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Are you an undergraduate or postgraduate who wants to build a career as a Graduate Software Developer, creating complex and richly interactive software applications using the latest technologies?

Graduate Software Developer

Edinburgh

Leeds

Newcastle

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. Take the first step into a challenging and rewarding career by joining our graduate programme as a software developer.

You’ll be mentored by smart, highly-capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages the sharing of knowledge and experience. We’ll get you working with others to get you up and running on real-world development projects from the very beginning. You’ll work across web, mobile and desktop using a range of technologies including HTML5/JavaScript, C# .NET and Java.

You’ll learn all the skills you’ll need for the best start to your career as part of a talented software consultancy team committed to delivering beyond clients’ expectations. We follow an Agile approach with solid development practices. We are looking for creative and self-motivated problem solvers with a demonstrable passion for technology.

A lively induction week with your fellow graduates from around the company

A series of structured individual and group projects to introduce various concepts of both front- and back-end software development

Ongoing training with activities including self-study groups, bespoke courses, conferences and mentoring

Transitioning into a variety of client work using the latest technologies

A Level or Higher grades of at least BBB or equivalent

Achieved a 2:1 or higher in a computing, mathematical, engineering or scientific field, either completed or pending

The ability to adapt and learn new technologies on the job

Are you an ambitious and self-motivated undergraduate or postgraduate who wants to build a career as a tester, working on complex and sophisticated software solutions using the latest technologies?

Graduate Test Engineer

Bristol

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. Take the first step into a challenging and rewarding career by joining our graduate programme as a Graduate Test Engineer.

You’ll be mentored by smart, highly-capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages the sharing of knowledge and experience. We’ll get you working with others to get up and running on real-world development projects from the very beginning.

You’ll work across web, mobile and desktop, following an agile approach with modern development and testing practices. You’ll learn all the skills needed for the best start to your career as part of a talented and thought-leading consultancy team, committed to delivering beyond clients’ expectations.

You’ll be a critical thinker, creative and self-motivated problem solver with a demonstrable passion for technology, looking for an exciting and challenging role working closely with talented software developers.

You’ll build your skills, knowledge and experience using a wide range of technology and tools gaining a thorough understanding of modern testing approaches and context-driven testing principles. We’ll also get you working with automation frameworks across web and native mobile, APIs, microservices and CI/CD pipelines.

Structured individual and group projects to introduce various concepts of testing both front-end and back-end architectures and software; including a fortnight of test specific learning across a wide range of topics.

Ongoing training activities including self-study groups, bespoke courses and mentoring

A good degree, either completed or pending – computer science or similar is helpful but not required

We’re looking for Cloud Operations Engineers to work on detailing and implementing best practices for our clients' cloud platforms and services… is that you?

Cloud Operations Engineer

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations and our Service Management team – which you'll be a part of – complements this established and well-respected design-and-build service offering.

The Service Management team works in partnership with the consultants at Scott Logic to ensure that best practices are maintained and that systems are integrated successfully into production-ready operating environments. We are delivering several exciting cloud-based programmes to clients including the Scottish Government. The Service Management team is responsible for delivering operational support and incident response for these new customer-facing services.

working with Cloud Delivery Engineers to architect and build AWS infrastructure to meet requirements

utilising build automation, configuration management and CI/CD deployment solutions to deploy services to production environments

establishing operational excellence in the configuration of dashboards, creation of operational run-books and operational build of the platform including the configuration of resilient architecture, backup/recovery and monitoring services

delivering automation for functions such as: Monitoring, Alerting, Incident response, Patching processes

working with the operational support team to provide out-of-hours support for live platforms on a rotational On-Call cycle as services come online

working to resolve service issues and outages in accordance with incident response processes and generating root cause analysis documentation to help prevent future occurrences of similar incidents

Our people enjoy working in an environment where they can grow and succeed together. We hire people who align with our core values of Passion, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect and Professionalism.

This role is based in our city-centre office in line with our hybrid working approach, and will likely involve occasional travel (infrequent day trips or a few days at a time) to visit our clients across the UK and beyond.

We are mindful of the imbalances in our sector. We celebrate multiple and varied approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation and we commit to maintaining and improving an open and creative workplace, where everyone can contribute irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

If you’d like to talk about this role then get in touch with our recruitment team at applications@scottlogic.com. Our recruitment team can also discuss any reasonable adjustments you may require to our recruitment process.

