SC Cleared Senior Scala Engineer — Secure Cloud APIs

Talent; Greater London; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer with SC clearance to deliver backend APIs for digital services. You will shape API delivery, optimize high-volume, low-latency systems and work with product owners and data teams to implement secure, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes CI/CD, Agile practices, and running in a lean, you-build-it-you-run-it environment. London-based, with cloud and security responsibilities across services.

Qualifications

• Security clearance (SC-level)
• API design
• Data analysis
• Databases
• AWS Suite experience
• Awareness of Site Reliability Engineering and support
• Skilled at returning services to good states in outage situations
• Understanding testing and automation
• Experience in lean, agile environment
• You build it you run it team
• Experience coding in CI context

Responsibilities

• Define and shape API delivery for digital services
• Develop back-end code and clean, testable APIs
• Manage databases with security and data protection in mind
• Collaborate with product owner, business analyst, data engineers and teams
• Contribute to consolidation and high-volume, low-latency service goals
• Reduce maintenance through incremental re-architecture

Skills

Scala

Play framework

SQL

AWS Suite

CI/CD

Agile methodologies

Site Reliability Awareness

Tools

Docker

Jenkins

Kibana

Grafana

Airflow

Job description

Talent is seeking a Senior Scala Engineer with SC clearance to deliver backend APIs for digital services. You will shape API delivery, optimize high-volume, low-latency systems and work with product owners and data teams to implement secure, scalable solutions.

The role emphasizes CI/CD, Agile practices, and running in a lean, you-build-it-you-run-it environment. London-based, with cloud and security responsibilities across services.