My client requires an experience desktop support analyst who has experience working in public sector (healthcare preferred) to join their busy service desk team support 700 -800 users based 3 days per week in their manchester office Essential knowledge and experience Good understanding of the ITIL Framework Experience of using ITSM software (Halo highly desirable ) to for ITIL/Service support processes Good experience of MS Excel to analyse data and create reports on service support performance An expert in troubleshooting issues with applications, software and systems an applying root cause analysis techniques Expert in M365 Administration and configuration including SharePoint and Teams administration, Active Directory (Entra), guest access Expert in application technologies relevant to end user IT services including: email (Microsoft Exchange), M365, Windows O/S, Mobile Application Management, remote desktop software, telephony. Expert in end user application support for M365 and other Saas tools supporting collaboration such as MIRO Expert in Active Directory and associated services such as Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), DHCP, DNS, Group policy, WSUS, LDAP,Exchange online management,Office 365 support technologies including but not limited to Azure AD Connect, ADFS, Azure Active Directory, Conditional Access Policies. Experience of line and performance management of individuals within an IT service support function Experience of ITIL processes: configuration, incident, problem and change management and in ensuring these are followed effectively by team members. Experience of working on an IT Service support function that handles tickets from both internal employees and external service users Experience of managing incidents and problems including priority incidents Experience of working within service level agreements (SLAs) for services operated by an IT Service support function Experienced in communicating with both internal stakeholders and external suppliers on matters related to resolving service incidents and problems using negotiation and influencing skills to manage challenging customer expectations and pressure from more senior stakeholders. Experience of communicating and engaging users through channels such as the Intranet and blogs about new services and initiatives. Experience of writing service performance reports using captured metrics within an ITSM system Experience of methods and approaches for effectively sharing own knowledge and expertise with the rest of the team on an ongoing basis eg training sessions, peer coaching, documentation, knowledge base articles etc

Job purpose To leverage data science to drive the strategic direction of our data-driven initiatives, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency. The role focuses on applying machine learning, statistical analysis, and data mining techniques to predict, classify, and uncover insights from the organisations data. Main Duties: Innovation:Work with the wider organisation to identify opportunities for the use of data science techniques to support business processes, maximise insight and drive benefits realisation. Data Visualisation and Communication:Create and present clear visualisations to convey complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders. Utilise storytelling to make data accessible and actionable Collaboration with Digital, Data, and Technology Teams:Work closely with Data Engineers and other IT professionals to ensure data quality and accessibility. Collaborate on the integration of AI and machine learning technologies into systems and processes. Innovation and Continuous Learning:Keep abreast of the latest data science trends and technologies. Experiment with new tools and techniques to enhance analytical capabilities. Stakeholder Engagement:Engage with internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs and deliver data-driven solutions. Act as a subject matter expert in data science, confidently sharing knowledge and highlighting the potential opportunities and limitations. Decision Support:Use data to support strategic and operational decision-making processes, including providing recommendations based on predictive modelling and analysis. Ethical Oversight:Scrutinise data sources and algorithms for bias, ensuring privacy and compliance with data protection laws, and promoting transparency and fairness in all data science activities. Essential experience Technical Proficiency: Strong skills in programming languages like Python or R, and tools such as SQL, TensorFlow, or PyTorch. Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Ability to translate complex data into actionable insights. Creative in finding solutions to data challenges. Effective Communication: Skilled in presenting complex data insights in a clear, concise manner to a non-technical audience. Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams. Adaptability and Continuous Improvement: Open to learning and adapting to new technologies and methodologies. Commitment to personal development and fostering a learning culture within the team Methodical Approach: Ability to approach complex data projects with a systematic and organised methodology, ensuring accuracy and efficiency A practical knowledge of data science tools and techniques, such as machine learning and natural language processing, and how to apply them at an operational level. A strong understanding of the mathematical principles underlying machine learning algorithms Awareness of data privacy, security, and ethical considerations in data science work. Familiarity of the Microsoft ML stack, MLOps and Git would be beneficial. Knowledge of research and relevant research methodologies to produce meaningful insight, particularly in a public sector setting Educated to degree level or with equivalent relevant professional experience

