Data Scientist – Labour Productivity / Hospitality

London | Hybrid – 2 days a week | Contract | £700-725pd Outside IR35

Not a generalist Data Scientist role.

I’m looking for a Data Scientist / Data Analyst with proven labour optimisation experience to support a major workforce productivity programme within a large, multi-site business.

The two things I need to see:

• Proven labour optimisation experience – delivering measurable improvements across labour productivity, wage % to sales, sales per labour hour, scheduling or labour deployment.
• Strong Finance & Operations stakeholder management – able to turn analysis into actions and measurable commercial results.

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years’ analytics / data science experience in a multi-site environment – hospitality, retail, leisure or QSR preferred
• Advanced SQL and data warehouse experience – Snowflake / dbt advantageous
• Strong Excel financial modelling and understanding of P&L / labour costs
• Strong BI development – Power BI, Tableau, Looker or Omni
• Experience with rota, time & attendance and payroll data

The role

• Labour productivity & workforce analytics
• Labour modelling and demand-led scheduling
• Identifying and sizing productivity opportunities
• Working across Data, Finance and Operations

If you have the labour optimisation + analytics + stakeholder experience, I’d like to speak with you.

Apply now or message me directly for more details.

Senior Project Manager – Dynamics 365 FO / SCM, Contract Outside IR35, £650 per day, 6 moths initial contract

A senior project management role joining at an early stage of a major ERP transformation, moving from a legacy Dynamics AX environment to Dynamics 365 Finance, Supply Chain Management and Commerce.

You will take ownership of the programme from the early stages, working across business and technology teams to shape the delivery plan, manage stakeholders, suppliers, risks, dependencies and governance through to implementation.

You will need extensive experience project managing Dynamics 365 Finance / Finance & Operations programmes, ideally including migrations from AX.

Experience across D365 SCM, Commerce, retail or broader ERP transformation would be highly beneficial.

This is a hands-on delivery role for someone comfortable coming into a programme early, bringing structure and driving it forward.

Outside IR35, 6 month initial contract, November start.

Delivery Manager – Dynamics 365 Business Central / ERP

Permanent | Remote | Salary c£90k+ Bens

Lead delivery. Lead people. Make a real impact.

We’re looking for an experienced D365 BC / Business Central Delivery Manager to take ownership of the day-to-day delivery function within a growing D365 BC Consultancy business.

This is a genuine operational leadership role where you’ll directly manage 4 Team Leaders across Project Management, Retail, Technology and Business Central Consulting, while having wider responsibility for a delivery team of 20+ people.

You’ll sit closely alongside senior leadership, ensuring teams are performing, projects are healthy, customers are happy and issues are resolved quickly.

What will you be doing?

You’ll provide leadership across the delivery function, working closely with Team Leaders, Project Managers, consultants, developers and senior leadership.

You’ll:

• Directly manage and support 4 Team Leaders across PM, Retail, Technology and Business Central
• Provide wider operational leadership across a 20+ person delivery function
• Monitor project health, workloads, utilisation, resource and delivery risks
• Ensure teams have the right people and skills in place to deliver customer projects
• Identify and resolve blockers before they impact customers or deadlines
• Act as the first point of escalation for delivery and customer issues
• Support Team Leaders with performance, development and challenging situations
• Work closely with Project Managers to maintain delivery continuity and project health
• Review delivery quality, documentation and processes to ensure consistent standards
• Support resource planning and capacity management across multiple projects
• Provide senior leadership with clear visibility of delivery performance, risks and opportunities
• Support scope changes and change control, ensuring commercial impact is understood
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality and customer satisfaction
• Help implement new processes and ways of working across the delivery function

What are we looking for?

We’re looking for an experienced delivery professional who understands D365BC / Dynamics BC ERP Consultancy and knows how to lead people, customers and complex delivery environments.

You’ll ideally have:

• In depth experience in project or service delivery at Team Lead, Senior PM or Manager level
• Experience managing people, ideally Team Leaders or multiple delivery disciplines
• Hands-on experience delivering ERP projects, ideally Microsoft Dynamics Business Central / D365BC 
• Experience overseeing multiple projects, workstreams or customers
• Strong customer-facing experience across discovery, UAT, go-live and post-go-live
• Experience handling escalations and resolving complex delivery issues
• Strong stakeholder and people management skills
• Experience working across PM, development, architecture, consulting and support functions
• A strong understanding of resource planning, utilisation and delivery risk
• Commercial awareness, including scope changes and project financials
• The confidence to make decisions, challenge when necessary and bring solutions not just problems
• Experience within a consultancy, professional services or fast-paced delivery environment

Knowledge of Agile, ITIL, PRINCE2 or other delivery frameworks would also be beneficial.

Why this role?

