41 government jobs found in Edinburgh

Job Title: Solution Architect Rate: £550 - £600 (Outside IR35) Duration: 6 months Location: Remote Clearance: BPSS Stages: 1 Stage Must Have Government Experience Key Responsibilities Design end-to-end technical solutions that meet business and user requirements. Produce solution architecture documentation, including architecture diagrams, solution designs, integration specifications, and technical roadmaps. Ensure solutions align with architecture standards, DDaT Technology Code of Practice, and Government Digital Service (GDS) standards. Collaborate with Enterprise Architects to ensure alignment with strategic architecture. Work alongside Agile delivery teams throughout discovery, Alpha, beta, and live phases. Evaluate technology options and recommend appropriate platforms, services, and integration patterns. Provide technical leadership during solution delivery and implementation. Conduct architecture governance reviews and design assurance activities....

KPI Report Developer (Power BI) Remote (with occasional office visits) Start: September 2026 Duration: 12 Months Rate: £500 per day Outside IR35 (subject to assessment) Security Clearance: BPSS / CTC required The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced KPI Report Developer to join a high-profile programme, delivering impactful reporting and business intelligence solutions across a large and complex environment. This role will focus on the design, development, testing and deployment of new and enhanced Power BI dashboards and KPI reporting solutions. Working with data sourced from enterprise data warehouses and Azure-based data platforms, you will play a key role in transforming complex datasets into meaningful management information that supports operational and strategic decision-making. The successful candidate will work closely with Business Analysts, technical teams and business stakeholders to gather requirements, define reporting solutions and...

Solution Architect 6 Month Contract (Outside IR35) Hybrid, Edinburgh (Ad Hoc) Starting ASAP Day Rate: £DOE About the Role: CHI in Local Government - Solution Architect (Delivery & Playbook Design) This assignment supports the Community Health Index (CHI) in Local Government discovery programme. You will operate as a hands-on technical and delivery lead within a small multidisciplinary team (Project Manager, Product Owner and IG Lead), with responsibility for translating real-world local government needs into practical, reusable solutions and playbook artefacts. This is not a purely strategic or advisory architecture role. You will be expected to work in a highly practical, delivery-focused way, including: Engaging directly with local authorities, health boards, and partners to understand current (as-is) processes, systems, and constraints Working collaboratively with stakeholders to define feasible, delivery-ready future (to-be) approaches Rapidly...

Solution Architect | 6 Month Contract | (Outside IR35) | Hybrid, Edinburgh (Ad Hoc)| Starting ASAP Day Rate: £DOE About the Role: CHI in Local Government - Solution Architect (Delivery & Playbook Design) This assignment supports the Community Health Index (CHI) in Local Government discovery programme. You will operate as a hands-on technical and delivery lead within a small multidisciplinary team (Project Manager, Product Owner and IG Lead), with responsibility for translating real-world local government needs into practical, reusable solutions and playbook artefacts. This is not a purely strategic or advisory architecture role. You will be expected to work in a highly practical, delivery-focused way, including: Engaging directly with local authorities, health boards, and partners to understand current (as-is) processes, systems, and constraints Working collaboratively with stakeholders to define feasible, delivery-ready future (to-be) approaches Rapidly...

Solution Architect | 6 Month Contract | (Outside IR35) | Hybrid, Edinburgh (Ad Hoc)| Starting ASAP Day Rate: £DOE About the Role: CHI in Local Government - Solution Architect (Delivery & Playbook Design) This assignment supports the Community Health Index (CHI) in Local Government discovery programme. You will operate as a hands-on technical and delivery lead within a small multidisciplinary team (Project Manager, Product Owner and IG Lead), with responsibility for translating real-world local government needs into practical, reusable solutions and playbook artefacts. This is not a purely strategic or advisory architecture role. You will be expected to work in a highly practical, delivery-focused way, including: Engaging directly with local authorities, health boards, and partners to understand current (as-is) processes, systems, and constraints Working collaboratively with stakeholders to define feasible,...

Solution Architect 6 Month Contract (Outside IR35) Hybrid, Edinburgh (Ad Hoc) Starting ASAP Day Rate: £DOE About the Role: CHI in Local Government - Solution Architect (Delivery & Playbook Design) This assignment supports the Community Health Index (CHI) in Local Government discovery programme. You will operate as a hands-on technical and delivery lead within a small multidisciplinary team (Project Manager, Product Owner and IG Lead), with responsibility for translating real-world local government needs into practical, reusable solutions and playbook artefacts. This is not a purely strategic or advisory architecture role. You will be expected to work in a highly practical, delivery-focused way, including: Engaging directly with local authorities, health boards, and partners to understand current (as-is) processes, systems, and constraints Working collaboratively with stakeholders to define feasible, delivery-ready future (to-be) approaches Rapidly exploring...

