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Knowledge of object-oriented programming, C# Open API, and VBA
Knowledge of object-oriented programming, C# Open API, and VBA
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Work Location: Bristol (2days) Essential Skills / Knowledge / Experience * Extensive knowledge of writing secure scalable enterprise-grade Go applications * Experience of REST APIs, containerisation technologies, micro-services architecture * Ability to work collaboratively within a team as well as independently * Excellent analytical, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills * In depth knowledge of best coding practices, code management, agile development practices and continuous delivery * Understand how to performance optimise and fine tune backend applications to meet demanding NFRs - Desirable Skills / Knowledge / Experience * Experience of JAVA development * Experience with cryptography frameworks in Go and JAVA * Experience with SQL databases * Experience and/or interest in application security and/or mobile app security
Work Location: Bristol (2days) Essential Skills / Knowledge / Experience * Extensive knowledge of writing secure scalable enterprise-grade Go applications * Experience of REST APIs, containerisation technologies, micro-services architecture * Ability to work collaboratively within a team as well as independently * Excellent analytical, problem solving, and strategic thinking skills * In depth knowledge of best coding practices, code management, agile development practices and continuous delivery * Understand how to performance optimise and fine tune backend applications to meet demanding NFRs - Desirable Skills / Knowledge / Experience * Experience of JAVA development * Experience with cryptography frameworks in Go and JAVA * Experience with SQL databases * Experience and/or interest in application security and/or mobile app security
Build API-driven solutions, ensuring compatibility with jsonapi.org specifications.
Build API-driven solutions, ensuring compatibility with jsonapi.org specifications.
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Analyse technical capabilities, integrations, and API readiness.
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AI Engineer, Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, LLM, GenAI, Agentic, LangChain, LangGraph, Langfuse, Python, Backend, API, MLflow, W&B, DVC, Evaluation, RAG, Retrieval, Semantic Search, Multimodal, Computer Vision, Speech-to-Text, Cloud, AWS, Azure, Model Deployment, UK Remote, Contractor, EdTech, Assessment Systems, Automated Scoring, Git, GitHub, UK Hours
AI Engineer, Software Engineer, Machine Learning Engineer, LLM, GenAI, Agentic, LangChain, LangGraph, Langfuse, Python, Backend, API, MLflow, W&B, DVC, Evaluation, RAG, Retrieval, Semantic Search, Multimodal, Computer Vision, Speech-to-Text, Cloud, AWS, Azure, Model Deployment, UK Remote, Contractor, EdTech, Assessment Systems, Automated Scoring, Git, GitHub, UK Hours
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Integrate automated API security testing workflows into the platform, ensuring reliability and accuracy of results.
Integrate automated API security testing workflows into the platform, ensuring reliability and accuracy of results.
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We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Business Analyst / Product Owner to lead the design, development, and delivery of API solutions that enable seamless integration across our digital ecosystem. This hybrid role combines strategic product ownership with hands-on business analysis to ensure our API platform meets business needs, enhances interoperability, and supports scalable growth. * Define and own the API product backlog, aligning with business objectives and technology strategy. * Act as the voice of the customer for API consumers, ensuring usability and developer experience. * Gather, analyze, and document functional and non-functional requirements for API development. * Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to design API specifications, JSON, XM
We are looking for a highly skilled Lead Business Analyst / Product Owner to lead the design, development, and delivery of API solutions that enable seamless integration across our digital ecosystem. This hybrid role combines strategic product ownership with hands-on business analysis to ensure our API platform meets business needs, enhances interoperability, and supports scalable growth. * Define and own the API product backlog, aligning with business objectives and technology strategy. * Act as the voice of the customer for API consumers, ensuring usability and developer experience. * Gather, analyze, and document functional and non-functional requirements for API development. * Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to design API specifications, JSON, XM
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Your role as a GCP APIGEE specialist involves supporting teams with modern DevOps solutions, curating scalable GCP Cloud Products as IaaC, and building APIGEE/API solutions while modernising the APIGEE gateway. * Hands-on development and management of Google Apigee API Management Platform * Design, build, and deploy API proxies, policies, and configurations in Apigee * Implement CI/CD pipelines for API lifecycle management using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Harness * Develop and maintain API security policies (OAuth, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, threat protection) * Build automated workflows and scripts for API operations using Python * Manage API analytics, monitoring, and logging for performance and compliance * Enforce GCP Organization Polic
Your role as a GCP APIGEE specialist involves supporting teams with modern DevOps solutions, curating scalable GCP Cloud Products as IaaC, and building APIGEE/API solutions while modernising the APIGEE gateway. * Hands-on development and management of Google Apigee API Management Platform * Design, build, and deploy API proxies, policies, and configurations in Apigee * Implement CI/CD pipelines for API lifecycle management using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Harness * Develop and maintain API security policies (OAuth, JWT, mTLS, rate limiting, threat protection) * Build automated workflows and scripts for API operations using Python * Manage API analytics, monitoring, and logging for performance and compliance * Enforce GCP Organization Polic
