li>JavaScript</li>
<li>ReactJS</li>
<li>AngularJS</li>
</ul></div></div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Back end</b></h3>
<div><ul><li>Python</li>
<li>Java</li>
<li>Microsoft Dynamics</li>
</ul></div></div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>DevOps</b></h3>
<div><ul><li>AWS</li>
<li>GitLab</li>
<li>Google Cloud Platform</li>
</ul></div></div><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>Data</b></h3>
<div><ul><li>Kafka</li>
<li>Hadoop</li>
<li>PostgreSQL</li>
<li>Snowflake</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Lead Specialist Data Architect

Speechify

<div><div><b>Mission</b></div>
<div>
<p>The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.</p>
<p>
Over 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn whatever they're reading &ndash; PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites &ndash; into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
</p><p>Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting &ndash; Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies</p>
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<div><b>What You'll Do</b></div>
<div><ul><li>Lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or related UI frameworks), C#, XAML, and &mdash; when needed &mdash; C++.</li>
<li>Define and enforce best-practices for Windows desktop development across the codebase: code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsive UI, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability.</li>
<li>Drive accessibility efforts: integrate and validate support for accessibility APIs (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or other relevant Windows accessibility frameworks), ensure UI controls, focus management, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, and usability for users with disabilities.</li>
<li>Collaborate closely with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to shape feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and long-term roadmap for the Windows platform.</li>
<li>Take ownership of full lifecycle of features: conception  design  implementation  testing  release  maintenance. Ensure quality, reliability, and consistency across releases.</li>
<li>Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, or compatibility problems &mdash; and propose robust architectural or design solutions.</li>
</ul>
</div><div></div><div><b>An ideal candidate should have</b></div>
<p><b>
Required:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML &mdash; and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).</li>
<li>Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.</li>
<li>Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.</li>
<li>Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.</li>
<li>Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).</li>
<li>Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.</li>
<li>Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.</li>
<li>A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Preferred / Bonus:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Experience with writing automated tests for UI &mdash; unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.</li>
<li>Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).</li>
<li>Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.</li>
<li>Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.</li>
<li>Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.</li>
<li>Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>What we offer</b></p>
<ul>
<li>A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.</li>
<li>A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture &mdash; you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.</li>
<li>Opportunities to lead &mdash; mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).</li>
<li>Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.</li>
<li>A purpose-driven mission: building software that's reliable, accessible, and user-centered &mdash; making a real difference for people.
</li></ul><p><b>Think you're a good fit for this job?</b></p>
<p>
Tell us more about yourself and why you're interested in the role when you apply.<br>
And don't forget to include links to your portfolio and LinkedIn.</p>
<p><b>
Not looking but know someone who would make a great fit?</b><br>
Refer them!</p>
<p><b>
Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.</b><br>
Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.</p></div>

Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Manchester, United Kingdom

The Portfolio Group

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 <p>
  <strong>
   Senior AI Engineer (Gen AI &amp; RAG)
  </strong>
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 <p>
  Join an award-winning, internationally recognised high growth international SaaS business as a Senior AI Engineer, where you will play a central role in delivering and evolving production-grade generative &amp; agentic AI capabilities that power real-world business outcomes.
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  This is a senior, hands-on engineering role focused on building the intelligence layer of next-generation AI products. You will architect and implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, agentic workflows, and rigorous evaluation frameworks that ensure AI systems are accurate, reliable, and grounded in genuine business value.
 </p>
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  Reporting to the Director of AI, you will bridge strategy and execution, translating architectural direction into high-quality, scalable implementations in close collaboration with AI Platform Engineering.
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  <strong>
   What You'll Do
  </strong>
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 <ul>
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   Design, build, and deploy production-grade generative AI systems that perform reliably at scale.
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   Implement and continuously improve RAG pipelines, including chunking strategies, reranking logic, and retrieval fusion, that effectively leverage proprietary and domain-specific content.
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   Develop agentic and workflow-driven AI patterns with a strong emphasis on determinism, explainability, and long-term maintainability.
  </li>
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   Implement fine-tuning, instruction tuning, and knowledge distillation techniques to adapt models to domain-specific requirements, evaluating trade-offs against prompting on quality, latency, and cost.
  </li>
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   Drive strong experimentation and evaluation practices, ensuring experiments are reproducible and well-documented while measuring correctness, faithfulness, and robustness across AI outputs.
  </li>
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   Provide hands-on technical leadership, including code reviews, design walkthroughs, and mentoring across the team.
  </li>
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   Work closely with platform, product, and delivery teams to accelerate the path from AI experimentation to production deployment.
  </li>
  <li>
   Explore and apply advanced retrieval approaches, including Graph-RAG and structured knowledge representation, where they deliver clear value.
  </li>
 </ul>
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  <strong>
   Required Skills &amp; Experience
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 <ul>
  <li>
   Strong Python skills, with hands-on experience in LlamaIndex, LangChain, and LangGraph.
  </li>
  <li>
   Proven track record building RAG systems; Graph-RAG a distinct advantage.
  </li>
  <li>
   Hands-on fine-tuning, instruction tuning, and knowledge distillation, not just prompt engineering.
  </li>
  <li>
   Solid evaluation and experimentation methodology for generative AI, focused on correctness, faithfulness, and robustness.
  </li>
  <li>
   Experience with large-scale, production-grade data pipelines, including performance, scalability, and reliability.
  </li>
  <li>
   Track record owning technical design and delivery of AI/ML systems in live, business-critical environments.
  </li>
  <li>
   Azure/Foundry familiarity advantageous.
  </li>
 </ul>
 <p>
  This is a compelling opportunity to work at the forefront of applied Generative AI, where your contributions directly shape customer-facing products and drive measurable business impact. You will bring genuine technical ownership and autonomy, supported by a world-class leadership team with a clear and ambitious AI roadmap.
 </p>
</div>


