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Remote -EU Only | Contract |AI Change Lead Duration: Initial 6 Months Location: Remote – EU Only Rate: 350 – 450 CHF Key DeliverableAI Change Strategy and Narrative.Integrated Change and Adoption PlanStakeholder Engagement Plan and Stakeholder Register.Monthly Communications Packages, including key messages, FAQs, and adoption guidance.AI Fluency Council and ELB Governance Packs, including agendas, decision logs, meeting outcomes, and action trackers.Learning Pathway Rollout and Adoption Plans.October AI Event Plan, Delivery Support, and Post-Event Report.AI Champions Community Strategy and Engagement Plan.Programme Risk and Issue Log.Monthly Progress and Status Reports.   Change Strategy & PlanningReview the existing change and communications approach to confirm it is fit for purpose.Develop and maintain an approved AI change narrative aligned to the Reimagining Work strategy.Define key change outcomes and interventions.Develop Know/Feel/Do outcomes for managers and leaders, all associates, and P&O.Deliver and maintain an integrated change and adoption plan, updated through agreed governance processes.Collaborate with Mission Control to ensure alignment with the wider Reimagining Work agenda.Stakeholder Management & CommunicationsDevelop and maintain a stakeholder register and engagement plan, including stakeholder priorities, risks, owners, and engagement actions. Coordinate with the AI Communications team to execute the communications plan.Produce and distribute monthly communications packages, including key messages, FAQs, adoption guidance, and engagement content.Secure relevant communications placements.Maintain a stakeholder communications tracker documenting key communications and engagement activities.Evaluate stakeholder engagement and communications effectiveness on an ongoing basis. AI Fluency GovernanceRestart the AI Fluency Council and ELB forums.Produce governance packs for AI Fluency Council and ELB forums, including agendas, decision requests, action trackers, and meeting outcomes.Engage the ELB and AI Fluency Council to drive action within their respective units.Coordinate with senior stakeholders and leadership to secure approvals as required.Document governance effectiveness reviews and recommend improvements to governance processes where required.Learning & AdoptionEnsure the Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Manager learning pathways share an aligned narrative, launch approach, and follow-up plan.Develop and maintain documented rollout plans for Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Manager learning pathways, including audiences, content, timelines, and engagement activities. Develop tailored participant and line-manager communications in partnership with the Communications team.Maintain weekly communications coordination throughout delivery.Produce adoption insights and recommended follow-up actions based on participation and feedback data. AI Event DeliveryDevelop and execute an event delivery plan for the October AI event, including communications, stakeholder coordination, registration, operational readiness, and post-event reporting.Produce a post-event report summarising participation, outcomes, feedback, lessons learned, and recommended follow-up actions.Crystalise the overarching narrative with stakeholder input and ensure consistent understanding.Coordinate delivery across Learning, DDIT, and Future Ready Talent.Lead event operations, including registration and launch.Position the event as a critical moment in the change plan to enable Reimagining Work.Coordinate with units and country stakeholders on communications, content, and reporting.   AI Champions CommunityDevelop and maintain the AI Champions Community strategy, engagement model, success measures, and roadmap. Mobilise champions to reinforce key messages, support adoption, and surface local insights.Maintain a documented engagement cadence and provide periodic reporting on champion activity and adoption impact. Risk ManagementMaintain a programme risk and issue log, including impact assessments, mitigation actions, owners, target dates, and status.Monitor and track key programme dependencies and decision requirements.Document and escalate material risks and overdue decisions through agreed governance channels.Provide regular risk and issue reporting to programme stakeholders.Maintain records of risk mitigations, decisions, and resolutions.