Job Title: Senior IAM Engineer/Architect (Microsoft & Azure AD) Location: Birmingham or London (Hybrid: Tuesdays and Thursdays in-office, remaining days remote) Rate: £575 - £625 per day (Inside IR35) Client: Government Sector Salt Recruitment's Public Sector team is delighted to present an exciting opportunity for a Senior IAM Engineer/Architect to join a government client engaged in building a robust Identity and Access Management (IAM) environment. This role is essential in fortifying our client's IAM framework, bringing expertise in Microsoft-centric solutions and a hands-on approach to a developing space. Role Overview: This role will sit at the intersection of senior management and technical execution. With all IAM solutions provided by an existing Managed Service Provider (MSP), this role requires someone who can drive internal strategy while directly contributing to engineering. Reporting to senior management, you will be the linchpin between the MSP and internal teams, ensuring that IAM solutions align with business needs and government standards. Key Responsibilities: Serve as the technical architect and engineer for IAM, working closely with both the MSP and internal teams to advance IAM strategies and execution. Design and implement Microsoft-based IAM solutions, with a primary focus on Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). Develop and execute processes for identity life cycle management, access provisioning, and policy management. Lead Scripting and automation efforts, primarily using PowerShell, to streamline IAM workflows and improve efficiency. Engage in hands-on engineering within a developing IAM environment, bringing maturity to an immature space through best practices and technical excellence. Ideal Candidate: IAM Engineering Background: Proven experience in IAM engineering, with a strong understanding of the IAM life cycle and its application within the public sector. Microsoft and Azure AD Expertise: In-depth knowledge of Microsoft solutions, including Azure AD, with experience in an enterprise-level environment. PowerShell & Scripting Skills: Advanced skills in PowerShell Scripting and automation within an IAM context. Hands-On and Strategic: Ability to work both strategically and operationally, offering a 'roll-up-your-sleeves' approach to tackling challenges in an evolving space. Government/Regulated Sector Experience: Familiarity with the unique requirements of the public sector is beneficial, ensuring compliance and alignment with government standards. Additional Details: This is a hybrid role requiring in-office work on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with flexibility to work from home the rest of the week. While based primarily in Birmingham, candidates from the London area may be considered.

Are you a freelance Project Lead? Who loves working in the world of luxury? An avid freelancer who thinks hybrid is the new remote? Then this is for you: Title: Freelance Digital Project Lead Start: Monday 18th November Length: 3 months (great chance of extension) Client: Digital Agency Day rate: £450 per day (maximum) IR35: Inside IR35 (The client has requested an Umbrella to be used, not Ltd Hybrid working: 5 days per week (Unchangeable) - 3 days a week in-house on Tuesday, Wednesday + Thursday (other 2 days will be remote) Location: Central East London Brief: - Knowledge in AEM is preferred. - Excel, PowerPoint & SharePoint. - (websites + apps all built on AEM). - Leading a team of Project Managers. - Agency experience is strongly preferred. - Client-facing with good presentation skills. - Project Management & operations focused. - Experience with Workfront (SynOps for Marketing) beneficial. - Extensive digital + web knowledge including large-scale transformation. - Create + manage project plans for large digital and transformation projects. Managed to get this far down? Pop us your CV and let's see how we can help.

Contract Project Manager - Finance & Service Transition (Local Government) £500 per day, Inside IR35 Contract Until October 2025 Largely Remote (Some On-Site Meetings Required) Salt Recruitment's Local Government Team is pleased to offer an exceptional opportunity for an experienced Finance Project Manager to lead a vital service transition project with a Local Government body in the South West of England. This contract role is finance-intensive, focusing on the end-to-end transition of crucial revenue-based services currently managed by an external vendor under the 5Cs (5 Councils) contract back to internal council control.Role Overview In this Finance Project Manager position, you will be responsible for managing the successful transfer of services, including Revenues and Benefits, Contact Centre support, and Land Charges. This high-profile role demands substantial experience in public sector finance, particularly within local government, as well as expertise in stakeholder engagement, financial compliance, and risk management. Your role will be to ensure financial integrity and continuity throughout the transition, handling sensitive data and maintaining essential frontline services.Key Responsibilities Project Leadership: Drive the transition, ensuring all elements of the project align with timelines, financial objectives, and regulatory standards. Financial Oversight: Monitor budget and financial performance throughout the project, overseeing compliance and mitigating financial risks. Stakeholder Engagement: Act as the primary liaison between the current external vendor, internal finance and council teams, and other key stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and timely issue resolution. Risk & Compliance Management: Identify, manage, and escalate risks as needed to ensure data security, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted service delivery. Remote Flexibility: This role is predominantly remote, with some on-site meetings required to support team collaboration and stakeholder engagement. Who We're Looking For Local Government Experience: Candidates must have previous experience in local government. While applicants from a broader public sector background may be considered, they must demonstrate experience in similar finance-focused project transitions within public bodies. Finance-Centric Project Management: Strong background in finance-driven project management, particularly within areas involving revenues, benefits, and customer-facing services, as well as regulatory finance and compliance. Excellent Communication & Stakeholder Skills: Proven ability to manage diverse stakeholders, ensuring collaborative and effective project outcomes. Risk & Compliance Acumen: Demonstrated expertise in risk assessment, financial tracking, and compliance is essential.