Senior AI Engineer - (GEN-AI)- Manchester

Capgemini

<div><div><div><div><p><b>About the Job you are considering:</b></p>
<p>Join the Financial Services Business Unit within Capgemini's Cloud &amp; Custom Applications (C&amp;CA) practice as a Senior Java Full Stack Developer. In this role, you will help shape scalable, business-critical solutions that deliver meaningful outcomes for clients while contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. As a trusted, AI-aware professional, you will work collaboratively across teams to solve complex challenges, influence technical direction, and support the development of future-ready solutions. This is an opportunity to consult with purpose, continuously evolve, and help architect tomorrow in a dynamic Agile environment.</p>
<p><b>Hybrid working:
</b></p><p>The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.</p>
<p><b>Key Responsibilities:</b></p>
<ul><li>Deliver high-quality, scalable application solutions that meet client and business objectives.</li>
<li>Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to translate requirements into effective technical outcomes.</li>
<li>Contribute to solution design and technical decision-making, ensuring maintainability and long-term value.</li>
<li>Champion engineering excellence through quality-focused development, testing, and review practices.</li>
<li>Support successful delivery within Agile teams, promoting collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Identify and resolve complex technical challenges while balancing business priorities and risk.</li>
<li>Mentor and support team members, fostering knowledge sharing and capability growth.</li>
<li>Engage proactively with stakeholders to build trusted relationships and drive positive outcomes.</li>
<li>Embrace emerging industry practices, including AI-enabled ways of working, to enhance delivery effectiveness.</li>
<li>Contribute to building a future-ready workforce through continuous learning and professional development.</li>
</ul><p><b>Must-Have Skills</b></p>
<ul><li>Strong experience in full stack application development, with a proven track record of delivering enterprise-scale solutions.</li>
<li>8+ years of professional software engineering experience.</li>
<li>Strong experience with Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, AEM Hybrid, GraphQL, SSR, NgRx, Jest, and SCSS.</li>
<li>Proficient in Spring Boot, Java, REST API development, Liquibase, OpenTelemetry, and Honeycomb.</li>
<li>Hands-on expertise with AWS services including S3, Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS, CloudFront, IAM, Secrets Manager, and CloudFormation.</li>
<li>Experience with Akamai, NGINX, Kong, Okta, and Auth0 for networking, API management, and identity solutions.</li>
<li>Skilled in GitHub Actions for CI/CD automation.</li>
<li>Integrated and supported Kaltura, CVENT, OneTrust, Wistia, Siteimprove, Adobe Analytics, Adobe Launch, and Medallia.</li>
<li>Expertise in Cypress-based test automation and end-to-end testing.</li>
</ul><p><b>We are a Disability Confident Employer:</b></p>
<p>Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government&rsquo;s Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:</p>
<ul><li>Declare they have a disability, and
</li><li>Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.</li>
</ul><p>Please opt in during the application process.</p>
<p><b>Make It Real (what does it mean for you):</b></p>
<ul><li>You&rsquo;d be joining an accredited Great Place to work for Wellbeing in 2024. Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions.
</li><li>To help support wellbeing we have trained &lsquo;Mental Health Champions&rsquo; across each of our business areas, and we have invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.</li>
<li>You will be empowered to explore, innovate, and progress. You will benefit from Capgemini&rsquo;s &lsquo;learning for life&rsquo; mindset, meaning you will have countless training and development opportunities from thinktanks to hackathons, and access to 250,000 courses with numerous external certifications from AWS, Microsoft, Harvard Manage Mentor, Cybersecurity qualifications and much more.</li>
<li>You will be joining one of the World&rsquo;s Most Ethical Companies&reg;, as recognised by Ethisphere&reg; for 13 consecutive years. We live our values by making ethical business choices every day. Working ethically is at the centre of our culture at Capgemini, meaning you will be helping to create a future we can all be proud of.</li>
</ul><p><b>Why you should consider Capgemini:</b></p>
<p>Growing clients&rsquo; businesses while building a more sustainable, more inclusive future is a tough ask. When you join Capgemini, you&rsquo;ll join a thriving company and become part of a collective of free-thinkers, entrepreneurs and industry experts. We find new ways technology can help us reimagine what&rsquo;s possible. It&rsquo;s why, together, we seek out opportunities that will transform the world&rsquo;s leading businesses, and it&rsquo;s how you&rsquo;ll gain the experiences and connections you need to shape your future. By learning from each other every day, sharing knowledge, and always pushing yourself to do better, you&rsquo;ll build the skills you want. You&rsquo;ll use your skills to help our clients leverage technology to innovate and grow their business. So, it might not always be easy, but making the world a better place rarely is.</p>
<p><b>About Capgemini:</b></p>
<p>Capgemini is an AI-powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organisations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end-to-end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of &euro;22.1 billion.
</p><p>Make it real | www.capgemini.com</p></div></div></div></div><div></div>