Urgent Hire|AI Change Lead | Contract Duration: Initial 9 Months Location: Hybrid working in the London office Rate: £300 per day Engagement: Inside IR35 AI Change Lead Job Purpose: As the AI Change Lead, you will drive enterprise-wide adoption of AI technologies by leading strategic change initiatives, fostering AI fluency, and embedding AI-enabled behaviours across the organisation. This role is pivotal in ensuring that employees are equipped, engaged, and empowered to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, innovation, and decision-making in line with our ambition to become AI-enabled by 2028. This role requires a blend of strategic thinking, creative agility, and deep understanding of AI’s impact on people, processes, and culture. Major Accountabilities:  Lead and execute change management strategies to enhance AI Fluency across, ensuring alignment with AI Strategy and culture.Design and deliver AI fluency programmes tailored to different audiences (leaders, managers, general users), including KPIs and success measures.Build change management learning interventions as needed to help leaders prepare teams to continually adopt changes to ways of working resulting from ongoing integration of AI technologiesCollaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. DDIT and unit learning teams) to ensure seamless adoption and utilization of AI technologies.Coach senior leaders to role-model AI behaviours and support their teams through transitions.Build and activate communities of practice (e.g. AI champions network) to support the diffusion of AI technologies across the organisation.Translate complex AI concepts into accessible narratives through storytelling, campaigns, and engagement events.Champion a culture of experimentation, curiosity, and responsible AI use.Curate and amplify internal success stories, use cases, and impact metrics to build trust and momentum.Monitor adoption metrics, feedback loops, and behavioural indicators to refine change strategies. Skills & Qualifications You should have extensive experience in change management. You should be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and have strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.  Proven experience in change management, organisational development, or transformation leadership (8+ years).Strong understanding of GenAI tools (e.g. ChatGPT and Copilot)Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.Experience designing and delivering training, workshops, and behavioural change programmes.Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity in fast-paced environments.

Hiring | Senior Software Engineer (6-9 years) |ContractStart date: ASAPDuration: 12 monthsLocation: 1 week on site in Galway, 3 weeks working from homeRate: €350 - €400 per dayThe RoleAs a Software Engineer on the Equity Trading Technology team, you will have the opportunity help design and develop high-quality software for sophisticated trading products. You will help build complex new trading capabilities to expand and enhance the common trading platform used across multiple asset classes within Asset Management business unit. The trading platform is at the heart of one of the 2026 Top 25 programs across, with high visibility at senior leadership levels. We are looking for a Software Engineer with a passion for delivering innovative products and services to help build and support this critical platform! You will help design, build and support mission-critical enterprise software applications.You will help define product solutions by working directly with business and product teams.You will actively participate in good engineering practices and standards.You will work with the team to continuously improve our software engineering craft. The Expertise and Skills You Bring Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering or a related discipline5+ years of experience in designing, developing and testing backend services using Java and Spring BootExperience developing event driven applications using JMS or Kafka (preferred)Experience with test automation frameworks such as Cucumber, Fitnesse or Karate (preferred)Experience working with Relational Databases (Oracle & PL/SQL preferred)Familiarity with cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (preferred), Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft AzureDomain knowledge of Trading and Trading technologies is an advantage. Particularly exposure to FinTech protocols such as Financial Information eXchange (FIX)Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Hiring | Payroll Team Lead | Contract •          Duration: Initial 6-month contract •          Location: 2 days in office, 3-4 days remote •          Rate: £240 per day inside IR35 Main purpose of the job The Payroll Team Leader is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the  payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payment of employee salaries and compliance with relevant legislation and Internal policies. This role supervises payroll staff, manages workload distribution, oversees escalated issues, and works closely with HR and Finance. Duties and responsibilitiesLead, support, and supervise the payroll team to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll for all employees.Managing the Team development, identifying and planning training requirements.Responsible for processing payroll runs, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and standards. Maintaining an awareness of current and future HMRC developments; keeping up to date with changes that directly affect employees, related enhancements and changes within the payroll software, and other internal and external policy decisions that impact upon an individual’s pay and reward.To collaborate with colleagues to ensure all transactions throughout the employee lifecycle are processed accurately in the system and within published service standards and/or process deadlines.To ensure the timely and satisfactory resolution of payroll queries within the SLA to a high standard.Monitor and review payroll controls. Identifying opportunities to improve payroll processes, systems, and team efficiency.Lead on