34 jobs found in Knutsford

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an accomplished IT Project Manager to join a dynamic, multi-site organisation as it embarks on a large-scale business transformation journey. The successful candidate will bring strong IT project delivery experience, particularly across applications, coupled with exceptional leadership, communication, and people management capabilities. Client Details Our Client is looking for an influential and effective IT project manager. Description Lead the planning and execution of technology/ application projects from start to finish. Collaborate with difficult stakeholders to define project goals and requirements. Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines and budgets. Identify and manage potential risks and issues during project delivery. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align resources and priorities. Track and report on project progress, keeping stakeholders informed. Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards...

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an accomplished IT Project Manager to join a dynamic, multi-site organisation as it embarks on a large-scale business transformation journey. The successful candidate will bring strong IT project delivery experience, particularly across applications, coupled with exceptional leadership, communication, and people management capabilities. Client Details Our Client is looking for an influential and effective IT project manager. Description Lead the planning and execution of technology/application projects from start to finish. Collaborate with difficult stakeholders to define project goals and requirements. Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines and budgets. Identify and manage potential risks and issues during project delivery. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align resources and priorities. Track and report on project progress, keeping stakeholders informed. Ensure compliance with relevant industry standards...

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an accomplished IT Project Manager to join a dynamic, multi-site organisation as it embarks on a large-scale business transformation journey. The successful candidate will bring strong IT project delivery experience, particularly across applications, coupled with exceptional leadership, communication, and people management capabilities. Client Details Our Client is looking for an influential and effective IT project manager. Description Lead the planning and execution of technology/ application projects from start to finish. Collaborate with difficult stakeholders to define project goals and requirements. Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines and budgets. Identify and manage potential risks and issues during project delivery. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to align resources and priorities. Track and report on project progress, keeping stakeholders informed. Ensure...

A major organisation operating within a complex, business-critical environment is seeking an experienced Cyber Essentials Plus Consultant to lead a significant remediation and certification programme. Following a recent review of the organisation's Cyber Essentials Plus readiness, a number of gaps have been identified that must be addressed before certification can be successfully achieved. The successful contractor will take ownership of the programme, driving remediation activity across technology teams and lead the organisation through to successful certification. This is a delivery-focused role requiring an individual who understands the Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus process from end to end and can move beyond advisory recommendations to deliver tangible improvements. The Role: You will be responsible for assessing the current position, identifying gaps against Cyber Essentials Plus requirements and leading the remediation activity required to achieve...

6 month initial contract with high chance of extending 3 days per week onsite £400 per day Outside IR35 We are seeking an experienced Contract Business Analyst to support a Finance-focused transformation programme within a large organisation. This is a true all-round BA role, requiring someone equally comfortable working with senior stakeholders, analysing and improving business processes, defining requirements, and supporting delivery through to implementation. Experience working on Finance ERP implementations is essential. Key Skills & Experience Strong Business Analysis experience across a variety of business and technology projects. Excellent business process mapping, process improvement, and operating model design skills. Proven ability to elicit, analyse and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements. Experienced in facilitating workshops, stakeholder interviews and requirements gathering sessions. Strong gap analysis,...

EPR Project Manager – NHS | EPMA / Oracle Health / Hybrid / Outside IR35 / Long-term Contract I’m currently looking for a strong, process-driven Project Manager to support a major NHS EPR implementation. The ideal candidate will have proven experience managing complex EPR implementation projects, with a strong understanding of EPMA (Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration) and the clinical processes surrounding medicines management. Essential: • Strong EPR project management experience within an NHS environment • Excellent project planning, governance, RAID and stakeholder management skills • Strong understanding of EPMA and associated clinical workflows • Experience coordinating multiple workstreams, suppliers and clinical stakeholders • Highly process-driven, structured and delivery-focused Desirable: • Previous Oracle Health / Cerner Millennium implementation experience • Experience working directly across EPMA, pharmacy and clinical...

Data Engineer (Azure, Databricks, Terraform) Contract : Initial 3 months (strong likelihood of a 6 month extension if all goes well) Outside IR35 Day rate: £450 - £500/day Location: Remote (occasional visits to Leeds office) We're working with a financial services business in the middle of a major Databricks migration, moving off a legacy stack and building out a modern, cloud-native data platform. It's a meaty piece of transformation work and they need two strong Data Engineers to come in and help drive it forward. This is a genuinely hands-on role. You'll be building out data pipelines and the Databricks environment itself, embedding good engineering practice across the team, and working shoulder to shoulder with delivery squads as the wider transformation takes shape. If you like being close to the architecture decisions and the day-to-day delivery rhythm, this one's worth a proper look. Outside IR35, remote first, and paying £450 to £500 a...

