Workplace Specialist - Events, London (Tech Company)

Contract 6 months initially, £300-350 per day, inside IR35 (Umbrella)

A leading tech company is seeking an Events Specialist within their Workplace specialist team to support the London workplace office teams by managing events, meetings, and workplace operations that foster collaboration and company culture. This role involves planning and executing internal and external events for 20–300+ attendees, overseeing conference room scheduling, coordinating food and beverage setups, and partnering with HR, IT, Finance, and vendors to deliver a seamless experience for employees and visitors.

This global tech company are continuing to grow at a rapid pace!

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver world-class service for employees, customers, and visitors.
• Enhance connection, collaboration, and culture through proactive support.
• Manage calendars, bookings, and operational processes (SOPs).
• Support events for engineering, product, and go-to-market teams, including training, kick-offs, recruiting events, and celebrations.
• Maintain consistency with workplace standards and coverage.
• Keep great relationships with the rest of the internal teams
• Support the wider workplace EMEA and Real Estate operations teams on workplace programmes.

Requirements:

• 4+ years’ experience in corporate tech, startup, or hospitality environments.
• Experience in managing internal and external meetings and events.
• Strong background in hospitality/guest services and event management.
• Skilled in Google Workspace and workplace collaboration tools.
• Excellent communication, organisation, and multitasking skills.
• Customer-focused, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity.

Why Join?

• Be part of a fast-growing tech company with a dynamic and fun culture.
• Opportunities for career development and growth.
• Opportunities for contract extension or go permanent with the real estate and workplace team.

If you have a passion for hospitality and employee/ guest experience, we want to hear from you!

Engineering Manager (Service, Operations) - Defence Industry
Farnborough (Onsite)
High Level UK Security Clearances Required
£85k + great corporate benefits

Enjoy being the person who brings control, clarity and direction to engineering in a complex, high-pressure environment?

This is a critical leadership role at the centre of engineering delivery, responsible for managing engineering resources across a high-assurance environment while ensuring the stability of live services and the effective delivery of change. Sitting at the core of engineering activity, this role balances operational performance with the integration of change, while driving down technical debt and ensuring incidents are handled quickly and effectively.

Working closely with the Product Owner, Technical Authority and service teams, you will act as the focal point for engineering coordination, aligning priorities, resources and delivery.

The role

Managing engineering resources across patching, updates and ongoing maintenance, ensuring changes are clearly communicated and service impact is understood and controlled. Working with the Technical Authority to identify technical debt, define remediation plans and bring in specialist resource where required.

Partnering with the Product Owner to size, plan and prepare engineering activity needed to deliver change from the MVC pipeline. Leading the response to incidents across P1 to P4, ensuring the right expertise is applied quickly, and acting as Incident Manager for major P1 and P2 incidents, driving resolution.

Maintaining structure, clarity and accountability across engineering and service teams to ensure delivery remains aligned and controlled.

What is needed

Experience leading engineering teams within complex, service-led or high-assurance environments, with a strong understanding of service management, incident handling and controlled change delivery. Comfortable managing competing priorities across live service and project delivery, with experience identifying and reducing technical debt.

A calm, structured approach in high-pressure situations, alongside strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Organised, methodical and delivery-focused.

This is a role for someone who enjoys being at the centre of engineering operations, where you will bring clarity, control and momentum in an environment where your impact is immediate and visible.

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.

Head of Project Management

Bedfordshire | Permanent | SC Clearance

£75,000

Talent Locker are excited to be supporting a highly innovative engineering organisation in their search for a Head of Project Management.  This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who wants to play a central role in strengthening and shaping how projects are delivered across the business.

We are looking for a confident and credible leader who can bring fresh ideas, introduce structure where need, and help build a strong, respected project management function. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys improving ways of working and creating something that has long-term value.

The Opportunity
You will be responsible for leading a small but highly capable team and helping to establish consistent, effective project delivery across the organisation. Working closely with technical stakeholders, you will help embed best practice, strengthen processes, and support the ongoing development of the team. There is a strong focus on collaboration, improving efficiency, and ensuring project management is recognised as a key discipline within the business.

What we are looking for

We are looking for a proven Project Management leader with the ability to lead, influence, and operate with a high level of independence. This role would suit someone who has previously worked in a growing or evolving company where they have had real accountability.

You will have demonstrable experience in the following:

• Experience managing and developing Project Managers
• A track record of delivering technically complex projects
• The confidence to introduce new ideas and improve existing processes
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• A clear view of what effective project management looks like in practice

This is an opportunity to step into a role where you can make a real impact. The successful candidate with shape the direction of project management, influence the wider business and be a key part of the companies ongoing growth and transformation.

If you’d like to apply or find out more information, please contact Emma on emma@talentlocker.co.uk

Project Manager, Bedford (Hybrid 3 days on site), £45-55k + great benefits (Enhanced pension / Private medical)

Are you a project manager with a few years of experience and would love to work for a defense / engineering company experiencing some fantastic projects at the heart of technology, research, manufacturing, Defence and design?

Don’t worry – you don’t need an engineering or related background. You just need to be an excellent project manager, organised, great communication skills and someone trusted to manage projects, be a key contact for the team.

