Michelle Sutherland

Data & Software Engineer Contract Term: 6 months, with potential for extension Start Date: September 2026 Day Rate: Max £570/day, Outside IR35 Overview We're looking for a Data & Software Engineer to support intra-month initiatives and sit at the intersection of backend engineering and data — the successful candidate will build the systems that capture, process, and expose commercial and performance data, with output feeding directly into business decision-making. What You'll Be Working OnProcessing and managing Commercial Data — collecting information on the commercial and revenue performance of our sites, presenting it to users, and exposing it to drive business decisionsBuilding new integrations with external partnersBuilding new integrations with internal systems to streamline data flowsWorking closely with Data Engineers and Analytics on numbers reportingWorking closely with Data Engineers on Player Performance DataWhile data-heavy in nature, this role has direct, tangible impact — your output will be used to drive real business decisionsRequired Skills (Non-Negotiable)PHPPythonPostgresBackend engineering backgroundDesired Skills (Advantageous)AirflowSnowflakeAWS

COBOL Architect / Lead — Dublin (Hybrid) Location: Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid — 2–3 days per week in office) Contract: Initial 3-month contract (with strong potential for extension) Rate: €389 – €475 per day  About the Role We're looking for an experienced COBOL Architect / Lead to join a large-scale technology programme for a leading professional services organisation in Dublin. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can combine deep mainframe expertise with the ability to guide architecture decisions and mentor development teams on a business-critical legacy modernisation and support programme. Key ResponsibilitiesProvide technical leadership and architectural direction across COBOL-based systems and related mainframe technologiesLead the design, development, and review of COBOL applications, ensuring adherence to best practice and coding standardsWork closely with cross-functional teams (business analysts, QA, infrastructure) to define solutions for legacy modernisation, integration, and support initiativesConduct code reviews, provide technical mentorship to developers, and help uplift team capabilityAssess and advise on technical debt, performance optimisation, and system stabilityLiaise with stakeholders to translate business requirements into robust technical designsSupport planning and estimation for ongoing enhancement and maintenance workRequirementsProven experience as a COBOL Architect, Lead Developer, or senior COBOL Developer ready to step into a leadership capacityStrong hands-on COBOL development experience within a mainframe environment (CICS, JCL, DB2, VSAM as applicable)Experience leading or mentoring development teams, or acting as a technical point of escalationSolid understanding of mainframe architecture, batch processing, and legacy system integrationStrong stakeholder communication skills, comfortable engaging both technical and non-technical audiencesExperience working within large, complex enterprise environments (financial services, insurance, or similar regulated sectors advantageous)Eligible to work in Ireland; able to commit to hybrid working in Dublin (2–3 days per week on-site)If you're a COBOL specialist looking to bring your technical expertise into a leadership role on a high-impact programme, we'd love to hear from you.

Software Engineer — Live Production & Automation (VR / Cross-Platform UGC Platform) 6-Month Contract | EMEARemote in UK Offering around £400 - £500 per day PAYE We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Runtime & KTLO (Keep-the-Lights-On) team, supporting a large-scale User Generated Content (UGC) platform that runs natively on VR headsets and streams to mobile and PC via cloud rendering. This is a backend-focused, production-operations role. You won't be building new client features — you'll be building the automation, monitoring, and self-healing systems that keep a live, high-traffic product stable, performant, and compatible across every surface it ships on, while reducing the manual operational burden on the team as much as possible. What You'll DoBuild and maintain automation that keeps the application healthy in production — release pipelines, build health checks, crash triage, and incident detectionMaintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that autonomously creates and lands fix diffsDevelop tooling that automatically identifies broken builds, pinpoints the root-cause change, and recommends or executes fixesMonitor weekly deployments of the cloud rendering system, ensuring performance and compatibility between VR and mobile/PC users after every releaseMonitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outagesDrive down recurring on-call and operational work — targeting an 80–90% reduction through automationComplete infrastructure and dependency migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional as upstream systems are retiredWhat We're Looking For8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalentProven experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scaleExperience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, including reliability, capacity, and latency managementExperience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents that generate or repair codeExperience building tooling that detects broken builds and traces failures back to their root-cause changeExperience with production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for a large-scale, multi-surface applicationA track record of reducing operational and on-call load through automationExperience completing infrastructure or dependency migrations without breaking downstream CI/CDTop non-negotiables:Experience building autonomous, self-healing AI systems that monitor metrics and take corrective action independently to keep performance within required thresholdsExperience deploying and maintaining backend services — specifically managing and monitoring deployments of a system like cloud/remote rendering, and verifying cross-platform compatibility (e.g., VR and mobile) after releaseNice to Have:Experience with cloud game or application streaming, or remote renderingExperience with asset delivery or CDN pipelines at scaleExperience with capacity, latency, or session-orchestration monitoring for streamed workloadsExperience operating live-service or large-scale production applications (Live Ops)Familiarity with large monorepo build systems and dependency managementExperience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems

