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Test Engineer
Up to £45,000 p/annum + Annual Performance Bonus
Hybrid Working (Multiple office locations)
Security Clearance: Candidates must be eligible for security clearance due to the nature of the project.
CPS Group are supporting a leading IT consultancy in delivering a secure government programme. They’re looking for a Test Engineer to support the Test Lead in the successful delivery of testing activities across a complex digital environment.
This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated tester looking to develop their automation skills while working alongside experienced QA professionals on a high-profile public sector project.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Test Lead in the planning, execution, and reporting of testing activities.
- Create, maintain, and execute manual and automated test scripts.
- Assist in designing test cases and test scenarios based on business and technical requirements.
- Identify, log, track, and retest defects through to resolution.
- Support System Integration Testing (SIT), Regression Testing, and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
- Work closely with developers, business analysts, and project stakeholders to ensure quality standards are achieved.
- Produce and maintain test documentation, test evidence, and progress reports.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
Essential Experience:
- Experience with or exposure to Ranorex for test automation.
- Knowledge of TypeScript.
- Commercial experience or strong understanding of software testing principles and the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
- Ability to write clear and effective test cases and test scripts.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills and a willingness to learn from senior team members.
Desirable Skills:
- Experience with C# for automation development and scripting.
- Understanding of Agile delivery methodologies.
- Exposure to test management and defect tracking tools.
- Previous experience working within a regulated, public sector, or secure environment.
Benefits:
- Opportunity to join a long-term government transformation programme.
- Mentorship and support from an experienced Test Lead.
- Exposure to modern testing practices and automation frameworks.
- Hybrid working environment with a collaborative delivery team.
If interested, please apply for the role, and set up a call with Sam John (CPS Group).
BELONG – There’s no place like Principality
At Principality, belonging isn’t just a value — it’s how we work. When you join us, you’re welcomed into a supportive, inclusive community where your home life, wellbeing, and individuality are genuinely respected. From flexible ways of working to benefits designed around you, we’re committed to helping you feel comfortable, valued, and able to thrive.
We believe great work happens when people feel connected — to each other, to our purpose, and to the communities we serve. That’s why we encourage balance, invest in wellbeing, and focus on growing and improving together.
Why join us?
There are plenty of reasons to build your career with Principality:
- Flexible hybrid working – Our award-winning approach gives you the flexibility to work from home and from the office. Collaboration matters to us, so you’ll spend at least 8 days per month based in our Cardiff office.
- A truly inclusive workplace – Proudly named in the 2025 Inclusive Top 50 UK Employers List, ranked 27th, recognising our ongoing commitment to inclusion and belonging.
- Customer excellence you can be proud of – Winners of Double Gold Awards for Customer Satisfaction at the Fairer Finance Awards 2025 for both Savings and Mortgages.
- Engaged, supported colleagues – Our colleague engagement scores consistently exceed 85%, reflecting a positive and supportive culture.
- Wellbeing at the heart of what we do – Our Belong benefits package is designed to put our people first, supporting your physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.
These achievements reflect more than awards — they represent our long-term commitment to creating a workplace where colleagues feel supported and customers feel cared for.
When it comes to belonging, there truly is no place like Principality.
Are you passionate about keeping critical systems running smoothly and leading teams that make it happen?
We’re looking for an IT Production Operations Manager to take ownership of our production environment, ensuring key platforms and workloads run reliably, securely, and predictably.
Reporting to the IT Service Operations Manager, the role sits on the Service Operations Leadership Team and leads mainframe operations, enterprise scheduling, production control and operational automation, providing the operational backbone for service-owning technology teams.
🚀 What you’ll be doing:
- Lead day-to-day production operations, ensuring scheduled workloads and critical services run reliably, securely and to agreed standards.
- Own operational readiness across supported services, maintaining effective runbooks, procedures, support models and operational controls.
- Lead production support during incidents and major incidents, coordinating technical recovery and acting as a trusted deputy for Incident and Problem Management leadership.
- Drive problem resolution and continual improvement, identifying root causes and reducing recurring issues through strong operational discipline.
- Champion operational resilience, ensuring recovery procedures, testing activities and readiness practices remain effective.
- Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort, improve stability and increase operational efficiency.
- Define and maintain production governance, operational controls and service readiness requirements for changes entering live service.
- Use operational insight, performance data and trends to improve service quality, resilience and production outcomes.
- Partner with technology teams and third-party providers to manage production risk, dependencies and service restoration activities.
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing operations team while fostering a culture of accountability, learning and continuous improvement.