Solution Architect 6 Month Contract (Outside IR35) Hybrid, Edinburgh (Ad Hoc) Starting ASAP Day Rate: £DOE About the Role: CHI in Local Government - Solution Architect (Delivery & Playbook Design) This assignment supports the Community Health Index (CHI) in Local Government discovery programme click apply for full job details

Our Telecoms client is looking for a Project Network Engineer to join their team in Glasgow. This is a 6 months contract initially and the role is outside IR35. Please note that due to the nature of the role candidates are required 5 days per week onsite at offices just north of Glasgow. Key responsibilities: * Create and maintain technical documentation and ensure customer networks are documented as part of project handovers * Install, configure, fault find, report and maintain routers, switches and firewalls * Completion of site surveys to enable installation * Rack, charger and telecoms equipment installation and commissioning to an excellent standard * Create Health and Safety documentation such as RAMS, POWRA to ensure H&S measures are adhered to. Required experience: * Proven experience in monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting network and system environments. * Strong background in IP networking, including CCNA-level knowledge, WAN, LAN, and MPLS. *...

hackajob is collaborating with Solirius Reply to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role. Front End Engineer - React, Next.js, JavaScript (Remote, Contract - Outside IR35) The Role We are looking for an experienced Front End Engineer on an Outside IR35 contract basis to deliver user-centric digital services for our public sector clients. This is a fully remote role focused on building accessible, performant web applications aligned with GDS standards. You will work within multidisciplinary agile teams to produce production-quality front-end solutions that make a real difference to public services. Key Responsibilities Develop and maintain front-end applications using React and Next.js Build accessible, responsive interfaces compliant with WCAG 2.2 AA and GDS Design System Collaborate with designers, product owners, and back-end engineers in Agile delivery teams Write clean, testable JavaScript/TypeScript with comprehensive unit and integration...

Lead Scala Developer - Outside IR35 - Government Programme I'm currently looking for a Lead Scala Developer to join a high-profile Government/Public Sector programme on an Outside IR35 contract basis. Role Overview Position: Lead Scala Developer Rate: Competitive Rate per day Contract: Outside IR35 Sector: Government/Public Sector Location: UK (hybrid/remote depending on project requirements) Duration: Initial contract with extension potential Key Requirements Strong commercial experience with Scala Proven experience leading development teams and mentoring engineers Expertise in microservices architecture and distributed systems Experience with: Akka/Pekko Play Framework RESTful APIs AWS or cloud-native environments CI/CD pipelines Docker and Kubernetes Strong stakeholder management and technical leadership skills Previous Government/Public Sector experience Understanding of Agile/Scrum delivery...

Role: Enterprise Architect - Infrastructure Integration Contract Length: 6 Months Start: ASAP Rate : £750 - £850 per day outside of IR35 Location: Hybrid - Central London (1-2 days per week) with occasional international travel About the Role We are seeking an experienced Enterprise Architect to support a large-scale infrastructure transformation programme. This role will focus on ensuring a new end-user technology platform integrates seamlessly with the wider enterprise environment, spanning networking, identity, security, cloud, service management and core infrastructure. Working across multiple technical teams, you will provide architectural leadership, ensure alignment with enterprise standards, and help shape the target architecture while managing dependencies across the wider technology landscape. Key Responsibilities Define and maintain the target enterprise architecture for the integration of end-user technologies into the wider infrastructure...

UK-Based (Remote/Hybrid) £550 - £600 per day (Outside IR35) Contract Overview We are seeking experienced Solution Architects to join a high-profile digital transformation programme. The successful candidates will play a critical role in shaping end-to-end technology solutions, ensuring alignment between business requirements, enterprise architecture standards, and delivery objectives. This is an excellent opportunity for architects who thrive in complex environments and have a proven track record of designing scalable, secure, and user-focused solutions across large organisations. Key Responsibilities Lead the design and definition of end-to-end technical solutions across multiple workstreams. Collaborate with business stakeholders, product teams, delivery managers, business analysts, and technical leads to understand requirements and translate them into architecture designs. Produce and maintain solution architecture artefacts, including: High-Level Designs...

Quality Assurance Engineer 6-month contract Remote Working (UK-based) Outside IR35 £350 to £375 per day Start - ASAP The Opportunity: We are supporting a confidential programme for a major central government project (Government Digital Services) and are seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Engineer to join a multidisciplinary Agile delivery team working on the development of modern, cloud-based data platforms and user-facing digital services. This role is ideally suited to a QA professional with experience testing data-driven systems, validating end-to-end data pipelines and assuring the quality of applications that consume and present complex datasets. You'll work closely with Product Owners, Data Engineers, Developers and Business Analysts to ensure that data is processed accurately, integrations perform reliably and end users receive high-quality, trusted information. Experience with cloud-based data platforms, REST APIs and geospatial...

