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This Lead Data Engineer role will contribute to helping our clients get the best out of their data, setting technical direction and advising them on how to solve tough engineering challenges.

Lead Data Engineer

Bristol

Newcastle

We work with some of the UK’s biggest companies and government departments to provide a pragmatic approach to technology, delivering bespoke software solutions and expert advice. 

Our clients are increasingly looking to us to help them make the best use of their data. In building data platforms and pipelines, our data engineers create the foundation for diverse data & analytics solutions, including data science and AI. They build data lakes and warehouses, create the processes to extract or access operational data, and transform siloed datasets into integrated data models that allow insight into business performance and problems or training of ML models.

These are hands-on, client-facing roles, with openings at senior or lead level to suit your experience. You may be leading teams, setting technical direction, advising clients or solving tough engineering challenges.

Our data engineers combine a strong software engineering approach with solid data fundamentals and experience with modern tools. We’re technology agnostic, and we’re open minded when it comes to your existing skillset.      

Good experience with some of the technologies and approaches typical in modern data engineering and reporting. Including storage, data pipelines to ingest and transform data, and querying & reporting of analytical data. 

You've worked with technologies such as Python, Spark, SQL, Pyspark, PowerBI etc.

You’ve got a background in software engineering.  

You’re a problem-solver, pragmatically exploring options and finding effective solutions. 

An understanding of how to design and build well-structured, maintainable systems. 

Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to work. 

You embrace the chance to try new things, learn new skills and grow your experience. 

Experience of relevant cloud services within AWS, Azure or GCP.

Experience working in an Agile environment.

Experience working with common vendor products such as Snowflake or Data Bricks.

25 days’ annual leave, rising incrementally to 30 days after six years of service.

Access to an employer pension scheme and Group Life Assurance. 

A range of optional benefits such as discounted gym membership and a cycle-to-work scheme. 

A meaningful approach to evaluating your performance and providing feedback on your progress.

At Scott Logic, we value the flexibility of remote working alongside the value gained from spending time with our colleagues and clients. In our offices you’ll find employee-led clubs and events, as well as free games, books, and refreshments. 

We have shared values that govern our behaviour toward others and the environment. We are proud to be a B Corp, a global movement of businesses driving for a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy.

We’re looking for proactive, pragmatic architects with hands-on experience of technical and/or solution architecture spanning the full software development lifecycle.

Solutions Architect

Edinburgh

Glasgow

This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to shape impactful technology projects for our clients. You’ll typically provide technical leadership for one or more multidisciplinary teams delivering small to medium projects, or with the support of a Principal Architect on advisory engagements or larger programmes of work. You’ll have the opportunity to further develop your career by working alongside colleagues with a wide range of architectural experience, participating in our community of practice and contributing to our thought leadership (blogs, white papers, etc).

We’re looking for proactive, pragmatic servant-leaders with hands-on experience of technical and/or solution architecture spanning the full software development lifecycle. We don’t mandate an architectural approach, preferring to find the right combination of methodology, tools and communication styles that work for each client and project. This means we’re open-minded when it comes to your existing skillset, but we value the following:

Practical experience in solution, application, data, or cloud architecture. Ideally in the development of bespoke software solutions.

Ability to select and apply appropriate architectural patterns and techniques in the design and governance of solutions effectively balancing requirements to achieve successful outcomes.

Understanding how to provide technical leadership to multi-disciplinary delivery teams and work effectively within complex domains and/or large organizations.

As a strong communicator with a collaborative approach to work, you’re able to quickly build trust, communicate effectively with both business and technical stakeholders, and explain complex technical concepts simply.

You embrace the chance to try new things, learn new skills and share your knowledge and experience with others. 

Access to an employer pension scheme and Group Life Assurance.

A range of optional benefits such as discounted gym membership and a cycle-to-work scheme.

We have shared values that govern our behaviour toward others and the environment. We are proud to be a B Corp, a global movement of businesses driving for a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy. 

We believe diversity drives innovation, and embrace a culture where everyone can contribute, irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to further develop your career – mentoring colleagues, advising our clients, and taking ownership of significant pieces of work.

Senior Developer

Leeds

This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to be involved in the full development life cycle. You’ll typically work in small, tight-knit multidisciplinary teams, solving tough software problems. You’ll have the opportunity to further develop your career mentoring colleagues, advising our clients, and taking ownership of significant pieces of work.

