17 senior platform engineer jobs found

Senior Software Engineer - Outside IR35 - Contract (Energy Client) About the role Softwire is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join a team delivering the first phase of a major replatforming project. You will work in a collaborative, technically focused environment, helping to modernise a data platform that currently relies on Power Automate, Power BI, and Python scripts. You can work remotely from anywhere in the UK, as client site visits aren't mandatory. Phase one of the project will introduce a SQL database and Azure Function Apps, alongside a migration of data from SharePoint into the new database. This is a hands-on engineering role with real impact from day one. Key Responsibilities Design and build Azure Function Apps to support the replatforming initiative. Develop and maintain SQL database schemas, queries, and data pipelines. Contribute to the migration of data from SharePoint into the new database. Work with existing Power...

Senior AI Voice Engineer £500 - £550 per day Outside IR35 Remote (occasional London meet-up) Initial 6 Month Contract We are looking for a Senior AI Voice Engineer to help build and scale a production-grade AI voice platform for a major UK financial services organisation. This is not a proof-of-concept role. The business has already built initial Python-based prototypes and is now looking for an experienced contractor to take the solution into production, helping define the architecture, challenge technical decisions, and build a scalable platform capable of handling real customer interactions. You'll work directly with senior stakeholders and have significant influence over both the technical direction and implementation approach. What You'll Be Doing Designing and building production-grade AI voice agent solutions Developing scalable Python services and APIs Working with speech-to-text (STT), large language models (LLMs) and text-to-speech (TTS)...

Senior Mobile QA Engineer (iOS & Android) £400 - £425 per day | Outside IR35 | Initial 6-Month Contract | Hybrid (Stratford, London) | Immediate Start Available Our trusted partner within the Ed-Tech sector, employing over 10,000 people across 100 countries and supporting more than 600 million users globally, is seeking an experienced Senior Mobile QA Engineer to join a high-profile product engineering team developing innovative mobile learning applications. This role is ideal for a QA professional with extensive experience testing native and cross-platform mobile applications across iOS and Android environments, coupled with a strong background in test automation and modern Agile delivery practices. Key Responsibilities Lead quality assurance activities across mobile applications, ensuring exceptional user experience on both iOS and Android platforms. Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans and test cases. Design, implement and...

Senior Data Engineer / GCP / Looker / Big Query £500 - 550 per day (Outside IR35) London / Hybrid (1 day a week) This is an opportunity for you to join a rapidly growing ecommerce business who are looking for a Senior Data Engineer. This role is ideal for someone who has built and operated modern data platforms natively within GCP and can take ownership of the full data engineering lifecycle, from ingestion and transformation through to semantic modelling and reporting enablement. You must have experience in designing, building and optimising scalable data pipelines within the GCP ecosystem. You must also have experience working with Looker as this role with be integral between the commercial and BI teams. Key Requirements: Expert experience across the Google Cloud Platform ecosystem Hands-on experience with BigQuery, including optimisation, modelling and performance tuning Proven experience building scalable data pipelines within GCP Strong knowledge of...

Senior Data Engineer | Hybrid | Outside IR35 | £475 - £525 | London We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a leading organisation on a contract basis. This role will suit someone with strong experience across the Azure data platform, particularly Databricks and PySpark, who can take ownership of data engineering delivery from design through to implementation. This is a hybrid role requiring the candidate to be on site 2 days per month. You will be working on building and enhancing modern data platforms, delivering scalable data pipelines, and supporting high-volume data processing in a cloud environment. Key Responsibilities Design and build scalable data pipelines using Azure technologies Develop and optimise solutions in Databricks using PySpark Work with large and complex datasets, including streaming and batch data Build and maintain data platforms and data warehouses Implement ETL/ELT processes and data transformation logic Collaborate with stakeholders...

Senior Data Engineer | Hybrid | Outside IR35 | £475 - £525 | London We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a leading organisation on a contract basis. This role will suit someone with strong experience across the Azure data platform , particularly Databricks and PySpark , who can take ownership of data engineering delivery from design through to implementation. This is a hybrid role requiring the candidate to be on site 2 days per month. You will be working on building and enhancing modern data platforms, delivering scalable data pipelines, and supporting high-volume data processing in a cloud environment. Key Responsibilities Design and build scalable data pipelines using Azure technologies Develop and optimise solutions in Databricks using PySpark Work with large and complex datasets, including streaming and batch data Build and maintain data platforms and data warehouses Implement ETL/ELT processes and data transformation logic Collaborate...

