Lawyer / Solicitor / Legal Counsel – SaaS | 12-month contract, Outside IR35 £600-750 per day
London (Hybrid – 1 day per week in office)
Start: ASAP

A fast-growing international SaaS business is seeking an experienced Legal Counsel to join its in-house team. This is a genuine “hit the ground running” opportunity where you’ll have immediate impact in a high-performing, sales-driven environment.

You’ll join a team of 8 and support operations across Europe and the Middle East. The focus will be triaging and negotiating a high volume of commercial contracts, including NDAs, SaaS agreements and amendments, while also stepping into more complex agreements where capable. Sales teams operate with pace and urgency, so you must be confident working independently, managing pressure and delivering pragmatic, commercially focused advice.

You’ll embed into established legal processes (Ironclad, Salesforce, risk/playbook systems) with onboarding provided.

About You:
UK-qualified (circa 4–5 PQE, flexible), with proven in-house SaaS experience and strong Sales partnering exposure.

If you’re ready to step into a visible, high-impact role where your ceiling of complexity is genuinely uncapped, this is one not to miss.

Senior Project Manager (Microsoft Dynamics 365) - £85k - £100k + bonus, private medical, life insurance, 25 days holiday (option to buy up to 6 additional days) and more – Home-based with ad hoc to client

Are you looking for the next step in your career? Are you working on Microsoft Dynamics projects and want to make the jump to a consultancy? Do you want the opportunity to work on various large-scale transformation programmes?

Working for a well-known and reputable Microsoft consultancy, you will be accountable for the delivery of large and complex Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects and programmes. You will be responsible for a defined set of clients and all the projects within that client's account, ensuring client satisfaction, and that projects are delivered in adherence to the company’s quality assurance requirements and delivery methodology. You will be responsible for managing delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring projects are controlled effectively and delivered to time, quality and budget.

In addition to working on major Dynamics 365 and Power Platform transformations, you will have a personalised and tailored training and development plan to help you get where you want in your career, there is a lot of opportunity for growth and progression.

What will you be doing on a day-to-day?

• You will be accountable for the delivery of Microsoft Dynamics 365 projects, ensuring they adhere to the agreed timelines and maintain a high standard of work
• Communicating with senior management to ensure the commercial management of the account, including forecasting and client reporting
• Ensuring the project is adhering to the agreed delivery methodology and project controls
• Oversee the overall performance of the project delivery work, ensuring the quality of all deliverables and compliances
• Ensuring the work being submitted meets the required company quality standards and promptly addressing any concerns

What experience and skills do you need?

• The ability to manage multidisciplinary teams of up to 25 people
• Strong experience delivering Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Applications and/or Power Platform projects end-to-end
• Demonstrable experience managing large scale programmes / projects across a range of clients in complex environments
• You must be able to manage stakeholders at all levels and have a clear level on communication
• SAFe / Scaled Agile Framework (or other) agile experience
• Knowledge and understanding of project governance, project controls, scope management and change control

This role is home-based and will be ad hoc travel to client sites.

Linux Engineer (Ubuntu Migration) – Contract, Outside IR35 £500 per day outside IR35, Farnborough 3-5 days per week
3 months initial contract, extendable
SC clearance required prior to start

This engagement is focused, delivery-driven and sits within a Defence / MOD-aligned environment. The platform is Ubuntu-based, and the immediate priority is a structured migration from an older Ubuntu version to a newer release within a compressed timeframe.

You’ll take a hands-on role in planning and executing the migration across a secure, protectively marked estate, ensuring stability, compliance and minimal operational disruption. This includes assessing the current environment, identifying dependencies and risks, completing upgrade testing, resolving technical issues and supporting cutover activities.

Strong enterprise Ubuntu administration experience is essential, alongside proven involvement in version-to-version migrations. Experience working within Defence, MOD or similarly regulated secure environments would be highly advantageous.

This role suits a Linux engineer who can hit the ground running, operate with minimal oversight and is comfortable focusing on migration delivery within a security-first setting where precision matters.

CNC Machinist

Bedford | Full Time | Permanent

£35,000 - £45,000

Talent Locker are pleased to be partnered with a specialist engineering organisation, recruiting for an experienced CNC programmer/ Operator to join their highly skilled manufacturing team in Bedford.