We’re looking for passionate, proactive technologists. We are technology agnostic and use the right language, tooling and frameworks for the job. That means we’re open minded when it comes to your existing skillset, but we value the following: 

Good experience in at least one of Python, Java, C#/.NET, JavaScript or TypeScript, and their associated ecosystems. 

Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to work.

You embrace the chance to try new things, learn new skills and grow your experience.

Access to an employer pension scheme, and Group Life Assurance. 

A range of optional benefits such as discounted gym membership and a cycle-to-work scheme. 

A meaningful approach to evaluating your performance and providing feedback on your progress. 

At Scott Logic, we value the flexibility of remote working alongside the value gained from spending time with our colleagues and clients. In our offices, you’ll find employee-led clubs and events, as well as free games, books, and refreshments. 

We believe diversity drives innovation, and we embrace a culture where everyone can contribute, irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.  

This role is for someone who can confidently plan and lead content design activities, engage with stakeholders at all levels, and help teams turn complex policy, legal, regulatory and operational information into content that users can understand and act on.

Senior Content Designer

At Scott Logic, we have a reputation for world-class software delivery. We are trusted by some of the world’s leading organisations to build reliable, high-performance, business-critical solutions – and expert advice.

Scott Logic is looking for a Senior Content Designer to help shape and improve public services through clear, accessible and evidence-led content. You will work as part of multidisciplinary teams alongside user researchers, service designers, business analysts, product managers, delivery managers, engineers and architects to understand user needs, design content across digital and offline journeys, and help ensure services work for the people who use them.  

This is a senior delivery role. We are looking for someone who can confidently plan and lead content design activities, engage with stakeholders at all levels, and help teams turn complex policy, legal, regulatory and operational information into content that users can understand and act on. The role sits within Scott Logic’s Product and User-Centred Design capability, which supports complex public sector programmes across the UK. 

One of the first opportunities likely to be available to the successful candidate is a major transformation programme supporting fisheries and marine licensing services in Scotland. Working alongside a multidisciplinary team of product, business analysis, design, architecture and engineering specialists, you would help design content connected to vessel licensing, marine regulation, casework, policy requirements, operational processes and digital service journeys.  

Content design would help the team make complex services clearer, more accessible and easier to use for vessel owners, fishing communities, marine staff, operational teams and policy colleagues. The work will involve understanding complex service landscapes, mapping content and service journeys, testing content with users, and helping teams make practical decisions that are grounded in evidence rather than assumptions.  

As with many public sector programmes, the challenge is not simply about technology. It is about understanding people, services, policies and operational realities, then turning that understanding into clear content that helps users complete their goals. 

Planning, leading and delivering content design activities across public sector delivery teams.  

Creating, editing and improving clear, accessible content across digital and offline service journeys.  

Working closely with user research, service design, product, business analysis, delivery and technical colleagues to understand user needs and iterate content based on evidence.  

Turning complex policy, legal, regulatory and operational information into content users can understand and act on.  

Creating and iterating content patterns, prototypes, guidance, forms, notifications, error messages and service copy where needed.  

Mapping content and service journeys to identify gaps, risks, assumptions and dependencies.  

Engaging confidently with client stakeholders, including operational, policy and delivery colleagues.  

Championing accessibility, inclusion, plain English and evidence-led content decisions within complex public sector programmes.  

Supporting the continued growth of Scott Logic’s User-Centred Design capability by helping develop reusable approaches, patterns and delivery assets that strengthen future projects.

Strong experience as a Senior Content Designer in multidisciplinary digital or service delivery teams.  

Experience planning and leading content design independently, including shaping proportionate content approaches for complex services.  

Strong understanding of user-centred design, accessibility, plain English, content testing and evidence-led iteration.  

Strong content design skills, including content auditing, journey mapping, prototyping, pair writing and creating clear service content.  

Ability to turn complex policy, process and domain information into clear content, guidance and service copy.  

Ability to work closely with user research, service design, product, business analysis, delivery and technical colleagues.  

Ability to engage confidently with users and stakeholders, including operational, policy and delivery colleagues.  

Clear written and verbal communication, with strong judgement about how to explain content decisions to technical and non-technical audiences.  

Experience working in complex public sector service environments.  

A strong understanding of accessibility, inclusion and designing for diverse user needs.  

Experience working on Discovery and Alpha phases of delivery

We’re looking for passionate, pragmatic leaders with hands-on experience of architecting high quality, well-engineered technology solutions that solve tough business problems and deliver lasting client value.

