47 jobs found in Reading

3-6 month contract | Reading / Hybrid   We're looking for a smart, energetic and hands-on person to join us as we launch and test a brand new AI product, BuildEngine.   BuildEngine is designed to help engineering teams use AI to build software faster, while giving businesses the governance, security and control they need.   This isn't a narrow role. You'll get involved across the whole product.   You could be: Testing new features and finding bugs Helping shape how the product works Working with our engineers on smaller technical tasks Testing AI agents and development workflows Helping prepare customer demos Joining customer calls and showing BuildEngine in action Gathering feedback and helping turn it into product improvements Travelling to tradeshows Trying new AI models, tools and ideas   We're not looking for someone with 10 years of experience.   We're looking for someone...

Customer Data Business Analyst Customer Engagement Initiative (Digital Transformation Programme) Location: Reading (Hybrid – Tuesdays are anchor days) Duration: Initial 3 Months Contract Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   We're looking for an experienced Customer Data Business Analyst to join a major Customer Engagement Initiative within a large-scale Digital Transformation Programme. This is a pivotal role focused on building the customer data foundations that will enable future loyalty, promotions, personalisation, customer engagement, and marketing capabilities . You'll play a key role in defining and shaping new customer data products, ensuring the business has the data, insights, and structures needed to support its long-term customer strategy. This is a hands-on role, working closely with Product Owners, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Data Architects, and Data Engineers to define customer data requirements...

Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building. CyberArk Architect 3+ months rolling contract Newbury, UK About The Role We are seeking a CyberArk Architect to lead solution design for a large-scale, TSA-regulated Privileged Access Management (PAM) migration and merger consolidation programme. This is a hands-on architecture role spanning vault migration design, identity federation, and application onboarding strategy for an estate spanning thousands of accounts and...

Contract: Initial 3 -6 months Start: ASAP Level: Head of Engineering / Engineering Director Hybrid: 3 days a week onsite in Paddington   The Role We are looking for a senior engineering leader to provide technical and delivery oversight across two key areas: Contact Centre Transformation and Personalisation. This is an interim cover role for a few months, focused on providing stability, supporting the engineering teams and two new Engineering Managers, maintaining delivery momentum, and ensuring a smooth handover to the permanent replacement. There is no line management responsibility.   Key Responsibilities Provide senior technical leadership across Contact Centre Transformation and Personalisation. Quickly understand the technology landscape, programmes, teams, suppliers and key risks. Provide technical oversight across a complex, third-party and partner-led delivery environment. Support two new Engineering Managers, providing...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.   UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.   Job Purpose:   UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is delivering Shaping Our Future, a significant organisational transformation portfolio that will modernise services, processes, technology, operating models and ways of working across the organisation.   The Head of Change Management is a senior leadership role responsible for developing and leading the portfolio-wide...

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is the national funding agency investing in science and research in the UK.   UKRI invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation and the people who make it happen. They work across a huge range of fields - from biodiversity conservation to quantum computing, and from space telescopes to innovative health care. They give everyone the opportunity to contribute and to benefit, bringing together people and organisations nationally and globally to create, develop and deploy new ideas and technologies.   Innovate UK is seeking an experienced PMO Analyst to support the governance, financial management and reporting of a complex IT portfolio valued at approximately £30m. This is a high-profile role within the IT Directorate, providing financial oversight, portfolio reporting, delivery assurance and governance support across a range of business-critical technology and digital programmes....

Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more. Opticore IT are currently searching for a System Administrator who has experience working with CMDB administration and ITSM to come and join the team for a 3 month contract inside IR35 with scope to extend. This opportunity will require three days on site in Dunstable per week. This opportunity will work within a major UK hospitality brand supporting the ongoing maintenance, validation and improvement of Configuration Management and Service Information data within ServiceNow. What you'll be doing: Maintain and improve Configuration Item, Service and Service Offering records within ServiceNow, working across Infrastructure, Applications, Networks, Security and Service Management...

