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Role Description We're looking for a Senior UI/UX Designer with a proven track record of creating exceptional mobile app experiences. You'll work closely with Product and Engineering teams from discovery through to delivery, using customer research and insight to inform decisions and shape intuitive, accessible solutions. Qualifications - Demonstrated experience in a Senior UI/UX Designer role with a strong portfolio showcasing customer-facing mobile app products. - Comfortable leading and contributing throughout the full product lifecycle, from early discovery through to delivery, partnering closely with Product teams to uncover customer needs and identify opportunities. - Uses customer research, behavioural insights, and data to shape design decisions, drawing on methods such as usability testing, customer journey mapping, problem definition workshops, and insight analysis. - Skilled at turning customer needs, business objectives, and product requirements into elegant, user-centred solutions that balance desirability, feasibility, and commercial outcomes. - Strong visual and interaction design capability, with experience creating user journeys, wireframes, prototypes, and polished high-fidelity mobile experiences. - Passionate about designing accessible, intuitive, and engaging products, leveraging established design systems while recognising when enhancements or new patterns may be needed. - Able to simplify complex user journeys, improve existing experiences, and make thoughtful trade-offs that consider customer value, business priorities, and technical constraints. - Builds strong working relationships with Product Managers, Product Owners, Engineers, and other cross-functional partners to shape solutions and deliver high-quality outcomes. - A collaborative designer who enjoys sharing ideas, seeking feedback, mentoring others, and contributing to a positive and inclusive design culture. - Communicates design rationale confidently and clearly, tailoring messaging to different audiences and helping stakeholders understand customer needs and design decisions. - Maintains excellent design practice within Figma, ensuring files are organised, scalable, and easy for others to navigate through consistent naming conventions, version control, and component management. Requirements - An open and genuine communicator. - Able to take responsibility for your actions. - Always learning and wanting to improve. - Takes responsibility for own development. - Love what you do. - Value and support your team. - Embrace who you are. - Open minded and willing to explore new ideas. Benefits - A competitive salary, dependent on experience. - A contributory pension scheme. - Private healthcare. - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday. - A flexible approach to working hours. - Continuous personal development, career path, and training. - And more....

Role Description We're looking for a highly experienced Lead Full-Stack Engineer to play a key role in the development of a brand-new platform. While this is a full-stack position, the primary focus will be on designing and building scalable backend services, with occasional involvement in mobile application development. - Take ownership of features from design through to deployment. - Work closely with engineering and product teams to deliver secure, high-performance solutions. - Comfortable operating within a complex enterprise environment, influencing technical direction, and collaborating with multiple teams across different technology stacks. - Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend services using NestJS, Node.js, and TypeScript. - Take ownership of technical design, architecture decisions, and implementation of new features. - Build and integrate mobile application functionality using React Native and Expo. - Implement secure authentication and authorization solutions using Auth0. - Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support efficient and reliable deployments. - Design and optimize PostgreSQL database schemas and queries. - Leverage Redis for caching, session management, and performance improvements. - Containerize applications with Docker and manage deployments within AWS ECS. - Collaborate with engineers, architects, and platform teams to ensure alignment across systems and services. - Promote engineering best practices including automated testing, code quality, and scalable system design. Qualifications - Extensive experience as a Senior or Lead Engineer delivering complex, production-grade applications. - Expert knowledge of Node.js, TypeScript, and NestJS. - Strong experience designing and optimizing solutions with PostgreSQL and Redis. - Proven track record of deploying and managing containerized applications using Docker and AWS ECS. - Solid understanding of software architecture, design patterns, and distributed systems. - Experience delivering full-stack solutions, including hands-on work with React Native and Expo. - Strong knowledge of authentication and identity management, ideally with Auth0. - Passion for automated testing, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical decisions and collaborate across multiple teams. Behaviours - An open and genuine communicator. - Able to take responsibility for your actions. - Always learning and wanting to improve. - Takes responsibility for own development. - Love what you do. - Value and support your team. - Embrace who you are. - Open-minded and willing to explore new ideas. Benefits - A competitive salary, dependent on experience. - A contributory pension scheme. - Private healthcare. - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday. - A flexible approach to working hours. - Continuous personal development, career path, and training. - And more....