Principal Architect

This is a client-facing leadership role, offering the opportunity to oversee the technical direction of large-scale, complex technology initiatives while contributing to the growth and development of our consultancy business.  

You will typically provide technical leadership for high profile, business-critical projects and programmes, drawing on your experience of solution and technical architecture in diverse business and project environments. You will work with a high degree of autonomy, taking full responsibility for end-to-end solution design and building strong partnerships with our clients. 

We’re looking for passionate, pragmatic leaders with hands-on experience of architecting high quality, well-engineered technology solutions that solve tough business problems and deliver lasting client value. We don’t mandate an architectural approach, preferring to find the right combination of methodology, tools and communication styles that work for each client engagement. This means we’re open-minded when it comes to your existing skillset, but we value the following:   

Strong experience in shaping and leading the architecture of large-scale, complex solutions across multiple applications. Ideally including development of bespoke software solutions 

Significant experience in enterprise, solution, data, application or cloud architecture 

Ability to advise on and implement suitable architectural principals and governance approaches across a portfolio of solutions and/or teams 

Commercial experience including leading on pre-sales work; scoping, sizing and solutioning for new opportunities and creating compelling proposals 

As a strong communicator with a collaborative approach to work, you’re able to quickly build trust with senior client stakeholders (Director or C-Suite level), and advice on technology strategy and alignment with business goals 

You embrace the chance to try new things and learn new skills while developing others by sharing your own knowledge and experience. 

This is a hands-on, client-facing Lead Software Engineer role. You'll lead and mentor teams throughout the development lifecycle to deliver business-critical systems for our clients.

Lead Developer

We work with some of the UK’s biggest companies and government departments to provide a pragmatic approach to technology, delivering bespoke software solutions and expert advice.  

You’re a problem-solver, pragmatically exploring options and finding effective solutions.  

An understanding of how to design and build well-structured, maintainable systems.  

Strong communication skills and a collaborative approach to work.  

You embrace the chance to try new things, learn new skills and grow your experience.  

Access to an employer pension scheme, and Group Life Assurance.  

A range of optional benefits such as discounted gym membership and a cycle-to-work scheme.  

A meaningful approach to evaluating your performance and providing feedback on your progress.  

At Scott Logic, we value the flexibility of remote working alongside the value gained from spending time with our colleagues and clients. In our offices you’ll find employee-led clubs and events, as well as free games, books, and refreshments.  

We have shared values that govern our behaviour toward others and the environment. We are proud to be a B Corp, a global movement of businesses driving for a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy.  

We believe diversity drives innovation, and embrace a culture where everyone can contribute, irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.   

This Senior Data Engineer role will contribute to helping our clients get the best out of their data, combining a strong software engineering approach with strong data fundamentals.

Senior Data Engineer

 These are hands-on, client-facing roles, with openings at senior or lead level to suit your experience. You may be leading teams, setting technical direction, advising clients or solving tough engineering challenges. You'd also be expected to spend some time on-site with clients in the London area on an ad-hoc basis.

Our data engineers combine a strong software engineering approach with solid data fundamentals and experience with modern tools. We’re technology agnostic, and we’re open minded when it comes to your existing skillset.     

You’ve got a background in software engineering, including Front End technologies like JavaScript.

Lead and mentor collaborative teams who value experienced testers and their direction in delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

Lead Test Engineer

Established as a software consultancy, Scott Logic has been at the forefront of digital transformation, helping businesses across various industries navigate the sophistications of the modern digital landscape.   

We offer a wide range of services, including software development, user experience (UX) design, data visualization, and financial consulting. We pledge to develop high-quality software solutions tailored to meet the unique requirements of each client.  

This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to be involved in the full development lifecycle, delivering mission-critical projects for high-profile global organisations. You’ll typically work in small, tight-knit multidisciplinary teams, decoding tough software problems. We like our teams to have high levels of freedom and value collaboration and pragmatism.   

As a company we are technology agnostic and use the right language, tooling, and frameworks for the job. Our people enjoy working in an environment where they can grow and succeed collectively. We hire people who align with our core values of Passion, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect and Professionalism.  

Technologies and experience we value include: 

Experience on large scale or complex Web Application and or API Testing

Experience in Automation testing with technologies such as; Selenium, Cucumber, SoapUI

Strong collaboration and communication techniques.  

Comprehensive knowledge of the fundamentals of testing in a context-driven way.