Our client is an established SME operating at the forefront of advanced engineering, product development and delivering complex, high precision components and research led solutions to a global customer based. Their work supports innovative engineering programmes and involved bespoke manufacturing processes with a strong focus on precision, collaboration, and technical excellence.

This is an opportunity to join a business where quality and craftsmanship are paramount. The work is varied and technically challenging, focussed on low volume, one off and bespoke components rather than high volume production.

The CNC Machinist/ Operator will play a key role in the manufacture of high quality, high value precision components. You will be responsible for setting, programming and operating CNC machinery to exact standards. Working closely with the engineering and production teams, the priority will be delivering complex parts efficiently and accurately.

Essential experience:

• HNC, HND, City & guilts qualification apprenticeship or equivalent practical experience
• Strong attention to detail and a quality focussed mindset
• Experience working with Heidenhain, Fanuc, Siemens or a similar control system
• Working experience of online programming and problem solving during set up and machining
• Experience of 3-axis or 5-axis machining
• Strong set up experience including tooling and fixture preparation

This position operates on a 38 hour working week, Monday – Friday (0700 -1500). Occasional shift work may be required, and overtime is paid at an enhanced rate.

Please note – It is an essential requirement for the successful applicant to obtain UK SC clearance prior to appointment.

To find out more information or to apply, please send your CV to Emma on emma@talentlocker.co.uk

Contract Network Engineer – Cisco ISE / Aruba ClearPass – Network Access Controls SME
Inside IR35, £525 per day – initial 6 month contract (extension for another 6 months)
Southampton 3 days per week + Travel (fully paid and abroad)

Fancy a great contract involving luxury travel included?! This is contract role for a network engineer with strong expertise in NAC (Network Access Controls) with experience of deploying Cisco ISE or Aruba ClearPass for a cruise company.

A major Network Access Control rollout is underway across ship and shore environments, and this is a chance to step in as the technical lead driving it forward. You’ll act as the SME for Cisco ISE and or Aruba ClearPass, owning the design, deployment on board cruise ships and operational performance of the NAC environment while delivering to tight timelines.

This is a hands on role. You’ll configure, integrate, test and troubleshoot complex solutions, act as the escalation point for NAC issues, and identify risks and improvement opportunities. You’ll also collaborate with internal teams and vendors, while mentoring engineers to raise overall capability.

Strong enterprise NAC delivery experience is essential, alongside deep knowledge of Cisco ISE and or Aruba ClearPass. You’ll understand 802.1X, MAB, RADIUS, EAP, certificate based authentication, guest and BYOD workflows, and integration across wired, wireless, firewall and identity platforms.

This would be Southampton to install knowledge to the team 3 days per week, and travel on board a cruise ship (fully paid for) likely 1 week or 2 weeks every 6-8 weeks.

Infrastructure Engineers (Mid–Senior) | Farnborough | £65,000–£80,000 | SC Cleared

Momentum. Investment. Big, complex projects landing and a pipeline that keeps building. If you’re an Infrastructure Engineer who wants to work in the defence industry who thrives when things are busy, evolving and technically stretching, this is the kind of environment where you’ll genuinely grow.

This organisation operates at the top end of National Security and Defence, delivering secure-by-design solutions across multi-classification environments. With new work being won and existing programmes expanding, they are hiring both mid-level and senior engineers to strengthen an experienced, high-performing team.

You’ll be maintaining, improving and securing virtualised, collaboration and development environments across public, private and hybrid cloud platforms. Expect hands-on involvement in Windows Server (2016+), Linux (CentOS/RedHat/Ubuntu), VMware, Azure and Microsoft 365, alongside patching, monitoring, automation and incident management within protectively marked environments.

Senior engineers will also bring experience across networking, automation (PowerShell/Ansible), OpenShift/Kubernetes and DevSecOps tooling, while contributing to technical direction and supporting business growth.

Desirable exposure includes Terraform, Vault, Elastic, Nessus, application packaging and Agile delivery environments.

You would need to be eligible for Security Clearance during onboarding.  This would be on site in Farnborough.

If you’re looking for a role where there’s real technical depth, visible impact and a steady stream of meaningful projects to get stuck into, this is a brilliant time to join and make your mark.

