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DescriptionLocation: Cambridge, UK – This position offers flexible working options, including predominantly remote work. Applicants are ideally based (or willing to relocate) within a comfortable commuting distance of our office to attend onsite as required.Want to shape the technology that connects players to Jagex, from accounts and payments through to our launcher, website and player support services?As an Associate Technical Director within Player Platform team, you’ll provide technical leadership across multiple engineering teams responsible for some of the critical systems behind our players’ experience. Working across our website, launcher, payments and subscriptions, accounts and identity, player support and player trust, you’ll set technical direction, guide our Lead Engineers and provide clear ownership for the complex technical decisions that keep these services moving.This is a leader-of-leaders opportunity with a distinctive technical challenge: evolving and integrating modern technology alongside systems that have grown over more than two decades. You’ll help teams balance scalability, maintainability, resilience, technical debt and delivery, while shaping the standards and technical strategy that support the future of our Player Platform.What you'll be doing:Define the technical strategy for your area alongside the Director of Player Platform and your fellow Associate Technical Directors, then translate it into actionable objectives and key results with your Lead Engineers so every team knows what they are building towards and why.Guide the architecture and evolution of complex systems across payments and subscriptions, accounts and identity, web and launcher, making balanced calls on scalability, maintainability, resilience, cost and technical debt against what the business needs next.Own the engineering principles and standards for your area in line with Jagex's wider architecture principles, working with Lead Engineers to embed them in day to day work, offering practical examples rather than theory, and reporting exceptions to senior leadership.Grow your Lead Engineers and their teams through coaching, mentoring, candid feedback and clear objectives, closing technical leadership gaps and raising the engineering capability of the whole area.Work side by side with product and business leaders, translating their vision into high level technical options and explaining trade offs and risks in language everyone in the room can follow.Own technology across its full lifecycle, from evaluation and procurement through operation, modernisation and decommissioning of both internally built and off the shelf systems, including budget accountability for SaaS platforms and outsourced capacity.Manage the relationship with our outsourced engineering partners, holding them to the same bar for technical quality and delivery as our internal teams.Be the domain expert for your area's technology, fielding the hardest technical questions yourself, championing quality across web, test, backend and cloud infrastructure, and making sure knowledge is shared so no single person becomes a dependency.What we're looking for:Significant experience leading multiple engineering teams to deliver and operate complex, business critical software systems, with accountability for priorities, dependencies, risks, resources, budgets and delivery outcomes. Experience in enterprise or large scale platform environments is particularly relevant, and games industry experience is not required.Proven experience managing and developing senior technical leaders, with accountability for performance, succession, workforce planning and raising engineering capability across your teams.A strong track record of defining technical strategy, establishing and evolving engineering standards, and turning strategic direction into clear, measurable technical objectives.Demonstrable experience guiding the architecture and evolution of complex systems, including situations where modern technology had to work alongside long established or legacy platforms, and experience owning technology through evaluation, procurement, modernisation and decommissioning.Expert technical knowledge within a relevant engineering domain, with recent proximity to hands on engineering and strong working knowledge of a stack like ours: Java and Spring Boot, TypeScript and React, AWS with EKS and Kubernetes, Terraform, and event driven systems and microservices.Proven ability to work with product, business and technology leaders, communicating technical options, trade offs and risks clearly to technical and non technical audiences, including experience managing external engineering partners or suppliers.Games industry experience isn’t essential. We’re equally interested in technical leaders from complex enterprise software environments who can bring mature engineering practices while getting to grips with the systems and challenges unique to Jagex.What we offer:When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.Discretionary annual performance bonus.Minimum 6% Pension contributions.Life Insurance.Enhanced family leave policies from day 1.Flexible working hours.25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!Inclusion & AccessibilityStatementWe are committed to providing equal opportunities and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, and we recruit, develop, and promote based on merit and ability.If you require any reasonable adjustments to support you during the recruitment process, please let us know when you’re invited to interview.About JagexWe are Jagex: The RuneScape Company. Home to one of gaming’s most enduring success stories. We create deep, community-powered games with worlds that evolve, inspire, and endure. Our flagship MMORPG franchise, RuneScape, has welcomed over 300 million player accounts, inspiring generations of players across PC and mobile for 25 years.As we begin our 26th year, we are accelerating our strategy to expand RuneScape into a broader ecosystem of forever games and connected experiences, grounded in a renewed commitment to integrity