Contribute, learn and grow your career as part of a collaborative team who value testers and their contribution to delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

Test Engineer

We are hiring test engineers for roles in delivery teams within our growing practices. We’re looking for people as enthusiastic as we are about building software right and ultimately delivering great solutions to our clients.

We are looking for people who regard testing as a craft and practice it accordingly

We are looking for people who are passionate advocates of what they do and how they do it.

Scott Logic is a founder-owned, thriving UK-based software consultancy with UK city-centre offices, where we build software that transforms some of the world’s biggest and most demanding organisations. From capital markets to complex public services, our consultants combine innovation, experience and pragmatism to deliver measurable results with every project.

We value learning and fundamental skills.

If you aren’t getting a chance to use modern technologies and practices in your current role, we will help you to build your skillset.

We want technologically inclined testers with a deep, wide unabashed curiosity (mixed with a bit of healthy cynicism) for assumptions they are presented with.

Whether you are looking at progressing your career further, increasing your skills and knowledge, or you’ve already got some experience, we would love to talk to you.

We value kindness, collaboration, communication and feedback.

We live this through our thriving community of practice which spans 4 offices and has a number of specialists in automation, human-factors and non-functional testing. We use the community to actively upskill and encourage each other, plan events and contribute to our internal test academy to teach each other how we do what we do.

We work throughout the development stack, from richly interactive web applications to high-performance backends. You can expect to use a diverse range of platforms and modern architectures (e.g. microservices, cloud, streaming, serverless) – you can see the range discussed on our blog.

You’ll typically be part of small tight-knit multidisciplinary teams solving tough software challenges in an agile way; we trust teams to have high levels of autonomy and value collaboration and pragmatism. You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable colleagues in a collaborative environment that encourages sharing knowledge and experience.

We’ll help you develop your career: taking increasing levels of ownership and leading others along the way. We can also help you build your testing profile: sharing your expertise (blogging or speaking, both internally and externally), advising our clients and contributing to open source projects.

An appetite to learn new technologies and approaches.

The desire to share your newly acquired skills and knowledge with others.

Excellent problem-solving skills and adaptability to new situations.

Awareness of the fundamentals of testing in a context-driven way.

Some knowledge of technical skills with a bit of practical application to be almost dangerous.

You can read more about our recruitment process and the skills and attitudes we look for in our testers here.

Scott Logic is proud of our inclusive culture. We don’t tolerate any kind of bias, judgement or harassment. We want our recruitment process to be open to everyone. If you require any considerate adjustments please note them on your application and we’ll be in touch about how best to accommodate your request.

Are you a solution-orientated, commercially aware and versatile polyglot with experience in the design and delivery of complex systems?

Solutions Architect

Scott Logic is a thriving UK-based software consultancy where we design and build software that transforms the performance of some of the world’s biggest and most demanding organisations. From capital markets and commodities to complex public services, our consultants combine innovation, experience and pragmatism to deliver measurable results with every project.

We are seeking experienced technologists to occupy senior positions within our growing development centres in Newcastle, Edinburgh, Bristol and London. You’ll join a team of passionate, smart and like-minded individuals. You’ll work with a diverse range of platforms including the latest front-end and back-end technologies and modern architectures (microservices, cloud, streaming, big data, serverless).

You have a breadth of knowledge that spans a wide range of technologies. You can both create new application architectures, based on technical and business requirements, and evolve existing ones. You are able to lead the planning and execution of an architecture roadmap, communicating effectively with your team and the client. You can balance business requirements, budgets and deadlines while delivering technology change. Within the company, your skills are used beyond project delivery: assisting pre-sales with opportunities, shaping propositions and assisting in career and skills development. Your value is in your breadth and versatility.

You’ll be a member of the senior leadership team within the office you join, helping shape its overall direction, growing both the office and the people within it.

We are looking for an individual who enjoys ‘face time’ with the client, and is happy to hop on the train, or a plane, to visit our clients across the UK and beyond.

Leveraging your software design and technology skills, to create effective architectures and communicating them to the client.

Evolving and developing software architectures while balancing budget and business goals.

Carefully managing the choice and delivery of technology recognising the human impact of change.

