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SuccessFactors Lead - Contract OpportunityJoin an Exciting Higher Education HR Transformation Are you a seasoned SuccessFactors professional eager to make a tangible impact in the Higher Education sector? Our client, a prestigious UK-based institution, is seeking a skilled SuccessFactors Lead to play a pivotal role in an ambitious HR transformation programme. This contract position offers a unique opportunity to drive meaningful change by optimising HR systems and processes in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment. Key Responsibilities SuccessFactors Expertise: Lead the design, implementation, and management of HR system enhancements using your comprehensive SuccessFactors knowledge. HR System Optimisation: Ensure the HR systems meet the evolving needs of a progressive organisation, offering hands-on solutions and insights. Programme Collaboration: Work closely with the client's team to deliver a transformative HR programme, contributing to project milestones and success metrics. Higher Education Sector Insight: Develop tailored solutions to address the unique challenges and opportunities within the Higher Education/public sector. Role Details Location: United Kingdom Contract Type: Contract Why This Role? This is a remarkable opportunity to leverage your expertise in SuccessFactors and HR system optimisation in a setting where your work will leave a lasting impact. Join a committed team supporting a university through a critical transformational journey. If you're ready to take on your next career challenge, this role could be the perfect fit. Contact us today to apply or learn more about this exciting opportunity! Please click to find out more about our Key Information Documents. Please note that the documents provided contain generic information. If we are successful in finding you an assignment, you will receive a Key Information Document which will be specific to the vendor set-up you have chosen and your placement. To find out more about Real, please visit Real Staffing, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy | Registered office | 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ, United Kingdom | Partnership Number | OC387148 England and Wales

At CGI, we deliver digital transformation that creates lasting value. As an Agile Delivery Lead within our Agile Digital Services team, you will drive the successful delivery of complex, high-impact programmes across commercial and public sector clients. You will shape how organisations adopt agile practices, accelerate value delivery, and build resilient, future-ready capabilities. Working at the forefront of innovation, you will guide teams, influence stakeholders, and embed modern delivery approaches that improve outcomes, enhance collaboration, and unlock measurable business success—all within a culture that empowers you to take ownership, think creatively, and grow your career. CGI was recognised in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work List 2025 and has been named a UK ‘Best Employer’ by the Financial Times. We offer a competitive salary, excellent pension, private healthcare, plus a share scheme (3.5% + 3.5% matching) which makes you a CGI Partner not just an employee. We are committed to inclusivity, building a genuinely diverse community of tech talent and inspiring everyone to pursue careers in our sector, including our Armed Forces, and are proud to hold a Gold Award in recognition of our support of the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant. Join us and you’ll be part of an open, friendly community of experts. We’ll train and support you in taking your career wherever you want it to go. Due to the secure nature of the programme, you will need to hold UK Security Clearance or be eligible to go through this clearance. This is a hybrid position.