Role Description Are you passionate about building security into software from the ground up? We’re looking for a Senior Application Security Engineer to take charge of strengthening and evolving security across our Loyalty division. In this role, you won’t just identify risks; you’ll lead the charge in transforming how secure software is built, working side-by-side with engineering and product teams to make security an intrinsic part of everything we deliver. - Own and drive application security strategy, influencing key security metrics and outcomes - Embed secure-by-design principles into every stage of the development lifecycle - Partner with engineers and product teams to elevate security awareness and capability - Introduce and optimise automated security controls within CI/CD pipelines - Lead threat modelling and secure design discussions, shaping decisions around critical areas like authentication and data protection - Ensure security tooling (SAST, DAST, SCA) is effective, scalable, and delivering real value - Oversee and enhance testing initiatives including penetration testing, scanning, and bug bounty programmes - Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams triaging issues and guiding practical remediation - Contribute to security standards, documentation, and audit readiness - Champion a strong, proactive security culture across the organisation Qualifications - A background in software engineering with a security-first mindset - Strong knowledge of modern web and API vulnerabilities (OWASP Top 10 and beyond) - Hands-on experience with automation, scripting, and integrating security into CI/CD workflows - Familiarity with security tooling such as SAST, DAST, and SCA - Experience working in cloud-native environments (AWS), microservices, and containerised systems - Confidence in reviewing architecture, leading threat modelling, and influencing secure design decisions - Excellent communication skills, ability to engage, educate, and inspire engineering teams Requirements - An open and genuine communicator - Able to take responsibility for your actions - Always learning and wanting to improve - Takes responsibility for own development - Love what you do - Value and support your team - Embrace who you are - Open minded and willing to explore new ideas Benefits - A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience - A contributory pension scheme - Private healthcare - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday - A flexible approach to working hours - Continuous personal development, career path and training - And more...

Role Description After 33+ years of excellence, Leighton are on our next chapter of growth, and we need a commercially sharp, relationship-driven Senior Partner Manager to play a pivotal role in that journey. You will be the commercial engine behind some of our most significant partner relationships. This is a revenue-carrying role with a personal target, your primary focus is net new growth: originating opportunities, building and executing GTM plans with partners, and winning enterprise-scale work alongside the world’s largest consultancies and system integrators. This is not a delivery role. You will be the strategic and commercial presence within partnerships, ensuring existing programmes are healthy, relationships are thriving, and that every engagement becomes a platform for the next opportunity. You will be given the chance to grow and develop within Leighton as we continue to drive commercial success whilst always maintaining outstanding company culture. - Manage and deepen existing partner relationships. - Own the day-to-day and strategic relationship with a portfolio of major consulting and SI partners. - Act as the single commercial point of contact for your partner portfolio. - Lead regular business reviews and joint planning sessions with partner stakeholders. - Monitor the health of active programmes of work being delivered alongside partners. - Resolve commercial tensions and navigate partner dynamics with confidence and diplomacy. - Proactively identify new commercial opportunities within your partner ecosystem. - Develop a deep understanding of each partner’s go-to-market strategy. - Build and maintain a pipeline of partner-sourced and partner-influenced opportunities. - Represent Leighton at partner events, workshops, and industry forums. - Work strategically to move Leighton from being a subcontractor into a trusted partner. - Collaborate with pre-sales and Business Development to craft compelling propositions. - Build relationships with senior stakeholders at end clients. - Carry a personal revenue target and take full accountability for delivering against it. - Create and own joint GTM plans with each partner. - Proactively originate new opportunities by building relationships deep inside partner organisations. - Feed market intelligence back into the business. Qualifications - A proven track record managing strategic partnerships or alliances with major global consultancies, Big 4 firms, or large SIs. - Experience creating and owning partner growth plans. - Strong commercial acumen and a genuine hunger to grow revenue. - Experience shaping large, complex, multi-stakeholder deals. - A background in consultative or technology services sales. - Self-motivated and ambitious. - Ability to build trust with internal and external stakeholders. - Comfortable with regular travel. Requirements - Strong, active relationships with key contacts across your partner portfolio. - A consistent pipeline of new opportunities originating from or influenced by your partner relationships. - Measurable expansion of Leighton’s commercial footprint within existing partner-adjacent end clients. - Partner-sourced and partner-influenced revenue that grows year-on-year. - Active programmes of work alongside partners that are commercially sound. Benefits - A competitive salary dependent on experience. - A contributory pension scheme. - Private healthcare. - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday. - A flexible approach to working hours. - Continuous personal development, career path, and training. - And more....