Java Fullstack Developer

CreateFuture

<div><p>CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what's not working and helping them to build the future.<br>
<br>
We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel, and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.<br>
<br>
<b>About the role and team</b><br>
We are seeking an experienced, hands-on Technical Lead with a strong background in .NET, AWS, event-driven architecture, and continuous delivery to join a team delivering and modernising a broad range of business-critical applications and services. This is very much a lead engineer role: you'll spend the majority of your time writing code, setting technical direction by example, and working closely with engineering teams and client stakeholders.<br>
<br>
The successful candidate will work across a broad technology landscape including .NET, Next,js and AWS. You will play a key role in building scalable, event-driven, cloud-native solutions, improving existing systems, and setting the technical bar for delivery.<br>
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This role requires someone comfortable operating within challenging technical environments, able to work closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to simplify, improve, and evolve existing services. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills are essential, as many existing platforms and services have significant operational and organisational investment behind them.<br>
<br>
<b>Key Responsibilities</b></p>
<ul>
<li><p>Act as a hands-on Tech Lead, writing production code as the majority of your day-to-day activity while setting technical direction for the team.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Design, develop, and maintain applications and services using .NET technologies and AWS cloud platforms.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Work hands-on across a broad technology landscape including .NET, Next.js and AWS</p>
</li>
<li><p>Drive continuous delivery practices, improving build, test, and release pipelines to enable frequent, low-risk deployments.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Identify opportunities to simplify, rationalise, and improve existing systems and services.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Support cloud-native engineering practices and platform improvements across AWS environments.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Contribute to frontend application development using Next.js or similar modern JavaScript frameworks.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Engage directly and confidently with business stakeholders, translating technical trade-offs into terms that support good decision-making.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Promote best practices in software engineering, maintainability, scalability, and operational excellence.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Support teams through technical challenges and modernisation initiatives.</p>
</li>
</ul><div><b>Required Experience</b></div>
<ul><li>Strong, hands-on experience as a Tech Lead or Lead Engineer working within .NET environments.</li>
<li>Good experience across both modern .NET and legacy .NET Framework applications.</li>
<li>Strong experience with AWS cloud technologies.</li>
<li>Strong experience designing and implementing event-driven architecture.</li>
<li>Strong experience with continuous delivery, including CI/CD pipeline design and delivery automation.</li>
<li>Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.</li>
<li>Experience working within complex or evolving technical environments.</li>
<li>Frontend development experience using Next.js or similar JavaScript frameworks.</li>
<li>Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence engaging directly with business stakeholders.</li>
<li>Comfortable working hands-on within challenging technical environments, spending the majority of time writing code rather than managing people.</li>
<li>Ability to work collaboratively across engineering and business teams.</li>
</ul><div><b>Nice to Have</b></div>
<ul><li>Experience modernising legacy enterprise applications and services.</li>
<li>Exposure to WCF, WPF, and broader legacy Microsoft technology stacks.</li>
<li>Experience supporting platform consolidation or transformation initiatives.</li>
<li>Familiarity with AI-assisted development tooling and harness engineering concepts.<br>
<br>
Note: this role requires onsite time in the office in Manchester 2-3 days per week.</li>
</ul><div><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>What we'll offer you:</b></h3>
<p>
We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.<br>
<br>
We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.</p>
<p>
We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.</p>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Our hiring process</b></h3>
<p>
We try to keep our hiring process clear, fair and respectful of your time. We aim to get back to everyone who applies and we will be upfront about where you are in the process.</p>
<p>
It usually looks like this:</p>
<ul>
<li>Call with our Talent Acquisition Team</li>
<li>Role specific capability interview</li>
</ul>
<p>Depending on the role, we might also ask you to do a short presentation, a practical or technical task or have a values focused conversation. We will explain what is involved before anything happens.</p>
<h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Inclusion at CreateFuture</b></h3>
<p>
We believe diverse teams build better workplaces and better products. We want CreateFuture to be a place where people feel able to be themselves and do their best work.</p>
<p>
If you need any adjustments or support during the application process, just. We will do what we can to help.</p>
<p>
We look forward to your application!</p></div></div>