Testing and development for system updates, patches and legislative changes.Responsible for training of Payroll Advisors in all technical aspects of the system, including complex technical processes and investigative analysis to ensure accuracy of all payments.Responsible for creation of SOPs, updating and presenting changes to the Team.Deputise for the Payroll Manager at meetings as requested and provide cover for other colleagues in busy periods or when staff are on annual or sick leave.Responsible for the processing and reconciliation of the payroll, submission of statutory reports and pay over of any liabilities due to external bodies.Support the Payroll manager on any compliance and governance requirements.Prepare reports and analysis related to payroll metrics, audit requirements, and management information.Support internal and external audits by providing relevant documentation and explanations.Ensure accurate and timely submission of statutory filings and payments (e.g., HMRC).Maintaining regular 121’s with direct reports, coaching, training, and developing the team to be the best they can be.Work as an initiative-taking team member to ensure that the work for the team is completed accurately and within the relevant timescales for the monthly payroll run as determined by the Payroll Manager.Responsible for developing effective, positive relationships with customers, departmental contacts, and Professional Services colleagues, to create a dependable working relationship and positively assist in meeting their business needs, consulting with employees, pensioners, external bodies and internal departments.Be responsible for 100% GDPR compliance within Payroll, reporting and potential breaches immediately to Payroll Manager for review.Carry out regular audits on payroll data and process to ensure compliance against HR and Payroll policy and process providing outcomes and recommendations to the Payroll Manager GeneralFully participate and contribute to the wider PS Hub team, and departmental, policy, project and working groups.Be responsible for maintaining and updating your own continuous professional development.To follow and actively promote the HR Work Ethic Principles.To actively follow policies including Equal Opportunities policies and be expected to give consideration within their role as to how they can actively advance equality of opportunity and good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it.To maintain an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations.To carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager or Head of Department/Division.This job description reflects the present requirements of the post, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.Follow and actively promote the Ways of Working.Takes responsibility to carry out duties in a way that embodies 's environmental and social sustainability values, actively supporting 's Sustainability Strategy, policies and objectives within the remit of their role.Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.This job description may be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.

Hiring | Head of Payroll | Contract •             Duration: Initial 7-month contract •             Location: 2 days in office, 3-4 days remote •             Rate: £390 per day inside IR35   Main purpose of the job The Payroll Team Leader is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payment of employee salaries and compliance with relevant legislation and Internal policies. This role supervises payroll staff, manages workload distribution, oversees escalated issues, and works closely with HR and Finance.   Duties and responsibilitiesLead, support, and supervise the payroll team to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll for all employees.Managing the Team development, identifying and planning training requirements.Responsible for processing payroll runs, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and  standards. Maintaining an awareness of current and future HMRC developments; keeping up to date with changes that directly affect employees, related enhancements and changes within the payroll software, and other internal and external policy decisions that impact upon an individual’s pay and reward.To collaborate with colleagues to ensure all transactions throughout the employee lifecycle are processed accurately in the system and within published service standards and/or process deadlines.To ensure the timely and satisfactory resolution of payroll queries within the SLA to a high standard.Monitor and review payroll controls. Identifying opportunities to improve payroll processes, systems, and team efficiency.Lead on Testing and development for system updates, patches and legislative changes.Responsible for training of Payroll Advisors in all technical aspects of the system, including complex technical processes and investigative analysis to ensure accuracy of all payments.Responsible for creation of SOPs, updating and presenting changes to the Team.Deputise for the Payroll Manager at meetings as requested and provide cover for other colleagues in busy periods or when staff are on annual or sick leave.Responsible for the processing and reconciliation of the payroll, submission of statutory reports and pay over of any liabilities due to external bodies.Support the Payroll manager on any compliance and governance requirements.Prepare reports and analysis related to payroll metrics, audit requirements, and management information.Support internal and external audits by providing relevant documentation and explanations.Ensure accurate and timely submission of statutory filings and payments (e.g., HMRC).Maintaining regular 121’s with direct reports, coaching, training, and developing the team to be the best they can be.Work as an initiative-taking team member to ensure that the work for the team is completed accurately and within the relevant timescales for the monthly payroll run as determined by the Payroll Manager.Responsible for developing effective, positive relationships with customers, departmental contacts, and Professional Services colleagues, to create a dependable working