and fair play. This includes the reduction of monetisation mechanics, as well as the launch of RuneScape: DragonWilds into Steam Early Access in 2025, representing a major step in building a multi-genre future for the RuneScape universe. We remain focused on building enduring worlds, empowering player-led innovation, and laying the foundations for the boldest era in RuneScape’s history. For more information, visit .Headquartered in Cambridge, United Kingdom, we are home to passionate creators, storytellers, engineers, and even a few dreamers, all united by a single mission to shape the future of online worlds and empower players to make them their own. We’re looking for people to join us who share our ambitions and values. We foster an inclusive workplace built on trust, autonomy, and a shared passion for creating experiences that inspire our communities. Our values guide everything we do: We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving; We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent; We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs, and We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.Join us. The next era of RuneScape and the next chapter of Jagex: The RuneScape Company starts now.Job SummaryID: ED899C5FC0Department: TechnologyType: full time

Alternatively, Grant Thornton At Grant Thornton we do things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance. A true alternative. With over 5,000 people in the UK, and a presence in 150 global markets, we’re on an ambitious journey, from great to exceptional, and we need the best people to help us achieve our potential. And with that comes the opportunity to help redefine what our industry looks like, and what you want from your career. Job Description: Grant Thornton UK LLP is part of a global network of independent audit, tax and advisory firms, made up of some 58,000 people in over 135 countries. We're a team of independent thinkers who put quality, inclusion and integrity first. All around the world we bring a different experience to our clients. A better experience. One that delivers the expertise they need in a way that goes beyond. Personal, proactive, and agile. That's Grant Thornton. Every day our teams help people in businesses and communities to do what is right and achieve their goals. This is a research leadership role, not a research role. The Lab Lead sets up and runs the service line research labs — owning the research portfolio, maintaining research quality, protecting researchers’ time, and driving the applied research programmes that demonstrate the lab’s value across audit, tax, and advisory. You’ll report to the Director of Labs reporting into the Chief Digital Officer. You’ll deputise for Director of Labs and represent the lab to senior stakeholders across the firm as the function grows. GT Labs is an early‑stage function. We’re building something that doesn’t yet exist except nascently, and we want someone who will pitch in to help establish it on a mature footing — with real craft and conviction about what a high‑performing research function looks like. For the right person, this is a compelling opportunity to potentially grow into a future digital leader in the firm. The research agenda spans all three service lines. Expanding the capability and credibility we have built in audit into tax and advisory is central to this role through applied commission delivery, visible research outputs, and substantive engagement with practitioners in each service line. As a Head of Labs within our team, you will: • Set up the research labs across audit, tax, and advisory on a mature, high-performing footing, • Own the research portfolio — prioritising, progressing, and closing down what doesn’t work as decisively as you advance what does, • Own research quality across the portfolio: setting standards, reviewing outputs, and ensuring the lab’s findings can be trusted before they exit to product and engineering, • Oversee research programme managers leading research teams, shielding researchers from everything that isn’t research, • Manage milestone reviews across the blue-sky portfolio, holding a portfolio posture rather than evaluating individual bets in isolation, • Oversee applied research commissions — bespoke models and analytical frameworks for high-value engagements — delivered through programme managers and research teams, • Use applied delivery in tax and advisory to build appetite for the lab and demonstrate its value to service line leads, • Own the relationship with the firm’s Engineering and Product leads, building strong and trusting relationships and processes which allow the free flow of ideas in both directions, • Ensure research findings exit to product and engineering in a form that can be acted on, • Represent GT Labs to service line leads, methodology teams, colleagues across digital, and the firm’s digital leadership, • Ensure stakeholders understand what the lab is working on, why, and what they can expect — and manage expectations when timelines are uncertain, • Deputise for Director of Labs in various fora, • Lead with intention on culture: building a team where we play, where psychological safety is real, experimentation is welcomed, and failure is treated as a learning opportunity, • Create the conditions in which researchers can do their best work — protected time, clear priorities, and a management layer that absorbs complexity rather than passing it down, • Champion an inclusive environment where people are trusted to work in the ways that work best for them and are encouraged to bring as much of themselves to work as they choose Joining us as a Head of Labs, the minimum criteria you’ll need is • Experience leading or managing a research, analytics, or advanced data science function — you understand what good research looks like and can assess and own quality without doing the work yourself, • A track record of communicating complex research and analytical work to senior stakeholders in a professional or regulated environment, with the credibility to land it, • A strong instinct for research quality management: you know how to set standards, review