Technical Lead (.NET/AWS) - Manchester

IDOX Group

<div><p><b>Head of Data Services</b></p><p><b>
Idox Professional Services</b></p><p><b>
Land, Property &amp; Public Protection (L3P)</b></p><p><b>
UK, home based, with occasional travel.</b></p><p></p><h1 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
About the role</b></h1><p><b>
This role is suited to a senior data migration and Professional Services leader who can combine technical authority in complex ETL, multi-source data alignment and migration assurance with the operational, commercial and people leadership needed to scale a high-performing delivery function.</b></p><p>
The Head of Data Services will lead and mature the L3P Data Services function through a period of significant operational and market change. The role will be central to Idoxs response to Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) over the next 35 years, establishing the strategy, standards, tooling and repeatable delivery models needed for complex data alignment, migration and transformation programmes.</p><p>
This is a highly visible, UK home-based leadership opportunity, requiring someone who can bring discipline, consistency and commercial focus to day-to-day operations while driving controlled innovation through automation, AI-assisted delivery, modern data engineering practices and improved tooling.</p><p>
As a member of the L3P Professional Services leadership team, the postholder will lead, develop and scale a Data Services function responsible for complex ETL, migration, transformation, reconciliation and data alignment projects. They will act as a senior customer-facing leader and trusted advisor, balancing customer service, commercial judgement, delivery risk, technical assurance and team motivation.</p><h1 class="jobSectionHeader"><b><br>
Key Responsibilities</b></h1><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Strategic Leadership and Service Development</b></h3><ul><li>
Define and execute the Data Services strategy for complex ETL, migration, reconciliation and data alignment services, aligned to L3P, Professional Services and divisional objectives.</li><li>
Lead Data Services transformation, ensuring the function is scalable, commercially viable and able to support both LGR and customer onboarding demand.</li><li>
Develop a multi-year roadmap for capability, standards, tooling, AI adoption, automation and repeatable delivery models.</li><li>
Evolve Data Services from a project-based delivery function towards a standardised, productised and repeatable service model.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Local Government Reorganisation Data Alignment Programme Leadership</b></h3><ul><li>
Lead the Data Services approach to Local Government Reorganisation (LGR) alignment programmes over the next 35 years, ensuring Idox has a scalable and commercially robust model for complex local authority structural change.</li><li>
Define standards and governance for multi-authority data alignment, complex ETL, multi-source data merges, transformation, reconciliation, validation and migration assurance.</li><li>
Provide senior technical and delivery leadership on LGR data strategy, reflecting local government operating realities, legacy system complexity, statutory service continuity and customer risk.</li><li>
Work with Professional Services, Product, Engineering, Sales and divisional leadership to shape LGR delivery capability, commercial propositions, implementation planning and customer messaging.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Operational Excellence and Service Performance</b></h3><ul><li>
Own operational performance across utilisation, forecasting, capacity planning, delivery predictability, margin and financial efficiency.</li><li>
Establish and enforce standardised delivery methods, governance, estimation practices, quality controls and migration assurance checkpoints.</li><li>
Lead resource and capacity planning across multiple concurrent customer programmes, balancing capability, availability, commercial return and delivery risk.</li><li>
Monitor productivity, utilisation, margin, delivery quality, customer outcomes, forecast accuracy and service maturity.</li><li>
Ensure robust delivery assurance, risk management and escalation for complex ETL, migration, reconciliation and data alignment projects.</li><li>
Embed lessons learned, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement into operating practices, standards and future delivery frameworks.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
AI, Automation and Innovation</b></h3><ul><li>
Lead adoption of AI-assisted delivery, automation and modern data engineering practices to improve complex ETL, migration, mapping, validation, reconciliation and assurance activities.</li><li>
Automate migration assessment, rule mapping, data quality profiling, reconciliation reporting and quality assurance across multi-source customer data sets.</li><li>
Develop repeatable frameworks, tooling and accelerators that reduce manual effort and support scalable data transfer, merge and alignment programmes.</li><li>
Partner with Product and Engineering to improve capabilities for customer onboarding, legacy migration, multi-authority alignment and LGR delivery.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Customer and Commercial Leadership</b></h3><ul><li>
