Scrumconnect Consulting is a multi-award-winning UK public sector digital consultancy, positively influencing the lives of over forty million UK citizens. We bring deep expertise in agile delivery, digital transformation, and platform engineering across central government. With a team of over one hundred and twenty-five professionals — more than forty percent of whom are women — we are committed to building inclusive, diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.
We're looking for a Lead Performance Tester to work across our UK government clients, owning performance assurance for complex, high-volume digital services.
You'll act as the performance authority across several business areas. You'll lead a team of senior performance engineers to deliver an exceptional service, plan how incoming work is sized and staffed, and give the formal recommendation on whether a service is ready for release to production.
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Desirable:
At Scrumconnect, we are more than just a consultancy. We are a collaborative team focused on delivering impactful digital transformation services across government and enterprise organisations.
As part of our team, you will benefit from:
- Submit your CV to [email protected]
- If shortlisted, you will be invited to attend two interview stages.
Scrumconnect Ltd is committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Scrumconnect Consulting, we believe that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where every individual is respected, valued, and supported. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and experiences, and we actively encourage applications from women, people with disabilities, underrepresented communities, and those seeking flexible working arrangements.
Skills Required
- Eligible for UK security clearance at SC level
- Extensive experience leading performance testing for large-scale, high-volume systems
- Strong performance engineering experience, including design and architectural recommendations
- Experience leading and line managing experienced engineers
- Experience setting engineering standards, reviewing work, and developing people
- Experience planning workloads and allocating staff across concurrent projects
- Ability to manage multiple engagements across different stages and business areas
- Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, microservice architecture, scalability, resilience, and capacity planning
- Hands-on expertise with at least one enterprise load testing tool
- Working knowledge of APM and observability tooling
- Experience delivering in governed or regulated environments
- Ability to engage technical stakeholders and senior leadership and communicate performance risk
- Public sector or central government programme experience
- Familiarity with the GDS Service Manual, service assessments, or equivalent assurance frameworks
- Experience providing performance assurance for predictable peak events
- Experience applying AI-assisted analysis to performance or observability data
- Experience contributing to bids and framework responses
What We Do
Scrumconnect Consulting is a UK national SME and award-winning software development consultancy with more than 300 consultants across the UK. It works with public-sector clients to build impactful digital services that improve millions of lives, combining design, engineering, and AI expertise. The company emphasizes experienced consultants, collaboration, knowledge-sharing, problem-solving, and a culture focused on sustaining innovation for its customers.
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