work, and hold a team to them, • The management instinct to absorb complexity upward and protect your team’s focus — you know the difference between a leadership problem and a researcher problem, • Credibility with senior practitioners across more than one discipline, • A clear point of view on what builds high-performance research teams — psychological safety, research culture, the conditions under which good work happens — and the experience to put it into practice, • The ambition and appetite to grow: this role comes with real opportunity for those who want to become future digital leaders in the firm It would be great if you had some of the following skills, but don’t worry if you don’t tick every box, we’ll help you develop along the way. • Familiarity with the kind of problems the lab works on — advanced data science, machine learning, or quantitative methods applied to high-stakes professional judgement — even if you’re not a domain expert yourself, • Experience building a function or team from an early stage, including the operational and cultural groundwork that mature functions take for granted You don’t need to be a researcher or data scientist. You need to understand what good research looks like, be able to manage a portfolio of it, own the quality, and know when to challenge and when to back your team. Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people, we never settle for what is easy, we look beyond to deliver the right thing, for everyone. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential. Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm. The things that set you apart, we value them. That’s why we give you the freedom to bring your whole self to work and pursue your passions inside and outside of work. We’re also committed to supporting you through different life stages, with a range of family friendly and wider leave policies. You can find full details of our reward, benefits and leave policies on our website: Reward and benefits. Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance. The impact you can make here will go far beyond your day job. From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs through our every move, grounded in our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind. We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It’s how it should be. #J-18808-Ljbffr

If you are a senior mechanical engineer within reach of Cambridge, the local market usually offers two options: small repeat work or a London season ticket. There is a third.This established consultancy works from the southern edge of the city, designing building services across a project mix that benefits from Cambridge's unusual appetite for serious buildings. The practice is the right size for a senior engineer to matter: big enough for proper projects, small enough that your name is attached to them.You lead mechanical design from concept to completion, run your own client relationships, and supervise the engineers developing behind you. The work rewards craft, the structure rewards ownership, and the commute rewards living where you actually want to live.The practice is small enough that your work is visible and large enough that the pipeline holds. You will deal with clients directly, run jobs your own way within a sensible framework, and avoid the bureaucracy that swallows senior engineers in bigger firms. For someone within reach of Cambridge who wants substance over scale, it is a rare combination.If your current role buries senior judgement under someone else's process, this seat restores the direct line between your decisions and the built result. Salary is between £45,000 and £58,000.Send a CV or ask about the current schemes. Both are welcome.If you've read this far and you're still unsure and would prefer a detailed market insight including salary bands and market trends - then check out our free guide here: https://www.responsumltd.com/uk-salary-guide-2026

Job Overview:As an IT Solutions Engineer you will be the go-to technical lead for communication, collaboration and workplace tools at Arm! You'll build and improve the experience for our colleagues by understanding ways of working, researching industry trends, finding new technology and working closely with our partners. We think you'll love our Cambridge office and ask that you visit at least two days a week to work with the team.Responsibilities:The Workplace and End User Technology Team look after a wide portfolio of services including Zoom, Meeting Rooms, Slack, Microsoft, Telephony, Printers, Google, Internal Events, Visitor Management, Desk Booking and Digital Signage. We're looking for someone equally happily testing and onboarding new tools, integrating our existing tools, collaborating on new office designs, developing apps, delving into adoption data or supporting our colleagues.Required Skills and Experience:In-depth experience of all Zoom features, including AI, integrations, apps and agents.Technical expertise with audio visual equipment and improving uptime.Comfortable developing Slack apps and integrations with APIs.Practical experience of using the Microsoft ecosystem to integrate and automate.Collaborating with colleagues, technical teams and suppliers on projects and support.“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:Experience using custom auditorium equipment to craft internal events.Running local telephony services using Session Boarder Controllers.General knowledge of setting up printers and secure print services.Using ServiceNow to support colleagues and improve service performance.Utilising monitoring and observability platforms for data trends.Examples of using Microsoft Copilot Studio and the Microsoft Power Platform.Use of ChatGPT, ideally having developed custom GPTs.Experience with Service Reliability principles.In Return:Accommodations at ArmAt Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email accommodations@arm.com. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.Hybrid Working at ArmArm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.Equal Opportunities at ArmArm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.