IT Infrastructure Team Lead Our Client has a great opportunity to play a key role as an IT Infrastructure Team Leader. You will be leading a team of highly skilled infrastructure professionals, third party management and will have responsibility for all infrastructure services. This covers network, hosting, and server infrastructure (on-premises and cloud). As IT Infrastructure Team Leader, you will have highly developed leadership skills, strong technical IT infrastructure skills and have proven experience effectively delivering infrastructure projects. We are looking for an Infrastructure Team Leader with at least 5 to 7 years proven hands-on expertise who has knowledge managing & improving technologies, security, and compliance for internal led standards. Main Accountabilities Responsible for managing, mentoring, and developing a team of highly skilled 3rd line infrastructure engineers, ensuring a high performing team Work closely with the IT management team, 3rd parties, and business and product owners to deliver efficient infrastructure services, ensuring excellent working relationships exist and the department benefits from collaborative working and the sharing of knowledge Management, administration, and operational support of the infrastructure Contribute to the effective governance of project deliverables to ensure solutions are fit for purpose and adhere to the IT Infrastructure roadmaps and architectural strategy Managing Incidents and Requests in line with agreed SLA's/OLA's Providing a first point of escalation for the team in respect of service/delivery issues Proactive incident, problem, change and configuration management Management of resources ensuring adequate cover is maintained to deliver the existing support requirements Ensuring effective DR/BCP plans exist to deliver the required RPOs and RTOs for all infrastructure services, including regular testing Managing effective and value adding third party relationships. Key Requirements Proven experience of supporting a large 24x7 operations, and experience of leading a multi-skilled team through change and transition Technically delivered a Cloud migration project Exceptional people management skills to inspire and motivate a team of highly technical specialists Managing internal and third-party resources as required to plan, design, build and run the enterprise IT infrastructure Experience of delivering infrastructure changes within a fast paced, high frequency change environment An excellent understanding of enterprise best practice infrastructure management, including use of automation/orchestration, monitoring, and logging Previous experience working in mixed on-premises/cloud environments e.g., Azure/AWS Working knowledge of information security threats and the best way to prevent them Minimum ITIL V3 Foundation certified and significant experience in ITIL aligned environments Excellent stakeholder management experience Have a broad understanding of relevant technologies and the opportunities they provide to enhance our service offerings – examples are: Microsoft based server infrastructures and back-office technologies Linux/open-source technologies Experience of delivering solutions using a mix of on premise, hybrid and SaaS, PaaS and IaaS models Virtualisation technologies Data Centre and Edge Networking Infrastructure and Endpoint security technologies Office 365 and Microsoft Azure Scripting, PowerShell, Ansible The Client is based in Paddington London. The salary for this position is in the range £65K - £75K plus benefits. Please do send your CV to us in Word format along with your salary and availability.

Engineering Lead / Technical Transformation Lead - Excellent rates available Must have active DV Clearance This role will take ownership of aligning engineering delivery into a scalable and consistent operating model across a complex multi supplier environment. The successful candidate will combine strong engineering governance capability with technical awareness across enterprise technology environments. Working as part of the customer Design Authority, the role will focus on engineering standards, tooling strategy, governance and delivery methodology alignment across the programme lifecycle and future BAU operations. Key Responsibilities Own engineering process, governance, tooling strategy and engineering standards across the programme. Define and embed engineering lifecycle processes across software, infrastructure, platform and service management components. Align delivery methodologies across multiple workstreams using SAFe, Agile and Scrum principles. Ensure engineering delivery aligns with ITIL best practice and supports long term BAU operations. Lead engineering governance across suppliers to ensure delivery consistency and quality assurance. Define engineering automation tooling strategy and support adoption across teams. Provide strategic engineering direction aligned to programme and customer objectives. Attend Design Authority meetings and contribute to engineering and technology strategy. Lead the Engineering Community of Practice and support capability development. Drive automation adoption and engineering maturity improvements. Mandatory Skills and Experience Experience operating within Design Authority or enterprise engineering governance environments. Proven experience implementing SAFe, Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies across large programmes. Strong understanding of ITIL frameworks within live operational environments. Experience across cloud, infrastructure, networks, platforms and support services. Experience defining engineering standards, governance frameworks and lifecycle processes. Strong stakeholder management across suppliers, engineering teams and senior customer stakeholders. Experience leading engineering transformation within complex programmes. Strong understanding of engineering automation tooling and delivery enablement. Comfortable operating within secure or highly regulated environments. Ideal Profile Engineering transformation background rather than pure PMO or process governance. Strong technical credibility and ability to engage directly with engineering teams. Pragmatic approach to governance and delivery alignment. Comfortable operating within large scale, multi supplier delivery programmes. Adaptable mindset with the ability to apply structured delivery approaches across varied technical workstreams. To apply, please send your CV by pressing the apply button Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take a minimum 18 weeks. LA International is an award-winning partner of choice for many of the world's most influential companies and government organisations. Holding Enhanced Government Security Accreditation, we are recognised as the European market leader in the delivery of Security Cleared talent to organisations that demand the very highest levels of security, compliance and assurance. An award-winning organisation, having secured the prestigious Queens Award for Enterprise: International Trade over multiple years. We are committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable and accessible workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We welcome applications from all individuals, regardless of background or identity, and we encourage candidates who may not meet every listed requirement to still apply. If you require any adjustments or support during the recruitment process, please let us know and we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience. Please Note: If a high volume of applications is received, only candidates shortlisted will be contacted.

