Total 22 Senior Executive level Information Technology job vacancies in Northallerton, North Yorkshire

We currently have a new opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high quality software products and solutions that support our business operations.

You will work closely with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritise technical solutions and product enhancements. You will help to drive and deliver the continued development of those technical solutions from concept to launch.

What you’ll do: 

• Design, build, and deploy cutting-edge full stack web applications that push the boundaries of technology.
• Work closely with a dynamic technical team to launch exciting new features and maintain application quality.
• Transform stunning designs into functional visual elements while ensuring code integrity and security.
• Thrive in an Agile environment, continuously learning and applying new skills to drive success.

Senior Technical Architect needed in Liverpool Paying £395.79 per day ref 1378356

Full time hours on a temporary basis

Responsibilities

• • Cloud Migration: Design and implement strategies, assess current infrastructure, and develop migration plans.
  • Architecture: Develop and maintain blueprints and roadmaps for cloud solutions.
  • Collaboration: Gather requirements from stakeholders and translate them into technical specifications.
  • Leadership: Provide technical guidance to project teams and ensure best practices.
  • Compliance: Conduct regular assessments and audits to ensure security and governance compliance.
  • Innovation: Stay updated with the latest cloud technologies and industry trends.
  • Vendor Management: Evaluate and integrate third-party solutions.
  • Training: Provide training and support to end-users and IT staff.
  • Senior Role: Tackle complex architecture and design challenges, mentor ICT staff, and apply EA frameworks to develop ICT strategy and solutions.
  • Investment Plan: Develop and justify the annual technology investment plan.
  • Business Drivers: Identify and clarify business drivers and goals for investments.
  • Architecture Models: Develop Business, Application, Data, and Technology models.
  • Program Support: Ensure quality and support delivery programs from start to finish.
  • Risk Management: Identify, quantify, and mitigate technology-related risks.
  • Interdependencies: Map and manage interdependencies between technologies, processes, and projects.
  • Technical Proposals: Develop and manage technical proposals and costings, including risk and contingency planning.
  • Technology Reuse: Reuse existing technologies to reduce costs and exploit new opportunities.
  • Best Practices: Implement best practices and innovative technologies to ensure technical excellence.

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Pay up to £89,995, plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

As a highly experienced technical leader joining our Cross Boundary Team, you will drive strategy and innovation, leading on the application development and coordination of technical teams to create and maintain products and services for DWP.

You will be a strategic thinker, with the ability to convey complex ideas and plans to both stakeholders and technical teams.

This role requires a technical specialist who can steer communication between a range of technical resources to ensure alignment to standards and business needs, as well as DWP strategy.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

We're using fresh ideas and leading-edge tech to build and maintain digital solutions that will be used by nearly every person in the UK, every day and at key moments in their lives. 

DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people.

The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us.

What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? 

• Experience of anticipating and exploiting opportunities, suggesting and reviewing new technologies to ensure they are fit for purpose and utilised in the best way possible.
• Experience of leading a team of engineers, providing experience, advice, and guidance to a wider team.
• Experience of getting solutions through technical governance, in particular architectural design approval, and understanding how technical governance works within wider governance.
• Experience of assuring corporate services by understanding key risks and mitigation through assurance mechanisms.
• Experience of ensuring solutions meet standards of practice and appropriate governance

You and your role

As a member of the Cross Boundary Team's leadership team, you will be accountable for the application development, coordination and leadership of a large technical team (around 100 resources), creating and maintaining products and services for DWP.

Using your deep technical knowledge, you will provide advice and guidance across internal and external relationships reconciling priorities, agreeing on approach and contextualising proposals submitted for approval. You will make balanced recommendations to mitigate problems resultative of change in Departmental policy.

You will work closely with the delivery team to ensure alignment to the wider DWP technical strategy and achieve mutually acceptable solutions across both internal and external interests.

You will have the expertise to contribute to critical business discussions to inform strategy across areas such as software development, engineering, DevOps and solution architecture.

Due to the size and location of the team, there will be an element of travel required to all hub locations, which will contribute to your hybrid working commitment.

Details. Wages. Perks.

