36 Local Councils jobs in Atherton

Our client, a highly respected organisation dedicated to improving community well-being, is seeking an experienced and compassionate Clinical Lead to oversee its remote community support services. This is a fully remote role, allowing you to make a significant difference in people's lives without the need for daily commuting. You will be responsible for the clinical governance, service delivery, and team management of a dedicated group of support workers and clinicians providing vital services to individuals in need. Your role will involve developing and implementing care plans, ensuring adherence to best practices and regulatory standards, and providing clinical supervision and professional development support to your team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in a relevant health or social care field (e.g., nursing, social work, psychology), coupled with demonstrable experience in a leadership or supervisory capacity. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills are essential, as is a deep commitment to person-centred care and a passion for supporting vulnerable individuals. You will be adept at managing challenging cases, promoting a positive and supportive team culture, and liaising with external agencies and stakeholders to ensure seamless care coordination. This is an exceptional opportunity to shape and lead high-quality community care services from a remote setting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide clinical leadership and operational management for remote support teams.
• Ensure the delivery of high-quality, person-centred care services.
• Develop, implement, and monitor care plans and treatment strategies.
• Conduct regular clinical supervision and performance reviews for staff.
• Maintain robust clinical governance and ensure compliance with relevant regulations.
• Manage caseloads and provide direct support to individuals when necessary.
• Liaise effectively with external agencies, families, and stakeholders.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and professional development.
• Handle complex case management and crisis intervention.
• Contribute to service development and strategic planning.

Qualifications:

• Registered professional qualification (e.g., RGN, RMN, Social Worker, Psychologist) with current registration.
• Master's degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in a clinical or supervisory role within community or social care.
• Proven experience in leading and managing a team.
• Strong understanding of relevant legislation and safeguarding procedures.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work autonomously and manage time effectively in a remote setting.
• Proficiency in relevant IT systems and virtual communication tools.
• Commitment to promoting equality and diversity.

Our client, a progressive organization dedicated to enhancing community well-being, is seeking an experienced and visionary Head of Community Support Services to lead their operations. This is a fully remote position, offering a unique opportunity to drive significant positive change from anywhere. You will be responsible for the strategic direction, operational oversight, and development of a wide range of community support programs aimed at vulnerable populations. This includes leading a team of dedicated professionals, ensuring the highest standards of service delivery, and fostering strong relationships with local authorities, charities, and other stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in social care management, program development, and team leadership within the community services sector. You should have a deep understanding of relevant legislation, funding streams, and best practices in social work and support provision. Strategic planning, budget management, and performance monitoring will be core responsibilities, ensuring that services are effective, efficient, and responsive to community needs. You will be instrumental in identifying new opportunities for service expansion and innovation, and in developing sustainable models for long-term impact.

Exceptional communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills are vital, particularly in building trust and rapport with diverse community members and partner organizations. As this role is remote, strong organizational abilities, self-discipline, and proficiency in virtual collaboration tools are essential. You will need to demonstrate a profound commitment to social justice and a passion for empowering individuals and communities. This is a leadership role with considerable responsibility, offering the chance to shape impactful services and contribute to the betterment of society on a large scale.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
**Your role and responsibilities**
As a Senior Product Manager in Digital Product Engineering, you'll leverage your extensive product management and leadership skills to drive innovation and excellence within our organization.
Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative digital products that drive business success. If you're passionate about understanding and solving complex product challenges and have a knack for creating digital products that maximize ROI, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex product strategies and roadmaps
* Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
* Collaborate with stakeholders to define product vision, goals, and success metrics, ensuring alignment with business objectives
* Stay current with emerging product management trends, tools, and best practices
* Contribute to the development of product strategies and roadmaps
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Extensive experience in product management, including defining and articulating product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap
* Masterful proficiency in collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders, including executives, project teams, functional managers, and specialists from various areas
* Proven track record of building consensus, managing expectations, and facilitating effective decision-making and prioritization
* Expertise in defining Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) and managing product backlogs
* Experience in leading and working within multidisciplinary teams, considering both business and technical considerations/constraints
* Proven leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
* Strong foundation in Agile and DevOps practices
* Understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns
* Proficiency in data modeling and data management
* Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices
* Understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns
* Proficiency in data modeling and data management
* Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
**Your role and responsibilities**
As a Senior Product Manager in Digital Product Engineering, you'll leverage your extensive product management and leadership skills to drive innovation and excellence within our organization.
Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative digital products that drive business success. If you're passionate about understanding and solving complex product challenges and have a knack for creating digital products that maximize ROI, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex product strategies and roadmaps
* Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
* Collaborate with stakeholders to define product vision, goals, and success metrics, ensuring alignment with business objectives
* Stay current with emerging product management trends, tools, and best practices
* Contribute to the development of product strategies and roadmaps
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Extensive experience in product management, including defining and articulating product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap
* Masterful proficiency in collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders, including executives, project teams, functional managers, and specialists from various areas
* Proven track record of building consensus, managing expectations, and facilitating effective decision-making and prioritization
* Expertise in defining Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) and managing product backlogs
* Experience in leading and working within multidisciplinary teams, considering both business and technical considerations/constraints
* Proven leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
* Strong foundation in Agile and DevOps practices
* Understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns
* Proficiency in data modeling and data management
* Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices
* Understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns
* Proficiency in data modeling and data management
* Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
**Your role and responsibilities**
As a Senior Product Manager in Digital Product Engineering, you'll leverage your extensive product management and leadership skills to drive innovation and excellence within our organization.
Join our team and contribute to the development of innovative digital products that drive business success. If you're passionate about understanding and solving complex product challenges and have a knack for creating digital products that maximize ROI, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
* Lead the design, development, and implementation of complex product strategies and roadmaps
* Mentor and guide junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement
* Collaborate with stakeholders to define product vision, goals, and success metrics, ensuring alignment with business objectives
* Stay current with emerging product management trends, tools, and best practices
* Contribute to the development of product strategies and roadmaps
**Required technical and professional expertise**
Extensive experience in product management, including defining and articulating product vision, strategy, goals, and roadmap
Masterful proficiency in collaboration with a diverse range of stakeholders, including executives, project teams, functional managers, and specialists from various areas
* Proven track record of building consensus, managing expectations, and facilitating effective decision-making and prioritization
* Expertise in defining Minimal Viable Products (MVPs) and managing product backlogs
* Experience in leading and working within multidisciplinary teams, considering both business and technical considerations/constraints
* Proven leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills
* Strong foundation in Agile and DevOps practices
* Understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns
* Proficiency in data modeling and data management
* Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices
* Understanding of microservices architecture and design patterns
* Proficiency in data modeling and data management
* Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes)
* Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, whom may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
**Your role and responsibilities**
Embark on an exciting career path as a Senior Data Scientist and lead the way in leveraging deep data and analytics expertise to address business challenges. In this role, you'll be responsible for driving data-driven decision-making, optimizing business processes, and fostering a culture of innovation.
Join our AI Analytics & Data Science team and make a significant impact on data-driven decision-making and business optimization. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey in Advanced Analytics!
Responsibilities
* Lead the development of predictive models and data-driven solutions for business optimization.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate data-driven insights into business strategies.
* Utilize optimization tools (IBM CPLEX, Gurobi) and statistical analysis packages (SPSS, SAS, R, Python) to derive actionable insights.
* Stay up-to-date with emerging data science trends and technologies.
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* Experience of working with Generative AI models
* Knowldege of cloud services - ideally AWS and/or Azure
* Strong communication skills and ability to work as part of a multidisciplanry team
* Ideally have experience working in public sector
* Extensive experience with PowerBI, Python and SQL, Databricks
* Experience working iwith Data in a product-based team.
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage stakeholder expectations.
* Proven track record in driving data-driven decision-making and business optimization.
