14 government jobs found in Reading

Digital & Technology Programme Manager – Local Government Location: Southwest London (Hybrid – 1–2 days per week onsite) Contract: Initial 6 months (likely extension) Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35) Overview: Our local authority client is seeking an experienced Digital & Technology Programme Manager to join their Digital & Innovation team, leading a broad portfolio of enterprise technology and business transformation projects. While Housing is becoming an increasingly strategic area, the majority of the programme covers digital transformation across Planning, Public Protection, Public Realm, Highways, Land Charges, Parking and Corporate Services. The successful candidate will inherit several live programmes while initiating and delivering new projects from inception. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who thrives managing multiple stakeholders, suppliers and technology workstreams within a complex local government environment. The Role: You will be...

Test Manager Location: Basingstoke (Onsite) Contract Length: 18 Months Clearance: Active DV Clearance Required Rate: £650-£700 per day | Outside IR35 The Opportunity We are looking for an experienced Project Test Manager to join a high-profile, secure government infrastructure programme delivering critical national capabilities. This role offers the opportunity to lead and assure complex Test & Trials activity across a large-scale IT infrastructure environment. You will work closely with programme leadership, engineering teams, cyber specialists, and operational stakeholders to ensure solutions are validated, risks are identified early, and delivery meets operational and security expectations. The successful candidate will bring strong leadership, governance, and assurance experience within highly secure defence or government environments and be comfortable operating at programme level, providing independent challenge and strategic oversight. Key Responsibilities Lead...

MOD DV Cleared Senior Security Architect Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire (Full-Time Onsite) Contract: 12-Month Rolling Contract Rate: £700-£750 per day (Outside IR35) Clearance: Active UK MOD DV Clearance Required The Opportunity We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Security Architect to join a high-profile government programme delivering secure, resilient, and mission-critical capabilities within a highly regulated defence environment. This role offers the opportunity to shape security strategy and architecture across complex enterprise platforms, ensuring security is embedded throughout the full solution lifecycle. Working closely with technical, delivery, and stakeholder teams, you will be responsible for developing security architectures, producing high-level designs, driving assurance activities, and providing expert guidance on secure-by-design principles. This position is ideally suited to an architect with experience operating within MOD, Defence,...

MOD DV Cleared Network Security Architect Location: Basingstoke, Hampshire (Full-time onsite) Contract: 12-Month Rolling Contract Rate: £700-£800 per day (Outside IR35) Clearance: Active UK MOD DV Clearance Required The Opportunity We are seeking an experienced MOD DV Cleared Network Security Architect to support a high-profile government programme delivering secure and resilient enterprise capabilities within a highly regulated environment. This is an excellent opportunity for an architect with a strong background across both network and infrastructure security domains, capable of translating security requirements into robust technical designs. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in developing security architectures, producing High-Level Designs (HLDs), conducting control mapping activities, and ensuring solutions align with MOD and government security standards. Due to the nature of the programme, this role requires full-time onsite presence in Basingstoke...

MI Manager Contract: Temporary (3-6 months) Location: Hybrid (2 days London) Salary: £46.66 per hour (Umbrella) Direct Reports: 2 FTE (MI Analyst and MI Assistant)We are seeking an MI Manager for a temporary assignment to provide essential continuity of service during a period of planned leave. The primary objective is to manage the team's output, ensure data integrity, and maintain performance reporting across the organisation, followed by a professional handover of responsibilities. Day-to-day of the role: Ensures effective data systems, supports business and external users with reports for operational and strategic decisions, and continuously improves reporting and dashboards. The position is hybrid across 36 hours per week (Monday to Friday) and requires attendance at the Authority's offices, sites, and contractors' locations as needed. Ensure compliance with health and safety policies, manage risks, promote a safety-first culture, monitor standards, and report incidents...

DevOps Engineer £675 P/D Inside IR35 4 months with scope to extend Active SC Hybrid - 1/2 days on site per week in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Manchester or London (emote working is a possibility for the right candidate.) Overview We're looking for an experienced DevOps Engineer to join a multidisciplinary government team, supporting the delivery and operation of complex internal platforms. This is a hands-on role requiring someone who can contribute from day one, with strong experience across AWS, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, and CI/CD. The team is looking for an engineer who champions automation and modern DevOps practices rather than relying on manual infrastructure management. Key Responsibilities Build and maintain cloud infrastructure within AWS environments Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions Deploy and manage containerised workloads using Docker,...

Technical Architect £675 P/D Inside IR35 4 months with scope to extend Active SC Hybrid - 1/2 days on site per week in Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Manchester or London (emote working is a possibility for the right candidate.) Overview We're looking for an experienced Technical Architect to join a multidisciplinary government team, helping shape the design and delivery of complex cloud-based platforms. This is a hands-on architecture role focused on systems design rather than software development. You'll take user requirements, feature requests, and technical challenges and turn them into clear, implementable designs and technical specifications for engineering teams. Working across DevOps, software engineering, and data teams, you'll play a key role in ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, and aligned with long-term platform strategy. Key Responsibilities Design technical solutions for new features, enhancements, and platform...