Senior Data Engineer | Hybrid | Outside IR35 | £475 - £525 | London We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join a leading organisation on a contract basis. This role will suit someone with strong experience across the Azure data platform , particularly Databricks and PySpark , who can take ownership of data engineering delivery from design through to implementation. This is a hybrid role requiring the candidate to be on site 2 days per month. You will be working on building and enhancing modern data platforms, delivering scalable data pipelines, and supporting high-volume data processing in a cloud environment. Key Responsibilities Design and build scalable data pipelines using Azure technologies Develop and optimise solutions in Databricks using PySpark Work with large and complex datasets, including streaming and batch data Build and maintain data platforms and data warehouses Implement ETL/ELT processes and data...

SRE - Outside IR35 - £520/day - Remote Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) | AWS/Azure/GCP | Terraform | CI/CD | IAM We're supporting a consultancy client hiring an experienced SRE for a 6-month contract , paying up to £520/day (Outside IR35) . Remote-first with occasional Canary Wharf visits. Immediate start. Key Skills Strong SRE/Platform Engineering background Cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP) Terraform/Infrastructure as Code CI/CD & automation SLO/SLI/observability Strong IAM experience : Least privilege access design IAM roles, policies & identity architecture Short-lived credentials (SSO, OIDC) Governance/policy-as-code Role Focus Embed SRE principles (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) Improve system reliability, scalability & performance Build IaC, pipelines & reusable platform patterns Drive IAM best practices, security & governance Enhance incident response, monitoring & resilience Details 6...

Senior AWS Engineer - Up to £500 per day 6 month initial contract Fully Remote - UK Based Outside IR35 Role Overview We are seeking an experienced Senior AWS Engineer to join our Professional Services delivery team on a fixed term basis to support the delivery of a major AWS migration and separation programme for an enterprise customer. This role will form part of a multi-disciplinary delivery team working alongside Solution Architects, Project Managers, and customer technical stakeholders to build, migrate, and deploy AWS infrastructure and application services as part of a structured separation of an existing hybrid estate into a new AWS Organisation. The successful candidate will play a hands-on role in delivering landing zone implementation, networking build activities, server migration, and application platform deployment using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approaches. This is a customer-facing delivery role within a professional services consultancy...

Cloud Operations Engineer (Azure) | 3 months initial London | Hybrid - 2 Days Office Based | Outside IR35 | £350-400 p/d We're working with a leading UK financial services technology business, one of the most recognised names in the sector, on the lookout for a hands-on Cloud Operations Engineer to join their infrastructure team on a contract basis. This is a strictly operational role. No architecture, no greenfield design, this is about keeping production environments stable, secure, and performant in a fast-paced, regulated environment. If you thrive on BAU ops, incident response, and continuous improvement of monitoring and resilience, this one's worth a look. What you'll be doing: Operating and supporting Azure production and non-production environments, heavy focus on compute, virtual networking, and storage. Acting as 1st and 2nd line of defence for platform and application issues, with participation in an out-of-hours on-call rotation for P1/P2 incidents. Executing...

My client is seeking an experienced Contract Site Reliability Engineer Team Lead to join their team. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a strong technical background alongside the ability to lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing SRE function. There will be occasional travel to the client's offices in Central London. This role is paying £475 Per day and is Outside IR35. Responsibilities Provide technical leadership for the Site Reliability Engineering function, driving reliability, scalability, and performance improvements across critical production systems. Lead, mentor, and coach a team of SREs and engineers, fostering a culture of operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Remain hands-on with the design, implementation, and support of cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and platform reliability initiatives. Define, implement, and govern SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, ensuring alignment between engineering...

Full job description Location:  London (Hybrid) Rate:  £50-55 per hour + VAT IR35 Status:  Outside IR35 About the Opportunity We're supporting an innovative technology business developing cutting-edge wearable products that combine hardware, embedded systems, AI, and data analytics to deliver real-time performance coaching. The business has grown from an early-stage concept into a globally recognised technology platform, leveraging large-scale real-world data and intelligent sensing to create industry-leading products. We're seeking a Hardware & Embedded Software Engineer to help develop the next generation of wearable technology. The Role This is a highly varied engineering position sitting at the intersection of hardware, embedded software, sensors, and product development. You'll work closely with product, AI, mobile, and data teams to develop wearable electronics that deliver accurate real-time performance feedback in demanding...