Android / Software Developer, Cheltenham – Hybrid, £450-475 per day Outside IR35

Contract role for an android / Kotlin developer for a MOD/Defence project near Cheltenham.

Key Skills required:

• Kotlin developer with experience writing state management and SQLite - preferably knowledge of MapLibre in Kotlin and Geo data structures
• Comfortable with programming in a limited containerised environment and developing on physical devices not emulators.
• Knowledge of Docker

This is a security cleared role and the successful candidate would need to be SC cleared prior to appointment.

If you are immediately available with Kotlin Development experience within a defence environment, please apply.

Manufacturing Support Engineering Shift Lead (Nights)
Southampton
up to £55k + 26% shift allowance (up to £69k total)
7pm–7am | 4 on, 4 off (nights)

This role sits at the sharp end of a highly automated manufacturing operation, leading a team of Manufacturing Support Engineers on the night shift within a 24/7 production environment where uptime, quality and pace genuinely matter. You’ll take full ownership of nights, balancing hands-on engineering support with people leadership, performance management and forward planning.

You’ll be accountable for leading an engineering team in a clean-room, high-volume environment, reacting to faults, overseeing planned preventative maintenance and resolving operational issues in real time during the night shift. Alongside this, the role requires strong analytical capability, using data from nights to identify trends, plan improvements and feed into wider engineering performance.

Strong people leadership is essential. This role requires proven experience of managing engineers through appraisals, coaching, development plans, disciplinaries and regular 1-to-1s, while maintaining engagement and standards on a permanent night pattern.

This environment suits candidates from highly automated sectors such as automotive, medical devices, pharmaceuticals or FMCG, and is also well aligned to experienced military engineers transitioning into manufacturing leadership roles.

What you’ll need
• Proven leadership experience managing technical teams
• Background in high-volume, highly automated manufacturing
• Confidence working hands-on with engineering faults, PPM and breakdowns
• Ability to balance shop-floor leadership with analysis, planning and reporting
• Experience operating in clean-room or tightly controlled environments

Salary and benefits
• Salary up to £55,000
• 26.09% night shift allowance
• Annual salary reviews
• 5% employer pension contribution
• Health Cash Plan
• Life Assurance and Income Protection
• Gym Flex, Cycle to Work and additional lifestyle benefits

If you’re looking for a night shift leadership role with real engineering ownership, clear accountability and a package that properly rewards working nights, this is a chance to run your shift like it’s your own operation.

Project Manager – GIS / Esri
Glasgow (Hybrid: 3 days onsite with a major energy supplier, 2 days WFH)
Permanent | Full time

This is a consulting Project Manager role within a global technology consultancy, supporting a long-standing partnership with a major UK energy supplier that has been in place since 2018 and is entering a new phase of growth. While the role is currently embedded onsite with the client team in Glasgow, there is a clear ambition to establish a dedicated consultancy presence in the city to further strengthen delivery and collaboration.

The Project Manager will lead the delivery of complex GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Esri-based programmes within the utilities environment, combining strong project governance with hands-on technical understanding. In true consultancy fashion, the role balances delivery excellence with commercial awareness, relationship-building and the ability to identify opportunities to expand and deepen the existing client engagement.

You will work closely with senior client stakeholders, internal consultancy teams, and international delivery teams in Spain, ensuring projects are delivered to a high standard while aligning with broader strategic objectives.

Key responsibilities

• Lead GIS and Esri technology projects from initiation through to successful delivery
• Act as a trusted consulting partner for senior client stakeholders
• Coordinate multi-disciplinary delivery teams across the UK and Spain
• Identify and support new business development opportunities within the client account
• Apply appropriate project governance and delivery methodologies
• Ensure quality, timelines and client satisfaction are consistently met

Essential experience

• Strong Project Management experience within consultancy or client-facing environments
• Hands-on experience with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and Esri technologies (essential)
• Experience delivering projects within utilities and/or large-scale infrastructure
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Commercial mindset with the ability to identify and shape growth opportunities

Additional information

• Hybrid working model: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
• BPSS clearance required which will be done during onboarding (no existing clearance needed)
• Highly competitive salary packages available, dependent on experience

This is an opportunity to step into a high-trust consulting role, influence the growth of a strategic client partnership, and help shape the consultancy’s long-term footprint in Scotland.