Intelance is appointing an Oracle Technical Architect as a contract associate for the definition phase of a major UK enterprise technology programme. You will work with Intelance's Chief Enterprise Architect and Lead Integration Architect to confirm how the Oracle estate should support a staged integration programme. The current environment includes Oracle Database 19c, IBM AIX and Oracle Data Guard. This is a focused architecture and assurance role. The expected commitment is about 10 days across an 8 to 10 week period. Delivery will be mainly remote, with limited planned travel where needed. Tasks Verify the current Oracle database, infrastructure, resilience and integration position. Confirm the planned Oracle 19c, IBM AIX and Oracle Data Guard changes and the dependencies they create. Define which data and business rules must remain within Oracle. Define the safe boundary between Oracle and the future integration platform. Review existing direct...

Intelance is appointing a Security Architect as a contract associate for the definition phase of a major UK enterprise technology programme. You will provide a focused security review of the proposed integration approach and work with Intelance's Chief Enterprise Architect, Lead Integration Architect and Oracle Technical Architect. The work will set the security requirements for how systems, APIs, files, identities and sensitive data connect. The expected commitment is about 5 days across an 8 to 10 week period. Delivery will be mainly remote, with limited planned travel where needed. Tasks Review the current security controls affecting integrations, Oracle, bespoke applications and external connections. Define security requirements for APIs, messaging, file transfer and service accounts. Set identity, access, authentication, authorisation and privileged access requirements. Define encryption, key and secret management requirements. Define logging,...

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.   The MOD is one of the biggest public procurement organisations in Europe and the single largest customer for UK industry. It currently manages approximately £20 billion of spend on capital investments in equipment and infrastructure every year. Over the next decade the MOD is committed to spending over £190 billion on equipment and support. The MOD's customers include both the armed forces and national security agencies, and it has a diverse range of requirements, including military fighting vehicles, education services, nuclear submarines and facilities management.   The MOD's aim is to provide its armed forces with the best capabilities to enable them to protect the UK's security and advance national interests,...

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government’s ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.   As a  Project Manager - Comms , your main responsibilities will be   Working with a wide team of stakeholders at all levels across the department Working to build a stakeholder management plan from scratch Cover all standard project management duties which include RISK, dependencies, Issues and governance Work to both tight deadlines and timescales   Essential Skills   Extensive experience across...

Start date 1st October Immediate Interviews 3-month initial contract duration (likely to extend) £ day rate OUTSIDE IR35 2/3 days / week in office working (London)     As a Principal Product Designer, you are a discipline expert. You set the benchmark for quality and best practice. You are passionate about what you do and motivate those around you. You are a strong consultant who can foster positive and trusted relationships with our clients. You're comfortable providing end-to-end product design leadership across a multi-team programme, as well as high-value consulting services to shape a client's digital product strategy or to develop and launch early product initiatives to prove their value to senior stakeholders. You are a people person and, as a trusted advisor, you develop rapport with your team and clients. You are an integral part of the product team at Red Badger and a client-facing cross-functional team working in...

Job Title: Cyber Security Engineer (Threat Modelling) - contract Location: London Hybrid, 2-3 days a week in the London office Duration: 4 months Contract Start Date: ASAP *please note that onboarding will take 4-6 weeks from the offer Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role We are looking for an experienced Threat Modelling Security Engineer to identify security threats, define effective mitigating controls and manage findings throughout their lifecycle. You will deliver...

Job Title: Cloud Network Engineer (contract) Location: London Hybrid (2-3 days a week in Canary Wharf) Duration: 4 months Contract Start Date: ASAP *please note that onboarding will take 4-6 weeks from the offer Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role We are looking for a Cloud Network Engineer to help deliver secure, resilient and scalable network platforms across AWS, Google Cloud and on-premise environments. You will design and automate multi-cloud and hybrid...