relationship and positively assist in meeting their business needs, consulting with employees, pensioners, external bodies and internal departments.Be responsible for 100% GDPR compliance within Payroll, reporting and potential breaches immediately to Payroll Manager for review.Carry out regular audits on payroll data and process to ensure compliance against HR and Payroll policy and process providing outcomes and recommendations to the Payroll Manager  GeneralFully participate and contribute to the wider PS Hub team, and departmental, policy, project and working groups.Be responsible for maintaining and updating your own continuous professional development.To follow and actively promote the HR Work Ethic Principles.To actively follow policies including Equal Opportunities policies and be expected to give consideration within their role as to how they can actively advance equality of opportunity and good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it.To maintain an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations.To carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager or Head of Department/Division.This job description reflects the present requirements of the post, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.Follow and actively promote the Ways of Working.Takes responsibility to carry out duties in a way that embodies 's environmental and social sustainability values, actively supporting 's Sustainability Strategy, policies and objectives within the remit of their role.Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.Hiring | Head of Payroll | Contract •             Duration: Initial 7-month contract •             Location: 2 days in office, 3-4 days remote •             Rate: £390 per day inside IR35   Main purpose of the job The Payroll Team Leader is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payment of employee salaries and compliance with relevant legislation and Internal policies. This role supervises payroll staff, manages workload distribution, oversees escalated issues, and works closely with HR and Finance.   Duties and responsibilitiesLead, support, and supervise the payroll team to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll for all employees.Managing the Team development, identifying and planning training requirements.Responsible for processing payroll runs, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and  standards. Maintaining an awareness of current and future HMRC developments; keeping up to date with changes that directly affect employees, related enhancements and changes within the payroll software, and other internal and external policy decisions that impact upon an individual’s pay and reward.To collaborate with colleagues to ensure all transactions throughout the employee lifecycle are processed accurately in the system and within published service standards and/or process deadlines.To ensure the timely and satisfactory resolution of payroll queries within the SLA to a high standard.Monitor and review payroll controls. Identifying opportunities to improve payroll processes, systems, and team efficiency.Lead on Testing and development for system updates, patches and legislative changes.Responsible for training of Payroll Advisors in all technical aspects of the system, including complex technical processes and investigative analysis to ensure accuracy of all payments.Responsible for creation of SOPs, updating and presenting changes to the Team.Deputise for the Payroll Manager at meetings as requested and provide cover for other colleagues in busy periods or when staff are on annual or sick leave.Responsible for the processing and reconciliation of the payroll, submission of statutory reports and pay over of any liabilities due to external bodies.Support the Payroll manager on any compliance and governance requirements.Prepare reports and analysis related to payroll metrics, audit requirements, and management information.Support internal and external audits by providing relevant documentation and explanations.Ensure accurate and timely submission of statutory filings and payments (e.g., HMRC).Maintaining regular 121’s with direct reports, coaching, training, and developing the team to be the best they can be.Work as an initiative-taking team member to ensure that the work for the team is completed accurately and within the relevant timescales for the monthly payroll run as determined by the Payroll Manager.Responsible for developing effective, positive relationships with customers, departmental contacts, and Professional Services colleagues, to create a dependable working relationship and positively assist in meeting their business needs, consulting with employees, pensioners, external bodies and internal departments.Be responsible for 100% GDPR compliance within Payroll, reporting and potential breaches immediately to Payroll Manager for review.Carry out regular audits on payroll data and process to ensure compliance against HR and Payroll policy and process providing outcomes and recommendations to the Payroll Manager  GeneralFully participate and contribute to the wider PS Hub team, and departmental, policy, project and working groups.Be responsible for maintaining and updating your own continuous professional development.To follow and actively promote the HR Work Ethic Principles.To actively follow policies including Equal Opportunities policies and be expected to give consideration within their role as to how they can actively advance equality of opportunity and good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it.To maintain an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations.To carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager or Head of Department/Division.This job description reflects the present requirements of the post, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.Follow and actively promote the Ways of Working.Takes responsibility to carry out duties in a way that embodies 's environmental and social sustainability values, actively supporting 's Sustainability Strategy, policies and objectives within the remit of their role.Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.