QA Tester (Manual 80%/Automation 20%) - Finance - Nottingham Day rate: £400 - £500 (inside IR35) Duration: 6 months Start: Now Hybrid: One day per week My client is looking for a Manual QA Tester to work within one of their agile development teams, championing quality at all phases of the software development life cycle. You will work closely alongside the other engineers and the product team to implement effective test solutions that ensure our apps do what they should to serve our customers in the best way. You should be comfortable working across stacks with an eagerness to learn new technologies as required. Quality assurance begins before a single line of code is written - you will look to plug requirements gaps during the refinement process and consider 'what if' scenarios using a risk-based approach. The scope of your work means that you'll ship new code, multiple times per day. We're using modern technologies to deliver more than 190 microservices that combine to form a cloud-native platform that we're all proud of, and that our customers love. Requirements: Previous experience of a testing role within an agile team, involving pairing with other Engineers to support achieving sprint goals as well as contributing to stand ups, planning & retrospective sessions. Coaching, mentoring, and training testers and developers inside the team and/or across teams. Champion & driving a quality focused culture and mindset within a team Testing of web applications (manual or automation) or Microservices (.NET or Java) simultaneously with Development changes Feature or user story refinement including supporting with scenarios and acceptance criteria. Functional and exploratory testing. Postman and API Testing. Documenting and presenting test results back to stakeholders or product owners. Supporting with the escalation, root cause analysis, reproduction, and resolution of product issues. Collaborating effectively across business areas, as well as supporting with gaining stakeholder sign-off. Desirable knowledge, any of: Test automation (Cypress/Nightwatch.js) Open banking, Transaction, current account experience CI/CD tools such as Git, AWS, Jenkins JavaScript .NET Integration Tests. Splunk JIRA, Confluence, Slack

Data Modeller (FSLDM,BIAN,FIBO) - Banking - London Day rate: £550 - £650 inside IR35 Duration: 6 months Start: ASAP Hybrid: 2 days per week in office My banking is looking for a Data Modeller to join the team on a contract basis. You will be responsible for adapting and governing the Group Data Domain Model and Group Data Model the Define and structure Business concepts and entity definitions to provide the basis for a common data language across the bank. Key activities Collaborates in the development of a Data Modelling centre of excellence Collaborates in the definition, dissemination and execution of Data Modelling Framework and architecture Provides support and advice as to best practises and way of working to support federated modelling teams in high pressure environments Provides Ad hoc deep dive support to help remove modelling bottlenecks and accelerate teams delivery Drives consistency in Datamodelling activities (eg CDM, LBM, PDM), and integrating metadata. Support Data Management goals and activities Establishes close collaboration with architecture and engineering functions Acts as a Data Evangelist and assists Bank stakeholder at all levels to adopt the framework. Key skills Experience in developing conceptual, logical and physical data models, to support Business requirements. Experience in developing enterprise models for OLTP, Analytics/AI/ML environments. Working knowledge with Datamodelling tools such as ERStudio/EA Sparx, Collibra Experience of metadata modelling, management and tooling Evidence understanding of a logical model to drive physicalisations and associate the Gov and management control domains metadata Experience implementing physical models for interfaces, data stores and/or cloud based solutions Participation and experience of governing data models Experience of working in Finance and using Reference Data Model eg BIAN, ISO20022, FIBO, FSLDM (preferred)

