C Engineer

Whitehall Resources; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Whitehall Resources is seeking a Senior Engineer to work on-site in Shropshire for a crucial 6-month contract focused on modernizing applications in the public sector. The role involves collaborating with architects and DB engineers to ensure secure and efficient data migrations and remediation tasks.

Ideal candidates should have strong skills in C and other backend technologies, as well as risk management experience. You'll also mentor junior engineers and drive quality engineering practices, ensuring that all work aligns with security and compliance standards.

Qualifications

• Eligible for SC clearance.
• Strong engineering skills are required, particularly in C and database fluency.
• Experience in regulated environments and legacy remediation.

Responsibilities

• Map dependencies and Ingres touchpoints in applications.
• Design and implement low-risk data access changes.
• Collaborate on schema/data migrations and optimize SQL queries.

Skills

VB6

Tuxedo

C

AWS

Job description

Whitehall Resources require a C Engineer to work with a key client on a 6 month initial contract.

• This role will require some on-site work in Shropshire, ideally 2 days per week but with flexibility.
• Inside IR35.
• Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance.

Role Overview

As a Senior Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in delivering modern, scalable, and secure digital services for one of the UK’s most critical government departments. You will work closely with architects and delivery leads to design and implement robust backend services, lead engineering best practices, and mentor junior developers.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a collaborative environment, enjoys solving complex technical challenges, and is passionate about delivering impactful public sector solutions.

Role Purpose

As a Senior Engineer, you will remediate, stabilise, and modernise applications participating in the “Ingres only” pathway—decoupling data from Ingres to target relational platforms (e.g., Oracle/SQL Server) and implementing secure, supportable fixes that reduce risk ahead of March 2027. You’ll collaborate with architects, DB specialists, testers, and delivery leads to plan and execute safe change.

Key Outcomes

• Risk reduction & compliance: Identify and remediate vulnerabilities, unsupported dependencies, and non compliant patterns to meet security and data protection expectations.
• Decoupling from Ingres: Refactor data access; support migration from Ingres to the agreed target RDBMS while retaining UI where required.
• Quality & Release readiness: Deliver thoroughly tested fixes and enhancements that are verifiable in SIT, E2E/UAT and OAT/NFR phases, supporting traceability and sign off.
• Knowledge transfer: Produce clear documentation and handover notes to live support teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyse applications (forms, modules, class libraries, COM components) to map dependencies (ADO, ODBC, custom DLLs/OCXs) and Ingres touchpoints.
• Design and implement low risk remediation: data access abstraction, connection string/driver changes, error handling hardening, and performance fixes aligned to target databases.
• Collaborate with DB engineers to plan and validate schema/data migration and to optimise SQL (procs/queries) post migration.
• Build and execute test plans with QA: unit/functional/regression, non functional (reliability, performance), and defect lifecycle management across SIT, E2E/UAT and OAT.
• Contribute to release documentation and change approvals; support rehearsals and cutovers where needed.
• Work within governance for security, data protection, and auditability; keep artefacts current (design notes, runbooks, KT packs).
• Participate in agile ceremonies; coordinate with the Actian Exit streams (ETMP, Data Retention, Low Code, Ingres only) and Model Office activities.
• Coach junior engineers and contribute to engineering community initiatives.
• Strong Engineering skills: VB6, Tuxedo, C, AWS preferred.
• Legacy remediation in regulated environments: diagnosing runtime faults, dependency drift, and security gaps; implementing safe, minimal change fixes.
• Database fluency: experience moving away from Ingres or similar RDBMS; comfort working with DBAs on schema, queries, and performance while preserving behaviour.
• Quality engineering: practical test design, defect triage, and readiness for multi phase test models (SIT/E2E/UAT/OAT).
• Delivery habits: version control (Git/TFS), lightweight design documentation, and effective stakeholder communication.
• Familiarity with AI assisted upgrade accelerators (e.g., Retrofit/GitHub Copilot) and technical proving approaches used in the programme.
• Experience with governance, SD&T/implementation forums, or Model Office validation.