Fostering a quality culture both within your client projects and across Scott Logic.

Helping other engineers reach their highest potential through mentoring and coaching.

Helping grow the business, the people within the office you join, and the capabilities and services we offer to clients.

Working with a diverse range of platforms including the latest front-end and back-end technologies and modern architectures (microservices, cloud, streaming, big data, serverless)

You have a proven track record in leading complex software projects.

You have a breadth of knowledge in technology, and a passion for delivering successful outcomes.

You enjoy working with, and influencing, project stakeholders.

You can talk professionally with senior non-technical decision-makers, understanding and navigating the competing and complex commercial concerns.

You enjoy leading teams and helping them to be the best they can be.

You rise to the challenge, are a fault finder, and a fixer.

Scott Logic is a founder-owned, successful and growing, private company located in the UK. Our 300+ employees enjoy working in tight-knit teams where they work, grow and succeed together. We hire people who align with our core values of Passion, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect and Professionalism.

Scott Logic is an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We are mindful of the imbalances in our sector and particularly encourage applications from different underrepresented demographics.

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?

Senior Business Analyst

Glasgow

This is a ‘hands-on’, client-facing role, where you’ll work collaboratively with our clients, developing a deep understanding of their business needs. You’ll work in an Agile delivery team, operating as the key bridge between the client and our software engineering teams.

Day to day, your role will involve a high degree of stakeholder management, workshop facilitation, process modelling, requirements elicitation and backlog management. To do this effectively, you’ll need to be an experienced Business Analyst who is an organised self-starter, with excellent communication skills, with a strong attention to detail, and the ability to work with a range of stakeholders to achieve a shared understanding of the problems to be solved.

We’re looking for people able to rapidly understand complex business problems, with the analysis skills to understand people, processes and technical requirements and shape technology solutions. You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable people in an environment that encourages helping and developing others by sharing knowledge and experience. We trust our teams to have high levels of autonomy and we value collaboration and pragmatism.

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

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

Experience of selecting and applying appropriate analysis techniques to elicit requirements/user stories, collaborating with development teams to ensure a solution that delivers real business value.

Work closely with the Product Owner to organise and refine a feature backlog.

Work with the Technical Architects to understand and support the detailed design and implementation.

Experience in facilitating meetings and workshops with a variety of diverse stakeholders.

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

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 with Government clients and an understanding of GDS.

Experience of working on digital transformation projects.

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

Experience in the use of Atlassian Jira and Confluence toolkit.

Previous technology consultancy experience.

If you’d like to discuss this role then please get in touch with our recruitment team at applications@scottlogic.com. Our recruitment team can also discuss any reasonable adjustments you may require to our recruitment process.

We are mindful of the imbalances in our sector. We celebrate multiple and varied approaches and points of view. We believe diversity drives innovation and we commit to maintaining and improving an open and creative workplace, where everyone can contribute irrespective of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability.

Join our tight-knit team designing and delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients. 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.

Senior Developer

London

Join our tight-knit team designing and delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

We are hiring experienced software engineers to take senior roles in delivery teams within our growing development centres. We’re looking for people as passionate as you are about building software right; ultimately delivering outstanding solutions to our clients, following an agile approach with a real focus on good engineering practices. Whether you are ready to progress your career into a senior position or you’ve already got decades of experience we’d like to talk to you.

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 solving tough software challenges. We trust our teams to have high levels of autonomy and value collaboration and pragmatism.

You can expect to work throughout the development stack, from richly interactive web applications to high performance backends. You will work with a diverse variety of platforms and modern architectures. Microservices, modern front-end frameworks, cloud, streaming and serverless are just a flavour of what we do. You can read more about these topics on our blog.

We will recognise your experience and fundamental skills. If you aren’t getting a chance to use modern technologies and practices in your current role, we can help you to build your skillset.

You’ll be surrounded by highly capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages sharing knowledge and experience. There’s plenty of opportunity to mentor colleagues and generally get involved in our engineering community. We’ll help you develop your career, taking growing levels of ownership and leading others along the way. We can also help you build your profile: sharing your expertise (blogging or speaking, both internally and externally), advising our clients and contributing to open source projects.

Scott Logic is a founder-owned, successful and fast-growing UK-based software consultancy with city-centre UK offices, where we design and build software that transforms some of the world’s biggest and most demanding organisations. From financial services to complex public services, our consultants combine innovation, experience and pragmatism to deliver measurable results with every project.