Location: We You'll join us in one of our digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester or Newcastle, whichever is most convenient for you.

Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub.

Pay: We offer competitive pay of up to £89,995.

Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions worth 28.97%, worth up to £22,521.

Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time.

You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays.

We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• An award-winning environment and culture: Employer of the Year 2023 (Women in IT Awards), Founders Award for Outstanding Digital Leadership 2023 (Digital 100)
• Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' 
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
• Sports and social activities
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Process:

We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages:

1. Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through.

1. Interview: a single stage interview online.

CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.

The Commercial Products team manages a fleet of custom-built systems that perform critical functions for our Sales Operations, Traffic, Finance and Presentation teams, which make it possible for us to sell and traffic ads into our linear broadcasts schedules. In other words, our systems manage all revenue associated with broadcast.

You’ll be joining a new team as a part of a key piece of CRM integration work within our sales systems - day to day you’ll be working with AWS, developing API’s, and ensuring an overall robust integration.
 

• Design, develop, and maintain integration flows using various platforms, APIs, databases, protocols, and data formats.
• Collaborate with and review code from other developers in the Commercial Products team to ensure each integration maintains a consistent level of technical standards set by the team.
• Implement and enforce robust security practices, including knowledge of OIDC/OAuth.
• Develop and maintain system integration architecture and comprehensive documentation.
• Participate in and, when required, facilitate team ceremonies.
• Work with other engineers to peer review code, solve problems, advise on best practices, and uphold high technical standards.
• Mentor engineers in cloud development practices, with a focus on AWS.
• Ensure performant database operations, particularly with SQL Server, Redis, and PostgreSQL.

We’re entering an exciting time of business investment, and you’ll have the opportunity to work with the team responsible for greenfield & existing customer facing features for some of the most highly visited media websites in Australia such as Sydney Morning Herald, The Age as well as Lifestyle brands Good Food and Traveller. We use a brand new, entirely cloud-first modern tech stack, with a fully automated, Slack-integrated CI/CD DevOps environment. We craft world-class high performance, high availability, web applications in small autonomous Agile squads.
 

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Engineer with a strong background in web development and expertise in React 18, GraphQL and NodeJS. As a Senior Engineer, you will collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, design, and implement web applications that are not only visually stunning but also performant, responsive, and user-friendly. You also enjoy mentoring and coaching other team members. You are also the one who takes pride in improving squad level practices and standards.

Ideally you are a Frontend-focused Full Stack Engineer , with a broad understanding across a range of technology.

Responsibilities:

• Scoping and breaking down project into engineering deliverables
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to architect, design and implement visually stunning websites
• Utilise your in-depth knowledge of React to build scalable and high-performance website
• Collaborate with designers to turn design mockups into fully functional, responsive websites
• Write clean, maintainable and well-documented code while following best practices and coding standards
• Write unit and integration tests
• Improve squad level practices and standards by staying current on emerging trends
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior developers, sharing your expertise and knowledge of software development

Requirement gathering and analysis.
Design integration requirements with other third-party platforms.
Designing data models.
Defining architectural & development standards for the project in adherence to Appian  best practices.
Preparing high-level technical specifications for the solutions.
Performing frequent code reviews & ensuring quality of the overall delivery.
Interacting with customers on a daily basis and be the main point of contact for customer
Presenting demos to the customers.
Running all major sprint ceremonies.
Planning on project releases
Lead User Acceptance Testing with business users, BA
Able to do the Application deployments
Enabling the development team to go to the next level.
Oversee infrastructure set up in case of On-Premise projects.
Working with the off-shore team during the development phase
Working knowledge of Networks and OS platforms (Windows, Linux).
Knowledge of agile development methodologies

Senior Software Engineer

We're hiring for a Senior Software Engineer; you'll develop and maintain software products that make up citizen services and contribute towards their design.

Salary between £52,412 - £78,517 p.a. plus 27.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid hub / home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. We work a hybrid model - some time at home, some time in the office.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department that helps people into work and makes payments worth over £195bn a year to support millions of daily users.

