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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.

Senior Data Engineer – Contract Position – HIRING ASAP - OUTSIDE IR35 Location: London Bridge – In office 4 days per week Start Date: ASAP Duration: 3-4 months with extension Daily Rate: £400 - £450 per day Outside IR35 Summary We require a high-agency Data Engineer who will sit directly alongside our clients Head of Data and Lead Data Scientist. You will actively shape their overarching data strategy, translate business objectives into high-value projects, and co-author Technical Design Documents (TDDs). Once the strategy is defined, you will personally execute at speed, writing production-grade Python, Dagster pipelines, and Terraform infrastructure to ship features end-to-end. Requirements4+ years commercial experience in Python distributed data engineering & systems backend development.Hands-on production expertise with Airflow in a Medallion or data lakehouse environment.Production-grade Terraform experience managing AWS resources (EKS, Aurora PostgreSQL, IAM IRSA, VPCs).Security-first engineering mindset (familiarity with enterprise audit constraints such as SOC2 or ISO27001).Bonus SkillsExperience with multi agent frameworks/libraries such as Google ADK or Langchain etc.Experience building RAG pipelines, managing pgvector embeddings, or deploying LLM inference pipelines.Infrastructure technologies - EKS and terraformResponsibilities Data Strategy & Architecture Leadership (Co-Ownership)Partner with the Head of Data and Lead Data Scientist/Engineer to define overarching data lakehouse strategy, schema evolution, and vector retrieval architectures.Translate top-down Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) into structured and detailed TDDs that satisfy Fortune 500 enterprise security and compliance standards.Establish data governance, lineage tracking, and multi-tenant isolation patterns for agentic workflows.Define JIRA Epics and user stories derived from approved TDDs to guide downstream implementation.Medallion Data Pipelines & Orchestration (Python & Dagster, AWS)Architect, code, and deploy idempotent, backfill-safe data pipelines using Python and DagsterAbility to utilise and work against AWS cloud environmentEnforce data lineage, schema evolution, and optimal Parquet/Delta partitioning across S3 storage layers.

Location: Galway – Hybrid Contract: 12 months with a view to extend Rate:€ 440  - € 470 per day Join a collaborative, cross-functional team at the heart of a fast-paced, highly regulated financial environment, where you’ll work on complex products and services that directly impact customers. You’ll have the opportunity to shape innovative solutions, influence key stakeholders, improve operational efficiency, and drive continuous product enhancements—making a tangible difference across the business. The successful candidate will work closely with business leaders, stakeholders, technology teams, operations, and compliance functions to understand business needs, define requirements, and translate complex challenges into practical, scalable solutions. This is a highly collaborative role, requiring someone who can operate comfortably across both business and technical environments while balancing customer, operational, regulatory, and commercial considerations. Key Responsibilities: Lead business analysis and discovery activities across key product and business initiatives. Gather, analyse, document, manage, and validate detailed business and functional requirements. Translate complex business challenges into clear, actionable solutions and future-state processes. Develop business impact assessments, process documentation, and solution requirements. Work closely with business, operations, technology, and compliance stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective decision-making. Facilitate workshops, discussions, and requirements-gathering sessions with key stakeholders. Support solution design, testing, business acceptance, implementation readiness, and post-deployment activities. Identify opportunities for process improvement, automation, and operational efficiency. Support change initiatives and ensure solutions are aligned with business objectives and regulatory requirements. Act as a key link between business and technology teams throughout the project lifecycle. Skills & Experience The ideal candidate will have a strong background in business analysis, product analysis, process improvement, and solution delivery, ideally within financial services or another highly regulated environment. Key requirements: Proven experience gathering, documenting, managing, and validating complex business and functional requirements. Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities. Experience analysing business processes and supporting transformation or solution implementation. Strong understanding of the business analysis lifecycle, from discovery through to implementation and post-delivery support. Excellent communication, facilitation, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills. Ability to work effectively with both business and technical teams. Strong ability to influence and collaborate across multiple functions and stakeholder groups. Excellent attention to detail, organisation, and prioritisation skills. A proactive approach with the ability to take ownership and work effectively in a fast-paced environment. Experience working within regulated environments, where compliance and risk considerations form part of solution design, would be advantageous.