This isn't simply a project management position.

You'll have real ownership of the delivery operation, directly leading 4 Team Leaders and influencing a wider team of 20+ people.

You'll work closely with senior leadership to improve the way projects are delivered, develop your teams, solve customer challenges and ultimately improve delivery quality, efficiency and profitability.

If you're an experienced D365 BC Delivery Manager, Senior Project / Programme Manager, Service Delivery Manager or ERP Delivery Lead ready for a role with genuine operational influence, we'd love to hear from you.

D365 BC / Business Central Consultant - Manufacturing

Permanent | Remote | Salary c£90k + benefits 

D365BC / Business Central + Manufacturing. That's the combination we're looking for.

If you’re a Dynamics 365 BC / Business Central Consultant who understands both the technology and how a manufacturing business actually operates, this could be a great next move.

We’re working with a growing technology consultancy that is looking for an experienced Business Central Consultant with strong manufacturing expertise to join their team and deliver impactful D365BC projects for a range of clients.

This isn't simply a role where you'll configure a system and move on. You'll be working directly with clients, understanding their challenges, shaping solutions and helping transform the way they operate.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver and support end-to-end Dynamics 365 / BC Business Central implementations.
• Take ownership of the manufacturing side of projects, including production orders, BOMs, routings, MRP/MPS, capacity planning and shop-floor processes.
• Understand how clients currently work and identify where Business Central can improve, automate or streamline their processes.
• Lead client workshops, provide consultancy and act as a trusted D365BC Business Central advisor.
• Translate business requirements into functional specifications for developers.
• Work closely with developers, BAs and Project Managers to deliver successful implementations.
• Support testing, quality assurance and go-live activities.
• Deliver training and create documentation to ensure clients get the most from their new system.
• Share your knowledge with and support more junior consultants.

What makes someone successful in this role?

We're looking for someone who has:

• Strong D365BC / Dynamics 365 Business Central consulting and implementation experience.
• Solid manufacturing ERP experience, this is key.
• Hands-on knowledge of BOMs, routings, production orders, MRP/MPS, capacity planning, inventory and warehousing.
• A good understanding of the wider D365BC Business Central platform.
• Experience working directly with clients and senior stakeholders.
• The ability to take a business problem and turn it into a practical D365BC / Business Central solution.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to run workshops and explain solutions to non-technical users.
• Experience working on complex D365 Business Central projects.

Aptean experience? Even better, but it's not essential.

Why this opportunity?

You'll be joining a forward-thinking Consultancy where you'll have the opportunity to work on varied D365BC Business Central projects, develop your consulting career and work with the latest Microsoft technologies.

You'll also have access to Microsoft certification and professional development, alongside a strong benefits package including pension from day one, birthday leave, EV salary sacrifice, employee support programmes and more.

Security Engineer – MOD / Defence / High Security Clearance

Farnborough | Hybrid 3 days p/week on site
£75-80k + bonus and benefits
High-level UK Security Clearance required

Are you a Security Engineer with experience across privileged access management, identity security or enterprise security tooling?

This is a hands-on security engineering role working within a highly secure Defence and National Security environment. You’ll maintain and improve security platforms controlling privileged access, credentials and administrative activity across critical infrastructure.

There is also a requirement within the team for Elastic SIEM capability, so if you have strong Elastic experience alongside your security engineering background, that would also be relevant.

The role

You’ll work across identity, privileged access and wider security infrastructure, including:

• Managing passwords, SSH keys, API keys and privileged credentials.
• Configuring and troubleshooting automated password and credential rotation.
• Running discovery scans across Active Directory and network environments.
• Managing RBAC, permissions and user/group access.
• Monitoring privileged sessions and investigating failed authentication activity.
• Maintaining, patching and upgrading security platforms.
• Reviewing audit logs and integrating security events with SIEM tooling.
• Troubleshooting firewalls, load balancers and connectivity issues.

Key experience

• Hands-on Security Engineering within complex environments.
• Privileged Access Management (PAM) or identity security solutions.
• Active Directory, identity providers, privileged and service accounts.
• Vulnerability scanning, EDR or SIEM tooling.
• Elastic SIEM experience would be a strong advantage.
• Understanding of RBAC, credential management and security monitoring.

Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, ATT&CK or MOD security environments would also be useful.

There is a great corporate benefits package.

If your background is in PAM, identity security, Elastic SIEM or hands-on security engineering, this is an opportunity to work on complex systems where security has a direct operational impact.

Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Outside IR35 / MOD / Defence – High Security Clearance
£550-£600 per day Outside IR35 (expenses if required)
Somerset | On-site
DV Cleared

Are you an Infrastructure Engineer with strong hands-on experience across networking, storage, virtualisation and Windows infrastructure?