Role: Senior Service Designer/Lead Service Designer Location: Fully Remote (UK) Contract Length: 6 months Day Rate: £500 - £550 per day IR35 Status: Outside IR35 The Opportunity We are currently seeking experienced Senior and Lead Service Designers to join a high-profile digital transformation programme. This is an exciting opportunity to help shape and improve end-to-end services, ensuring they meet user needs while delivering measurable business outcomes. Working within multidisciplinary agile teams, you will play a key role in designing, mapping and optimising complex customer and operational journeys across a large-scale transformation environment. Key Responsibilities Lead service design activities across multiple workstreams and products. Design and improve end-to-end services informed by user research and evidence. Create service blueprints, journey maps, ecosystem maps and operating models. Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagement...

Azure Data Engineer (Government Digital Services) 6-month contract Remote working (UK) Outside IR35 £475 per day The Opportunity: We are supporting a major public sector organisation on the appointment of an experienced Azure Data Engineer to join a high-profile data and analytics programme on an initial 6-month contract basis. This is a backend-focused Data Engineering role centred on building and maintaining scalable data services, pipelines and platform capabilities using Azure Databricks within a containerised Docker environment. Working within a multidisciplinary data team across Agile delivery environments, you will play a key role in designing, developing and optimising modern cloud-based data solutions that support critical environmental, scientific and operational decision-making across the organisation. This role offers the opportunity to work with large-scale data platforms, geospatial datasets and advanced analytics capabilities, helping to drive...

Senior Data Engineer - Azure Central government | Outside IR35 | Remote | 6 months + SR2 is working with a consultancy that is expanding its data engineering capability to support the delivery of a large-scale cloud data platform. They are looking for an experienced Data Engineer to help design and develop modern data solutions capable of handling complex, high-volume datasets. You'll join a multidisciplinary team responsible for developing and evolving a cloud-based data platform. Working across the full data lifecycle, you'll help shape how data is collected, processed, governed and consumed, while contributing to architectural decisions and engineering best practice. A significant proportion of the work involves processing complex location-based datasets, making previous exposure to geospatial or mapping-related data highly beneficial. Requirements: Strong commercial experience delivering data engineering solutions in Azure. Strong hands-on experience working with Azure...

Location: London, 4 days a week on site Outside IR35 contract - 600-650 a day We are looking for an SC, preferably DV cleared self-motivated and experienced Security Architect to lead in bringing enhanced and new services into what is key government asset. Working within a specialist services company you will drive and/or create the necessary artefacts to help the client organisation deliver rapid change. You will have excellent interpersonal skills and a pragmatic approach to getting change through delivered successfully through the internal Security Governance group. Key Responsibilities: The ideal candidate will have come from a strong technical background, and have an understanding of attack vectors for high threat environments, across both proprietary and open-source technology stacks. You will advise and enable technical teams to make security decisions and provide advice and guidance, ensuring the effective use of common tools and patterns. You will have a proactive...

SC Cleared & Clearable Service Designer- Outside IR35 - 3 months+ Remote (UK) Looking for a number of experienced Service Designers who are SC Cleared or Clearable, with demonstrable experience delivering user-centred design within UK Central Government environments. Experience designing end-to-end services within UK Government environments, following (url removed) and GDS Service Standard principles. Skilled in mapping user journeys, service blueprints, and improving user-centred services. Strong understanding of accessibility, inclusive design, and compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA standards. Ability to work with multidisciplinary teams (policy, delivery, design, and technical) to ensure services meet user needs and organisational goals SC Cleared & Clearable Service Designer- Outside IR35 - 3 months+ Remote (UK) Damia Group Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By...

SC Cleared Solution Architect - 3 months+ - £500-580pd Outside IR35 DOE - REMOTE (UK) We are currently seeking an experienced Solution Architect to join a high-profile Central Government programme focused on improving digital services and delivering better outcomes for UK citizens. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a complex transformation initiative, helping to shape and deliver solutions click apply for full job details

Data Governance Specialist 6-month contract Remote Working Outside IR35 Market Rates (c£600 to £625 per day) The Opportunity: We are seeking an experienced Data Governance Specialist to support the delivery of a secure, scalable and interoperable data-sharing infrastructure that allows organisations in different sectors to manage and exchange information securely while maintaining control over their own data. Working across multiple workstreams, you will be responsible for establishing and embedding data governance frameworks, data standards, ownership models and compliance controls across a multi-organisational ecosystem. The role is supporting a major public-sector organisation delivering a large-scale digital transformation programme - replacing legacy systems with a modern, integrated solution that will significantly enhance operational capability across critical services. Skills and Experience: Defining cross organisation data-sharing agreements. Establishing...