Role Description Leighton is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with an ambitious growth plan. We are building a consulting and delivery function that supports us through the next stage of our growth journey, by building amazing customer and colleague experiences. As a Managing Consultant reporting to the COO, you will shape and deliver the services we provide to customers across our consulting function. - Act as the critical link between our customers, our commercial team, and our consultants. - Combine deep knowledge of delivery with strong people management skills to ensure smooth customer delivery, maximize revenue, and align talent to business needs. Qualifications - Experienced in excellent delivery practices; understanding what good looks like for customers and the full delivery lifecycle. - Ability to quickly build trust with customers, demonstrating knowledge, proactivity, and problem-solving skills. - At least 5 years of experience working in a consulting environment; understanding key attributes and behaviors of a good consultant. Requirements - Provide day-to-day leadership for assigned consultants. - Support colleague development ensuring consultants feel heard and supported to achieve their goals. - Play a key role in safeguarding colleague wellbeing through regular check-ins and proactive engagement. - Get to know customers, their environment, challenges, and opportunities. - Position yourself as a trusted advisor, supporting decision-making and offering advice on maximizing value. - Own the customer NPS mechanism and score; create the NPS framework and ensure its success. - Work with customers to proactively identify potential performance issues. - Act as the point of escalation for any consultant delivery-related issues. - Be responsible for the retention target of 90% and act as the point of escalation for revenue-related matters. - Own timesheet completion and accuracy, resource planning, and revenue forecasting in CMap. - Accountable for working with the AD to translate customer needs into practical delivery solutions. - Own the workforce plan, ensuring the right skills are in place to meet customer requirements and business growth. - Act as the main POC during onboarding, providing customer and project context, guidance, and ensuring hires feel welcomed. Benefits - A competitive salary dependent on experience. - A contributory pension scheme. - Private healthcare. - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday. - A flexible approach to working hours. - Continuous personal development, career path, and training. - And more....

Role Description We are seeking an experienced Enterprise / Solutions Architect with a strong data & AWS background to join our expanding team. You will play a key role in designing and delivering scalable data architecture strategies, with a primary focus on cloud data platforms such as Snowflake. This role involves assessing and evolving existing data pipelines, analytics platforms, and integration patterns across enterprise systems, transitioning from fragmented or manual processes to fully automated, governed, and high-performance data solutions. If you are passionate about building scalable, future-ready data platforms and are ready to lead a transformational data initiative, we’d love to hear from you. Qualifications - Designing centralised data platforms and delivers scalable enterprise data architectures aligned with business strategy and long-term growth - Deep expertise in Snowflake, including data warehousing, data sharing, and performance optimisation - Translates complex business requirements into secure, high-performing cloud data solutions - Leads end-to-end solution architecture across ingestion, transformation, analytics, and governance - Partners with stakeholders across IT, data, and business teams to drive value from data - Establishes best practices for data modelling, cost control, security, and compliance - Guides modernisation initiatives, migrating legacy platforms to cloud-native architectures - Provides technical leadership, mentoring teams and influencing architectural standards - Evaluates and integrates complementary tools across the data ecosystem (ETL, BI, orchestration) - Focused on reliability, scalability, and measurable business outcomes in enterprise environments Behaviours - An open and genuine communicator - Able to take responsibility for your actions - Always learning and wanting to improve - Takes responsibility for own development - Love what you do - Value and support your team - Embrace who you are - Open minded and willing to explore new ideas Benefits - A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience. - A contributory pension scheme - Private healthcare - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday - A flexible approach to working hours - Continuous personal development, career path and training - And more....

Role Description We are looking for a talented and detail-oriented App Designer to join our team. You will be responsible for designing intuitive, engaging, and visually appealing mobile and/or web applications that deliver outstanding user experiences. Working closely with product managers, developers, and other stakeholders, you will translate ideas and requirements into elegant design solutions. - Design user-centered mobile and/or web applications from concept to final handover - Create wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs - Translate product requirements and user needs into intuitive designs - Collaborate with developers to ensure designs are implemented accurately - Maintain and evolve design systems, style guides, and UI components - Conduct user research and usability testing where required - Iterate designs based on feedback, data, and usability insights - Ensure designs align with brand guidelines and accessibility standards Qualifications - Proven experience as an App Designer, UI Designer, UX Designer, or similar role - Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end app design work - Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar - Solid understanding of UX principles, interaction design, and usability - Experience designing for iOS, Android, and/or web platforms - Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams - Strong attention to detail and problem-solving skills - Experience with design systems and component libraries - Basic knowledge of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, etc.) - Experience working in Agile or product-led environments - Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) Behaviours - An open and genuine communicator - Able to take responsibility for your actions - Always learning and wanting to improve - Takes responsibility for own development - Love what you do - Value and support your team - Embrace who you are - Open minded and willing to explore new ideas Benefits - A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience. - A contributory pension scheme - Private healthcare - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday - A flexible approach to working hours - Continuous personal development, career path and training - And more....