Provide senior leadership on migration strategy, delivery approach, commercial risk and assurance for major customer programmes, including complex LGR data alignment engagements.</li><li>
Act as a trusted advisor to senior customer leaders and frontline local authority stakeholders on complex ETL, migration, reconciliation, validation and multi-source merge decisions.</li><li>
Lead strategic customer engagements, pre-sales, bid responses and commercial discussions where Data Services input is critical to scope, solution design, risk assessment, estimating and delivery confidence.</li><li>
Negotiate customer expectations on migration scope, dependencies, data quality, readiness, timelines and change control, protecting commercial position and delivery standards.</li><li>
Provide senior escalation support for high-risk programmes, balancing customer service, operational reality, commercial judgement, statutory service continuity and long-term solution success.</li></ul><h1 class="jobSectionHeader"><br>
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Skills &amp; Experience</b></h1><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Essential Experience</b></h3><ul><li>
Significant senior leadership experience, likely gained over 5+ years, running Data Services, Data Migration, ETL or Professional Services delivery functions, with direct accountability for people leadership, operational performance, customer delivery and commercial outcomes, not only technical workstreams or individual delivery assignments.</li><li>
Proven experience building, developing and scaling operational delivery teams, setting goals, managing performance and creating clear accountability across managers, senior specialists or multi-disciplinary teams.</li><li>
Significant experience leading complex data migration, ETL, transformation, data transfer, multi-source merge, reconciliation and validation programmes; experience limited primarily to BI, reporting, analytics or dashboard delivery would not be sufficient.</li><li>
Strong track record leading complex customer-facing programmes in software, technology, public sector, regulated or operationally critical environments, particularly where data from multiple systems or organisations must be aligned into a single target solution.</li><li>
Experience defining operational strategy, service improvement plans, delivery governance and organisational change in a commercially accountable delivery environment.</li><li>
Proven ability to own utilisation, forecasting, capacity planning, resource allocation, budget management, margin, delivery risk and operational performance metrics.</li><li>
Confident engaging with senior customer leaders, frontline operational users, executive stakeholders and internal leadership teams, including in high-risk, commercially sensitive or escalated delivery situations.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Essential Migration and Technical Expertise</b></h3><ul><li>
Strong understanding of complex ETL, data migration, transformation, reconciliation, validation and migration governance.</li><li>
Sufficient technical depth to challenge migration approaches, estimates, data quality assumptions, merge logic, reconciliation methods and assurance plans.</li><li>
Understanding of multi-source data transfer, legacy system migration, target data model alignment, cloud migration architectures and modern data platforms.</li><li>
Awareness of automation, scripting or tooling used to improve migration delivery, such as SQL, Python or equivalent technologies.</li></ul><h3 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Desirable Experience</b></h3><ul><li>
Experience working with Public Sector, Local Government, regulatory, land, property, planning, public protection or similarly complex operational domains.</li><li>
Experience leading multi-organisation, multi-system or merger-related data alignment programmes, whether in local government or another complex sector.</li><li>
Experience developing repeatable migration frameworks, accelerators, quality gates or productised data migration service models.</li><li>
Experience applying AI, automation or modern tooling to improve migration assessment, mapping, reconciliation, validation or delivery assurance.</li></ul><h2 class="jobSectionHeader"><b>
Ideal Candidate Profile</b></h2><ul><li>
Senior operational leader with proven experience running complex Data Services, Data Migration, ETL or Professional Services delivery functions.</li><li>
Strong people and programme leader, able to set expectations, build capability, manage performance, protect scope and lead teams through complex, high-stakes delivery.</li><li>
Technically strong in complex ETL, data migration, multi-source data merges, reconciliation, validation and migration governance.</li><li>
Commercially astute and customer-facing, with ownership of utilisation, capacity, margin, delivery quality, customer outcomes and operational performance.</li><li>
Motivated by controlled innovation, using automation, AI and improved tooling to make migration delivery more repeatable, scalable and assured; Local Government, public sector, regulated or complex multi-organisation data alignment experience would be advantageous.</li></ul><p>
Download the full Job Description here: Head of Data Services</p><p><b>
Closing Date: 13/09/2026</b></p></div>

