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Talent Solutions

Specialist technology talent on your terms: senior contractors, permanent hires, embedded delivery teams and RPO — all pre-vetted for technical depth and team fit, with shortlists typically delivered in under two weeks.

Overview

Hiring senior technology people is slow, expensive and easy to get wrong — and the cost of a mis-hire compounds. Cadre exists to make it fast and dependable. We maintain an established network of pre-vetted senior engineers, architects and technology leaders, so we are sourcing from people we already know rather than starting cold on every brief.

We support the full range of engagement models. Need a Staff Engineer on contract to unblock a programme? A permanent VP of Engineering? A whole embedded squad to deliver against a roadmap, or RPO to scale your own hiring function? We shape the model around the outcome you need and the way your business prefers to work, including IR35-compliant contracting in the UK.

Every person we put forward is screened for technical depth and for how they will actually work within your team — not matched on keywords. You interview a focused, qualified shortlist, get transparent updates throughout, and have support through offer, onboarding and the length of the engagement.

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A hiring manager interviewing a senior candidate across a table in a relaxed office setting

Outcomes you can expect

  • A qualified shortlist in under two weeks for most senior roles
  • Higher-quality hires that stay and perform
  • Flexible capacity — scale teams up or down as the roadmap shifts
  • Compliant, low-friction contracting and onboarding

What's included

Capabilities in this practice

Pre-vetted senior contractors, permanent hires and embedded teams — matched in weeks, not months.

  • Senior contract talent

    Pre-vetted senior engineers, architects and specialists available at short notice, with IR35-compliant contracting in the UK.

  • Permanent search

    Retained and contingent search for senior and leadership technology roles, with rigorous, structured assessment.

  • Embedded delivery teams

    Cross-functional squads that integrate with your organisation and deliver against a defined roadmap and outcomes.

  • RPO & embedded recruiting

    Recruitment process outsourcing and embedded recruiters that scale your in-house hiring capability up or down on demand.

  • Technical & cultural screening

    Structured technical assessment plus team-fit screening, so a shortlist is genuinely qualified — not a CV dump.

  • Compliance & onboarding

    Right-to-work, IR35 and security checks handled, plus offer management and onboarding support to a fast, smooth start.

How we work

A typical engagement

A clear, low-risk path from first conversation to a result you own.

  1. 1

    Brief & calibrate

    We capture the role, the team and the outcomes you need, then calibrate on what "great" looks like so the search is precise from day one.

  2. 2

    Source & screen

    We draw on an established network of pre-vetted professionals and screen for both technical depth and team fit before anyone reaches you.

  3. 3

    Shortlist & interview

    You receive a focused, qualified shortlist with our honest assessment of each candidate, and clear, transparent updates throughout.

  4. 4

    Offer & onboard

    We support offer, compliance and onboarding, then stay in touch through the engagement to make sure the placement is working.

Representative work

This practice in action

An illustrative engagement showing the kind of outcome this work produces.

A cross-functional product and engineering team working together at a shared deskHealth technology

Talent 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

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