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Contract: Automation Architect - Start Date: ASAP - Duration: 6 months - Location: Remote - UK - Rate: circa £550 - £590 per day outside of IR35 - This role is for a highly skilled and experienced Automation Architect responsible for the end-to-end delivery of on-premise private cloud infrastructure automation solutions. The ideal person will bridge the gap between architectural design, process analysis, and hands-on implementation, ensuring that infrastructure is provisioned and managed efficiently via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles utilizing a robust CI/CD pipeline orchestrated by Git runner technology. This automation will specifically target the deployment and management of environments hosting Containers (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift) and traditional Virtual Machines (VMs). Responsibilities - Strategy and Analysis
Contract: Automation Architect - Start Date: ASAP - Duration: 6 months - Location: Remote - UK - Rate: circa £550 - £590 per day outside of IR35 - This role is for a highly skilled and experienced Automation Architect responsible for the end-to-end delivery of on-premise private cloud infrastructure automation solutions. The ideal person will bridge the gap between architectural design, process analysis, and hands-on implementation, ensuring that infrastructure is provisioned and managed efficiently via Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles utilizing a robust CI/CD pipeline orchestrated by Git runner technology. This automation will specifically target the deployment and management of environments hosting Containers (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift) and traditional Virtual Machines (VMs). Responsibilities - Strategy and Analysis
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We do this by transforming how school data is maintained, managed and accessed by third-party applications (apps) via our simple API platform. We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Product Owner to take ownership of our complex API solution with responsibility across international markets. Your technical expertise is essential: we need someone who can understand the architecture, integrations, and nuances of our API product and act as the bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Serve as the primary Product Owner for our API solution, operating across international markets to ensure alignment with global technical capabilities and business objectives. * Maintain high-quality API standards, documentation, and integration processes to meet both technical best pract
We do this by transforming how school data is maintained, managed and accessed by third-party applications (apps) via our simple API platform. We are seeking a highly skilled Technical Product Owner to take ownership of our complex API solution with responsibility across international markets. Your technical expertise is essential: we need someone who can understand the architecture, integrations, and nuances of our API product and act as the bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders. * Serve as the primary Product Owner for our API solution, operating across international markets to ensure alignment with global technical capabilities and business objectives. * Maintain high-quality API standards, documentation, and integration processes to meet both technical best pract
We do this by transforming how school data is maintained, managed and accessed by third-party applications (apps) via our simple API platform. * Experience working in SaaS, API, or multi-product platforms.
We do this by transforming how school data is maintained, managed and accessed by third-party applications (apps) via our simple API platform. * Experience working in SaaS, API, or multi-product platforms.
Intetics Inc., a global technology company providing custom software application development, distributed professional teams, software product quality assessment, and all-things-digital solutions, is looking for a Technical Support Engineer to join our dynamic team. 9:00 - 18:00 in UK time zone - 9:00 - 18:00 in US EAST time zone - What You Will Do * Help customers by answering their toughest technical questions * Provide technical support to customers using email, chat, and Zoom * Handle multiple concurrent issues with varying severity, making sure that they are responded to within the established SLAs * Focus on accelerating investigations and minimizing support ticket resolution times via live Zoom calls * Troubleshoot logs to identify errors/exceptions and their root cause * Act as Incident Commander during service incidents and maintain updates on the Status page
Intetics Inc., a global technology company providing custom software application development, distributed professional teams, software product quality assessment, and all-things-digital solutions, is looking for a Technical Support Engineer to join our dynamic team. 9:00 - 18:00 in UK time zone - 9:00 - 18:00 in US EAST time zone - What You Will Do * Help customers by answering their toughest technical questions * Provide technical support to customers using email, chat, and Zoom * Handle multiple concurrent issues with varying severity, making sure that they are responded to within the established SLAs * Focus on accelerating investigations and minimizing support ticket resolution times via live Zoom calls * Troubleshoot logs to identify errors/exceptions and their root cause * Act as Incident Commander during service incidents and maintain updates on the Status page
RWS is building the next generation of AI-enabled capabilities across our products, internal production systems, and enterprise platforms. To accelerate this effort, were establishing a small, focused team to deliver the foundational integrations that will allow Agentspace, Gemini Enterprise, and other AI workflow engines to interact securely and intelligently with our core systems. As a Data Platform Engineer (AI Enablement), you will design and deliver the data access patterns, ingestion workflows, and lightweight data products that allow Agentspace, Gemini Enterprise, and our emerging AI orchestration layer to operate with high-quality, well-structured information. You will work closely with various technical roles and domain experts across the business to turn AI use cases into real, production-ready capabilities.
RWS is building the next generation of AI-enabled capabilities across our products, internal production systems, and enterprise platforms. To accelerate this effort, were establishing a small, focused team to deliver the foundational integrations that will allow Agentspace, Gemini Enterprise, and other AI workflow engines to interact securely and intelligently with our core systems. As a Data Platform Engineer (AI Enablement), you will design and deliver the data access patterns, ingestion workflows, and lightweight data products that allow Agentspace, Gemini Enterprise, and our emerging AI orchestration layer to operate with high-quality, well-structured information. You will work closely with various technical roles and domain experts across the business to turn AI use cases into real, production-ready capabilities.
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