Job ID:
94982
Published date:
02/09/2026
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Job ID:
94949
Published date:
28/08/2026
Summary
Enterprise Architect
Role Type - Fixed Term Contract role (salaried)
Salary: £44,746 - £56,535 per annum (negotiable) plus excellent benefits
Duration: 23 Months
Location: Buckinghamshire & remote
Start: ASAP
Role Overview:
An Enterprise Architect is required for our higher education client to work on a specific programme which is a major internal digital transformation project.
The programme will focus on replacing their legacy student management system with a new student records management system which will improve the overall student journey.
As the Enterprise Architect you will provides strategic technical leadership across the client's application, data, and integration landscape.
The role is responsible for defining and maintaining the enterprise architecture framework, ensuring that technology investments align with institutional strategy, architectural principles, security standards, and long-term sustainability objectives.
You will work closely with their digital transformation, systems development, infrastructure, data and business stakeholders to provide architectural oversight for major initiatives, advise on solution design, and ensure coherent evolution of the client's systems estate.
Essential Skills & Experience required:
Degree qualified or equivalent demonstrable experience as an Enterprise Architect
TOGAF or equivalent certification or demonstrable enterprise architecture experience
Extensive experience in enterprise, solution, or application architecture within complex organisations
Experience designing integration architectures and data exchange frameworks
Experience aligning technology strategy with business transformation initiatives
Experience working with cloud-based platforms and modern application architectures
Ability to translate business strategy into technical architecture
Experience operating within governance-driven or regulated environments
Previous experience of working within the Higher Education sector is desirable/advantageous
Excellent stakeholder engagement skills
Responsibilities include:
To define and maintain the Client's enterprise architecture principles, standards, and target-state architecture.
Provide architectural oversight and design assurance for major programmes and projects.
Ensure alignment between business strategy, application architecture, data architecture, and integration patterns.
Advise on technology selection, integration approaches, and technical risk mitigation.
Promote architectural consistency, sustainability, and security across the systems landscape.
Contribute to digital investment governance and long-term technology roadmap planning.
Ensure compliance with relevant security, regulatory, and information governance standards.
If this role is of interest, please email your CV to: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk or contact me on 01675 468926
Job ID:
94916
Published date:
27/08/2026
Summary
Brand Strategist
Duration: 9 Months
Location: Hybrid - Remote working with occasional visits to the London office if/when required
Rate: £575 per day
IR35 Status: Inside
Start: ASAP...
Role Overview:
A Brand Strategist is required for our Government client who are building a brand team to ensure that the services they provide are coherently branded, consistently delivered and trusted by users.
As the Brand Strategist you will lead the way on strategy, protection and positioning of their unique brand.
You will join a team comprising of talented creatives and designers who will bring the brand to life visually.
Your role is to provide the strategic foundation their work is built on, defining the positioning, protecting the integrity of the brand, and ensuring that wherever a user encounters a public service, the experience feels joined-up, credible, and designed with them in mind.
Essential Skills & Experience required:
As the Brand Strategist you will possess 5 years + experience across brand strategy, management and protection within a technology, platform or consumer-facing business where the brand operates across multiple channels, products and services.
Have worked across organisational boundaries with product teams, legal, communications, and policy teams, and can demonstrate examples of turning brand principles into practical guidelines that non-brand specialists can use.
Demonstrate experience of brand protection and enforcement, including trademark fundamentals, IP monitoring, and how to escalate and resolve brand misuse across digital and physical channels in partnership with legal counsel.
A proven track record of strategic work with strong creative instincts with a proven ability to work alongside creative leaders and evaluate design outputs against brand positioning and authority.
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Can demonstrate measurable impact, whether building a governance framework from scratch, reducing infringement rates, or improving cross-channel consistency Are a confident communicator and influencer who has presented brand strategy to senior leadership, written clear policy and guidance, and brought sceptical stakeholders on board with a brand decision. |
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You will have a proven track record of implementing brand strategies and brand architecture for large organisations and/or within creative environments.