* Web-based Analytics Tools - Adobe Analytics
* Exposure to Data Lake functionality and architecture (strong relational database skills would be a Good alternative)
* Crunching a large volume of data (>5 Million rows) would be the minimum baseline for the skills we are looking for
* SQL
As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Experience with machine learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn).
* Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).
* Knowledge of big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark).
* Background in supply chain management, pricing, risk assessment, or fraud detection.
* Publication record in peer-reviewed journals or reputable industry publications.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
**Your role and responsibilities**
* We are seeking IT Architects to lead the design and implementation of hybrid cloud application modernisation projects with our Public Sector clients. You will provide technical leadership for migrating existing applications to cloud and for building new cloud native solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Providing, architectural, consultative and engineering support for our customers' journeys to the cloud
* Bringing industry insight to deliver innovative solutions, that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers
* Leadership for transformations of enterprise complex projects, from system requirements through delivery and production/deployment, providing architectural and hands-on technical leadership to ensure overall solution integrity
* Building strong relationships with our clients and acting as a trusted advisor
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* You will be familiar with AWS or/and Azure and be comfortable with Microservice architectures and a range of cloud, devops and integration technologies.
* You will have worked on hybrid cloud complex systems integration projects designing elements of the target cloud solution and its integration with existing on-premise applications.
* You will be comfortable working in 'rainbow' teams with multiple different suppliers or as part of a wholly IBM team.
* Your background is likely to be a mix of large-scale waterfall deliveries and more agile projects. You will be a hands-on professional with a proven track-record in keeping your skills up to date, ideally evidenced through recognized certifications.
* Broad experience designing & delivering technical architectures (application, infrastructure, integration, security & data)
* Public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes etc.)
* Strong understanding & delivery experience of cloud native architectures
* Extensive experience using agile delivery methods, i.e. Scrum
* Good understanding of scaled agile delivery methods, i.e. SAFe or LeSS
As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Good knowledge of system design & delivery
* Java & JavaScript frameworks eg Spring Boot, React, Angular, J2EE
* Enterprise integration technologies (Kafka, MQ, IBM Streams, ESBs, ETL etc)
* Enterprise level persistence technologies (Oracle, Postgres, DB2, NoSQL, Redis, Graph etc.)
* Estimation experience (top down, bottom up, planning poker etc.)
* Experienced in architectural languages or frameworks e.g. UML, Zachman, TOGAF
* Understanding of Automation in the development, testing and operations context.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
**Your role and responsibilities**
We are seeking IT Architects to lead the design and implementation of hybrid cloud application modernisation projects with our Public Sector clients. You will provide technical leadership for migrating existing applications to cloud and for building new cloud native solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Providing, architectural, consultative and engineering support for our customers' journeys to the cloud
* Bringing industry insight to deliver innovative solutions, that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers
* Leadership for transformations of enterprise complex projects, from system requirements through delivery and production/deployment, providing architectural and hands-on technical leadership to ensure overall solution integrity
* Building strong relationships with our clients and acting as a trusted advisor
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* You will be familiar with AWS or/and Azure and be comfortable with Microservice architectures and a range of cloud, devops and integration technologies.
* You will have worked on hybrid cloud complex systems integration projects designing elements of the target cloud solution and its integration with existing on-premise applications.
* You will be comfortable working in 'rainbow' teams with multiple different suppliers or as part of a wholly IBM team.
* Your background is likely to be a mix of large-scale waterfall deliveries and more agile projects.
* You will be a hands-on professional with a proven track-record in keeping your skills up to date, ideally evidenced through recognized certifications.
* Proficiency in designing and implementing hybrid cloud solutions combining on-premises and cloud-based services.
* Experience in creating architecture diagrams component models and technology stacks for hybrid environments.
* Deep understanding of major cloud providers (e.g. AWS Azure Google Cloud) and their respective services.
* Familiarity with cloud-native services serverless computing and managed services.
