Role Overview
In this Principal role, you will lead the design, build and operational excellence of core platform capabilities covering backend services, modern frontend applications, and critical platform infrastructure or APIs. You will drive architectural strategy, mentor senior engineers, collaborate at cross functional and technical leadership levels, and ensure the system scales reliably across global, enterprise use cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement the architecture and delivery of backend services and microservices, supporting high throughput, globally distributed systems.
• Lead frontend development using modern frameworks (React/Angular/Vue.js + TypeScript) for responsive, performant, enterprise grade applications.
• Drive design and implementation of containerization/Docker and orchestration (Kubernetes) for production scale deployment and standardization across teams.
• Partner with cross functional leaders (product, UX, QA, architecture) to shape roadmap, align technical strategy with business priorities and ensure rapid but sustainable delivery.
• Establish engineering best practices: code reviews, technical mentorship, continuous improvement, testing frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, observability and platform health.
• Own cloud-native delivery (AWS, GCP, Azure), infrastructure-as-code, monitoring and operational resilience for mission critical capabilities.
• Lead risk identification and mitigation, optimize system performance, ensure scalability and reliability across multi‑tenant enterprise environments.
• Act as a mentor and thought leader, enabling engineers across teams, contributing to onboarding, knowledge sharing, industry innovation, and engineering culture.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive professional software engineering experience (or analogous senior technical leadership) with deep expertise in Java and object-oriented design.
• Proven full stack development background: frontend (JavaScript, HTML, CSS) and backend (APIs, databases, distributed systems).
• Demonstrated experience with modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, or Vue.js) and proficiency with TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of RESTful API design, relational databases (SQL) and large‑scale backend operations.
• Hands on with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) in production.
• Experience using version control (Git) and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) in global, cross team environments.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage with senior stakeholders and technical leaders.

Desirable Skills

• Deep experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and infrastructure automation (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with data streaming/event driven architectures (Kafka, Flink, Pulsar) and high throughput systems.
• Mature experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) and micro frontend patterns.
• Strong testing & observability mindset (JUnit, Jest, Cypress) and performance optimisation.
• Prior experience in global engineering teams, mentoring senior and principal engineers, and setting engineering direction.

Soft Skills

• Demonstrated technical leadership and mentorship—capable of guiding others to drive technical excellence and elevate team delivery.
• Strategic thinker with business-oriented mindset: engineering decisions aligned with product and company goals.
• Agile, adaptable, curious—thrives in fastmoving environments, embraces change, and champions continuous improvement.

Anaplan is looking for a Principal Software Engineer to be the technical leader for this critical initiative within our Experience Engineering workstream. You will define the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for adapting our platform for a global audience. This is a unique opportunity to own the strategy for internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) at scale for our award-winning planning technology. As Anaplan continues its strong growth in a competitive global market, delivering a world-class, localized experience is a key strategic priority, and you will be at the helm of the technical solution.

We are looking for a visionary and deeply technical leader who can navigate ambiguity, influence across the organization, and set the standard for engineering excellence.

Your Impact
•      Define the long-term technical vision and architectural roadmap for Anaplan's internationalization platform and infrastructure.
•      Lead the design and implementation of highly scalable, resilient systems for continuous localization, serving as the lead engineer and technical mentor.
•      Partner with engineering leadership and product management to shape the strategy for global readiness across all new features and products.
•      Solve the most complex technical challenges related to localization, anticipating future needs and ensuring architectural longevity.
•      Act as a force multiplier, mentoring senior engineers and driving technical excellence and best practices across multiple teams.
•      Directly enhance the experience for our global customers, making our platform more intuitive, accessible, and powerful for users in their native language.

Your Skills
•      Demonstrated ability to lead large-scale technical initiatives, from conception to delivery, and to make critical architectural decisions.
•      Understanding of i18n libraries and frameworks (e.g., i18next, ICU, react-intl.
•      Deep expertise in JavaScript (ES2015+), HTML, CSS, and modern front-end frameworks like React, preferably with TypeScript.
•      A collaborative mindset with exceptional communication skills, capable of building consensus and guiding technical strategy with empathy and clarity.
•      Expertise in writing scalable backend microservices; experience with the JVM (Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot) is a major plus.
•      Experience with deployment tools and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
•      A history of presenting to stakeholders and a passion for sharing knowledge.

Liquid Personnel is seeking an experienced and resilient Senior Practitioner to join its client' Children with Disabilities team in Hereford. As the council continues its Restorative Journey of Improvement, you will play a pivotal role in delivering consistent, relationship-based practice for children with complex needs and their families.