Able to provide clear direction to both leadership and product teams.
Knowledge of any of the following:
Key Technologies: M365, Jira, Trello
Brand: Equity/purpose/proposition/positioning/user journey/experience/personality/awareness/OKRs/agile strategy/coherence/consistency/recognition/credibility/narrative/storytelling
Multichannel brand
Accessible brands/branding
Inclusive brands/branding
Cultural brand strategy
Unique brands/branding
Agile brands/branding
Brand trust
Working with senior stakeholders, c-suite
Duties include: To define and steward the brand strategy with their Head of Design/Head of Strategy
Lead brand protection and enforcement
Develop and maintain brand governance frameworks
Act as a cross-functional brand authority and partner closely with the brands team creative leadership.
Able to distil qualitative and quantitative research into clear, actionable recommendations.
If this role is of interest please email your CV to: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk
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Job ID:
94817
Published date:
25/08/2026
Job ID:
94586
Published date:
03/08/2026
Summary
Cloud Data Platform Specialist
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Hybrid (predominantly remote working with just the occasional travel to the client site in South Wales as required)
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
IR35 Status: Inside
Start: ASAP
We require a Cloud Data Platform Specialist for our public sector client who are migrating from on prem to Azure Cloud.
You will need to possess the following skills and experience:
Microsoft Databricks
Fabric
Azure data factory
Azure data lake
Azure SQL
Power BI
Please be advised for this role we are looking for the candidate to possess platform administration capabilities re the above skills (Not data science specialist); hence this role will be from an operations perspective.
Also required is experience of integration platforms, ideally Salesforce MuleSoft.
Also experience of working within a controlled environment using Azure DevOps and infrastructure as code, ideally terraform is required.
If this role is of interest please email your CV to: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk
Job ID:
94553
Published date:
03/08/2026
Summary
Azure Cloud Architect
Duration: 6 Months
Rate: £700 - £800 per day (Negotiable)
Location: Hybrid (predominantly remote working with just the occasional travel to the client site in South Wales as required)
IR35 Status: Inside
Start: ASAP
An Azure Cloud Architect is required for our public sector Client who are migrating from on prem to Azure Cloud. You will require experience of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework.
Also to possess experience of Infrastructure as Code - ideally Terraform together with experience of DevOps in deployment of artifacts within the Cloud is required.
The clients cloud platform is almost exclusively Azure so that is the priority, however any AWS experience would not go amiss.
If this role is interest please email your CV to: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk
Job ID:
93714
Published date:
31/07/2026
Summary
SOC Duty Manager - DV Cleared
Location: Milton Keynes (full time onsite)
Duration: 12 Months +
Rate: £700 - £800 per day (Inside IR35)
Start: ASAP
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced SOC Duty Manager to join a high-profile operational command function supporting a critical security environment.
As the SOC Duty Manager you will act as the on-shift operational commander, responsible for maintaining the single operational picture across multiple technology and security domains, leading integrated incident response activities, and making critical real-time operational decisions.
The successful candidate will possess exceptional situational awareness, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to coordinate multiple teams during high-pressure operational events.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the primary operational decision-maker during live incidents and service-impacting events.
- Lead integrated incident response activities across multiple operational teams.
- Maintain overall command and control of incidents from identification through to resolution.
- Ensure a single, accurate operational picture is maintained at all times.
Incident Management & Escalation
- Assess operational events and determine appropriate response actions.
- Declare and manage Major Incidents where required.
- Act as the primary escalation point for operational teams during live incidents.
- Coordinate escalations to senior stakeholders and leadership teams as appropriate.
Coordinate activities across Security Operations, Network Operations, Infrastructure, Physical Security, and supporting operational teams.
- Ensure effective communication and collaboration between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Drive timely decision-making and resource allocation during critical events.
Oversee operational handovers and shift continuity.
- Ensure high-quality documentation, reporting, and event timelines are maintained.
- Support post-incident reviews and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Promote operational best practices and adherence to established procedures.