You will be part of changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

You and Your Role

You will support and develop our legacy services, which are responsible for paying £150bn to over 15m customers each year.

We want to build and maintain our core systems, contributing to DWPs goal of supporting some of the most vulnerable people in society by building demanding and exciting future digital services for the UK Government. You'll be flexible in supporting across applications, transforming business requirements into production ready code.

You will be responsible for the operational stability of the products you build, and be in a position to effect change in the on-going robustness and resilience of those products and carry out agreed infrastructure maintenance tasks.

You'll be leading a team of engineers in addition to collaborating and providing leadership to a multi-functional team supporting our applications.

Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required.

Your Essential Skills:

• Knowledge and experience of COBOL/MicroFocus COBOL, in a Windows and Linux environment.
• Experience of coaching, mentoring, and developing colleagues. Experience in stakeholder management and influencing decisions.
• Awareness/knowledge of Tuxedo, RHEL and scripting languages.
• Awareness/knowledge of open source technologies and tools such as Python and SQL. Knowledge and experience of using SQL to query databases to extract specific information/data.
• Awareness of test-driven development, business driven development.
• Awareness of automated test suites and how they support a continuous deployment environment.

Details. Wages. Perks.

In return for your skills, we pay between £52,412 - £78,517 per annum.

You will also receive a brilliant civil service pension, with employer contributions of 27.9%-30.3% worth £19,494 - £23,555 each year.

Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Sports and social activities
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs.

Senior Software Engineer

We're hiring for a Senior Software Engineer; you'll develop and maintain software products that make up citizen services and contribute towards their design.

Salary between £52,412 - £78,517 p.a. plus 27.9% employer pension contributions, hybrid hub / home working, flexible hours, and great work life balance.

Location

This role may be located in one of the following locations: Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield. We work a hybrid model - some time at home, some time in the office.

DWP. Digital with Purpose.

DWP is the UK's largest government department that helps people into work and makes payments worth over £195bn a year to support millions of daily users.

You will be part of changing the face of public services with the potential to dramatically transform the future of millions of people.

You and Your Role

You will support and develop our legacy services, which are responsible for paying £150bn to over 15m customers each year.

We want to build and maintain our core systems, contributing to DWPs goal of supporting some of the most vulnerable people in society by building demanding and exciting future digital services for the UK Government. You'll be flexible in supporting across applications, transforming business requirements into production ready code.

You will be responsible for the operational stability of the products you build, and be in a position to effect change in the on-going robustness and resilience of those products and carry out agreed infrastructure maintenance tasks.

You'll be leading a team of engineers in addition to collaborating and providing leadership to a multi-functional team supporting our applications.

Provide 3rd line support on products developed, including out of hours support as and when required.

Your Essential Skills:

• Knowledge and experience of COBOL/MicroFocus COBOL, in a Windows and Linux environment.
• Experience of coaching, mentoring, and developing colleagues. Experience in stakeholder management and influencing decisions.
• Awareness/knowledge of Tuxedo, RHEL and scripting languages.
• Awareness/knowledge of open source technologies and tools such as Python and SQL. Knowledge and experience of using SQL to query databases to extract specific information/data.
• Awareness of test-driven development, business driven development.
• Awareness of automated test suites and how they support a continuous deployment environment.

Details. Wages. Perks.

In return for your skills, we pay between £52,412 - £78,517 per annum.

You will also receive a brilliant civil service pension, with employer contributions of 27.9%-30.3% worth £19,494 - £23,555 each year.

Plus, a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising over time to 31 days.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

• Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
• Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
• Family-friendly policies
• Time off volunteering and charitable giving
• Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
• Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
• Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
• Sports and social activities
• Working in an award-winning environment and culture
• Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities.

Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs.

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join our Origination team. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, crafting, and maintaining high quality software products and solutions that support our business operations and engage our users.

You will work closely with cross-functional, agile teams to identify and prioritise technical solutions and product features that delight our customers and our internal users. You will help to drive and deliver the continued development of those technical solutions from concept to launch.

