Nathan Peters

Project Manager – Contract Position– HIRING ASAP Location: 3 days per week in London office, 2 days remote working Start Date: ASAP Duration: 6-month initial contract Daily Rate: £450 per day outside IR35 Summary   We are looking for an experienced Project Manager who can lead a statutory, finance-led technology delivery through clear planning, governance and stakeholder coordination. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working across Technology, Finance, Tax, local offices, SAP Programme stakeholders and third-party vendors, and will be able to maintain momentum against mandatory deadlines while managing scope, budget, risks, issues, testing, deployment readiness and service transition. You should bring structure, pragmatic delivery judgement and strong communication skills, with the ability to convert regulatory, technical and process considerations into clear delivery actions. Project InformationE-Invoicing project, ensuring statutory inbound and outbound invoicing requirements are met across in-scope offices in line with mandatory dates, approved budget, agreed scope and Technology governance standards. You will coordinate Technology, Finance, Tax, local office, vendor and SAP Programme workstreams, manage project risks and dependencies, and ensure each regional implementation is delivered with appropriate testing, deployment readiness, service transition and warranty controls.Revenue Life Cycle RLC Tech and Tools, supporting the successful delivery of the requested tools to support the RLC change in the firm to enable the finance teams to cut Billing costs and days across the firm.

Business Analyst – Contract Position– HIRING ASAP Location: Hybrid out of the London office Start Date: ASAP Duration: 4-month initial contract Daily Rate: £400 - £500 per day inside IR35 RequirementsExperience working as a business analyst within a project environment, delivering IT enabled changeUnderstanding of the full project delivery life cycle and experience of delivery across different phases of the projectExperience of applying various techniques and delivering analysis outputs, including:Requirements elicitation and documentationBusiness process modellingWorkflow / scenario / use case modellingData and system analysis and documentationExperience in workshop facilitation and conducting stakeholder interviews to extract relevant informationExperience in managing own time effectively in an environment of competing end-user demands and time-critical schedules, prioritising simultaneous project work and rapidly evaluating alternate action plansExperience in working within a similar Higher Education institution or within an Information Services division, preferable knowledge of Recruitment and AdmissionsResponsibilities Stakeholder engagementPlan and run an engagement approach covering central teams, faculties and departments, working with the programme team to identify the right people and the right level of engagement for each group.Run interviews, observation sessions and workshops with faculty and departmental colleagues, including sessions with busy academic and professional services staff, making effective use of their time.Capture and reconcile differing needs and practices between faculties, departments and applicant routes, and bring them together into shared positions that stakeholders can support.Provide clear, regular feedback to stakeholders on what you have heard and how it is being used. Elicit, document and manage requirementsElicit business, user and data requirements using a range of techniques, including workshops, interviews, process walkthroughs, document analysis and prototyping where useful.Write clear, testable requirements with acceptance criteria, at a level of detail suitable for each stage, from high-level needs through to detail suitable for an RFP and supplier evaluation.Apply a structured prioritisation approach (e.g. MoSCoW) with stakeholders, and keep the requirements set right-sized, avoiding both gaps and over-specification.Maintain traceability between processes, capabilities, pain points and requirements, and manage requirements through change control, version history and sign-off.Validate requirements with stakeholders and with delivery, technical and procurement colleagues, and support their use in supplier engagement, demonstrations and evaluation.Identify non-functional, integration, data and compliance requirements, working with ISD, data and information governance colleagues. Review and challenge current ways of workingDocument (or review where already existing) processes and journeys for the main applicant routes (undergraduate, postgraduate taught, postgraduate research, initial teacher education and affiliate), at different levels of detail for different audiences.Identify and quantify pain points, inefficiencies, bottlenecks, manual workarounds, risks and inconsistencies, and their impact on applicants, staff, service performance and compliance.Establish root causes rather than symptoms, and constructively challenge 'the way we've always done it' with evidence, data and examples from elsewhere.Agree and document business domain terminology so that processes, requirements and systems are described consistently across the programme. Redesign processesWork with stakeholders to generate and assess options for improving processes, considering people, process, policy, data and technology impacts.Produce options papers setting out benefits, risks, dependencies, costs and implementation considerations, and support decision-making at programme and senior stakeholder level.Design and document 'to-be' processes, standardising where it adds value and recognising where local variation is justified.Test and refine proposed designs with the people who will use them, through walkthroughs, scenarios and workshops.Identify transition requirements, business change impacts and dependencies, and hand these to the programme's change and delivery colleagues.Keep process and requirements work aligned with the programme's vision, capability model and target operating model, flagging gaps, conflicts or dependencies to the BA Lead and wider programme team. Delivery and governanceWork with the BA Lead, Programme Lead and project team to agree scope, plans and priorities, and own delivery of your work packages within agreed timeframes.Advise on the most suitable analysis methods and level of stakeholder engagement for each piece of work.Manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies relating to your work, escalating where necessary.Produce clear, well-structured documentation, visual models (e.g. in Miro) and presentations suited to different audiences, from departmental administrators to senior programme stakeholders.