Senior Full-Stack Engineer - 6 Months Contract - up to £400 Per day Outside IR35 - Retail We’re working with a well-established retail business currently undergoing a major internal transformation programme, and they’re looking for a Senior Full Stack Developer to join on a 6 month contract. The business has been operating successfully for over 10 years and combines the stability of an established company with the pace and culture of a start-up environment. Decisions happen quickly, there’s very little hierarchy, and engineers are trusted to own delivery and make a tangible impact. This role will focus heavily on building modern internal applications and operational tooling that support large-scale scheduling, fulfilment, logistics, optimisation and customer service functions across the business. The Role You'll play a key role in developing modern React-based internal applications alongside supporting .NET backend services, helping replace legacy workflows with...

Senior Software Engineer - Outside IR35 - Contract (Insurance) About the role Essential: Self-starter, someone who can pick up context quickly, drive outcomes efficiently, and to a high quality Competent in doing high-level designs, solution management, and scoping Understanding of data modelling best practices Ability to translate technical solutions to non-technical stakeholders and bring them on the journey Experience working in an agile delivery environment Experience working with React, TypeScript, Azure, Microsoft SQL, and Databricks (if they don’t have all of these, that’s workable, but be good to understand any they don’t have experience with) Frontend: React + TypeScript + Vite Material UI with Emotion for styling TanStack React Query 5 for server state React Router 7 React Hook Form+Yup for forms/validation MSAL for Entra ID auth Jest+Testing Library for unit tests; Playwrightfor E2E and visual tests Hosted as an Azure Static...

?? Senior Voice AI Engineer - Contract (Outside IR35) | £350-500/day | 3-4 months | Remote ?? We're looking for a hands-on engineer to take an existing voice AI proof-of-concept and turn it into a reliable, production-grade system ready for real users. The prototype works - but it now needs to be made fast, stable, scalable, and cost-efficient. What you'll be doing: - Productionising a voice AI system from an existing PoC - Working with voice platforms such as ElevenLabs/Deepgram (or similar) - Improving Real Time performance and reducing latency - Designing lightweight orchestration (simple, deterministic flows over complex prompt chains) - Integrating customer/internal data using RAG approaches - Optimising cost, reliability, and system efficiency - Building and maintaining API/SDK-based voice pipelines - Supporting secure handling of sensitive/PII data What we're looking for: - Strong experience building voice AI or Real Time speech systems - Hands-on experience with...

Senior Voice AI Engineer - Contract (Outside IR35) | £350-500/day | 3-4 months | Remote We 're looking for a hands-on engineer to take an existing voice AI proof-of-concept and turn it into a reliable, production-grade system ready for real users. The prototype works - but it now needs to be made fast, stable, scalable, and cost-efficient. What you 'll be doing: - Productionising a voice AI system from an existing PoC - Working with voice platforms such as ElevenLabs / Deepgram (or similar) - Improving real-time performance and reducing latency - Designing lightweight orchestration (simple, deterministic flows over complex prompt chains) - Integrating customer/internal data using RAG approaches - Optimising cost, reliability, and system efficiency - Building and maintaining API/SDK-based voice pipelines - Supporting secure handling of sensitive/PII data What we 're looking for: - Strong experience building voice AI or real-time speech systems - Hands-on...

My client is seeking an experienced Contract Site Reliability Engineer Team Lead to join their team. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring a strong technical background alongside the ability to lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing SRE function. There will be occasional travel to the client's offices in Central London. Responsibilities of the Site Reliability Team Lead Provide technical leadership for the Site Reliability Engineering function, driving reliability, scalability, and performance improvements across critical production systems. Lead, mentor, and coach a team of SREs and engineers, fostering a culture of operational excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Remain hands-on with the design, implementation, and support of cloud infrastructure, automation, observability, and platform reliability initiatives. Define, implement, and govern SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets, ensuring alignment between engineering priorities and business...