Building on recent digital investment, my client have a leading role in delivering the national programmes needed for modern technology-enabled healthcare. These are large-scale developments that will make a significant difference to the people of the UK . This role requires an exceptionally high level of technical expertise. The post holder is expected to have the skill to routinely analyse and solve highly complex technical problems without the need to call upon others for advice, whilst providing technical guidance to a team of software developers. The post holder must also be capable of taking the lead in developing software components for National applications and ensuring they are rigorously built and tested in accordance with software industry best practice. The post holder shall be expected to: Identify and assist the Software Development Manager with the introduction of continual improvements and refinements to the practices used to develop software within the organisation. Working with other staff across development teams, identify and implement continual improvements to development practice (for example continuous integration, automated unit testing, code reviews, gated check-ins of code and estimating techniques). Working with other staff across development teams, identify opportunities for code sharing and implement common by design software components (such as authentication and authorisation and messaging handling libraries.) Contribute to the production of suitable quality control records (such as problem or change records) for application and system software changes. Assist team members in ensuring that software applications have full patch and version control in place and that the organisation has a comprehensive record of all these amendments. SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE Proven experience of software development in a formal development environment. Experience developing software for Clinical Information or Healthcare systems Experience with .NET and FHIR standards. Expert knowledge in advanced principles of Object Oriented Design. Expert knowledge in API and RPC development. A thorough understanding of the following development practices:- CI/CD. Automated unit testing Evidence of extensive experience with Windows PC, server operating systems, cloud hosting. Expert knowledge in the development of relational database systems using and associated database administration activities. Highly skilled in the application or web development using a suitable IDE and programming language. Ability and confidence to speak publicly to groups of people, demonstrating ideas, concepts and working software and answer related questions.

Salt are recruiting for an exciting contract opportunity that is with a local government client on a Senior Signalling Systems Architect position. Here are some key details about the role: Role: Senior Signalling Systems Architect Location: London/Birmingham Duration: 3-month contract (with potential for extension) Rate: £545 - £625 per day Our client is looking for someone with a strong design and architecture background in signalling systems, ideally with experience in developing standards, interlockings, train detection systems, and Rail Control Systems (RBC). They need someone who can design, challenge existing processes, and think critically about why certain rules and processes are in place, particularly for bids and tenders. This role will involve working on signalling systems for projects that require a non-standard approach, and experience with London Underground projects is highly valued. The ideal candidate would be comfortable working in less rigid environments compared to Network Rail and able to offer strategic guidance on signalling system design and architecture. If this sounds like something you'd be interested in, I'd love to have a chat and provide more information.

This role is critical to being able to provide the right MS Dynamics expertise to setup CRM and Customer Insights and Journeys. There is also an existing Legacy Dynamics system which includes use of the Customer Services module to manage our front door transactional 'enquiries' which will need to be managed in parallel. We are looking for someone who ideally has had experience of working in the public or healthcare sector and implemented Dynamics from scratch in an environment where dynamics is used for scenarios other than sales Deliverables Configure Microsoft Dynamics 365 to meet needs across my clients Design business workflows and apps in the Power Platform to extend out of the box functionality. Build prototypes and proof of concepts using Dynamics and Microsoft 365 integration to support rapid test and learn on new features. Advise on licensing and best practice approaches to combining the right levels of licensing with roles as needed. Identify what roles are needed and ensure roles-based access is setup and tested and all users understand how these work. Set up security and roles-based access as needed to safeguard data including flexible, extensible data models. Design appropriate system governance and advise/train users on best practice for system housekeeping, data storage and governance. Train and upskill business team power users to become self-sufficient in using the application and managing their contact data effectively. Design an environment strategy and implement an environment plan for Dynamics. Setup sandbox and production environments and ensure security policies using data loss prevention are implemented. Design application lifecycle management and implement testing approaches, change and release management. Run workshops with internal stakeholders as needed to ensure system design and configuration meets needs. Document system design and configuration for both technical and non-technical staff. Provide knowledge transfer and learning for technical staff for the duration of the contract. Essential experience Experience of working closely as a member of a multi-disciplinary agile delivery team to design and implement business solutions. Experience of working with teams to design business process workflows and Power Apps. Experience of working with and training technical and non-technical people. Experience of functional configuration of MS Dynamics Sales and Customer Insights and Data including marketing journeys. Experience of managing Dynamics 365 and Power Platform administration including security, DLP, environment strategy and setup, Dataverse configuration. Experience of designing and implementing test approaches and protocols. Strong knowledge of Dynamics integration with Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Power BI. Strong knowledge of MS Dynamics and Power Platform licensing and how to get the best value for the business. Experience of configuring MS Dynamics Sales for non- sales business needs eg stakeholder organisation management. Experience of working in the public/healthcare sector.