Responsibilities

• Design, craft, and maintain software applications using our core development languages C# (.Net) and JavaScript / TypeScript (ReactJS)

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and prioritise technical solutions

• Lead and assist with planning the development of technical solutions from concept to launch

• Mentor and coach less experienced team members

• Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging technologies

Job Introduction

Exciting news! Our growing IT team is looking for an experienced Senior Business Systems Architect - Network to fill a crucial role in planning the future development of our WAN and LAN network environments. As the network/WAN/LAN/Wifi subject matter expert, you will work closely with partners, operational support, and specialist delivery teams to ensure seamless operations and optimal performance of all business connectivity.

This role is critical to our transformation of the network to a scalable cloud-first environment, with a drive to adopt new technologies as the business demands. You will assess current and future state connectivity options and work with the business to determine the best fit.

Based at Junction 41 in Wakefield, with free parking and a flexible, hybrid way of working, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a real impact in our team. Colleagues are required to work in the office for a minimum of 1-2 days per week, with the expectation of additional attendance when needed.

Don\'t miss out on this amazing opportunity to be a part of our exciting future plans. Apply now and become a key player in our mission to enhance our network\'s robustness and resiliency. #networkarchitect #ITjobs #businessconnectivity #cloudfirst #hiring

Role Responsibility

• To be the voice of expertise on network design and strategy across the organisation.
• Take ownership for the design of new network solution considering how it will touch all components of the business from stores to offices through to warehouses and design studios.
• Work closely with 3rd party providers and Internet Service Providers to ensure the stability of the networks. Attending regular service delivery meetings as required to understand challenges and raise concerns as they are identified.
• Work closely with and interact with internal stakeholders up to C-Suite level. Ability to translate technical aspects to non-technical team members as well as the day-to-day interactions with support partners.
• Enable the business to drive innovation and to guide the transformation of the various network environments across the business in line with the strategic plan.
• The ability to provide forward-thinking solutions that remain complaint and secure.
• Configure and install network devices, switches, firewalls, and routers, ensuring that best practise is adhered to.
• Monitor network performance and integrity.
• Resolve issues tiers of support have escalated by troubleshooting cloud and local infrastructure.
• Automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness.
• Mentor team members on technical issues.
• Create, oversee, and test security measures (e.g. penetration and network access controls)

The Ideal Candidate

• Deep technical knowledge of networks/WAN/LAN/WIFI
• Strong technical knowledge of network security and hardening techniques.
• Solid understanding of OSI or TCP/IP model
• Have delivered enterprise level network implementations.
• Delivery and knowledge of technical projects across multiple locations
• Change and Transformation experience.
• Excellent Communication skills and able to work with stakeholders up to C-Suite level.
• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to analyse complex issues, identify root causes, and implement effective solutions.
• Degree in Computer Science (or related subject)
• CCNP or higher (CCIE and/or CISSP) with a deep understanding of networking protocols and the technology that support this.

Package Description

About the Company

Card Factory is the UK’s leading specialist retailer of greetings cards, dressings, and gifts with over one thousand stores across the UK and Ireland.  In 2020 we launched our exciting 5-year business strategy including our vision of becoming a true Omni-channel retailer.  This strategy sees significant investment into our colleagues across the business creating multiple opportunities to join a fast-paced environment and be part of our exciting journey. 

In return, we offer a wide range of benefits to support your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Benefits

• Pension
• 15% Card Factory colleague discount in-store and online
• Save As You Earn scheme
• Financial Wellbeing Support
  • Financial Education Tools
  • Salary Advance
• Seasonal incentive schemes
• Retail Management Apprenticeship Programmes with local providers with access to a virtual internal network for learning together
• Discounted gym membership, mobile phone contracts, and car leasing
• Discounts across 100’s of UK retailers
• Employee Assistance Programme – access to tools to support mental, physical, and financial wellbeing
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption leave

This is an exciting role with genuine prospects for the right candidate. If this role describes you and your career aspirations, click apply now.

For any questions email: vacancies@cardfactory.co.uk (we do not accept CVs/Applications via email)

We reserve the right to close this vacancy once sufficient suitable applications have been received. We advise applying early to avoid disappointment as applications will be reviewed regularly.

No agencies, please.

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