Role Description We’re looking for a senior, hands‑on Cloud Platform Engineer to help design, standardise, and operate cloud platforms that underpin multiple AI‑driven products and services. This role is about building well‑defined, reusable platform patterns that enable delivery teams to move quickly while maintaining high standards of reliability, security, and cost control. You’ll play a key role in shaping how AI and cloud services are built, deployed, and operated across several concurrent initiatives, reducing fragmentation and improving consistency across the platform estate. This is a hands‑on technical role for someone who enjoys making strong architectural decisions, establishing clear standards, and balancing flexibility with standardisation in a fast‑moving environment. Qualifications - Strong experience operating AWS‑based platforms in production - Proven expertise with Terraform, including module design and CI/CD integration - Hands‑on experience with container platforms: ECS preferred; EKS acceptable if adaptable - Experience operating API gateways (Kong or equivalent) - Solid understanding of cloud networking, service discovery, and communication patterns - Experience supporting multiple teams or projects on a shared platform - Strong troubleshooting skills and real‑world production operations experience - Practical experience running or supporting AI/ML workloads in production - Strong understanding of scaling characteristics of AI workloads - Familiarity with model serving frameworks, data processing pipelines, AWS managed AI / ML services, GPU workloads or specialised compute environments, feature stores, vector databases, or embedding pipelines, event‑driven architectures, and cloud security best practices (IAM, secrets management, Zero Trust) - Platform engineering or internal developer platform experience Requirements - Design and implement well‑defined architecture patterns for cloud‑native and AI‑enabled services on AWS - Create and maintain reusable blueprints for common service types and workloads - Drive consistency across multiple projects through shared modules, templates, and platform tooling - Define standards for service deployment, integration, communication, and day‑to‑day operations - Build and maintain Terraform‑based infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on modular, reusable design - Define CI/CD patterns for infrastructure provisioning and change management, application and model deployment - Enforce best practices through pipelines and automation, rather than documentation alone - Embed SRE principles across all services, including monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing, SLIs, SLOs, and actionable alerting - Continuously improve reliability, performance, and cost efficiency - Operate and evolve API gateway and data plane technologies (e.g. Kong) Benefits - A competitive salary dependent on experience - A contributory pension scheme - Private healthcare - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday - A flexible approach to working hours - Continuous personal development, career path and training - And more... Company Description In 2023, 2024 and 2025 we were recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in Tech by Great Place To Work UK, the global authority on workplace culture.

Senior React Native Engineer Department: Consultancy Employment Type: Full Time Location: Remote Description The Role We’re looking for a highly skilled React Native Developer to join our growing mobile team. You’ll play a key role in building scalable, high-quality cross-platform mobile applications. If you're passionate about mobile development and delivering great user experiences, we’d love to hear from you. Knowledge Skills & Abilities - Develop robust and scalable cross-platform mobile applications using React Native - Collaborate closely with product managers, designers, and backend engineers to build and deliver seamless, performant user experiences - Write clean, maintainable, and testable code, following modern best practices - Participate in architectural discussions and contribute to solution design for new features and systems - Conduct code reviews and contribute to continuous improvement of code quality and development processes - Implement automated testing (unit, integration, UI) and support mobile CI/CD pipelines - Monitor and optimise performance, ensuring apps meet reliability, security, and compliance standards - Stay up to date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and best practices in mobile development Behaviours - An open and genuine communicator - Able to take responsibility for your actions - Always learning and wanting to improve - Takes responsibility for own development - Love what you do - Value and support your team - Embrace who you are - Open minded and willing to explore new ideas What We Offer We value our team and to attract exceptional people, we offer an excellent package! In 2023, 2024 and 2025 we were recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in Tech by Great Place To Work UK, the global authority on workplace culture. As a Leighton employee you can look forward to: - A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience. - A contributory pension scheme - Private healthcare - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday - A flexible approach to working hours - Continuous personal development, career path and training - And more....