Skills & Experience:
Essential
DV Level Security Clearance *essential*
- Proven experience leading operational teams within a 24/7 mission-critical environment.
- Strong incident command and crisis management experience.
- Ability to coordinate multiple teams and stakeholders during complex operational events.
- Experience operating within high-pressure, real-time environments.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
- Strong situational awareness and structured decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to rapidly assess operational risks and make informed decisions.
Desirable
- Experience within Security Operations Centres (SOC), Network Operations Centres (NOC), Command Centres, Defence, Government, or Critical National Infrastructure environments.
- Experience managing Major Incidents and operational escalations.
- Knowledge of cyber security, infrastructure, network operations, and physical security disciplines.
- ITIL, Incident Management, Operational Leadership, or related certifications.
If this role is of interest please email your CV to: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk
Job ID:
94354
Published date:
08/07/2026
Summary
AI Engineer
Duration: 6 Months
Rate: £800 per day
Location: London & remote (hybrid)
IR35 Status: Inside
Start: ASAP
Role Overview:
An AI Engineer is required for our Government client to develop AI products, tools, workflows and technical components for use across Government for their government digital and data/Cyber profession.
To work with users to understand needs, gather feedback and improve solutions.
Contribute across the software and AI stack, including frontend, backend, databases, APIs, data pipelines, model integration, LLM workflows and deployment support.
Support end-to-end delivery, from understanding the problem and building prototypes through to testing, documentation, deployment and iteration.
Apply user feedback to improve products and ensure solutions are useful, accessible and aligned to operational needs.
Identify and raise quality, usability, data, security, accessibility or operational risks early.
As the AI Engineer you will possess knowledge of integrating and using applied AI systems with a demonstrated ability to build them effectively
Possess substantial experience of software engineering practices and be able to take it from concept to implementation and go through the whole lifecycle.
You will contribute on two to three immediate pieces of work/projects.
Essential Skills & Experience required:
As the AI Engineer you will possess the following:
Experience of building, testing and deploying software, data products or technical components in a real-world environment.
Experience working across parts of the software or AI stack, such as frontend, backend, databases, APIs, data pipelines, model integration or cloud deployment.
Experience supporting the development of solutions such as LLM workflows, predictive models, automation tools, scheduling tools, data pipelines or user-facing applications.
Experience across the stack (e.g Python, Wagtail, Typescript etc)
Experience of Product thinking and UX design skills
Experience in natural language prompt engineering to build internal and shareable agentic tools.
Ability to work and adapt in complex or ambiguous organisational contexts with strong collaboration skills, including the ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
End-to-end delivery, understanding the problem and building prototypes through to testing, documentation, deployment and iteration
Desirable would be any of the following:
Experience with LLM observability and evaluation tools like Langfuse
Cloud and infrastructure experience – (Terraform, AWS, Github etc)
Entrepreneurial or startup experience
If this role is of interest please email your CV to joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk
Job ID:
94321
Published date:
07/07/2026
Job ID:
94122
Published date:
26/06/2026
Summary
Fraud Analyst (SC Cleared)
Duration: 12 Months
Location: London & remote (hybrid)
Rate: £250 per day
IR35 Status: Inside
Start: ASAP
Fraud Analyst (SC Cleared) is required to be part of a team working in a delivery focused agile environment to conduct the following:
Review and triage fraud alerts from live service data
Remain alert to emerging fraud issues and trends
Able to support analysts with large scale analysis work and ensure that queues and workstreams are maintained and sufficient time is allowed for priorities.
Skills & Experience required:
As the Fraud Analyst (SC Cleared) you will possess the following:
Current SC Level Security Clearance
Previous experience within the counter fraud or financial crime space
Able to understand and relay fraud assessments clearly to senior members of the clients operations team
Identify key trends and movements in data, together with potential anomalies that require further investigation
Happy to work independently and as part of a team
Can solve issues and unblock problems
Ability to work in a fast moving and targeted environment.
If this role is of interest, please email your CV to: joanne.stanley@certes.co.uk
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