Excellent problem solving skills and the ability to adapt to new situations

Good experience and knowledge of the fundamentals in your main tech stack

Experience of designing well-structured and maintainable applications

Experience of communicating your ideas to multiple audiences

An appetite to learn new technologies and approaches

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 and beyond. If you are interested in more travel, then opportunities are available. Feel free to speak to us about this.

We’re looking for a Service Support Engineer to spearhead the creation of a service support team which will operate and support varying and challenging client systems… is that you?

Service Support Engineer

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. Increasingly, our clients are looking to us to operate, maintain and continually improve the systems we build for them. They want us to bring the same focus on customer needs and high quality of service that they have come to expect of us. We’re growing our Service Management function on these foundations of excellence, and this role will play an important part in that.

To be suitable for this role, you’ll be an experienced support engineer with hands-on experience investigating and solving issues. You will be a critical thinker and will be looking for an exciting and challenging role in a thought-leading UK-based software consultancy that prides itself on delivering the best in bespoke operations and software services to a varied portfolio of global clients.

You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages helping others by sharing knowledge and experience. We will recognise your experience and fundamental skills and we will support you with your journey to becoming a pivotal member of our Service Management team.

You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages helping others by sharing knowledge and experience.

problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to new situations

experience of supporting well-structured and maintainable applications

experience of communicating your ideas to your teams

an appetite to learn new technologies and approaches

This role is based in our city-centre office, and likely involves occasional travel (infrequent day trips or a few days at a time) to visit our clients across the UK. 

We’re looking for a Cloud SecOps Specialist to drive Security Operations and help secure varying and challenging client environments, evolving the information security tools and processes that underpinning our Service Management function… is that you?

Cloud SecOps Specialist

Scott Logic builds large-scale, bespoke, business-critical systems for some of the world’s most high-profile organisations. Increasingly, our clients are looking to us to operate, maintain and continually improve the systems we build for them. They want us to bring the same focus on customer needs and high quality of service that they have come to expect of us—and which has been recognised in our ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications. We’re building our Service Management function on these foundations of excellence, and this role will play an important part in that.

To be suitable for this role, you’ll be an experienced lead-level engineer with significant hands-on experience designing, building, running, and securing complex production cloud environments. You will be a critical thinker and will be looking for an exciting and challenging role in a thought-leading, UK-based software consultancy that prides itself on delivering the best in bespoke operations and software services to a varied portfolio of global clients.

We will recognise your experience and fundamental skills. If you aren’t getting a chance to use modern technologies and practices in your current role, we can help you to build your skill set.

You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable people in a collaborative environment that encourages helping others by sharing knowledge and experience. We’ll help you develop your career further, taking growing levels of ownership.

With SecOps activities, including system administration, operations governance, threat and vulnerability management, and incident response

Of privileged access management, vulnerability management, secrets management and access control

Securing cloud infrastructure solutions in any of the major public cloud offerings – AWS/Azure or GCP

Dealing with security logs and creating actionable insight

Programming/scripting languages such as PowerShell, Puppet or Bash to automate tasks enabling information security at speed and scale

Modifying and maintaining Infrastructure as Code and using build provisioning tools such as Terraform, Packer, Team City, Jenkins etc

Strong understanding of cybersecurity standards and frameworks such as ISO 27001, CIS, OWASP NIST and CIS

Developing, implementing and reporting upon SecOps key performance indicators

Improving security knowledge of colleagues and stakeholders at all levels

In addition to this, you should have a strong understanding of:

Core network protocols and services (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP)

Deploying and supporting cloud-based applications that are scalable, resilient and highly available

Bespoke software development and build/deployment automation

Join our test practice where you can grow as part of a collaborative team who value testers and their contribution to delivering business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

Senior Test Engineer

We are hiring experienced testers for senior roles in delivery teams within our growing practices. We’re looking for people as enthusiastic as we are about building software right and ultimately delivering great solutions to our clients.

We are looking for people who regard testing as a craft and practice it accordingly.

We value experience and fundamental skills.

Whether you are ready to progress your career into a senior position or you’ve already got years of experience, we would love to talk to you.