Hiring | Cybersecurity Architect  Job Title: Cybersecurity ArchitectPay Rates: up to €1000 per dayHybrid: Working in Dublin Office (3 days per week to office)Duration: Initial 6 months Specific responsibilities of this role include:5-10 years experienceAuthor and review architecture artefacts including ROMs (Rough order of Magnitude), HLDs (High Level Design) and BRDs (Business Requirement Document).Develop and maintain a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy and architecture.Recommend security controls and identify solutions that support our business partners.Design and document security solutions: including security for multi cloud environments, AI security and OT security.Advise on important security-related technologies and assess the risk associated with proposed changes. Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.Stay updated on the latest cybersecurity threats and technologies to proactively protect our organization.Establish cybersecurity policies, standards, and best practices.Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture, and develop a security risk management plan.Evaluate architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security designs and architecture proposed or provided.Strong ability to balance usability and security to ensure you are a business enabler

Hiring | Cybersecurity Architect  Job Title: Cybersecurity ArchitectPay Rates: up to €1000 per dayHybrid: Working in Dublin Office (3 days per week to office)Duration: Initial 6 months Specific responsibilities of this role include:5-10 years experienceAuthor and review architecture artefacts including ROMs (Rough order of Magnitude), HLDs (High Level Design) and BRDs (Business Requirement Document).Develop and maintain a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy and architecture.Recommend security controls and identify solutions that support our business partners.Design and document security solutions: including security for multi cloud environments, AI security and OT security.Advise on important security-related technologies and assess the risk associated with proposed changes. Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.Stay updated on the latest cybersecurity threats and technologies to proactively protect our organization.Establish cybersecurity policies, standards, and best practices.Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture, and develop a security risk management plan.Evaluate architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security designs and architecture proposed or provided.Strong ability to balance usability and security to ensure you are a business enabler

Hiring | DevOps Engineer (6-9 years) •             Start date: ASAP •             Duration: 12 months •             Location: 1 week on site in Galway, 3 weeks working from home •             Rate: €400 - €450 per day Job Description: Strategic Advisors Technology is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer as a member of our Developer Enablement / DevOps team. While working to deliver business capabilities across a globally distributed team, we continually strive to advance technology innovation and agile practices and delivery efficiency across the delivery organization.   The Expertise We’re Looking For5+ years of software engineering, configuration management & release engineering for large scale enterprise applications.Strong understanding of CI / CD Processes, and experience with tools like Jenkins.Understanding of container technologies and orchestrators like Docker & Kubernetes.Understanding of different build tools and package managers for different programming languages, e.g.: Maven, Gradle, NPM, pip.Experience with git (and implementations like Bitbucket/Gitlab/GitHub), and with artifact repositories such as Artifactory.Developer oriented approach with ability to design automations to solve problems and create solutions - Proficient in scripting languages such as Java, Groovy, Shell, Python and/or similar languages.Ability to understand the complete development flow and make recommendations on changes or improvements to the development teams:Testing Stages, Coverage Reports, Quality Gates, Security Scans, Environment Promotions.Understanding different components of an application Database/Mid-tier/Messaging/User-Interface/Configuration.Experience with core AWS Services and ability to build automated processes using SDK or CLI.  Nice To haveExperience with Kubernetes for large scale enterprise services.Knowledge of Datadog or other logging, observability, monitoring or APM tool.  The Purpose of Your Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be in-charge of our CI/CD pipeline through lower development environments all the way to production. You will review, analyze and recommend solutions and tools to improve the software development process all while maintaining existing build processes and leading the design and implementation of their replacement. You will be an integral part of the overall product release process.   The Skills You BringAbility to review, analyze and recommend solutions and tools to improve the software development & CI/CD process.Develop and support the Continuous Integration process, innovating where needed for solutions that are adaptable to current issues.Ability to create readable and detailed documentation to explain flows, architectural diagrams or processes.Trace complex CI/CD scenarios, release issues and environment issues in a multi-component environment.Develop, maintain and enhance key parts of the release procedures and processes. Coordinate release activities with Release Management, Project Management, QA, and Development teams to ensure a smooth roll out of releases.