Process Intelligence Consultant – Contract Position– HIRING ASAP Location: Remote working Start Date: ASAP Duration: 2-month initial contract with long-term extension Daily Rate: £600 - £650 per day outside IR35 Summary   We are looking for a Process Intelligence Consultant who combines deep technical process-mining and data analysis skills with business consulting experience. You will identify the questions worth asking, investigate client operations and turn findings into practical business recommendations, working across engagements with our professional services clients alongside data engineers and process experts. RequirementsProven process-mining consulting delivery. You have personal expertise in using operational event data to investigate business problems and help clients act on your findings.Strong business consulting skills. Structure ambiguous problems, learn a client's value chain quickly, facilitate workshops and explain recommendations to C-Suite stakeholders.Substantial hands-on platform expertise. Confident building models, queries and analyses independently in tools like Celonis, QPR ProcessAnalyzer, SAP Signavio, UiPath Process Mining or a comparable platform.Strong SQL and practical Python skills. Able to join, transform and interrogate operational datasets and validate the results.Sound process-modelling judgement. Understand case definitions, event granularity, timestamps and data quality, including incomplete cases, parallel activity and the distinction between elapsed time and working effort.Commercial judgement and analytical rigour. Connect findings to business outcomes, test alternative explanations and communicate uncertainty. Produce reproducible work and handle confidential data carefully.ResponsibilitiesLead analytical investigations. Identify business questions, formulate hypotheses and decide which analyses will produce useful answers.Work directly in process-mining tools. Build analytical models, write queries and investigate process variants, delays, rework, handovers and exceptions.Connect data to business behaviour. Compare performance across work types, teams and organisational units, and investigate the reasons for differences.Work with clients and data engineers. Define data requirements, validate process models and lead client workshops to test findings against operational reality.Develop recommendations and business cases. Quantify opportunities to improve service, capacity, cost, working capital and control, with clear assumptions.Measure results and improve our methods. Establish baselines, track benefits and develop reusable analyses, contributing to ongoing process simulation work.

Full Stack Engineer – Contract Position– HIRING ASAP Location: Dublin – 1 week per month in office Start Date: ASAP Duration: 12-month contract with extension Daily Rate: €400 per day Summary   We are seeking a talented Senior Full Stack Engineer with 6-9 years of experience in designing and building scalable web applications, with a strong emphasis on Java backend development. The ideal candidate will be experienced in developing microservices, building modern user interfaces, and working across the full software development lifecycle. This role requires close collaboration with product, architecture, QA, and DevOps teams to deliver high-quality enterprise solutions. Requirements BackendJava 11/17+: 6 years+Spring Boot & Microservices: 3 years+CI/CD experience FrontendAngular: 3 years+TypeScriptJavaScript (ES6+)HTML5CSS3Responsive DesignState Management (Redux, Context API, NgRx) DatabaseStrong SQL and database optimization skills Responsibilities  Design, develop, and maintain scalable full-stack applications.Lead backend development using Java and Spring Boot.Develop responsive and intuitive frontend applications using React, Angular, or similar frameworks.Participate in solution design, architecture discussions, and technical decision-making.Develop cloud-native applications following best practices for scalability and resilience.Write clean, testable, and maintainable code.Perform code reviews and mentor junior developers.Troubleshoot and resolve production issues while ensuring application performance and reliability.Contribute to CI/CD pipeline enhancements and DevOps initiatives.

