Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

Location: London, UK - Hybrid (~2-3 days per week in office)
Contract: Permanent - Full-time
Package: £45,000 - 55,000 + 10% Bonus + 10% Shares + Benefits (see more below)

Appvia is a specialist platform engineering, software, and AI enablement consultancy, helping organisations modernise how they build, deliver, and operate technology.

We partner with public and private sector organisations to solve complex engineering challenges across cloud platforms, software delivery, DevOps, platform engineering, and AI. As Appvia continues to scale rapidly, we are investing heavily in growing high-performing teams across engineering, delivery, and commercial functions.

We are looking for a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist to join Appvia as the second permanent hire within our Talent Acquisition team.

This is a high-impact, delivery-focused role for an experienced technology recruiter who thrives in fast-paced consultancy environments and enjoys building strong technical teams at pace. You will work closely with hiring managers and leadership across the business to attract, engage, and secure high-quality talent across multiple disciplines including platform engineering, software engineering, delivery, data, AI, and cloud consulting.

We are looking for someone who can make an impact quickly - driving sourcing activity, building pipelines, managing candidate processes effectively, and closing strong candidates in competitive markets within their first month.

Reporting into the Talent Acquisition Lead, working closely with People Operations, you will play a key role in shaping Appvia’s continued growth and hiring capability.
Interview Process - 2 Stage

• Hiring Manager Interview
• Final Leadership Interview

• Take ownership of recruitment delivery across agreed business areas and technical practices
• Proactively source, screen, and engage high-quality technical talent across cloud, platform engineering, software engineering, delivery, and AI markets
• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for active and near-term hiring demand
• Manage candidate processes end-to-end, ensuring strong candidate experience, engagement, and process control throughout
• Support offer management, negotiation, and closing activity in competitive markets
• Partner closely with hiring managers and the Talent Acquisition Lead to deliver against hiring priorities and business growth plans
• Maintain high levels of recruitment activity and delivery across multiple concurrent roles and pipelines
• Work closely with People Operations to support onboarding and a smooth new starter experience
• Contribute to employer branding activity across LinkedIn, communities, events, and wider talent networks
• Support recruitment reporting, ATS hygiene, market mapping, and hiring process improvements as the business scales
  

You are a driven, delivery-focused recruiter who thrives in fast-paced, high-output hiring environments. You enjoy the challenge of finding and securing hard-to-reach technical talent, building strong relationships with candidates and stakeholders, and delivering quality hires at pace.

This role would suit someone coming from a high-performing technology recruitment agency background who is looking to move in-house while still maintaining a strong focus on delivery, sourcing, and hiring impact.

You will bring:

• Proven experience recruiting within technology, digital transformation, cloud, software engineering, or consultancy markets
• Strong sourcing, headhunting, and pipeline-building capability across competitive technical skillsets
• Experience managing multiple vacancies simultaneously within fast-moving hiring environments
• Strong candidate management, influencing, and offer closing skills
• Confidence engaging with both technical candidates and senior stakeholders
• A proactive, commercially minded approach with a strong sense of ownership and urgency
• Experience using ATS platforms such as Workable and sourcing tools such as LinkedIn Recruiter
• Excellent organisation, communication, and prioritisation skills
• High levels of resilience, energy, and self-motivation
• Interest in cloud, platform engineering, AI, or modern software engineering markets is highly desirable

Why join Appvia?

We are a self-funded, London-based consultancy, growing rapidly while staying true to what got us here: a human, engineering-led culture built on trust, ownership, and getting things done.

As we scale, we’re maturing as a business and expanding into new areas across platform engineering, software, data, and AI. We’re intentional about keeping our culture at the heart of it. We operate with a flat structure, agile ways of working, and a strong focus on collaboration, where good ideas come from anywhere and people are trusted to make an impact.

We work alongside our customers to solve complex, real-world problems: modernising systems, improving delivery, and building scalable platforms that enable long-term success.

If you want to be part of a team that values people as much as technology and gives you the space to grow while working on meaningful challenges, Appvia is the place to do it.

What’s on offer?

⚖️ Work-life balance

• Flexible working with core hours of 10-4pm because we know life happens outside of work
• Hybrid working - only one compulsory office day per month
• 25 days’ holiday a year, plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Enhanced maternity and paternity to full pay
• Workplace Nursery Benefit to help working parents

💚 For your well-being

• Full Private Healthcare cover for you with partners and children covered 50%
• Death in Service
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Pension plus a salary sacrifice option for even greater savings
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Free hygiene products available in the London office

🧠 Mental health support

• Free therapy through AXA
• Access to the Headspace App
• Trained Mental Health First Aiders

😃 Other fun perks

• Learning budget of £1,000 a year
• Your own MacBook Pro while you work at Appvia
• Dog friendly office
• Wear what makes you comfortable
• Free snacks in the office
• Pool table, ping pong table and darts board
• Regular team socials, board game nights, industry meetups and more!

But don’t just take our word for it, you can check out what our Appvians say about us on Glassdoor and by following us on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer and actively encourage, respect, and recognise diversity of thought and background throughout the business. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity, and disability status.

Note: While all roles are active and approved at the time of posting, the dynamic nature of our start-up means some applications may be processed to pipeline talent for future opportunities rather than current openings. We will strive to keep you informed of any changes to the status of your application.