Software Engineer — Live Production & Automation (VR / Cross-Platform UGC Platform) 6-Month Contract | EMEARemote in UK Offering around £400 per day PAYE We're looking for a Software Engineer to join our Runtime & KTLO (Keep-the-Lights-On) team, supporting a large-scale User Generated Content (UGC) platform that runs natively on VR headsets and streams to mobile and PC via cloud rendering. This is a backend-focused, production-operations role. You won't be building new client features — you'll be building the automation, monitoring, and self-healing systems that keep a live, high-traffic product stable, performant, and compatible across every surface it ships on, while reducing the manual operational burden on the team as much as possible. What You'll DoBuild and maintain automation that keeps the application healthy in production — release pipelines, build health checks, crash triage, and incident detectionMaintain and improve an AI-assisted code repair system that autonomously creates and lands fix diffsDevelop tooling that automatically identifies broken builds, pinpoints the root-cause change, and recommends or executes fixesMonitor weekly deployments of the cloud rendering system, ensuring performance and compatibility between VR and mobile/PC users after every releaseMonitor production quality metrics and respond to regressions and outagesDrive down recurring on-call and operational work — targeting an 80–90% reduction through automationComplete infrastructure and dependency migrations to keep CI/CD pipelines functional as upstream systems are retiredWhat We're Looking For8+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalentProven experience building and operating CI/CD, build, release, and cloud deployment pipelines at scaleExperience operating cloud services and server-side fleets in production, including reliability, capacity, and latency managementExperience building or operating AI-assisted developer tooling or agents that generate or repair codeExperience building tooling that detects broken builds and traces failures back to their root-cause changeExperience with production monitoring, crash triage, and incident response for a large-scale, multi-surface applicationA track record of reducing operational and on-call load through automationExperience completing infrastructure or dependency migrations without breaking downstream CI/CDTop non-negotiables:Experience building autonomous, self-healing AI systems that monitor metrics and take corrective action independently to keep performance within required thresholdsExperience deploying and maintaining backend services — specifically managing and monitoring deployments of a system like cloud/remote rendering, and verifying cross-platform compatibility (e.g., VR and mobile) after releaseNice to HaveExperience with cloud game or application streaming, or remote renderingExperience with asset delivery or CDN pipelines at scaleExperience with capacity, latency, or session-orchestration monitoring for streamed workloadsExperience operating live-service or large-scale production applications (Live Ops)Familiarity with large monorepo build systems and dependency managementExperience designing self-healing or auto-remediation systems