🌱 What we’re looking for:
- Strong experience leading production or IT operations teams in a complex environment
- Knowledge of mainframe operations, enterprise scheduling, and batch processing
- Confidence working in incident and major incident environments, making decisions under pressure
- A passion for automation and continuous improvement
- Experience improving operational resilience and recovery practices
- Strong analytical thinking, using data to drive decisions and improvements
- Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to influence across teams and partners
- Awareness of risk, governance, and working in regulated environments (desirable)
🎯 What makes you stand out
You’re someone who:
- Leads with clarity and builds high-performing, resilient teams
- Stays calm and makes sound decisions—even in high-pressure situations
- Thinks ahead, designing systems and processes with recovery and stability in mind
- Sees opportunities to simplify through automation and smarter ways of working
- Builds strong relationships and brings people together to solve problems
Junior Business Development Executive
Location: Swansea – Hybrid
Salary: £25k + bonus
CPS Group are looking for a motivated and ambitious Junior Business Development Executive to join a collaborative and high-performing commercial team. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a globally recognised organisation, working alongside experienced Business Development Managers while gaining exposure to international clients.
Whether you're taking your first step into business development or already have some commercial experience, we'd love to hear from you.
The Role
As a Junior Business Development Executive, you'll play a key role in supporting business development activity by identifying new opportunities, engaging prospective clients and helping to strengthen relationships with existing customers.
Working closely with the wider commercial team, you'll be responsible for generating qualified opportunities, supporting events and campaigns, maintaining CRM data and helping deliver against team targets.
This is a varied role where no two days are the same and offers fantastic progression into a fully-fledged Business Development Executive position.
Key Responsibilities
- Qualify inbound leads and identify new business opportunities.
- Arrange meetings for Business Development Managers and Executives.
- Follow up with prospective and existing customers after events and campaigns.
- Build and maintain target account lists using CRM and market research tools.
- Promote company events and webinars through LinkedIn and other social platforms.
- Engage VIP prospects and key decision makers to maximise event attendance.
- Maintain accurate customer and prospect data within Salesforce.
- Produce activity and performance reports.
- Support tender and procurement opportunities where required.
- Deliver exceptional customer service throughout the sales journey.
- Work collaboratively with internal teams to achieve business objectives and KPIs.
About You
We're interested in people who are naturally curious, confident communicators and enjoy speaking with customers.
You'll likely have:
- A degree (preferred but not essential) or experience in sales, business development, customer service, marketing or another commercial environment.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.
- Confidence speaking with customers over the phone and via email.
- Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities.
- A proactive attitude with the confidence to use your own initiative.
- Good Microsoft Office skills.
- Experience using LinkedIn professionally.
- The ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Fluency in English, with an additional European language being highly desirable.
- A willingness to travel occasionally to events across Europe.
Desirable
- Previous business development or lead generation experience.
- Experience using Salesforce or similar CRM systems.
- An interest or background in Cyber Security or technology.
- Experience converting qualified leads into sales opportunities.
Contact: Zach Bennett – CPS Group
Financial Crime Officer
Location: London (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, flexible on which days)
Salary: Up to £70,000
CPS Group are working with a well-established organisation within the insurance sector that is looking to appoint a Financial Crime Officer (Advisory & Investigations). This is an excellent opportunity to join a supportive team, providing expert advice across all areas of financial crime while working closely with stakeholders throughout the business.
Reporting into the Senior Financial Crime Officer, you'll be responsible for providing practical guidance on financial crime matters, supporting investigations, reviewing alerts, and ensuring the business remains compliant with relevant UK and international regulations.
This is a varied advisory role where no two days are the same, offering exposure across sanctions, AML, fraud, anti-bribery, licensing and wider compliance initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide expert advice on financial crime matters across the business.
- Review and investigate escalated financial crime referrals and screening alerts.
- Support AML and KYC processes and respond to third-party due diligence requests.
- Assist with investigations into financial crime incidents and regulatory reporting where required.
- Contribute to financial crime policies, procedures and wider compliance frameworks.
- Monitor regulatory developments across UK, EU, US and UN financial crime legislation.
- Maintain accurate records, audit trails and internal reporting.
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders to promote a strong culture of compliance.
We're looking for someone who has:
- Previous experience in a Financial Crime, AML or Compliance role.
- Previous experience within a financial crime advisory and/or investigations function.
- Strong knowledge of AML, sanctions and wider financial crime regulations.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to communicate complex regulatory matters clearly to a range of stakeholders.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
Experience gained within the insurance or reinsurance sector will be highly advantageous, as the role requires an understanding of the regulatory landscape specific to insurance businesses.
Exposure to licensing compliance, fraud investigations or anti-fraud frameworks would also be beneficial.
If you're looking for a role where you can genuinely influence financial crime compliance while working in a flexible hybrid environment, we'd love to hear from you.
Contact: Zach Bennett – CPS Group
IT Operations Engineer
Cardiff (Hybrid)
Salary: Up to £50,000
CPS Group are working with a leading financial services organisation seeking an IT Operations Engineer to join their IT Operations team. This is an excellent opportunity to work within a collaborative, supportive environment, taking ownership of core operational platforms while helping drive automation, service improvements and operational resilience.