Digital Programme Manager – Global Digital Transformation Location: London (Stratford) – Hybrid, 2 to 3 days per week Contract: 18 months Rate: £600–£670 per day – Outside IR35 Start Date - ASAP   We are looking for an experienced Digital Programme Manager to deliver a global digital transformation and take hands-on ownership of a major £25m global digital transformation programme.   This is a delivery-focused role rather than a traditional strategic Director position. You will lead a highly complex programme bringing multiple digital products and services together into a single, scalable global platform, supporting customer experiences across web and mobile.   You will coordinate delivery across approximately 11 technical squads, including Product, UI, Content, Data and Architecture, ensuring multiple workstreams come together against a clear and controlled programme plan.   Key Responsibilities Lead end-to-end delivery of a complex £25m digital transformation programme....

Senior SAP Analytics Cloud Consultant - Fully Remote - Outside IR35 Contract: 12 months Location: Fully remote - UK-based An established digital transformation consultancy is looking for a Senior SAP Analytics Cloud Consultant to deliver SAC solutions across a range of customer projects. This is a hands-on, client-facing role covering the full delivery lifecycle-from requirements gathering and solution design through development, testing, deployment and support. Key responsibilities: Design and deliver SAP Analytics Cloud planning, forecasting and reporting solutions. Build planning models, dashboards, stories, data actions and advanced calculations. Lead customer workshops to gather requirements and translate them into effective SAC solutions. Integrate SAC with SAP Datasphere, BW/4HANA, S/4HANA and other data sources. Develop scalable data models and reporting solutions. Configure security roles and data-access controls. Support testing, deployment,...

Digital Product Manager - Data Services £500-£550 per day | Outside IR35 | Hybrid Remote | SC Eligible | 6 Months (Initial Contract) Overview We are hiring an experienced Digital Product Manager to support a large-scale government digital-services programme. You will initially take ownership of the roadmap and priorities for a data team comprising data engineers and test specialists. The wider role requires systems thinking across data, backend and digital teams, ensuring technical delivery remains aligned with service outcomes and delivers clear business and user value. This is a pragmatic, hands-on position for someone who can bring structure to competing priorities, constructively challenge, and help the client balance immediate operational needs with the longer-term development of its digital platform. Key Responsibilities Own and maintain the product roadmap and priorities for the data ingestion team. Connect data and backend deliverables to wider...

SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Finance Lead - Contract - Outside IR35 Location: Fully remote, with occasional travel to UK client sites Travel: All agreed business travel expenses paid The opportunity: An established digital business transformation consultancy is expanding its SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition capability and is looking for an experienced Finance Lead to take ownership of the finance workstream across customer implementations. This is a senior, hands-on consulting role. You will combine strong SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud Finance expertise with the communication skills and credibility to lead customers through transformation. You must be comfortable chairing workshops, engaging senior finance stakeholders, challenging requirements and guiding customers towards SAP standard processes. This is not a configuration-only position. You will be the trusted Finance lead: setting direction, managing decisions and dependencies, coordinating consultants and ensuring the...

Pensions Project Manager Outside IR35 | Market Rates | Remote| 6 months + likely extension Our client, a well-established name in the pensions sector, is looking for an experienced Pensions Project Manager to join their Change team on an initial 6-month contract, with a strong likelihood of extension. The successful candidate will have a strong background in pensions change and project delivery , ideally with hands-on experience implementing Procentia IntelliPen product or a similar pensions administration technology platform. This is a key project within the organisation, and they are looking for someone who can take ownership of delivery, work effectively with stakeholders across the business, and ensure the implementation is delivered successfully from planning through to go-live. Key responsibilities: Lead the end-to-end implementation of Procentia IntelliPen , from planning through to delivery and go-live. Manage project plans, milestones, risks, issues,...

Project Manager - Workforce Management/SaaS Implementation Circa. £600 per day (outside IR35) Remote We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead the end-to-end implementation of a new Workforce Management solution across a large, multi-site organisation. This is a high-profile transformation programme spanning Operations, HR, Payroll and Technology , with responsibility for taking the project from procurement and supplier selection through implementation, integration, business change and go-live. The successful candidate will have a strong track record of delivering complex SaaS or Workforce Management programmes and be comfortable managing senior stakeholders, third-party suppliers and implementation partners. The Role As Project Manager, you will take overall ownership of the programme, coordinating internal teams and external partners to ensure the new solution is successfully selected, implemented and Embedded across the organisation. Key...