Java Developer – Contract Position– HIRING ASAP Location: Galway – 1 week per month in office Start Date: ASAP Duration: 12-month contract with extension Daily Rate: €500 per day Summary   We have an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to work on the delivery of strategic initiatives by our client. You will be accountable in helping the team deliver on their top priority goals and objectives. Quality is important to this team, as is their reputation for honesty and openness in dealing with each other and our partners.  Requirements10+ years software engineering experienceExcellent Java skills are a mustAWS & Azure skills an advantageVery good understanding of design patterns.You work independently on complex technical and functional analysis.You take ownership of aspects of project or code baseYou contribute to an environment of continuous improvementYou support test driven development and automation initiativesYou follow Fidelity standard processes and methodologies for developing high-quality secure codeYou are experienced with Agile techniques and JiraYou possess strong attention to detail demonstrated by ability to follow and develop specific, outlined and detailed proceduresYou can work multiple tasks simultaneously and can prioritize and balance multiple tasksInterpersonal skills, ability to maintain good working relationships with teammates.Ability to work in a matrixed environment across multiple locations and functionsYou adhere to development standards and coding best practices for teamYou share knowledge with other team members.ResponsibilitiesStrong sense of ownership for the quality of solution delivery and executionActively participates in all phases of Development Life Cycle /Agile Project including design, development, and testing.Understands Business Objectives in the context of the team’s workContributes to architecture and technical designs and ensure designs are aligned with architectural standardsCommunicates project status, identify issues/ risks proactively, and escalate effectively.Follows Fidelity standard processes and methodologies for developing high-quality secure codeAnalysing current processes and propose recommendations for process improvements

Java Developer – Contract Position – HIRING ASAP Location: Remote Working (with 1 week per month in the Galway office) Start Date: ASAP Duration: 11-month contract Daily Rate: €500 per day Summary We have an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated Senior Software Engineer to work on the delivery of strategic initiatives. You will support a team within an emerging equity compensation services division of our client. You will be accountable in helping the team deliver on their top priority goals and objectives. Quality is important to this team, as is our reputation for honesty and openness in dealing with each other and our partners. Key SkillsBachelor’s Degree or equivalent in a technology related field (e.g. Computer Science, Engineering, etc.) required 10+ years of Java EE development on high volume enterprise systems Proven expertise developing JAVA middle tier rest services and with Enterprise messaging like ActiveMQ, Kafka Experience with PL/SQL and complex queries Understanding of Relational Databases Proven understanding of Cloud Computing and DevOps concepts like CI/CD pipelines in an AKS Azure environment Demonstrated experience of leading engineering teams  ResponsibilitiesStrong sense of ownership for the quality of solution delivery and execution Actively participates in all phases of Development Life Cycle /Agile Project including design, development, and testing. Understands Business Objectives in the context of the team’s work Contributes to architecture and technical designs and ensure designs are aligned with architectural standards Communicates project status, identify issues/ risks proactively, and escalate effectively. Follows Fidelity standard processes and methodologies for developing high-quality secure code Analysing current processes and propose recommendations for process improvements