Head of Data Services

Bauer Media Group

<b>Our Team:</b> How We Enrich Everyday Life
<br>You’ll be joining Bauer Media Audio (BMA), Europe’s biggest commercial audio broadcaster, connecting audiences across nine markets to the music, stories and experiences they love. Bauer Media Audio is making a significant investment in a new in‑house software engineering hub in Manchester. This new hub reinforces Manchester’s position as a key technology centre for Bauer Media Audio, alongside its existing locations. We’re creating a new engineering team to build innovative business-critical solutions that will power Bauer Media’s audio platform of the future. Our team is built around squads, each aligned to a distinct value stream, with a layer of cross-squad roles – people whose expertise and support spans the whole team. Each squad will be led by a Product Manager and Lead Engineer, working in partnership and jointly accountable for their squad's work and outcomes. Squads are intentionally small – typically around five to six engineers – keeping them focused, collaborative, and able to move quickly. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and a shared commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions, working closely with product and technology peers to ensure our platforms meet the evolving needs of the business and our international markets.
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The Difference You Will Make
<br>As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in laying the technical foundations of this new engineering team. You’ll lead hands-on development of infrastructure and prototyping work, mentor engineers, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver secure, resilient, and high-performing systems.
<br>Working closely with your squad, you will ensure the squad's work aligns with our technical direction and product priorities, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement, shared ownership, and engineering excellence. You will play a key role in helping to create a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment that is psychologically safe, where everyone can be their authentic selves and do their best work, every day.
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Your Role
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Build and deliver Develop and maintain features and services across the platform, taking end-to-end ownership of your work from design through to deployment. Contribute to early-stage prototyping and infrastructure work, helping to shape the foundations of the platform.
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Shape technical direction Contribute to architectural decisions within your squad, sharing your experience and perspective to inform technical choices. Collaborate with your Lead Engineer and product colleagues to ensure your work aligns with the squad's technical direction and delivery goals.
<br>Mentor and support Support the growth of junior engineers through code review, pairing, and knowledge sharing — helping to build a team where everyone improves together. Play your part in growing the team — contributing to interviews and helping new engineers get up to speed quickly.
<br>Champion quality and operational excellence Champion DevOps practices, CI/CD, and a culture of automation and observability as a natural part of how you build. Lead on testing strategies and uphold security standards day to day. Participate in incident management rotas, providing hands-on technical support and clear communication during high-pressure situations.
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What We're Looking For
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<b>Experience of some but not necessarily all of the following:</b><br>
Technical capability
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Solid hands-on engineering experience, with active proficiency across frontend and backend development – enough to lead by example and contribute to technical decisions. Experience with our core stack — a Java Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes and Kafka back end, with a TypeScript/React front end. Experience designing and building services within a microservices or domain-driven architecture — defining service boundaries and working with asynchronous, event-driven communication (e.g. via Kafka) — and an understanding of how those decisions play out once services are running in production. CI/CD, containerisation, and modern DevOps practices applied as part of everyday delivery. Security best practices embedded in day-to-day development. An interest in AI-assisted development tooling and how it can improve productivity and code quality.
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Collaboration and communication
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Experience mentoring engineers and supporting their growth, with an awareness of how to adapt your approach to different people and experience levels. Strong communication skills – able to collaborate across disciplines and articulate technical ideas clearly to non-technical colleagues. A habit of documenting decisions and sharing knowledge across the team.
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Industry and delivery experience
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Experience working in a product-led, agile software delivery environment. Incident management experience or familiarity with on-call responsibilities. Media, audio streaming, or consumer platform experience is a plus.
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Working Pattern and Location
<br>This is a permanent, hybrid, full-time role with an in-office presence twice a week in our Manchester hub. Like all roles in the team, this one includes participation in incident management rotas – we schedule these collaboratively, taking into account everyone's responsibilities and commitments outside of work.
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Why Join Us?
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The chance to work in a team building platforms that reach millions of listeners across Europe, with real impact on the products people use every day. A growing engineering organisation investing heavily in its people, practices, and technology – with genuine support for skills development. A collaborative, product-led environment where engineering has a clear and respected voice in shaping business outcomes. An environment that values empathy, accountability, continuous learning, and engineering excellence. #LI-Hybrid
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About Bauer Media Group
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We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.
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What’s in it for you
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You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
<br>Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
<br>We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
<br>You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
<br>And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here
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We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.
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We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk
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We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.
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If you have any feedback regarding our UK recruitment process, please email careershub@bauermedia.co.uk we would love to hear from you.
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<b>Date Job Posting Last Updated:</b> 25 Aug 2026
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<b>Location:</b><br>
Manchester, GB, M15 4PR
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