Data Platform Engineer London (Hybrid) 6 Month Contract £(Apply online only)/day (Inside IR35) Data Platform Engineer needed with strong AWS cloud platform migration and Terraform expertise. 6 Month Rolling Contract based in London (Hybrid), with occasional travel to the Leeds office. Hybrid Working - 3-4 days/week remote (WFH) + 1-2 days/week working from the office in London. A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in large-scale Government projects: In-depth Data Engineering experience + AWS cloud data platform migration experience. The role will focus on Data Engineering, cloud platform migration, infrastructure automation + supporting the delivery of large-scale data processing solutions. Supporting a major Data platform modernisation programme including migration of data pipelines, notebooks + data workloads from legacy Databricks environment to modern AWS cloud-based data platforms. Strong Terraform + Infrastructure as...

Connect2Luton are excited to recruit a Service Desk Analyst on behalf of Luton Borough Council. Main purpose of position: On an operational level the role will respond to Incidents and Service Requests (including Major Incidents). They will contribute to the resolution of Incidents and Service Requests problems identified and building solutions for the knowledge base. Within the day-to-day service the role will contribute to the delivery of continuous improvement of the process and supporting systems into the Authority. The post holder will be part of a team and will be assisting the Service Desk Lead and Service Delivery in the control and success of the Service Desk function that handles customers' issues or requests with professional attitude. Responsible for the triage and actions on both Incidents and Service Requests received by the Service. The post can greatly influence the direction and success of general day to day operation of the Service. The role will be a system...

Purpose Resolve urgent and critical incidents on their AWS hosted estate. Ensure the infrastructure is secure, resilient, and highly available, following agreed processes. Provide hands-on support for ongoing operations, problem-solving, implementations, system upgrades, and time-critical operational troubleshooting. Work effectively with colleagues and stakeholders, demonstrate leadership, and become established as an approachable subject matter expert. Key Duties Critical situation management for the operation and maintenance of the Hosting and Infrastructure Act as the AWS and cloud infrastructure SME in response to client questions Sharing your expertise. Work with colleagues to ensure strict adherence to the contract and established good practice. Person Specification Technical Strong knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, S3, RDS, Route 53, WAF, IAM, Lambda, VPC and more (see below) Strong proficiency in the Windows ecosystem, including: Windows Server 22...

Project Manager (12 Month FTC) United Kingdom (Remote/Hybrid Working) £75,000 + Remote Working + International Travel + High-Profile Government Projects + 12 Month Fixed-Term Contract Are you a Project Manager with a background delivering complex projects, looking to join a global organisation where you'll play a key role in delivering a high-profile UK government programme while working with international stakeholders? On offer is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of a significant workstream within a major government programme. You'll work as part of a UK-based team while collaborating closely with international colleagues, customers, suppliers, and technical specialists to ensure successful project delivery. This is a highly visible role offering the chance to make a real impact on nationally significant projects. In this role, you will manage the full project lifecycle, overseeing budgets, programme governance, stakeholder engagement, supplier management, and...

Senior UX/UI Designer - Portsmouth (Hybrid) - Contract Outside IR35, £65-£75 Per Hour We're supporting a global engineering and technology consultancy that partners with some of the world's most recognised organisations to deliver complex digital transformation programmes across sectors including defence, aerospace, government, transport and financial services. They're now looking for an experienced Senior UI/UX Designer to support the refresh of an established software product, improving usability, user journeys and interface design within a technically complex environment. What you'll be doing Designing intuitive user interfaces for an existing software platform Producing wireframes, screen layouts and interactive design concepts Creating clear user journeys and interaction flows Simplifying complex technical functionality into user-friendly experiences Applying UX best practice, accessibility principles and usability standards Collaborating closely with technical...

IT Project Manager - Modern Workplace Location: East London (Hybrid - 2-3 days per week on-site) Contract: 3-Month Rolling Contract Rate: £500 per day (Umbrella) Sector: Local Government An East London Local Authority is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the successful delivery of strategic Modern Workplace initiatives as part of its Technology Roadmap. This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-profile transformation programme, delivering enterprise-scale Microsoft 365 technologies that enhance collaboration, security and user experience across the organisation. Key Responsibilities Lead and manage the delivery of Technology Roadmap projects with a focus on Modern Workplace technologies, including Microsoft 365, Identity, Endpoint Management and SharePoint Online. Coordinate cross-functional technical teams, third-party suppliers and business stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery. Develop and manage project plans, timelines, budgets, RAID...

Interim IT Project Manager East London / Hybrid £500 per day Umbrella A Local Authority in East London is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the delivery of key Technology Roadmap projects, focusing on Modern Workplace technologies including Microsoft 365, Identity, Endpoint Management and SharePoint Online. Key responsibilities include: Managing the delivery of M365 and Modern Workplace projects from inception to completion. Coordinating cross-functional teams and stakeholders. Developing and managing project plans, budgets, timelines, risks and dependencies. Providing governance reporting to senior boards and stakeholders. Ensuring compliance with organisational governance, architecture standards and M365 best practices. Supporting user adoption, change management and transition into service. Managing escalations and providing recommendations to resolve complex delivery issues. Requirements: Proven IT Project Management experience delivering Microsoft 365 and...