Software Architect | Advanced Embedded Systems   Location: Delft, Netherlands Working model: Hybrid Salary: €100,000–€110,000 Employment: Permanent   The Opportunity We are looking for a Software Architect to join a highly technical engineering organisation developing complex hardware and software systems for advanced scientific and industrial applications. This is a senior architectural role for someone who genuinely understands software beyond the application layer. You will work across embedded software, firmware, FPGA-based systems, compilers and high-level software APIs, helping define how these components work together as the platform scales. You will provide the technical vision for a system that needs to deliver high performance, precise timing and reliability, while remaining maintainable and scalable as the technology evolves. This is not an architecture role where you simply produce diagrams and hand them over to engineering teams. You will remain technically involved, stepping into complex problems, building prototypes where needed and helping engineers make sound architectural decisions.   What You'll Be Doing Architecture & Technical VisionDefine the overall architecture across firmware, embedded software, compilers and high-level APIs.Design systems that can scale significantly without requiring fundamental architectural rewrites.Establish clear interfaces, abstractions, standards and architectural patterns across engineering teams.Balance long-term technical direction with practical delivery requirements.Work closely with product and engineering teams to translate requirements into robust technical solutions.Build consensus around architectural decisions and communicate complex trade-offs clearly.Technical Problem SolvingGet involved in technically challenging problems when teams need support.Investigate issues across multiple layers of the technology stack, from high-level software through to firmware and hardware.Help address challenges involving latency, throughput, timing, determinism and system performance.Develop prototypes, proof-of-concepts or production code where this helps validate an architectural approach.Review technical designs and help engineers arrive at practical, scalable solutions.Identify opportunities to simplify systems and remove unnecessary technical complexity.Cross-Functional LeadershipConnect software, embedded, firmware, hardware and product engineering teams around a common technical direction.Mentor and influence engineers through technical expertise rather than hierarchy.Work with customer-facing teams to understand real-world requirements and feed these into architectural decisions.Create an environment where engineers can challenge ideas, collaborate effectively and make better technical decisions.  What We're Looking For10+ years of software engineering experience, with significant experience in architectural or technical leadership.Strong experience across multiple layers, ideally including high-level software, embedded systems and low-level hardware interaction.Deep understanding of embedded systems, hardware interfaces and resource-constrained environments.Strong understanding of FPGA-based systems, including timing constraints and the interaction between hardware and firmware.Experience designing systems where performance, latency, throughput and deterministic behaviour are important.Proven ability to design architectures spanning low-level systems through to high-level APIs.Strong programming skills and a willingness to remain hands-on when required.Experience influencing technical direction without relying on formal authority.Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.Desirable Experience Experience in one or more of the following would be advantageous:Compiler design, intermediate representations, ASTs or transpilers.Digital signal processing or real-time control systems.Distributed systems involving multiple processors or tightly synchronised components.Scientific or numerical computing environments.Python-based scientific software ecosystems.High-performance computing or performance-critical applications.Customer-facing technical roles where user requirements have directly influenced product or architecture decisions.A background in physics, scientific computing or another highly technical domain would be advantageous, but is not essential.   Why Join? You'll have the opportunity to take a genuinely influential architectural position within a technically ambitious organisation. You will work at the intersection of software, embedded technology, firmware and advanced hardware, helping shape systems that need to operate at the limits of performance and precision. This is an opportunity for an experienced engineer who wants to have a real technical impact, rather than simply move further away from engineering into management.

Microsoft Power Platform Business Analyst (Co-Pilot Programmes)12-Month Contract | Remote Working (Anywhere in Europe)Rate: 250-400 Euros/day Trust in SODA is supporting a specialist AI implementation consultancy delivering AI and data solutions for enterprise clients. We are looking for an experienced Business Analyst to support the definition, delivery, and validation of AI use cases across business and technical teams. ResponsibilitiesEngage business stakeholders to capture, clarify, and prioritise AI use casesTranslate business needs into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteriaEnsure alignment between business objectives, delivery scope, and technical solutionsManage scope and change requests throughout the delivery lifecycleSupport solution validation through demos, UAT, and feedback cyclesSkills & ExperienceStrong background in business analysis or product ownership within AI or data initiativesPower Platform experienceCo-Pilot experienceMicrosoft stack experienceExperience working with AI, data, and engineering teams in agile environmentsConfident stakeholder management and facilitation skillsClear communicator with a strong focus on business value and outcomes