A desire to learn new technologies and approaches.  

25 days’ annual leave, rising incrementally to 30 days after six year of service. 

Access to an employer pension scheme and group life assurance.

This role is based in our city centre office and is likely to involve occasional travel (infrequent day trips or a few days at a time) to visit our clients, across the UK. If you are interested in more travel, then opportunities are available, we are open to conversation on this.  

At Scott Logic, we value the flexibility of remote working alongside the value gained from spending time with our colleagues and clients. In our offices, you’ll find employee-led clubs and events, as well as free games, books, and refreshments. We have shared values that govern our behaviour toward others and the environment.

We are proud to be a B Corp, a global movement of businesses driving for a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy. We believe diversity drives innovation, and embrace a culture where everyone can contribute, irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

Are you an organised self-starter, with excellent communication skills, and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders to achieve a shared understanding of problems to be solved?

Lead Business Analyst

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. The business is expanding and we’re in need of highly flexible, capable and technically proficient Business Analysts to join our growing delivery team.

As a Lead Business Analyst you’ll be a key bridge between our user experience, development, test teams and client stakeholders. You'll focus on requirements elicitation, solution design, and working as part of an agile team to deliver the final product. You will be help guide and advise less experienced members of the BA team and work more closely with the Solutions Architecture team.

We’re looking for people able to rapidly understand complex business environments and services. You'll have the analysis skills to understand people, process, technical requirements and shape new technology solutions. You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable people in a collaborative and innovative environment that encourages helping and developing others by sharing knowledge and experience. 

Experience as a business analyst in dynamic enterprise environments, preferably involving the delivery of multiple software development streams. 

Hands on experience as a Business Analyst within high performing Agile development teams, working closely with Product Owners.

A sound understanding of both Agile and Waterfall-based project delivery methods.

Experience of selecting and applying appropriate analysis techniques to elicit and analyse requirements, developing solutions that deliver real business value.

The ability to communicate and influence a variety of business and IT stakeholders at a senior level.

A flexible and collaborative approach to meeting business goals.

Excellent problem solving, communication and organisational skills.

An appreciation of modern software engineering and associated development technologies within the full software development lifecycle.

Experience of working within businesses undertaking digital transformation.

Experience of working with user centred design principles and user research techniques.

Previous experience with a blue chip or high end technology consultancy.

Business Analysis certification (e.g. ISEB).

A range of optional benefits such as discounted gym membership and a cycle to-work scheme.

This Data Engineer role will contribute to helping our clients get the best out of their data, setting technical direction and advising them on how to solve tough engineering challenges.

Data Engineer

These are hands-on, client-facing roles, with openings at senior or lead level to suit your experience. You may be leading teams, setting technical direction, advising clients or solving tough engineering challenges. You'd also be expected to spend some time on-site with clients in the London area on an ad-hoc basis.

Our data engineers combine a strong software engineering approach with solid data fundamentals and experience with modern tools. We’re technology agnostic, and we’re open minded when it comes to your existing skillset. 

Our Data Engineering roles require the eligibility for SC clearance, please check the GOV.UK website for the requirements before you apply.     

We have shared values that govern our behaviour toward others and the environment. We are proud to be a B Corp, a global movement of businesses driving for a more inclusive, equitable, and regenerative economy. We believe diversity drives innovation, and embrace a culture where everyone can contribute, irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

This Platform Engineer role will help our clients across the full software lifecycle – designing, building and managing cloud infrastructure and delivery platforms to support modern DevOps practices.

Platform Engineer

At Scott Logic, we have a reputation for world-class software delivery. We are trusted by some of the world’s leading organisations to build reliable, high-performance, business-critical solutions – and expert advice.

Many of our clients look to us to lead across the full software lifecycle, from initial conception through to production deployment and beyond. Our Platform Engineers are a vital part of this – designing, building and managing cloud infrastructure and delivery platforms to support modern DevOps practices. Their work includes CI/CD processes and deployment pipelines, building the platform infrastructure to deliver robust, cost-effective services to end users at scale, and supporting all stages of migrating complex systems from on-premises infrastructure to a multitude of cloud providers.

These are hands-on, client-facing roles, with openings at senior or lead level to suit your experience. You may be leading teams, setting technical direction, advising clients or solving tough engineering challenges. Our clients include large global corporations and government departments, and you’ll be working on systems that make a difference to millions of people, within a company that is friendly, welcoming, and where individual contributions always make a difference.