We live this through our thriving community of practice which spans four offices and has a number of specialists in automation, human-factors and non-functional testing. We use the community to actively upskill and encourage each other, plan events and contribute to our internal test academy to teach each other how we do what we do.

You’ll typically be part of small tight-knit multidisciplinary teams solving tough software challenges in an agile way; we trust teams to have high levels of autonomy and value collaboration and pragmatism.

You’ll be surrounded by smart, highly capable colleagues in a collaborative environment that encourages sharing knowledge and experience.

We’ll help you develop your career further: taking ownership and leading others along the way. We can also help you build your testing profile: sharing your expertise (blogging or speaking, both internally and externally), advising our clients and contributing to open source projects.

The desire to share your skills and knowledge with others.

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

A broad knowledge of technical skills with enough practical application to be dangerous.

You can  read more here about our recruitment process and the skills and attitudes we look for in our testers.

Lead and mentor teams of highly skilled individuals to design and deliver business-critical systems for high-profile clients.

Lead Developer

We are hiring experienced software engineers to take lead roles in delivery teams within our growing development centres. We’re looking for people as passionate as you are about building software right; ultimately delivering outstanding solutions to our clients, following an agile approach with a real focus on good engineering practices.

We’ll offer you real autonomy to lead our consultancy engagements with clients. You’ll have the opportunity to broaden your knowledge and diversify your experience, as well as the opportunity to lead people and be involved in commercial decision making. You’ll typically lead and mentor small, tight-knit multidisciplinary teams solving tough software challenges. You will help shape consultancy engagements and foster client relationships, advising clients who are making key decisions in development strategy, design and technology choices.

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 will strive for quality and promote best practice in everything you do.

You can expect to work throughout the development stack, from rich interactive web applications to high performance backends. You will work with a diverse variety of platforms and modern architectures. Microservices, modern front-end frameworks, cloud, streaming and serverless are just a flavour of what we do. You can read more about these topics on our blog.

We’ll help you develop your career further, taking growing levels of ownership. There’s plenty of opportunity to mentor colleagues and encourage sharing knowledge and experience. We can also help you build your profile: sharing your expertise (blogging or speaking, both internally and externally), advising our clients and contributing to open source projects.

Scott Logic is a founder-owned, successful and fast-growing UK-based software consultancy with UK city-centre offices, where we design and build software that transforms some of the world’s biggest and most demanding organisations. From financial services to complex public services, our consultants combine innovation, experience and pragmatism to deliver measurable results with every project.

Strong technical team leadership experience with a desire to nurture the aspirations and ambitions of your teammates

Excellent problem solving and organisational skills

Broad knowledge of technical principles and software design patterns

Good communication skills across multiple audiences

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

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

Lead Test Engineer

We are hiring innovative and creative lead testers for roles in delivery teams within our growing practices. We’re looking for people as enthusiastic as we are about building software right and ultimately delivering great solutions to our clients.

We are looking for people invested in their own self-growth as well as the growth of the teams around them.

Whether you are ready to progress your career into a lead position or you’ve already got years of experience and knowledge that you want to share with others, we would love to talk to you.

The desire and ability to share your skills and knowledge with others.

Broad and deep technical skills with plenty of practical application to be dangerous with the knowledge of when or when not to use it.

You can read more here about our recruitment process and the skills and attitudes we look for in our testers.

Are you a technically savvy, commercially aware and versatile polyglot with experience in the design and delivery of complex systems?

Technical Architect

You are an authority with deep knowledge across a number of technologies and are expert in building solutions using them. You are capable of delivering a range of consultancy projects; including strategic and advisory work, as well as project or product delivery. Within the company you act as both a leader and a mentor, imparting your knowledge and enthusiasm for technology to others. Your value is in your breadth and versatility.

Evolving and developing software architectures while proving the technology roadmap and enabling delivery teams.

Deeply understanding the details of the solution you’re delivering, being prepared to dive into the code and being hands-on when necessary.

Carefully managing the choice and delivery of technology, recognising the human impact of change.

Fostering a quality culture, both within your client projects and across Scott Logic.

Scott Logic is a founder-owned, successful and growing private company located in the UK. Our 300+ employees enjoy working in tight-knit teams where they work, grow and succeed together. We hire people who align with our core values of Passion, Excellence, Collaboration, Respect and Professionalism.

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