27 jobs found in Andover

MERITUS are recruiting for an SC Cleared Solution Architect to join our client supporting the delivery of secure, large-scale technology programmes within the Defence and Central Government sector. SOLUTION ARCHITECT - 10 MONTH CONTRACT - UP TO £800 PER DAY - OUTSIDE IR35 - ANDOVER (2 DAYS ON-SITE) - SECTOR: DEFENCE / GOVERNMENT Lead solution architecture activities across a range of complex technology projects and programmes Support legacy application modernisation and migration initiatives Produce high-level solution designs, architectural documentation, and technical artefacts Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, delivery, and business teams Engage with Defence and Government stakeholders to ensure successful technical delivery Ensure solutions align with security, compliance, scalability, and performance requirements Contribute to architectural governance, standards, and best practice across programmes Skills / experience required: Strong...

MERITUS are recruiting for an SC Cleared Solution Architect to join our client supporting the delivery of secure, large-scale technology programmes within the Defence and Central Government sector. SOLUTION ARCHITECT - 10 MONTH CONTRACT - UP TO £800 PER DAY - OUTSIDE IR35 - ANDOVER (2 DAYS ON-SITE) - SECTOR: DEFENCE/GOVERNMENT Lead solution architecture activities across a range of complex technology projects and programmes Support Legacy application modernisation and migration initiatives Produce high-level solution designs, architectural documentation, and technical artefacts Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, delivery, and business teams Engage with Defence and Government stakeholders to ensure successful technical delivery Ensure solutions align with security, compliance, scalability, and performance requirements Contribute to architectural governance, standards, and best practice across programmes Skills/experience required: Strong experience...

MERITUS are recruiting for an SC Cleared Solution Architect to join our client supporting the delivery of secure, large-scale technology programmes within the Defence and Central Government sector. SOLUTION ARCHITECT - 10 MONTH CONTRACT - UP TO £800 PER DAY - OUTSIDE IR35 - ANDOVER (2 DAYS ON-SITE) - SECTOR: DEFENCE / GOVERNMENT Lead solution architecture activities across a range of complex technology projects and programmes Support legacy application modernisation and migration initiatives Produce high-level solution designs, architectural documentation, and technical artefacts Collaborate with multidisciplinary engineering, delivery, and business teams Engage with Defence and Government stakeholders to ensure successful technical delivery Ensure solutions align with security, compliance, scalability, and performance requirements Contribute to architectural governance, standards, and best practice across programmes Skills /...

Test Manager Location: Basingstoke (Onsite) Contract Length: 18 Months Clearance: Active DV Clearance Required Rate: £650-£700 per day | Outside IR35 The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced Project Test Manager to join a high-profile, secure government infrastructure programme delivering critical national capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to lead and assure complex Test & Trials activity across a large-scale IT infrastructure environment. You will work closely with programme leadership, engineering teams, cyber specialists, and operational stakeholders to ensure solutions are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery meets operational and security expectations. The successful candidate will bring strong leadership, governance, and assurance experience within highly secure defence or government environments and be comfortable operating at programme level, providing independent challenge and strategic oversight. Key...

Project Test Manager Location: Hampshire (Onsite) Duration: 18 Months Clearance: D V Clearance required (Active) Rate: £650 to £750 per day - Outside IR35 Overview We are seeking a Project Test Managerto provide specialist oversight and assurance across a highly secure government IT infrastructure programme. This role will focus on managing and governing the test and trial activity, ensuring that infrastructure capabilities are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery remains aligned to operational requirements. The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser to programme leadership, providing independent challenge, structured guidance, and leadership across complex test environments. Key Responsibilities Provide strategic oversight and assurance of Test & Trials activity across the programme Review and shape Test & Trials Strategies, Plans, and governance frameworks Advise programme leadership on test readiness, risks, and...

Project Test Manager Location: Hampshire (Onsite) Duration: 18 Months Clearance: D V Clearance required (Active) Rate: £650 to £750 per day - Outside IR35 Overview We are seeking a Project Test Managerto provide specialist oversight and assurance across a highly secure government IT infrastructure programme. This role will focus on managing and governing the test and trial activity, ensuring that infrastructure capabilities are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery remains aligned to operational requirements. The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser to programme leadership, providing independent challenge, structured guidance, and leadership across complex test environments. Key Responsibilities Provide strategic oversight and assurance of Test & Trials activity across the programme Review and shape Test & Trials Strategies, Plans, and governance frameworks Advise programme leadership on test readiness, risks, and delivery...