What will your responsibilities be?

In this role, you will,

• Team Supervision: Provide professional support and specific supervisory responsibility for Social Workers and other staff within the Directorate and partner agencies.
• Full-Journey Caseload: Manage a complex caseload that follows the child’s entire journey, including assessment work, child protection, and court work.
• Specialist Assessments: Complete specialist assessments, including Short Break assessments, ensuring that the unique needs of children with disabilities are identified and met.
• Relationship-Based Practice: Act as a lead professional to ensure consistency for families, fostering long-term, trust-based relationships.
• Service Improvement: Contribute actively to the local authority’s improvement journey, helping to shape a service that delivers the best possible outcomes for vulnerable young people.
• Reporting: Produce high-quality, analytical reports for court and statutory reviews.

Qualifications & Experience:

To be successful in this role you must have:

• Social Work England registration and a recognized qualification (DipSW, CQSW, CSS, or equivalent).
• Experience Requirement: A minimum of 3 years of post-qualified experience within statutory social care.
• CWD Expertise: Significant experience working with children with disabilities, including knowledge of the specific legislative frameworks involved.
• Leadership Skills: Proven ability to supervise staff and provide professional guidance to a multi-agency network.
• Analytical Skills: Honed skills in assessment and the ability to manage high-complexity cases independently.

Working Pattern & Benefits:

• Work Pattern: Flexible hybrid arrangements to be agreed upon with management.
• Business Mileage: Reimbursed at 45p per mile.
• Accommodation Allowance: Up to £150 per week available for candidates commuting from outside the local area.
• Office Base: Plough Lane, Hereford, HR4 0LE.

Our Client's Commitment:

• Restorative Improvement: Join a service dedicated to meaningful change and the implementation of a restorative practice model.
• Consistency of Care: We aim for children to have the same social worker throughout their journey to ensure stability and safety.

Why Liquid Personnel?

•  Free DBS and compliance service
• Twice weekly payroll and ‘Faster Pay’ service, getting you paid more quickly
• Access to exclusive roles that aren’t available from other agencies
• Free access to Liquid’s exclusive social work training and CPD portal
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive social work knowledge
• Access to a wide selection of social work positions across the UK
• “Refer a Friend” bonus – get £500 for each social worker you refer who we successfully place*
• “Find your own job” bonus – get £250 for bringing your own position to us *

Liquid Personnel is an equal opportunities employer. Liquid Personnel Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. * Terms and conditions apply to our bonus schemes.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.

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This is a fantastic opportunity to join an Ofsted rated ‘Good’ Local authority that values diverse perspectives and experiences and are striving to create a workplace culture that is inclusive and supportive.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary up to £43,421.
• Generous annual leave allowance and annual leave purchase scheme.
• Generous Pension Scheme.
• Manageable caseloads.
• High-quality professional support and guidance.
• Excellent training and development opportunities.
• Flexible working arrangements supporting work life balance.

Requirements:

• A proven track record in child protection and care planning, with significant experience in managing cases that involve court proceedings.
• Degree/MA in Social Work, Dip SW, CSS or CQSW, or a Social Work England validated equivalent from another country.
• Registration with Social Work England.
• To have successfully completed the Assessed Year of Employment or an equivalent post qualifying pathway.

If this sounds like the role for you then please feel free to get in touch on 02038317685 or daniella.chiariello@liquidpersonnel.com

Liquid Personnel are proud to be supporting Essex County Council in recruiting Children in Care Social Workers to join their West Essex (Harlow) team on a permanent basis.

This post is open to Newly Qualified Social Workers (NQSWs) and Experienced Social Workers and sits within a well-established and supportive Children in Care service that is committed to systemic, strengths-based and trauma‑informed practice.

Essex County Council offers a progressive working environment, with a strong focus on staff wellbeing, development and delivering positive outcomes for children and young people.

Your Benefits Working for Essex County Council

Essex County Council is one of the UK’s largest and most ambitious local authorities, offering stability, innovation and genuine investment in its workforce. As a permanent member of the Children in Care service, you will benefit from:

• Salary of £36,124 – £51,834 per annum
• Nine‑day working fortnight for frontline social workers
• Open to NQSWs and experienced practitioners
• ASYE support with salary progression on completion
• Strong training and development through the Essex Social Care Academy
• Supportive management with regular, high‑quality supervision
• Systemic practice model and manageable caseloads
• Flexible working arrangements and strong focus on wellbeing

Your Key Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of Children in Care up to the age of 18 in foster and residential placements.
• Complete care planning, court work and permanency planning, including SGOs and adoption where appropriate.
• Visit children and young people in placement and undertake meaningful direct work, including life‑story work.
• Undertake robust risk assessments and safeguarding decisions in line with statutory guidance.
• Support children and young people to progress towards permanency, including reunification where safe to do so.