Principal Solutions Architect Application Deadline: 27 April 2026 Department: Consultancy Employment Type: Full Time Location: Remote Description The Role We’re looking for a seasoned Principal Solutions Architect to provide architectural leadership across a major platform modernisation programme. This is our highest‑priority strategic initiative and sits at the heart of a wider organisational transformation spanning finance, operations, commercial, contact centre, technology, product, revenue management and fraud domains. In this role, you will guide the end‑to‑end architecture of a cloud‑native, AWS‑hosted ecosystem, ensuring strategic alignment, technical governance, and a coherent target state across multiple autonomous product teams. You’ll combine enterprise‑level architectural leadership with hands‑on support, helping teams navigate complex design decisions, cross‑domain dependencies, and the replacement of a large legacy monolith under fixed commercial timelines. The role requires both breadth and depth across application, data, integration, security and cloud architecture, along with strong stakeholder leadership in a politically complex environment. Knowledge Skills & Abilities What you'll do - Lead architecture across all domains — application, integration, data, cloud and security - Define and evolve the target-state architecture for a modernised holiday-packaging platform - Govern solution decisions and run architecture decision review forums - Establish architectural standards, patterns, guardrails and governance models - Translate business capabilities, value streams and operational processes into technical architectures - Review high‑level and low‑level design artefacts for alignment and quality - Oversee API strategy, integration patterns, and AI-readiness - Shape contact-centre architecture and integrations using Amazon Connect - Enable teams to deliver safe value with your expertise in information security and data privacy - Map and manage cross‑programme dependencies and multi‑company integration challenges - Support teams with technical spikes, PoCs, and de‑risking complex design areas - Influence senior stakeholders and navigate organisational politics across group-level entities Support executive decision-making through technical appraisal - Align architectural decisions with technical strategy, commercial targets, risk constraints and delivery timelines - Set and guide operating models for the transition to BAU and day 2 operations What you'll bring - Deep experience spanning application, data, integration, security and cloud architecture - Proven track record designing and governing public cloud‑based platforms (AWS preferred) - Strong working knowledge of modern event-driven/API/microservice patterns - Familiarity with customer support and contact‑centre journeys - Experience with governance in large delivery programmes - Ability to influence, review and guide architecture across distributed, autonomous product teams - Good grasp of enterprise capability modelling, value streams, and end‑to‑end business flows - Experience integrating numerous third‑party vendors and systems - Skilled at managing architectural risk, decision trade‑offs, and long-term maintainability - Exceptional stakeholder engagement and communication skills - A team enablement and host-leadership mindset, promoting best practices and engineering culture - Comfort balancing strategic leadership with hands-on architectural contribution Great to have - Travel or retail industry experience is desirable, but strong experience in any large-scale consumer or regulated digital platform is equally relevant - Experience designing multi-tenant, internationalised systems - Knowledge or experience of architecting for compliance with ISO 27001, SOC 2, and PCI-DSS frameworks - Practical experience of applying Team Topologies and Conway's Law as part of architecture practice - Background in modernising large monolithic platforms under commercial constraints - Knowledge of fraud‑management, revenue‑management, and financial architecture domains - Familiarity with secure‑by‑design frameworks and regulated-cloud standards - Experience contributing to or establishing enterprise architecture functions - Exposure to multi-cloud or hybrid integration environments - Experience with modern data product architectures, data meshes, and reverse ETL - Prior consulting experience delivering complex transformation programmes Behaviours - An open and genuine communicator - Able to take responsibility for your actions - Always learning and wanting to improve - Takes responsibility for own development - Love what you do - Value and support your team - Embrace who you are - Open minded and willing to explore new ideas What We Offer We value our team and to attract exceptional people, we offer an excellent package! In 2023, 2024 and 2025 we were recognised as one of the Best Workplaces in Tech by Great Place To Work UK, the global authority on workplace culture. As a Leighton employee you can look forward to: - A competitive salary this will be dependent on experience. - A contributory pension scheme - Private healthcare - 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and the opportunity to buy or sell holiday - A flexible approach to working hours - Continuous personal development, career path and training - And more....