Our Platform Engineers combine a deep level of fundamental knowledge of how to deploy and maintain reliable and scalable systems, with a broad awareness of wider software engineering principles and experience with the latest DevOps tooling, both cloud and on-prem. We’re technology-agnostic and we’re open minded when it comes to your existing skillset.    

You’ve worked with modern Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation or Bicep.

You are familiar with one or more major cloud platform, particularly AWS or Azure.

You have good CI/CD and deployment automation experience.

You’re comfortable using Python or other scripting languages for DevOps tasks.

You’re a problem-solver, pragmatically exploring options and finding effective solutions. 

You have strong communication skills and take a collaborative approach to your work.

You have an interest in good practices around security, reliability, observability, cost efficiency, performance and governance – collaborating with others to ensure these are in place.

For lead roles, you have good technical leadership experience, understanding what makes a team successful and how to support colleagues in their own career development.

Experience with containerisation, Kubernetes or working with data platforms is nice-to-have.

We are seeking a Senior Test Engineer to be part of a collaborative team who value testers and their contribution to delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

Senior Test Engineer

A desire to learn new technologies and approaches.    

This Software Engineer (CI/CD) role will contribute to helping design, build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and efficient software delivery. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations.

Software Engineer (CI/CD)

Many of our clients look to us to lead across the full software lifecycle, from initial conception through to production deployment and beyond. We are seeking a Software Engineer to design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth and efficient software delivery. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations, leveraging your development background to automate workflows, optimize deployment processes, and enhance system reliability.

It is expected for the Engineer to spend at least 2 days per week in the local Scott Logic office.

You have built and deployed applications in Rust, Java, C# or JavaScript.

You've got experience designing, implementing and maintaining end-to-end CI/CD pipelines for application deployment.

You are comfortable automating deployment, scaling, and monitoring processes.

You are able to collaborate closely with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline workflows and troubleshoot pipeline issues.

You can support development teams to migrate their builds onto this new pipeline.

You can work on the support rota to support tickets related to this pipeline.

We offer an environment with real autonomy, alongside opportunities to broaden your knowledge, diversify your experience, and shape your career – building expertise in modern AI development tools to address business-critical work. Additionally, you will receive:

A range of optional benefits, such as discounted gym membership and a cycle-to-work scheme. 

Are you a flexible and experienced leader looking for a hands-on, client-facing role in a growing software consultancy?

Delivery Manager

Scott Logic is an independent software consultancy helping some of the world's most complex organisations solve hard technology problems. We work across financial services, public sector, and beyond - building high-quality, bespoke software, data, and AI solutions with small, expert teams.

We offer a wide range of services, including software development, user experience (UX) design, data engineering, data visualisation, AI, and financial technology consulting. We pledge to develop high-quality software solutions tailored to meet the unique requirements of each client.

This is a hands-on, client-facing role, offering the opportunity to be involved in the full development lifecycle, delivering mission-critical projects for high-profile global organisations. You'll work in small, expert multidisciplinary teams, typically embedded with the client, navigating complex delivery challenges across software engineering, data, and AI programmes. We like our teams to have high levels of freedom and value collaboration and pragmatism. 

Leading the delivery of complex technology projects for clients, taking accountability for scope, schedule, budget, and quality throughout the engagement.

Building and maintaining strong, trust-based client relationships – acting as a credible delivery partner at senior stakeholder level.

Working within small, expert multidisciplinary teams, typically embedded with the client, to navigate challenging delivery environments across software engineering, data, and AI programmes.

Taking responsibility for project financials, forecasting, and reporting to achieve targeted commercial outcomes.

Supporting the onboarding of consultants to projects; working with line managers to assess project fit and set people up for success.

Undertaking line management of assigned consultants, including performance feedback, annual reviews, and ongoing development conversations.

Contributing actively to Scott Logic's delivery community – sharing lessons learned, developing toolkits, and helping shape how we deliver at scale.

As a company we are technology agnostic and use the right language, tooling, and frameworks for the job. Our people enjoy working in an environment where they can grow and succeed collectively. We hire people who align with our core values of Passion, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect and Professionalism.

We deliberately hire a range of profiles. The following reflects experience we value, but we don't expect any single candidate to bring all of it:

Proven experience managing software development projects using Agile frameworks, with a solid understanding of Waterfall-based delivery and when each is appropriate.

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