Programme Test Assurance Manager/Consultant Location: Basingstoke - Full-time onsite Clearance: Active DV Clearance required Contract: 18-month contract IR35 Status: Outside IR35 Rate: £600 to £700 per day We're supporting a major defence programme seeking an experienced Programme Test Assurance Manager to lead assurance and acceptance activities across a highly complex, multi-workstream delivery environment. This is not a traditional test management role. The focus is on programme-level capability assurance, acceptance governance, integration readiness, and delivery confidence across infrastructure, systems, and software domains operating at significant scale. You'll work across multiple Agile delivery teams, suppliers, and technical disciplines to ensure the programme delivers operational capability that is assured, accepted, and deployment-ready. Key Responsibilities Lead programme-wide test assurance and capability acceptance activities across complex...

Programme Test Assurance Manager/Consultant Location: Basingstoke - Full-time onsite Clearance: Active DV Clearance required Contract: 18-month contract IR35 Status: Outside IR35 Rate: £600 to £700 per day We're supporting a major defence programme seeking an experienced Programme Test Assurance Manager to lead assurance and acceptance activities across a highly complex, multi-workstream delivery environment. This is not a traditional test management role. The focus is on programme-level capability assurance, acceptance governance, integration readiness, and delivery confidence across infrastructure, systems, and software domains operating at significant scale. You'll work across multiple Agile delivery teams, suppliers, and technical disciplines to ensure the programme delivers operational capability that is assured, accepted, and deployment-ready. Key Responsibilities Lead programme-wide test assurance and capability acceptance activities across complex...

Test Manager Location: Basingstoke (Onsite) Contract Length: 18 Months Clearance: Active DV Clearance Required Rate: £650-£700 per day | Outside IR35 The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced Project Test Manager to join a high-profile, secure government infrastructure programme delivering critical national capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to lead and assure complex Test & Trials activity across a large-scale IT infrastructure environment. You will work closely with programme leadership, engineering teams, cyber specialists, and operational stakeholders to ensure solutions are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery meets operational and security expectations. The successful candidate will bring strong leadership, governance, and assurance experience within highly secure defence or government environments and be comfortable operating at programme level, providing independent challenge and strategic oversight. Key...

Assurance Consultant Location: Hampshire (Onsite) Duration: 18 Months Clearance: D V Clearance required (Active) Rate: £600 - 750 per day - Outside IR35 Overview We are seeking an Assurance Consultant to provide specialist oversight and assurance across a highly secure government IT infrastructure programme. This role will focus on managing and governing the test and trial activity, ensuring that infrastructure capabilities are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery remains aligned to operational requirements. The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser to programme leadership, providing independent challenge, structured guidance, and leadership across complex test environments. Key Responsibilities Provide strategic oversight and assurance of Test & Trials activity across the programme Review and shape Test & Trials Strategies, Plans, and governance frameworks Advise programme leadership on test readiness, risks, and...

Assurance Consultant Location: Hampshire (Onsite) Duration: 18 Months Clearance: D V Clearance required (Active) Rate: £ 550 to £600 per day - Outside IR35 Overview We are seeking a Project Test Managerto provide specialist oversight and assurance across a highly secure government IT infrastructure programme. This role will focus on managing and governing the test and trial activity, ensuring that infrastructure capabilities are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery remains aligned to operational requirements. The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser to programme leadership, providing independent challenge, structured guidance, and leadership across complex test environments. Key Responsibilities Provide strategic oversight and assurance of Test & Trials activity across the programme Review and shape Test & Trials Strategies, Plans, and governance frameworks Advise programme leadership on test readiness, risks, and...

Assurance Consultant Location: Hampshire (Onsite) Duration: 18 Months Clearance: D V Clearance required (Active) Rate: £ 550 to £600 per day - Outside IR35 Overview We are seeking a Project Test Managerto provide specialist oversight and assurance across a highly secure government IT infrastructure programme. This role will focus on managing and governing the test and trial activity, ensuring that infrastructure capabilities are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery remains aligned to operational requirements. The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser to programme leadership, providing independent challenge, structured guidance, and leadership across complex test environments. Key Responsibilities Provide strategic oversight and assurance of Test & Trials activity across the programme Review and shape Test & Trials Strategies, Plans, and governance frameworks Advise programme leadership on test readiness, risks, and delivery...

Assurance Consultant Location: Hampshire (Onsite) Duration: 18 Months Clearance: D V Clearance required (Active) Rate: £600 - 750 per day - Outside IR35 Overview We are seeking an Assurance Consultant to provide specialist oversight and assurance across a highly secure government IT infrastructure programme. This role will focus on managing and governing the test and trial activity, ensuring that infrastructure capabilities are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery remains aligned to operational requirements. The successful candidate will act as a trusted adviser to programme leadership, providing independent challenge, structured guidance, and leadership across complex test environments. Key Responsibilities Provide strategic oversight and assurance of Test & Trials activity across the programme Review and shape Test & Trials Strategies, Plans, and governance frameworks Advise programme leadership on test readiness, risks, and delivery...