Digital Technology Lead C# .Net To provide the Technical leadership for our Agile Development Team working across .Net C# Core, Web UI and Sitecore CMS technologies on our new multi-market Digital CMS Platform. The Tech Lead role will be split 40 / 60 between Hands On and Hands Off development activities working with a development team comprising of internal resources plus external system suppliers. You will be accountable for the technical delivery of changes across the Platform and will work with the IPF Architects, System Analysts and Development team to provide technical leadership, technical designs and implementation of best practices across the team to ensure quality and timely deliveries. Provide detailed technical designs for development team. Develop and maintain baseline technical design documentation for the Digital CMS Platform. Preparation and delivery of technical proposals and presentations Technical feasibility studies for newly-created product ideas/software projects and propose implementation solutions Work with IPF Architects and partners to contribute to the overall Enterprise Solution design Ensuring that software development is delivered on schedule, in-line with designs, to quality and within the overall plan. Provide Code Reviews for the key core functionality to ensure adherence to designs. Complete coding development as required ensuring it is fit for purpose, effective, scalable and future proofed. The role is expected to be split 40 / 60 Hands On and Hands Off. Implement Azure DevOps CI/CD Build and Release pipelines across the Digital CMS platform. Development and maintenance of a technical backlog, software release map and technology roadmap for the Digital CMS Platform. Follow best-in-class agile methodology (2week sprints), throughout the software development lifecycle to deliver consistent market leading engineering solutions Attend project/tech updates and stand-ups providing accurate updates where appropriate and highlight any project risks/bottlenecks/successes Provide delivery estimates as part of Agile delivery process for implementation of functionality. Determine project requirements and developing work schedules for the team. Ensure assignment of tasks to the Team to align with skills, growth and personal preferences. Improve the software development process using the latest technologies Implement best practices and coding standards across the delivery team. Provides technical expertise to peers in other functions Mentor and improve development team members Liaise with other delivery teams, stakeholders, users and senior leaders Works independently with guidance only in complex situations Keeping up-to-date with industry trends and developments. Software development cycles and approaches Use of online collaboration tools JIRA and Confluence Highly proficient in core Microsoft technologies: .Net Core. C#, T-SQL, MVC, Web API Knowledge and work experience of a CMS web platform (Sitecore desirable) Experience in CI / CD build and delivery pipelines (Azure DevOps desirable) Financial services IT solutions IT industry and ways of working within multi-disciplinary teams The Client is global operation with an office in Leeds. The salary for this role is circa £60K - £70K + Excellent Benefits. Please send your CV to us in Word format along with your notice period and availability.

Lead Software Engineer £75,000 to £85,000 + Private Healthcare + Enhanced Pension Winchester (Hybrid, 4 days per week in the office) Are you a senior software engineer looking to take end to end ownership of a complex, real-time distributed platform that integrates directly with mission-critical hardware used in security and critical infrastructure environments? This is a principal-level technical role within a specialist engineering business developing a real-world platform that ingests, processes and surfaces live telemetry from radiation detection systems deployed in highly sensitive locations. The software underpins real-time monitoring, alerting and operational decision-making, where performance, reliability and security are non-negotiable. You will lead the technical direction of a TypeScript-based microservices platform, remaining hands-on across backend services while also owning a large Angular enterprise application used by customers in the field. Working closely with a capable onshore team and an established offshore function, you will shape architecture, standards and delivery across the full software lifecycle. This role suits an experienced engineer who enjoys deep technical ownership, architectural responsibility and building systems that have genuine real-world impact. The Role: *Technical ownership of a TypeScript-based, microservices backend platform running in Linux environments *Leading development of a large Angular front-end used for real-time dashboards, monitoring and alerting *Designing and optimising data models across PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch and Redis *Owning CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure delivered across on-prem, cloud and hybrid deployments using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and Ansible *Leading and mentoring onshore and offshore engineers while setting technical standards The Person *Strong experience building and owning distributed, microservices-based systems *Commercial experience with TypeScript on the backend and Angular on the front-end *Proven background working with multiple database technologies in performance-critical systems *Comfortable operating in Linux-heavy, security-constrained or regulated environments *Strong DevSecOps mindset with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code exposure *Confident influencing technical direction within senior engineering teams Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.