This is a broad, hands-on role where you’ll be responsible for coordinating project teams to deliver outcomes across a wider programme or portfolio. You’ll act as the main point of contact for stakeholders, working closely with technical and resource leads to define requirements, shape business cases, and build clear, achievable plans. The role involves managing risks, schedules, and dependencies, ensuring projects are set up with a strong baseline and governed effectively through to delivery. You’ll oversee progress, handle issues, and lead change where needed, while keeping communication structured and aligned to stakeholder needs. There’s also an element of supporting bids, contributing to planning, estimating, and proposal development.

You’ll bring a solid grounding in project delivery within a technical environment, with the ability to engage with complex subject matter, communicate clearly, and lead teams to deliver against time, cost, and quality expectations. A formal qualification helps, but proven experience and capability matter more.

If you want to join somewhere on a transformation program working on both internal and external projects, involved in bid management and be exposed to a new environment – please apply.

You will need to be eligible for Security Clearance (5 years UK residency)

Senior VCF Engineer

Rate: £600-650pd | Location: Onsite - Somerset | Contract: 6 months - possible extension 

Are you looking for an opportunity to take the lead on high-assurance VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.x deployments? We have an exciting role for a Senior VCF Engineer to join a high-security UK project onsite. You’ll drive VCF orchestration, NSX networking & security, Aria Operations, and storage integration, ensuring a secure, resilient, and fully managed private cloud. This role is ideal for engineers with expert-level VCF/NSX experience and experience in MOD, government, or national infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end deployment of Management and Workload Domains using SDDC Manager, VCF Installer (Cloud Builder), and VCF Operations.

• Design and implement NSX virtual networking topologies, including Tier-0/Tier-1 gateways, load balancers, and Distributed Firewall (DFW) micro-segmentation policies.

• Configure and optimize Aria Operations, Aria Logs, and Aria Automation for proactive management and automation.

• Integrate NetApp ONTAP storage with performance and path redundancy in mind.

• Manage patching and upgrades of the full VMware stack (ESXi, vCenter, NSX, Aria) via VCF’s Lifecycle Management (LCM) workflows.

• Collaborate on identity and authentication security for all management planes.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level knowledge of VMware Cloud Foundation (v8.x/9.x) and multi-site/multi-cluster architectures.

• Deep experience with VMware NSX, particularly security-driven networking and overlay-to-underlay integration.

• Proficient with Aria Operations, Aria Logs, and Aria Automation.

• Experience in UK High-Security environments (MOD, Government, or National Infrastructure).

Preferred Certifications:

• VCP-VMC – VMware Certified Professional: VMware Cloud

• VCIX-NV – VMware Certified Implementation Expert: Network Virtualization

Infrastructure Engineer - UK Security Clearances Required (High Level Clearance)
Permanent – up to £80k + bonus and benefits
Hampshire based / or Somerset

This is a hands-on infrastructure role operating at the sharp end of secure environments. You’ll be working across multi-classified systems where stability, security and performance genuinely matter, supporting critical platforms spanning Windows, Linux, cloud and virtualised estates.

The environment is complex and varied. One day you’re deep in system triage and patching across secure platforms, the next you’re improving automation, advising on infrastructure design, or helping shape more robust, Secure by Design capabilities across the estate. There’s a strong mix of BAU and project work, with real scope to influence how things are built and improved.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll maintain and enhance multi-classified environments across virtualised, collaboration and development platforms, ensuring everything is secure, patched and performing as expected.

What you’ll bring

Strong experience across Windows Server and Linux environments, alongside Azure, VMware and networking fundamentals. You’ll be comfortable working in secure or protectively marked environments and understand the operational discipline that comes with it.

Essential
• Windows Server 2016+ administration
• RedHat OpenShift
• Linux (CentOS, RedHat, Ubuntu)
• EUD provisioning (Autopilot), maintenance, patching and hardening
• SSO concepts and operation
• Experience working in protectively marked environments
• VMware
• Azure
• Networking
• Automation and scripting (Ansible, PowerShell)

Experience with Kubernetes (e.g. VMware TKGI), VMware tooling (vSphere, vCenter, VCF), Azure/Microsoft 365, DevSecOps tooling, Elastic, Nessus, application packaging, Terraform, Vault, and Agile delivery would be advantageous.

This role suits someone who enjoys being hands-on, solving problems properly, and continuously improving the environment around them.

A genuinely high-impact role in a secure environment where good engineers stand out quickly.

Network Engineer

Permanent - up to £85k + bonus and benefits

Security Clearance : It is an essential requirement for candidates to obtain UK Security Clearance (DV Level) prior to appointment. 

