Technology Consulting
Align technology strategy, architecture and investment with measurable business outcomes.
Learn moreabout Technology ConsultingCadre — talent & delivery
The core team behind your most important work.
We find the senior people and stand up the delivery teams that move serious technology forward — retained search, embedded squads, and advisory, under one roof and accountable for the outcome.
- Senior-led
- Practitioners, not resellers
- Pre-vetted
- A senior delivery network
- End to end
- Search, delivery & advisory
Out of dozens, the few who fit. Every search is a deliberate shortlist, not a CV dump.
Built for senior technology teams in demanding, regulated environments
Financial servicesHealth technologyEnterprise softwareScale-up to enterprise
Why Cadre
The case for a senior-led partner
Deep domain expertise and a rigorous, outcomes-driven process — with people senior enough to know which trade-offs matter.
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Senior people, not slideware
You work directly with practitioners who have run engineering, architecture and hiring at scale. The advice is grounded in what ships, and we name the trade-offs in plain terms.
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One partner, end to end
Strategy, delivery and the people who execute it share context under one roof. A roadmap can flow straight into a programme or a hiring plan with no loss of continuity.
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Precision matching
We match the right talent to your exact context through deep domain expertise and structured screening — assessing for team fit, not keyword overlap.
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Speed to value
Pre-vetted senior professionals and phased delivery mean value early. We target a qualified senior shortlist in under two weeks, and structure programmes so each phase ships something real before the next is committed.
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Built for regulated environments
IR35-compliant contracting, security and data-handling as standard, and depth in financial services, healthcare and enterprise software — where reliability is non-negotiable.
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A genuine partnership
We embed with your teams, transfer knowledge as we go and aim to leave you more capable than we found you — the kind of partnership built to earn the next engagement and the referral.
Practices
Three connected practices, one accountable partner
From the strategy on the whiteboard to the platform in production to the people who keep it running.
Digital Transformation
Modernise platforms, operating models and ways of working — and prove the value at each step.
Learn moreabout Digital TransformationTalent Solutions
Pre-vetted senior contractors, permanent hires and embedded teams — matched in weeks, not months.
Learn moreabout Talent SolutionsThe engagement
From brief to outcome, in four steps
A clear, transparent process that moves at the speed your team needs, without skipping the rigour that makes the result stick.
§ 01
Submit a brief
Tell us about the role, the team and the outcomes you need. A clear, structured form is enough to begin — no lengthy intake calls just to get started.
- Structured, guided form
- Reviewed within one business day
§ 02
We scope and calibrate
A short, consultative conversation aligns us on what good looks like and the right engagement model — search, embedded delivery or advisory — and the must-haves that make the work precise from day one.
- Right engagement model agreed
- An honest view on timelines and trade-offs
§ 03
We match and deliver
Our consultants draw on an established network of pre-vetted senior people and screen for depth and fit — or stand up the delivery team. You get a qualified shortlist or a working increment, not a CV dump.
- Technical and cultural screening
- Transparent pipeline updates throughout
§ 04
You move with confidence
Interview a focused shortlist or review a delivered increment and move quickly. We support offer, onboarding and handover, and stay close through the engagement.
- Faster time to value
- A partner for the long term
What working with Cadre means
- Practitioner-led on every engagement
- SeniorPractitioner-led on every engagement
- Search, delivery and advisory under one roof
- End-to-endSearch, delivery and advisory under one roof
- Typical target to a qualified shortlist
- ~2 wksTypical target to a qualified shortlist
- Compliant contracting and security as standard
- IR35Compliant contracting and security as standard
Representative work
The kind of work we take on
Illustrative scenarios drawn from the engagements we run — the situation, our approach and the outcome we work toward. They are composites and do not name real clients.
Financial servicesTalent Solutions + Technology Consulting
Scaling a regulated payments platform without slowing delivery
- Challenge
- A high-growth payments company had outgrown its monolith and its hiring pipeline. Releases were slow and risky, a critical Staff Engineer role had been open for four months, and an upcoming regulatory deadline left no room for a long search or a multi-quarter re-platforming bet.
- Approach
- We ran a two-week architecture review to agree a pragmatic, incremental path off the monolith, then placed a pre-vetted Staff Engineer and a Platform Lead within twelve days to drive it. The architecture roadmap and the talent plan were built from the same diagnosis, so the new hires arrived aligned to a plan rather than inventing one.
- Result
- The first decomposed service shipped to production inside the first phase, the regulatory deadline was met comfortably, and deployment frequency roughly tripled over the engagement as the new platform pattern spread across teams.
- To a hired Staff Engineer
- 12dTo a hired Staff Engineer
- Increase in deploy frequency
- 3×Increase in deploy frequency
- On-time for the regulatory deadline
- 100%On-time for the regulatory deadline
Enterprise softwareDigital Transformation
A phased cloud migration that cut run-rate and de-risked release
- Challenge
- An established enterprise software vendor was running a fragile, self-managed estate with escalating infrastructure costs and a release process so manual that deployments were reserved for weekends. Leadership wanted to move to the cloud but had been burned before by a stalled big-bang programme.
- Approach
- We shaped the work as discrete, value-bearing phases rather than one cutover. A landing zone and paved-road CI/CD pipeline came first, then we modernised workloads incrementally using the strangler-fig pattern, embedding with the client’s engineers and coaching them throughout so the capability stayed in-house.
- Result
- Within two phases the team was deploying on demand during business hours, change-failure rate fell sharply, and cloud run-rate came down materially against the previous estate once right-sizing and FinOps practices were in place.
- Lower infrastructure run-rate
- 38%Lower infrastructure run-rate
- Faster lead time to production
- 6×Faster lead time to production
- Big-bang cutovers required
- 0Big-bang cutovers required
Health technologyTalent Solutions
An embedded squad that hit a fixed launch date
- Challenge
- A health-tech scale-up had committed to a partner launch date but lacked the delivery capacity to build the new data-driven product module in time, and could not hire fast enough permanently without compromising on quality or security.
- Approach
- Rather than a string of individual contractors, we assembled a pre-vetted, cross-functional embedded squad — engineering, data and product — that integrated with the client’s ways of working from week one and delivered against their roadmap and definition of done, with security and compliance handled up front.
- Result
- The module shipped on the committed date, the squad scaled down cleanly as planned afterwards, and two of the embedded engineers converted to permanent hires to retain the institutional knowledge they had built.
- Against a fixed launch date
- On timeAgainst a fixed launch date
- Embedded specialists, one squad
- 5Embedded specialists, one squad
- Converted to permanent hires
- 2Converted to permanent hires
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Engagement models, vetting, compliance, pricing and getting started.
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