For This Role You Will Need

• A recognised Social Work qualification (Degree, CQSW, CSS or equivalent).
• Registration with Social Work England.
• Experience or interest in statutory Children in Care work (NQSWs welcome).

If this sounds like it could be the right role for you then please contact Mozz Radwan on 02038573486 or Mozz.Radwan@liquidpersonnel.com

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List. 

Job Summary:

We are looking for A-team players who want to partner with our clients in a career defining opportunity to deliver industry-leading marketing and communications work, that will create medical history.

• Our clients are looking for us to be their strategic advisors, with an agile and creative approach and have a passion for innovative science that is helping them bring a new class of medicines to market

• We encourage our staff to take risks and break new ground to deliver and innovate for clients.

• We are fiercely proud and protective of our culture; founded 18 years ago, we have retained our energy and dynamism as we have grown rapidly and globally that is resolutely focused on doing the best work for our clients.

• Our clients expect the best from us and that leads us to have high expectations, but this creates great opportunities to succeed!

Responsibilities

• Understand the client/brand strategic vision, and contribute to conversations regarding strategy

• Lead planning and preparation for client meetings, allocating roles and tasks to other team members and presenting/leading sessions in meeting as appropriate. This includes booking meetings, providing agendas and producing contact reports for all client meetings

• Take and interpret briefs from clients, identify any information gaps and plan how to fill those gaps

• Support day-to-day client contact in executing requests and delivering planned activities and materials whilst effectively managing client expectations

• Identify and anticipate client requests/issues/needs and plan accordingly

• Responsible for accuracy of all materials at all stages of development

• Build trust with client, whereby you’re seen by the client as their ‘go to’ person

• Demonstrate current knowledge on market and how this can affect clients/brands

• Establish strong internal relationships, and utilise these to seamlessly execute your role

• Display excellent interpersonal skills and coach more junior team members to learn

• Develop draft scopes of work, supplier contracts, presentations, creative briefs, and other internal/external communications

• Ensure client feedback is gathered, understood and addressed as appropriate across deliverables and with respective cross functional teams e.g. creative, tech dev, finance etc.

• Ensure that account status, including a clear indication of next steps and actions, is documented on a weekly basis and shared both internally and with client

• Willingness and ability to run client calls or meetings independently

• Manage account finances and resourcing; must be able to track budget, raise invoices and POs and allocate staffing

Required Skills & Experience

• You have a passion for brand: Getting under the skin of audiences and what makes them tick is what drives your approach in developing communications that resonate with them. Maintaining and protecting strategic vision for the brands you work on is critical to you

• You thrive in an environment that requires constant learning and innovation: Cultivate and maintain in-depth knowledge and understanding of the changing healthcare environment to guide account teams and help Real Chemistry continue to be a leader in the space

• You’re a natural leader, but love working as part of a team: Act as day-to-day representative across multiple healthcare accounts as part of an integrated team; help direct the execution of a range of multi-channel tactics for several clients

• You’re super creative: You can write compelling, engaging and fresh briefs and work with creative teams, including designers and copy writers, to develop exceptional deliverables for our clients

• You have excellent judgement and can make decisions and keep the team informed, but also know when to raise a red flag

• You have a flair for exceptional client service and managements of multiple accounts

• Highly organised with a mindfulness of deadlines, the ability to manage multiple tasks based on priorities and a strong attention to detail

• Independent thinker confident in taking ownership of assets and material development, but a team player who enjoys collaboration

• Able to devise and articulate solutions to problems on an ongoing basis: don’t come with problems, come with solutions

• Professional presence, performs with a sense of urgency and with a client service orientation

• Confidence to manage upward when required; able to communicate with managers when deadlines will not be met or when issues are foreseeable

• High energy, able to effectively operate in fast-paced, growing and evolving environment

• Demonstrated strong work ethic, with a track record of following through on client requests and with high-quality deliverables on schedule and on budget

• Good understanding of brand promotion, and experience in production of campaigns and tactics to support this

• Strong written and oral communication and presentations skills

• Good management of Microsoft Office tools (PowerPoint, Word, Excel) – particularly PowerPoint

• Excellent business communication ability including informal/formal presentation and writing skills; this includes confident public speaking both internally and externally with clients, vendors, and affiliates

• Able to identify own development needs and discuss these with line manager and senior leadership

• BA or equivalent work experience required