Senior SC Cleared Data Engineer - Azure Databricks Location: Remote Contract: 6 months Rate: £425 - £475 per day, Outside IR35 iO Associates are looking for an experienced SC Cleared Data Engineer with strong Azure Databricks expertise to join a Central Government team responsible for designing & developing high-volume datasets. Essential Experience Extensive hands-on experience with Azure Databricks Recent experience working within UK Central Government Strong Python development experience Experience with Spark-based technologies Experience building, automating and supporting data pipelines Familiarity with CI/CD, Docker & Kubernetes

Senior Backend Rust Engineers | Outside IR35 | Fully Remote I'm looking for 2 Senior Backend Rust Engineers to join a major, long-term platform transformation programme. This isn't a short-term "come in and fix a few bugs" contract. The team are rebuilding and modernising a business-critical platform, there's a significant roadmap of engineering work ahead, and I'm looking for experienced engineers who want something they can properly get their teeth into. You'll be working hands-on across: • Rust • Backend services & APIs • Distributed systems • Cloud-native development • SQL & NoSQL databases • Modern AI-assisted software engineering I'm not looking for architects who have moved away from coding. I'm looking for experienced software engineers who still enjoy getting into the detail, solving difficult technical problems and building production systems. You don't need to have spent your entire career working exclusively with Rust either. A strong wider Back End...

Service Designer - Circa £450 per day outside ir35 - Remote - 5 week discovery with likely extension My client is a global leading IT consultancy. They are on the hunt for a Service Designer with GDS experience to join a central government client of theirs. Must have GDS/gov.uk experience. Bonus points for interaction skills and being able to turn their hand to prototyping. Key responsibilities Document as-is and to-be user journeys, including referral routes, user roles and key service touchpoints Create a draft service design blueprint describing the proposed end-to-end referral service, including referral process, organisation interactions and operational considerations Wireframing and prototyping (stretch) Support validation of the MVP based on known constraints and enablers Contriubte to a Discovery findings and recommendations report covering validated business requirements, user needs, operation constraints, expected volumes, risks and dependencies...

Job Title: Security AI Engineer Duration: 6 months with chance of extension Contract: Outside IR35 Location: Fully remote We're looking for a Security AI Engineer to join an exciting programme focused on building autonomous security agents and next generation AI-driven security capabilities. Working at the intersection of AI and cyber security, you'll help design and develop agentic systems capable of investigating security events, reasoning across complex environments, support incident response and drive automated remediation. The focus is on applying agentic AI to real-world security operations, helping evolve traditional SOC processes into intelligent, autonomous workflows. What You'll Be Doing: Designing and building agentic security agents Developing AI-driven solutions for SOC, incident response and security automation Building integrations with security and operational tooling Working with modern agent orchestration frameworks and MCP Contributing to...

EUC Platform Architect | Initially 6 months | London | 2/3 days on site | Outside IR35 | Rate Depends on experience Opportunity Overview We are looking for an experienced EUC Platform Architect to join a major transformation programme supporting a global financial services organisation. This is a senior technical leadership position where you will be responsible for defining the architecture vision, setting platform standards, and providing design governance throughout the delivery lifecycle. You will act as the key architectural authority for the EUC platform, ensuring solutions are scalable, secure, and aligned with enterprise requirements. The role will involve owning detailed technical designs, guiding engineering teams, and leading formal design approval sessions with senior stakeholders. Responsibilities Lead the end-to-end architecture design of the EUC platform Develop and maintain High-Level Designs (HLD) and Low-Level Designs (LLD) Establish...

Cloud FinOps Architect - Remote - Outside IR35 Initially, you will support customer workshops through preparation, attendance, and follow-up activities, with the opportunity to move into a longer-term engagement delivering the full Cloud FinOps strategy. The position is ideal for an experienced Cloud FinOps Architect with strong cloud architecture, financial management, governance, and enterprise transformation expertise. Cloud FinOps Architect Responsibilities Define and maintain the enterprise Cloud FinOps strategy, roadmap, and target operating model. Design governance frameworks, standards, and architectural patterns for Cloud Financial Management. Lead Cloud FinOps transformation and maturity improvement initiatives. Analyse cloud consumption and identify opportunities for rightsizing, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, storage optimisation, SaaS licence optimisation, and cost reduction. Develop budgeting, forecasting, chargeback, showback, and cost allocation models. Build...

IT Asset Management (ITAM) Architect - Remote - Outside IR35 You will act as the technical authority for IT Asset Management, designing scalable solutions across Hardware Asset Management (HAM), Software Asset Management (SAM), Cloud Asset Management, CMDB, and ServiceNow platforms. The position is ideal for an experienced ITAM Architect with strong ServiceNow, enterprise architecture, governance, and asset lifecycle management expertise. IT Asset Management (ITAM) Architect Responsibilities Define and maintain the enterprise IT Asset Management strategy and roadmap. Design target operating models for Hardware Asset Management (HAM), Software Asset Management (SAM), and Cloud Asset Management. Lead the architecture and governance of ServiceNow ITAM solutions, including HAM Pro, SAM Pro, CMDB, Discovery, and ITSM integrations. Design scalable integrations between asset repositories, procurement systems, ERP platforms, cloud platforms, and discovery tools. Govern the complete...