Contract Role: ServiceNow HR Workflow Engineer (HRSD) Location: Fully Remote Contract Length: Initial 3–6 months (likely extension) Start: ASAP We are supporting a major global engineering and infrastructure consultancy on a significant HR technology transformation programme, delivered through a leading international IT services provider. As part of this initiative, we are looking for an experienced ServiceNow HR Workflow Engineer to help design and implement HR-centric workflows within ServiceNow HR Service Delivery (HRSD). This role will sit at the intersection of HR operations, ServiceNow engineering, and enterprise integration, ensuring HR requests and processes are captured, structured, and delivered in a way that enables reliable downstream integrations. Role Overview The ServiceNow HR Workflow Engineer will design and build HR request forms, workflows, and approval logic that support HR processes and prepare clean, structured data for integration into other enterprise systems. You will work closely with HR process owners, IT teams, and integration engineers to ensure HR-driven changes are captured accurately and trigger the appropriate integration events. This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong consultative element, requiring someone who can both build solutions and help shape requirements with business stakeholders. Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Design and build ServiceNow HR request forms, tables, and workflows</li><li>Define approval paths, decision logic, and structured data capture</li><li>Ensure workflows prepare and trigger integration-ready events for downstream systems</li><li>Act as a consultative bridge between HR stakeholders and technical integration teams</li><li>Ensure workflows are scalable, auditable, and aligned with enterprise standards</li><li>Collaborate with integration teams delivering APIs and workflow automation</li></ul> Key Skills & Experience<ul><li>Strong ServiceNow development experience, particularly HR Service Delivery (HRSD)</li><li>Proven experience designing workflows, request items, catalog items, and approval models</li><li>Experience preparing structured payloads and integration triggers for external platforms (e.g., integration middleware or cloud automation tools)</li><li>Ability to translate HR business processes into technical workflow designs</li><li>Comfortable working with HR stakeholders to shape and refine requirements</li><li>Strong understanding of enterprise workflow design and governance</li></ul> Profile Required<ul><li>Self-starting, delivery-focused engineer</li><li>Strong stakeholder engagement skills</li><li>Comfortable embedding within HR teams and processes</li><li>Able to operate effectively with minimal oversight</li><li>Confident working with distributed and offshore teams</li></ul>

ServiceNow HR Workflow Engineer

Senior Cloud Security Operations Engineer - Quant Trading (Inside IR35, Hybrid): This is a unique opportunity for an experienced AWS-focused Cloud Security OPerations Engineer to join a leading Quant Trading firm on a contract/interim basis. The Cloud Security function, supports the secure day-to-day operation of the AWS cloud environments. This role is operationally focused, managing BAU cloud security activities, responding to business and infrastructure requests, monitoring alerts, and ensuring continuous compliance across the AWS estate. The role is effectively a DevSecOps role, the incoming Cloud Security Operations Engineer will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining the overall health of the cloud security posture across AWS environments, leveraging industry-standard CSPM tooling and related platforms to identify risk trends, control gaps, and configuration drift. You will design, implement, and continuously refine custom alerting rules and detection logic to enable effective threat detection and response across cloud workloads. Fulfil and review IAM access requests in accordance with least-privilege principles. Review and approve security-related change requests impacting AWS environments. Requirements: <ul><li>Practical experience operating and supporting AWS cloud environments.</li><li>Working knowledge of AWS IAM, roles, policies, and access control models.</li><li>Experience monitoring and responding to alerts from AWS security services.</li><li>Familiarity with cloud security posture management and vulnerability management practices.</li><li>Ideally you will have your AWS Certified Security – Specialty</li></ul>

Senior Cloud Security Operations Engineer (Quant Trading, Inside IR35)

Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer (GCP / Kubernetes) Location: Fully Remote (occasional travel to Hertfordshire if required) Contract: Initial 4–5 month contract Start: Mid April We are supporting a major global IT services provider delivering platform engineering services for one of the world’s leading international financial institutions. They are seeking a Senior SRE / DevOps Engineer to help build, operate and industrialise modern cloud-native platforms across hybrid and public cloud environments. This role sits within a high-impact platform engineering programme focused on automation, reliability engineering and secure cloud infrastructure supporting enterprise-scale digital transformation. Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering & Operations<ul><li>Build, operate and continuously improve lab and production platforms across Google Cloud (GKE / GKE On-Prem / GDC).</li><li>Manage Kubernetes clusters at scale, including:<ul><li>Cluster lifecycle management</li><li>Upgrades and patching</li><li>Day 0 / Day 1 / Day 2 automation</li><li>Drift remediation and reliability engineering</li></ul></li><li>Implement GitOps-first operations using Argo CD.</li><li>Enforce platform standards, configuration baselines and compliance evidence collection.</li></ul>Automation & Infrastructure as Code<ul><li>Engineer consistent infrastructure across public and private cloud environments using:<ul><li>Terraform Enterprise</li><li>Ansible Automation Platform</li><li>Metalsoft</li></ul></li><li>Develop and maintain multi-stage CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.</li><li>Build reusable Golden Path modules and templated infrastructure stacks.</li></ul>Security, Zero Trust & Secrets Management<ul><li>Embed Zero Trust principles including MFA, IP allow-listing, IAP and HA VPN.</li><li>Implement enterprise secrets lifecycle management using Akeyless.</li><li>Integrate compliance controls, CI policy gates and audit trails aligned with financial regulatory requirements</li></ul>Required Skills & Experience Expert Level<ul><li>CI/CD and IaC automation using:<ul><li>GitHub Actions</li><li>Terraform Enterprise</li><li>Ansible Automation Platform</li></ul></li><li>GitOps operations using Argo CD</li><li>Kubernetes platform lifecycle management</li><li>Terraform workspace and module design across cloud environments</li><li>Secrets lifecycle and vault patterns (e.g. Akeyless)</li><li>Multi-stage infrastructure and application pipelines</li><li>Building reusable Golden Path infrastructure modules</li></ul>Practitioner Level<ul><li>Kubernetes operations and patch automation</li><li>Drift remediation and reliability engineering</li><li>Secret rotation automation and compliance evidence collection</li><li>Bare-metal infrastructure automation using Metalsoft</li><li>Network and perimeter security controls (MFA, IAP, HA VPN, IP allow listing)</li><li>CI policy checks and security gating</li><li>Infrastructure cost-aware provisioning</li></ul>

Senior GCP DevOps Engineer

I'm looking for a commercially minded Data Analyst with at least one years experience who loves turning data into meaningful insights that drive business decisions. You’ll work across the organisation analysing performance, identifying trends, and building dashboards that help us understand what makes us successful — and where we can improve. This is a brilliant opportunity for someone early in their career who wants real exposure to strategy, operations, and commercial performance. What you’ll be doing Analyse internal data to uncover trends and opportunities Build dashboards and reports to support decision-making Partner with commercial and operational teams Improve data quality, models, and performance metrics Present clear, actionable insights to stakeholders Degree (or equivalent experience) in Maths, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Business Analytics or similar Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail Interest in commercial performance and storytelling with data Ability to communicate insights to non-technical audiences Curious, proactive, and eager to learn Powerbi and SQL No sponsorship Direct impact on business strategy Exposure to senior stakeholders Clear progression into Data Analytics or Data Science. A culture that values insight, clarity, and innovation Please send me your updated CV to paul.culmer@xcede.com

Data analyst

​With over 15 years of experience working for Xcede, Paul is currently our Senior Principal Consultant in Analytics across the UK and Europe. Leveraging his diverse range of talent acquisition experience, Paul has helped a range of organisations to expand their technology teams. Paul consults on a wide range of analytics-focused roles across all levels, from Customer Insights, Marketing Analysis, Database Marketing and Campaign Management, to Direct Marketing, Email Marketing, Forecasting and beyond. Specialists with proven experience in SQL, Python, and R can contact Paul to discuss the latest Analytics roles. 

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Insights Executive / Consumer Researcher Bristol (Hybrid, 1 day per week) £45,000 plus bonus. No sponsorship available We are looking for a curious and data driven Insights Executive to join a growing fintech business. In this role, you will combine qualitative and quantitative research to understand customer behaviour and turn insights into clear, actionable recommendations that shape marketing, product, and business strategy. You will work closely with cross functional teams, acting as the voice of the customer and helping to drive a strong data led culture across the organisation. Requirements 2 plus years experience in insights, consumer research or analytics, ideally within fintech or financial services Strong analytical skills across qualitative and quantitative methods Confident communicator able to translate data into meaningful insights Collaborative and naturally curious mindset What is on offer £45,000 salary plus bonus Hybrid working in Bristol If you enjoy turning data into stories and want to make a real impact, we would love to hear from you. Please send me your CV to paul.culmer@xcede.com

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