Talent Acquisition Associate – Contract Position – HIRING ASAPLocation: 1 week in the Dublin office per month, 3 weeks remote working Start Date: ASAP Duration: 11 months Daily Rate: €150 per dayThe RoleIn this role, you will be a critical member of our clients’ Talent Acquisition team, helping to deliver seamless hiring experience for candidates, hiring managers, interviewers and recruiters. You will manage interview scheduling, support recruiting operations, coordinate onboarding activities, and ensure the accuracy of candidate and hiring data.The Skills You Bring Strong scheduling and coordination experience.Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.Experience with Microsoft Outlook and Office products.Strong attention to detail and data accuracy.Ability to solve problems independently.Continuous improvement mindset and adaptability to new systems including Workday. The Value You Deliver Deliver an exceptional candidate experience.Drive hiring velocity through efficient scheduling.Maintain accurate hiring data and onboarding activities.Anticipate and resolve scheduling and process issues.Identify opportunities for process improvement and automation. Key Areas of Responsibility Own end-to-end interview scheduling and coordination for Ireland.Manage candidate, interviewer and hiring manager communications.Coordinate hiring events, assessment days and recruitment activities.Maintain candidate and hiring information within Workday.Support offer generation, onboarding and background screening progression.Lead daily recruiting operations stand-ups and hiring tracking activities.Maintain process documentation and support compliance activities.Partner with recruiters, hiring managers, HR Operations and candidates.Support graduate, campus and early careers hiring initiatives.Drive continuous improvement and automation opportunities. Qualifications & Experience Experience in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment Coordination, HR Administration or Operations Support.Experience with Outlook, Excel and Word.Workday experience is desirable.Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Senior Django Engineer – Payments & Subscriptions | Contract | Remote EU | | Immediate Start I'm working with a fast-scaling AI product company (millions of users across mobile, web and API products) that needs a senior Django contractor to take ownership of the pricing and subscription system at the core of their revenue. This is a genuinely high-ownership role: architecture through to shipped code through to watching your releases perform in production. Small senior team, direct CTO exposure, backend deployed multiple times a week. The workOwn the delivery and architecture of the pricing system used by every product surface and millions of usersOptimise existing endpoints — drive down latency, keep it scaling as usage growsDesign endpoints in direct collaboration with frontend engineers, with OpenAPI specs and supporting docsMonitor your own releases (Datadog) and iterate fast on real usage dataWork cross-functionally with product and frontend to ship seamless user experiencesYou'll need5+ years of hands-on Django and Django Rest Framework — this is a hard requirement, not "Python with some Django exposure"Relational databases at real scale: schema design, Django query optimisation, zero-downtime migrations on PostgreSQL/MySQL databases 100GB+Production experience with subscription and billing infrastructure — Stripe and/or RevenueCatA pragmatic, ship-fast mindset: speed of iteration over perfection, frameworks over reinventionStrong ownership — comfortable making product and technical decisions without hand-holdingFluent EnglishAvailable to start within 1–2 weeksDetailsContract, initial 3 months, strong likelihood of extensionFully remote (EU-based), occasional overlap with CET hoursFast process: short interview loop, quick decisionIf you've built or scaled billing and subscription systems in Django for a high-volume consumer product, I'd like to speak with you this week. Message me directly or apply with a current CV.

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

Network Engineer – Contract Position – HIRING ASAP Location: London – 1-2 days per week in office Start Date: ASAP Duration: 12 months Daily Rate: £350 - £450 per day PAYE Summary We are looking for an experienced Network Production Engineer skilled in tooling, networking, systems, and automation. Tasked with managing, provisioning, deploying, and integrating new products into one of the most robust, expansive, and intricate networks across the globe, this client relies heavily on automation to keep pace with scale requirements. In this position, your primary focus will be designing, building, and launching the vital tools and automation necessary for network provisioning, deployment, and global scaling. Collaborating with industry-leading engineers, you will create the systems and production code that power a massive global network and sustain the network infrastructure used daily by billions of people worldwide!RequirementsPython experienceFamiliar with AI toolsUnderstanding networking fundamentals, basics like SSH, BGP, MPLS7+ years of experience in software engineering, test automation, or infrastructure engineering.5+ years of experience developing software on Linux-based operating systems.3+ years of experience developing automation and tools for network provisioning, deployment, and operations.3+ years of experience developing and understanding network device configurations for at least one vendor (e.g., Arista, Juniper, Cisco, Ciena, Infinera, Nokia).ResponsibilitiesDesign and develop automation, tools, and workflows to facilitate the seamless integration of new routing and switching platforms into the network infrastructure (NPI).Architect and build end-to-end test automation frameworks, leveraging AI to generate, optimize, and execute test suites at scale for qualification of network platforms, new products (switches, routers, optical devices), and network software — integrating them into CI/CD pipelines for continuous qualification.Perform deep dives on complex technical issues across networks, ranging from automated tooling to hardware failures and network issues.

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