* Experience in designing managing and optimizing on-premises infrastructure including virtualization storage and networking.
* Knowledge of on-premises automation tools (e.g. Ansible Puppet Chef).
* Proficiency in designing and implementing secure connectivity solutions (e.g. VPNs Direct Connect VPN Gateways).
* Experience in integrating on-premi
* Public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes etc.)
* Strong understanding & delivery experience of cloud native architectures
* Extensive experience using agile delivery methods, i.e. Scrum
* Good understanding of scaled agile delivery methods, i.e. SAFe or LeSS
As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Good knowledge of system design & delivery
* Java & JavaScript frameworks eg Spring Boot, React, Angular, J2EE
* Enterprise integration technologies (Kafka, MQ, IBM Streams, ESBs, ETL etc)
* Enterprise level persistence technologies (Oracle, Postgres, DB2, NoSQL, Redis, Graph etc.)
* Estimation experience (top down, bottom up, planning poker etc.)
* Experienced in architectural languages or frameworks e.g. UML, Zachman, TOGAF
* Understanding of Automation in the development, testing and operations context.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

**Introduction**
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you'll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You'll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You'll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We offer:
* Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
* Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us
* Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year
* Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks
* A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome
* Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees
* Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme
* More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.
**Your role and responsibilities**
We are seeking IT Architects to lead the design and implementation of hybrid cloud application modernisation projects with our Public Sector clients. You will provide technical leadership for migrating existing applications to cloud and for building new cloud native solutions.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Providing, architectural, consultative and engineering support for our customers' journeys to the cloud
* Bringing industry insight to deliver innovative solutions, that are tailored to the specific needs of our customers
* Leadership for transformations of enterprise complex projects, from system requirements through delivery and production/deployment, providing architectural and hands-on technical leadership to ensure overall solution integrity
* Building strong relationships with our clients and acting as a trusted advisor
**Required technical and professional expertise**
* You will be familiar with AWS or/and Azure and be comfortable with Microservice architectures and a range of cloud, devops and integration technologies.
* You will have worked on hybrid cloud complex systems integration projects designing elements of the target cloud solution and its integration with existing on-premise applications.
* You will be comfortable working in 'rainbow' teams with multiple different suppliers or as part of a wholly IBM team.
* Your background is likely to be a mix of large-scale waterfall deliveries and more agile projects.
* You will be a hands-on professional with a proven track-record in keeping your skills up to date, ideally evidenced through recognized certifications.
* Proficiency in designing and implementing hybrid cloud solutions combining on-premises and cloud-based services.
* Experience in creating architecture diagrams component models and technology stacks for hybrid environments.
* Deep understanding of major cloud providers (e.g. AWS Azure Google Cloud) and their respective services.
* Familiarity with cloud-native services serverless computing and managed services.
* Experience in designing managing and optimizing on-premises infrastructure including virtualization storage and networking.
* Knowledge of on-premises automation tools (e.g. Ansible Puppet Chef).
* Proficiency in designing and implementing secure connectivity solutions (e.g. VPNs Direct Connect VPN Gateways)
* Experience in integrating on-premise
* Public cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, IBM Cloud, Kubernetes etc.)
* Strong understanding & delivery experience of cloud native architectures
* Extensive experience using agile delivery methods, i.e. Scrum
* Good understanding of scaled agile delivery methods, i.e. SAFe or LeSS
As an equal opportunities' employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 5 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.
**Preferred technical and professional experience**
* Good knowledge of system design & delivery
* Java & JavaScript frameworks eg Spring Boot, React, Angular, J2EE
* Enterprise integration technologies (Kafka, MQ, IBM Streams, ESBs, ETL etc)
* Enterprise level persistence technologies (Oracle, Postgres, DB2, NoSQL, Redis, Graph etc.)
* Estimation experience (top down, bottom up, planning poker etc.)
* Experienced in architectural languages or frameworks e.g. UML, Zachman, TOGAF
* Understanding of Automation in the development, testing and operations context.
IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.