You'll be joining a business that genuinely invests in its people, offering flexible hybrid working, excellent benefits and a culture built around collaboration, wellbeing and continuous improvement.
The Role
As an Operations Engineer, you'll be responsible for ensuring the stability, availability and performance of critical banking and payment systems. You'll act as a senior technical escalation point, lead major incident response and help shape the future of operational tooling and automation.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading technical response during major incidents and coordinating service recovery.
- Providing expert 3rd line support for complex operational issues.
- Maintaining and improving platform monitoring, automation and job scheduling.
- Supporting system administration, performance tuning, resilience and disaster recovery.
- Managing complex system changes and releases.
- Working closely with Infrastructure, Development, Security and third-party suppliers.
- Driving continual service improvement and promoting ITIL best practices.
- Mentoring colleagues and helping develop technical capability across the team.
- What We're Looking For
- We're particularly interested in candidates with experience supporting enterprise operational environments and mission-critical platforms.
You'll ideally have experience with:
- Unisys mainframe environments (highly desirable).
- OpCon job scheduling or another enterprise scheduling platform.
- SQL Server administration, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
- Windows Server environments.
- PowerShell scripting.
- SFTP.
- Azure DevOps.
- ITIL / ITSM practices.
- Major Incident Management within a production support environment.
- Automation and operational improvement initiatives
Contact: Zach Bennett – CPS Group
Description
Location: Cardiff
Hybrid / Flexible Working
Salary: Up to £55,000 dependant on experience plus up to 20% annual bonus and benefits
Stability, flexibility and the opportunity to work on greenfield projects within one of Europe’s leading financial experts, sound interesting to you?
LDMS - About Us
Founded in 2018, LDMS is part of the LC Financial Holdings group, a 3 pillar organisation that has over 950 employees across Europe. Together, we have an impressive track record of providing world class credit expertise that spans over 20 years.
We are a Fintech company focused on digital lending software, a market growing around 18% per year and set to be worth $27 billion by 2028. Given our expertise within the company and across the group we aim to be the leader in the space, and in order to do that we need a team of people who can not just write quality code but can think, create and challenge others to come up with the best solutions for our customers. We are an ambitious team with a pretty big ‘to do list’ including improving existing products, building new ones and delivering to new markets.
The Role
As part of the LDMS engineering team you will be passionate about your role, take a pragmatic approach to problem solving, deliver quality code to required timelines and be keen to build upon the product. As well as these attributes you will also be able to provide opinions while also being a team player who is willing to invest in the culture of LDMS.
Key Responsibilities:
From time to time, the key responsibilities may change or be adapted to the needs of the business; however, the below gives an overview of the key focus areas.
- Develop software in a professional manner - producing stable applications aligned to user needs
- Participate in Agile team ceremonies
- Working with the team and Product Owners to support the definition of features and enhancements from a backend perspective
- Delivery of backend aspects of features and enhancements using our tech stack
- Contribution to our automated testing suites to ensure quality
- Supporting in the roll-out and deployment of features from an end to end perspective
- Help coach and mentor junior members of the team
- Drive engineering standards & practices
Requirements
Key skills for this role are:
- Experience developing REST APIs with Java (preferably Java 8+) and Spring Boot
- Knowledge of SQL DB’s, preferably Postgres or Oracle
- Experience working with modern Continuous Integration tooling such as Jenkins
- Experience with version control systems such as Git
- Experience with automated unit and integration testing
- A passion for solving problems
- Good verbal, written and communication skills
Whilst desirable, but not essential, we would see the following skills as being useful for this role:
- Experience with Docker or other containerization tools
- Experience developing on the Cloud such as AWS, GCP, Azure
- Experience with Typescript and React, Angular, or other similar Front End frameworks
- Experience with WDIO or Selenium for automated browser testing
- Financial services exposure
- Experience of using AI in a development environment
What's important for us?
It’s safe to say our passion is tech, but we recognise that the people we hire and bring together are at the heart of the organisation. Over the years, we have acquired and recruited a pretty eclectic bunch with hobbies ranging from gaming to ultra marathon running, snowboarding to chess and hiking and climbing; However, what we do have in common are our values:
- Teamwork
- Merit
- Develop
- Honest
- Impactful
- Integrity
They may look like corporate jargon, but they mean something to us. If you can relate to the above, get in touch, as there’s a good chance that you’d be a great addition to the team.
Benefits
Benefits
- Discretionary Bonus (Up-to 20%)
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- 1 day Birthday leave
- 1 day Charity leave
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Private Health Insurance
- EAP
- Pension (3% / 5% contribution)
- Salary sacrifice - (Bike & Electric Vehicle Scheme)
- Monthly socials
- Charity Events