This is a contract role working on the build and deployment of infrastructure within a highly secure Defence environment in Somerset. You’ll be working across the physical and virtual infrastructure stack, including Cisco Nexus networking, NetApp storage, Hyper-V, VMware and Windows Server.

This is a hands-on engineering position, suited to someone comfortable building, configuring and hardening infrastructure rather than purely supporting an established environment.

The role

Working alongside infrastructure engineers and architects, you’ll be responsible for areas including:

• Configuring and hardening Cisco Nexus Leaf/Spine network infrastructure
• Initialising and presenting NetApp storage, including data-at-rest encryption
• Building and hardening Hyper-V clusters for core services including AD, DNS and PKI
• Supporting the integration and enablement of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
• Working with HSM/KMS appliances and hardware-based cryptographic systems
• Supporting key management and key ceremony activities
• Building and configuring Windows Server 2022/2025 environments
• Completing physical infrastructure installation, including rack-and-stack and secure cabling
• Working to the security and engineering standards required within a Defence environment

What you'll need

You’ll need strong infrastructure engineering experience, ideally including:

• Cisco Nexus or equivalent enterprise networking technologies
• NetApp ONTAP or comparable enterprise storage
• Hyper-V deployment within highly available environments
• VMware Cloud Foundation, ideally VCF 5+
• Windows Server 2022/2025
• Understanding of AD, DNS and PKI
• Experience with HSM/KMS technologies would be beneficial
• Experience delivering physical infrastructure, including rack-and-stack and cabling

Due to the nature of the project, you’ll need to have active DV Clearance.

If your background covers networking, storage and virtualisation and you’re comfortable delivering infrastructure hands-on within a secure Defence environment, this is an opportunity to work across the full infrastructure build rather than being limited to one technology area.

Senior Azure Platform Engineer - Farnborough (Hybrid) - SC Cleared - Salary up to £65,000

We're looking for a Senior Azure Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering team delivering secure, cloud-native platforms for highly regulated and mission-critical environments. This is an opportunity to work with modern Azure technologies, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code and automation, helping to build resilient platforms that support some of the UK's most important programmes.

The Role

As a Senior Azure Platform Engineer, you'll take ownership of designing, building and supporting secure Azure infrastructure while working alongside architects, software engineers and delivery teams to create scalable, resilient cloud platforms.

You'll play a key role in improving platform reliability, security and automation while helping shape technical direction across cloud infrastructure.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and maintaining Azure infrastructure across Kubernetes, Virtual Machines, networking, storage and databases
• Building secure hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity using technologies such as Virtual WAN, VPNs and BGP routing
• Implementing Azure security best practices including RBAC, Key Vault, Defender for Cloud and network segmentation
• Designing and maintaining Kubernetes environments for secure, scalable application deployments
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines to accelerate software delivery
• Developing Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform and automation tooling
• Implementing monitoring and observability across cloud platforms
• Driving automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort
• Supporting engineering teams with platform best practices and cloud adoption
• Continuously improving platform performance, resilience and security as the environment evolves.

What We're Looking For

You'll ideally have:

• 5+ years' experience in Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or similar cloud infrastructure roles
• Strong Azure expertise, ideally supported by AZ-104 and AZ-305 certifications
• Excellent knowledge of Azure networking including Virtual WAN, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateways, BGP, NSGs and Private Endpoints
• Strong Kubernetes and container orchestration experience
• Experience with Terraform and HashiCorp tooling such as Vault or Packer
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD or similar
• Strong Git and version control knowledge
• A passion for automation and modern DevOps practices
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work across multidisciplinary teams

Experience with JFrog products, Coder or additional cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud would be advantageous but isn't essential. Above all, we're looking for someone who enjoys solving complex technical challenges and continuously improving the platforms they build.

What's On Offer

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working
• Annual bonus
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Life assurance
• Generous pension contribution
• Ongoing professional development and training support
• Modern office facilities including on-site gym, café, restaurant and collaborative breakout spaces.

Security Clearance

Due to the nature of the work, applicants must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance.

Senior Azure Platform Engineer - Farnborough (Hybrid) - SC Cleared - Salary up to £65,000

QA Test Infrastructure Engineer – Contract – MOD/Defence

Somerset| £600 per day | Outside IR35 | DV Security Clearance Required

Are you an Infrastructure Test Engineer with strong QA and testing experience across networks, platforms and Infrastructure as Code?

This is an opportunity to work on complex Defence and National Security projects, taking responsibility for testing and validating infrastructure before deployment into highly secure production environments.

Working alongside Infrastructure Engineers, Architects and DevSecOps specialists, you’ll assure infrastructure across physical, virtualised and cloud environments, ensuring it meets the required standards for functionality, resilience and security.