Job Title: DV Cleared Commercial Support Location: Basingstoke (On-site) Rate: Up to £650 per day via an approved umbrella company Contract Duration: 6 months with possible extension Must be willing and eligible to go through the DV clearance process Our client, a leading organisation in the IT sector, is seeking a dedicated Commercial Support to join their team in Basingstoke. This is an excellent opportunity to support strategic contract management, ensuring compliance and risk mitigation across multiple projects. What You'll Be Doing Lead contract management, negotiations, and statements of work for governance approval. Collaborate with legal, sales, delivery, procurement, and finance teams to meet business objectives. Maintain contract documentation, ensuring adherence to governance policies. Support contract change processes, including templates for SOWs and change orders. Provide contract support for ongoing activities, including reporting and...

DV Cleared P6 Planner - Outside IR35 - 12-Month Contract I'm supporting a specialist consultancy supplying into a major defence organisation, and we're looking for an experienced DV-cleared P6 Planner to join on a long-term programme. Contract: 12 months (extensions likely) IR35: Outside Clearance: DV (active and in-date) Sector: Defence Rates: Flexible for the right person 3 days onsite Berkshire What you'll be doing: Leading planning activity across complex defence workstreams Building, maintaining and optimising Primavera P6 schedules Supporting programme controls, reporting and forecasting Working closely with PMs, engineering teams and senior stakeholders Ensuring planning outputs align with governance and delivery milestones What you'll need: Active DV clearance Strong Primavera P6 experience in complex programmes Background in defence, aerospace or secure government environments Ability to operate in fast-moving, highly regulated settings If you're a DV-cleared P6...

Location: Maidenhead (fully onsite) Duration: 6 month contract Outside IR35 Role details: Our client is looking for a Full-Lifecycle Systems Engineer to support their teams on advanced cryptographic and key‑management solutions that enable the secure exchange of critical information for customers operating at both tactical and strategic levels. You will work closely with multi‑disciplinary teams, often acting as the single point of Systems Engineering accountability on a project, applying a practical approach aligned to project size, risk, and maturity. The role requires confidence in making independent technical judgements, shaping the approach rather than simply following established frameworks. The ideal candidate will have a background in smaller organisations or SME-style project teams. Key Responsibilities: Own and deliver full lifecycle Systems Engineering activities on smaller to medium projects, from bid support through development, test,...

Security Architect - 3-month contract - £600 per day (Outside IR35) - Berkshire/Hybrid Key skills/experience: Demonstrable background implementing robust security architectures within fixed network, and enterprise environments Ideal candidates will be able to showcase multiple similar engagements working on large-scale security/cyber initiatives with blue-chip clients or public sector organisations Our client is a globally recognised technology solutions specialist, currently engaged with a tier one mobile network operator to support their growth within the enterprise IT, and fixed network infrastructure space.

Senior Scientific Data Scientist / Pipeline Engineer Remote / Hybrid Oxford 6 Month Contract Outside IR35 £400 to £550 per day Overview A technology-enabled drug discovery company is looking for a Senior Scientific Data Scientist to design, build and maintain the analytical pipelines that power its data-driven discovery platform. The business combines automated wet-lab experimentation, proprietary analytical pipelines and deep scientific expertise to generate high-quality, reproducible biological datasets at scale. This data supports AI-driven discovery work across areas including oncology, immunology and neurodegeneration. This role would suit a scientist-turned-coder or scientific data scientist with strong Python skills, statistical modelling experience and a background working with bioassay or experimental biology data. The Role You will build and improve Python-based analytical pipelines for diverse bioassay datasets,...

DV Cleared Full Stack Developer Location: Remote with ad-hoc travel to Corsham (likely 1–2 days per month) Rate: £700–£800 per day Contract: Outside IR35 Clearance: DV Cleared (minimum requirement) Do not apply if you dont have DV We’re supporting a major programme within the UK defence sector looking for an experienced DV Cleared Full Stack Developer to help build a brand-new platform supporting critical national capability. Key Skills & Experience Strong full stack development experience Commercial experience with: React Node.js Java Strong API development and integration experience Experience building modern, scalable platforms and services Comfortable working in agile engineering teams Strong coding and engineering best practices Experience working within secure/public sector/defence environments is highly desirable Additional Information Remote-first engagement Ad-hoc travel to Corsham approximately 1–2 days per month Immediate...

Senior Software Engineer (Contract) Remote / Oxford (Flexible Hybrid) £500 – £600 per day (Outside IR35) 3–6 Month Contract We’re supporting an innovative deep-tech company developing AI-driven software within a highly complex scientific environment. They’re looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to help accelerate backend platform development as they continue to scale. This is a hands-on contract role focused on building robust backend services, APIs, and scalable applications using Python. You’ll work closely with a highly technical engineering team, contributing across architecture, development, and delivery in a fast-paced environment. What They’re Looking For Strong commercial Python experience Experience building APIs and backend services using FastAPI, Flask or similar Strong understanding of scalable software engineering and system design Experience with cloud platforms and containerised environments Comfortable working...