Location: Hampshire - 5 days on site

Are you a Network Engineer looking to work on production LANs and global WANs in a high-security environment? We are seeking a hands-on engineer to support existing networks, implement new infrastructure, and lab/test emerging technologies. The ideal candidate is comfortable with CLI-driven configuration, network security, and automation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support LAN and WAN architectures
• Configure and troubleshoot routing protocols including OSPF and BGP
• Implement and manage VPNs and network security infrastructure, including NGFWs (Next-Generation Firewalls)
• Build and maintain data centre networks (Leaf/Spine architecture or similar)
• Work with high assurance IP encryption (HAIPE) devices
• Automate network deployments and orchestration using Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools
• Document configurations and implement designs from High-Level and Low-Level Design documents
• Work with whitebox/open networking infrastructure (Linux-based network OS)

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience with LAN/WAN architecture
• Strong understanding of OSPF & BGP routing protocols
• Hands-on experience with VPNs and firewalls
• Knowledge of data centre network design
• Experience with network automation/orchestration tools
• CCNP or equivalent qualification

Desirable Skills:

• Experience with software-defined networking (SDN) such as NSX
• Exposure to whitebox switching/open networking platforms
• Familiarity with high-assurance encryption device

Data Operations Manager

£65-75k + bonus and benefits

Permanent - Full time

Bournemouth - hybrid - 2 days a week on site

Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you a Data Manager ready to take your career to the next level? We are seeking a Data Operations Manager to lead and scale our data capabilities, ensuring the delivery of reliable, high-quality, and accessible data across our platforms and databases.

This role requires strong Data Operations leadership, technical insight, and stakeholder management skills to oversee both the build of new data products and the operation of live environments. You will manage cross-functional, onshore and offshore teams to deliver customer-focused solutions while maintaining high operational standards.

You will be responsible for prioritising delivery across new programmes, managing live data environments, and providing technical guidance to Data Engineers and Principal Data Engineers. This is an exciting opportunity to shape the DataOps function in a fast-paced, evolving organisation and lead both Build & Run activities for critical data platforms.

Key Responsibilities

Build - Project Delivery & Data Product Development

• Lead prioritisation and capacity planning for customer-focused data programmes and products.
• Collaborate with Principal Data Engineers to size, scope, and deliver scalable data solutions.
• Oversee development of SQL Server, Amazon Data Lakes, and GCP-based data products.
• Support engineering teams in delivering data pipelines, transformations, and integrations.
• Ensure solutions align with customer journeys, claims, and product experiences.

Run - Operations & Platform Management

• Line manage the operations team across the UK, South Africa, and India.
• Oversee live data platforms, ensuring reliability, modernisation, and optimisation.
• Assess impact of issues, prioritise operational tasks, and maintain platform performance.
• Provide technical guidance to troubleshoot and resolve complex data and infrastructure challenges.

Governance & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate with Product Executives, IT teams, and stakeholders to ensure data governance, compliance, and security.
• Track KPIs and provide insights on performance, delivery, and operational efficiency.
• Promote best practices in data quality, integrity, and process standardisation.

Key Requirements

• Proven experience in data operations, data engineering, or platform management (typically 5+ years).
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams across multiple locations.
• Strong technical knowledge to challenge and guide senior Data Engineers and Principal Data Engineers.
• Hands-on experience with SQL Server, Amazon Data Lakes, and familiarity with GCP desirable.
• Experience in both Build (delivery of new data products) and Run (operation of live environments).
• Ability to prioritise competing workloads, manage capacity, and make impactful decisions.
• Knowledge of data governance, compliance, and regulatory frameworks.
• Excellent communication, relationship management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery methodologies.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonus
• Flexible and hybrid working options
• Opportunities for career growth and development
• Up to 12% pension contribution
• Private health insurance
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Collaborative and inclusive working environment
• Free breakfast and lunch in the offices
• Free parking on site

Senior Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central Developer
£70-75k + Benefits | Remote UK, Spain or Portugal

Do you enjoy owning the technical delivery of complex ERP solutions and working directly with clients to shape how systems support real business operations.

You would play a key role in delivering end to end Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central software solutions across a varied client base, ranging from SMEs through to large multinational organisations. This is a position where technical depth matters, but so does the ability to engage with stakeholders, translate business requirements, and guide projects through design, build and implementation.

You will take ownership of solution design and development, ensuring high quality delivery while setting strong technical standards across the team. Alongside hands on development, there is also the opportunity to mentor junior developers and influence best practice across the wider development function.

What you will be doing

• Designing, developing and implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC / NAV) solutions
• Working closely with clients to understand business processes and translate requirements into technical solutions
• Developing extensions using AL and delivering robust customisations within Business Central
• Building integrations between Business Central and external platforms using APIs, web services and third party connectors
• Producing clear technical documentation and solution design
• Providing technical leadership and mentoring to junior developers
• Contributing to development standards and staying current with emerging Microsoft technologies

Experience

• Strong experience developing in Microsoft Dynamics NAV and Business Central (D365 BC)
• Commercial experience building AL extensions for Dynamics 365 Business Central
• Deep knowledge of configuration, customisation and integration capabilities within Business Central
• Solid functional understanding across Business Central modules
• Exposure to Azure services is beneficial but not essential

In return, you will join a forward thinking partner environment with access to modern Microsoft tooling, certification support and genuine opportunities to develop your expertise while delivering impactful solutions.

If you enjoy building well engineered Business Central solutions and working with clients who rely on the systems you create, this is a role where your expertise will genuinely shape delivery.