What you’ll do

• Create infrastructure-focused test strategies, plans and test cases.
• Carry out functional, integration, regression, resilience and security testing.
• Test and validate Infrastructure as Code deployments.
• Validate physical, virtualised and cloud infrastructure.
• Provision and verify test environments alongside DevSecOps teams.
• Build infrastructure validation and readiness testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Identify defects, risks and infrastructure issues ahead of production.
• Support security assurance, compliance and accreditation activities.
• Maintain appropriate test evidence and traceability.

What you’ll need

Strong infrastructure knowledge combined with hands-on testing and assurance experience, including:

• Current, DV Security Clearance
• Networking – TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, routing, switching, VLANs and firewalls.
• Linux/Unix administration and troubleshooting.
• VMware and virtualised infrastructure.
• Physical infrastructure including routers, switches and cabling.
• Terraform and Ansible.
• Kubernetes.
• AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Jenkins, GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.
• Automated infrastructure validation and environment readiness testing.
• Secure-by-Design, IAM, OS hardening and network segmentation.

If you’re an Infrastructure Engineer with strong testing experience who enjoys getting into the detail of how infrastructure performs, integrates and stands up before production, get in touch.

Expenses are available if you require staying over to be on site 5 days per week 

Release Train Engineer (SAFe)

£60,000 to £75,000 + Bonus + Outstanding Benefits
Hybrid – Bournemouth (2 days per week in the office)

Are you an experienced Release Train Engineer, or a Senior Scrum Master who has coordinated multiple Agile teams and is ready for the next step?

This is an opportunity to join one of the UK's most established SAFe environments, where you'll help multiple Agile teams deliver together, develop Scrum Masters and play a key role in continuously improving Agile delivery across a large technology portfolio.

Working alongside Product Managers, Architects, Engineering teams and senior business stakeholders, you'll bring people together, remove delivery obstacles and help teams deliver better, faster and with greater predictability.

The role

You'll coordinate delivery across a large portfolio, supporting between 15 and 20 Agile teams and leading up to 10 Scrum Masters.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Facilitating PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt workshops, System Demos and other key scaled Agile events.
• Coaching Scrum Masters, leaders and Agile teams to improve capability and Agile maturity.
• Managing cross-team dependencies, risks and impediments to keep delivery on track.
• Improving the flow of work by removing bottlenecks and driving continuous improvement.
• Supporting the ongoing evolution of Agile ways of working across the technology function.
• Building strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure priorities, objectives and delivery remain aligned.

What you'll bring

You'll have experience as a Release Train Engineer, or significant experience coordinating multiple Agile teams within a SAFe environment as a Senior Scrum Master.

You'll also bring:

• SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE) certification or another current SAFe qualification.
• Experience facilitating PI Planning and other scaled Agile events.
• Proven coaching and people leadership experience, with the ability to develop Scrum Masters and Agile teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• A collaborative, servant leadership approach and a passion for continuous improvement.

What's in it for you?

You'll join a business with a mature Agile environment where you'll have the opportunity to influence delivery at scale, develop others and continue growing your own career.

There is an outstanding benefits package and hybrid working with two days a week in the Bournemouth office.

Senior Platform Engineer - Farnborough, Hybrid - Security Cleared - Up to £79,000

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering team delivering secure, resilient, and scalable platforms across cloud and on-premise environments. This is an opportunity to work on complex, mission-critical projects where your expertise will directly contribute to the delivery of technology supporting the Defence and National Security sector.

Working alongside highly skilled engineers, architects and technical specialists, you'll help shape platform strategy, drive engineering best practices, and deliver robust infrastructure that enables modern software development at scale.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining secure, scalable platform solutions across hybrid cloud environments.
• Developing and improving CI/CD pipelines to support efficient software delivery.
• Implementing monitoring, observability and operational tooling to improve platform reliability.
• Working closely with Site Reliability Engineering and Operations teams to ensure high availability and resilience.
• Supporting incident response, root cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Acting as a technical mentor, promoting engineering standards and best practice across the team.
• Collaborating with architects, engineers and stakeholders to evolve platform capabilities and adopt emerging technologies.

What we're looking for

You'll ideally have experience in:

• Platform Engineering, DevOps or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Kubernetes and containerised platforms.
• Cloud technologies including AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• CI/CD tooling and automation.
• Platform security, operational tooling and governance.
• Delivering complex solutions within secure or regulated environments.

Experience within Defence, National Security or other highly regulated industries would be advantageous but isn't essential.

Due to the nature of the work, applicants must be Sole UK Nationals and be eligible to obtain Security Clearance (SC), with a willingness to undergo Developed Vetting (DV). Some international travel may occasionally be required.

Senior Platform Engineer - Farnborough, Hybrid - Security Cleared - Up to £79,000