Job Title: IAM Engineer (contract) Location: London Hybrid 2-3 days a week in the London office Duration: 4 months Contract Start Date: ASAP *please note that onboarding will take 4-6 weeks from the offer Day Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)   Deloitte Working with the Deloitte Associate (Contractor) Programme means we can offer you the opportunity to work on a variation of industry and client related projects. Our aim is to retain the best talent and so when your project end date nears our team of Talent Community Advisors will be working with you to look at alternative projects within the firm that suit your experience should you wish to continue with Deloitte.   The Role We are looking for a Cloud IAM Engineer to design and deliver secure identity and access management (IAM) solutions across AWS and GCP environments. Working with security, infrastructure, service engineering and business application...

Job Title: AI Roku Developer Location: London Company: BritBox International Reporting to: SVP of Technology and Content Delivery Contract Type: Day rate Contractor, 3-month About Us BBC Studios’ Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) business brings premium content directly to North American audiences through two distinctive streaming brands: BritBox and BBC Select. BritBox , the ultimate streaming destination for British TV. We offer an unparalleled collection of thoughtfully curated entertainment—cleverly crafted and full of the charm, wit, and heart that define British storytelling. Born from the BBC, our mission is to bring authentic British stories to our audiences. Launched in 2017, we are a small but mighty streamer that punches above our weight—available on every major platform and even featured among the bright lights of Times Square—and we’re just getting started. BBC Select is a documentary streaming service that has been...

IT Service Recovery Consultant – 8 week Contract   We are looking for an experienced IT Service Recovery & Runbook Consultant to support a consultancy engagement focused on improving the ability of a large organisation to restore and recover the IT components underpinning its critical services. This is a technical discovery and consultancy assignment, rather than a traditional Business Continuity or Operational Resilience role. The initial engagement will assess the organisation's existing recovery documentation, establish a standardised approach to technical runbooks, identify the IT components requiring runbooks and determine the work required for a subsequent implementation programme.   The assignment Working closely with platform engineering teams, technical SMEs and IT component owners, you will: Define a standard service restoration runbook template, including the minimum technical processes and information required to...

3-4 days per week, hybrid work policy in central London office We're looking for a freelance product engineer to join us between June and October 2026, working primarily on wonderbly.com with a focus on driving growth into Q4. This is a hands-on role. The work involves close collaboration with the VP product and other teams to solve deep customer experience challenges around our Kids and Keepsake landing pages and journeys, in order to unlock growth in these key areas for the business. You'll be working within a small, focused team — and at least some of the time, with a fair amount of autonomy. We're not looking for someone to execute a perfect brief. We're looking for someone with the judgment to help us figure out the right thing to build, and then build it well. A few things that are important to us The work you're doing feeds directly into beautifully made, deeply personal books that people treasure. People’s perception of quality has to be...

We're looking for a UI/UX contractor. London-based, 2–3 months.   The platform is powerful and sophisticated. The work our customers do is complex and regulated, and we have built for that depth. We have a focused sprint to find the UX friction and fix what matters most.   Your job is to find that friction - with evidence - and to help us improve it. You will research how people actually use the product, assess it against usability heuristics, information architecture principles and WCAG 2.2 AA, and turn the findings into a ranked set of changes. Then you implement them together, fast. Working closely with our lead design engineer.   You bring: usability research on complex software, end-to-end research ownership, WCAG 2.2 AA and information architecture fluency, and recommendations that stand up without you in the room. AI fluency is a must; Claude experience a plus.   Enterprise, regulated or workflow product experience is a...

**Don't use auto apply. Please email us***   Optific+   Initial 2–3 month contract, potential to extend or go full-time UK based, ideally London. Elsewhere in the UK is fine if you can get to London for team days.   About us Optific+ is building the AI intelligence layer for optical businesses. Optical groups have their information scattered across practice management systems, tills, reporting tools and documents. We connect those sources and let teams ask questions about their business in plain language, with every answer cited back to the source record. We are moving into enterprise pilots and need someone to own the technical implementation of them.   The role Your first focus is a pilot with a multi-site optical group. You will work out how to get at their data, build the integration, map it into something we can query reliably, configure the product around the agreed use cases and keep it working through the...