Acoustic Hardware Engineer Location: West Cambridge, UK — 5 days/week onsiteDuration: Initial 12-Month ContractRate: £400 per day PAYE Join our newly opened audio lab — featuring anechoic chambers and one of the world's largest configurable acoustic rooms (reconfigurable from cathedral-like acoustics to a fully dampened space). This role is centred on data: planning and running acoustic measurements, setting up complex data collection rigs (microphones, speakers, wearables), and processing the results. The work leans more toward software engineering than one-off scripting, and you'll often be handed problems the team hasn't solved before, requiring genuine acoustics expertise to work through. What You'll DoPlan, design, and run acoustic measurements and data collection studies, including experiments with human participants and prototype hardwareBuild systems, interfaces, and protocols for acoustic/behavioral data acquisition using Python, MATLAB, and MaxMSPApply strong coding practices to improve data collection tools and infrastructureWork with the acoustic properties of our lab spaces to design experiments appropriatelyCollaborate with multi-disciplinary researchers to integrate tools into broader platformsWrite clear technical reports on results and methodologyTop 3 Non-NegotiablesMaster's degree in a relevant technical field + 3+ years' industry experience in audio technology development (or equivalent)Proven experience designing and running audio/acoustic experiments in controlled lab settingsStrong, hands-on experience processing and analyzing audio signalsAlso Required3+ years' programming experience in Python, MATLAB, or MaxMSP for audio applicationsSolid working knowledge of acoustics and acoustic instrumentationNice to Have Real-time C/C++ audio coding · psychoacoustics/spatial audio/room acoustics · PyTorch/ML experience · prototype hardware · motion tracking systems · large-scale automated data collection · acoustic lab design · cross-functional research experience · published technical reports

Data Tester – Microsoft Fabric | Banking & Investment Management Initial 6-Months Contract | Hybrid, London (4 days/week onsite) | £350 per day Outside IR35  The Role We're seeking an experienced Data Tester with a banking/investment management background to validate reporting and analytics solutions on a modern Microsoft Fabric platform — working alongside Data Engineers and Architects to validate source-to-target data movement, business rules, and reconciliations. Initial focus is functional and data validation, with automation introduced gradually. Key ResponsibilitiesTest end-to-end data pipelines; validate transformations and business rulesVerify data quality/integrity and perform reconciliationsExecute regression, integration and functional testingResolve defects with Data Engineers; support gradual test automationParticipate in Agile deliveryEssential SkillsCommercial Data/ETL Tester experience, strong SQLPipeline validation and source-to-target reconciliationFunctional and data validation testingAgile experience; banking/investment management backgroundTech Environment: Microsoft Fabric · Azure Data Factory · SQL · Python · PySpark · Apache Spark Desirable: Test automation experience · Data quality frameworks · Reporting/analytics testing · Azure DevOps

Principal Programme Manager Duration: Initial 6 MonthsRate: Up to £700 per day Outside IR 35Location: Remote first, with face-time expectation and some travel to sites We're supporting the search for a Principal Programme Manager on behalf of a client who is building hyperscale AI infrastructure. Vertically integrated across land, power, compute, and software, with sites across Europe and North America, a multi-gigawatt power pipeline, and status as an NVIDIA Cloud Partner, this business serves sovereign AI factories, a global AI cloud, and hyperscalers at giga-scale. They're standing up a dedicated PMO — and this hire will be the founding member for the PMO function. You'll run live cluster deployments from day one while building the standards, reporting, and team that scale delivery across the whole portfolio. The role will own:The master schedule linking data centre, hardware, and software buildsDelivery from order through handover to operationsWeekly reporting and a live RAID log for leadershipCoordination across OEMs, data centre operators, and other partnersThe PMO itself — standards, tooling, and team as it scalesWhat we're looking for:A strong track record delivering large, multi-vendor infrastructure or data centre programmesClear, plain reporting and strong prioritization (order of operations before dates)PMO-building experience, or the readiness for it

Software Engineer – AI Developer Tooling | Galway (Hybrid)Galway, Ireland | Hybrid (1 week per month in office, moving to onsite in new year)Duration: Initial 12-months Contract Rate: Up to €500 per day We're looking for a Software Engineer to join an innovative Developer Workflows team, building AI-powered coding agents and developer tools that improve software quality and engineering productivity across the business.What You'll Need8+ years' experience overall 2+ years' software development experience.Strong coding skills in Python, Java, or Node.js.Experience with GitHub, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, or similar AI coding assistants.Good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and CI/CD.Experience building and maintaining production applications.Nice to HaveExperience building GenAI or agentic workflows.Knowledge of prompt/context engineering and LLMs.Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP).This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the future of AI-assisted software development by building tools that enable engineers to code, test, and deploy more efficiently.Interested? Apply today or get in touch to learn more.