We are looking for an Application Manager or Application Specialist to join our client. You’ll play a vital role in keeping complex, business-critical applications running smoothly.

<ul>
	<li>Act as the central link between business users, IT teams, and external software providers
	<li>Translate business needs into technical solutions by managing updates, releases, and testing processes
	<li>Drive the evolution of applications — ensuring performance, uptime, and cost-efficiency
	<li>Implement automation and continuous integration strategies using DevOps practices
</ul>

Requirements:

<ul>
	<li>Solid experience in application management
	<li>Hands-on background in both development and application operations, ideally with exposure to DevOps
	<li>Familiarity with programming languages
	<li>Skilled in requirements engineering and writing functional specifications
	<li>Excellent command of German and English
</ul>

Application Manager 

We are seeking an IT Support Specialist for our client in Lucerne. If you have a strong background in 1st and 2nd level support, especially within Microsoft environments (with a focus on M365), this could be the perfect role for you!

Your Responsibilities:

<ul>
	<li>Managing the intake, categorization, and resolution of support requests
	<li>Setting up and maintaining IT hardware for new and existing employees
	<li>Collaborating with 2nd level support teams and external suppliers to resolve issues
	<li>Assisting in the training and mentoring of apprentices
</ul>

Requirements:

<ul>
	<li>Completed apprenticeship as a Computer Scientist EFZ or equivalent training
	<li>Proven experience in IT support, particularly in mentoring and guiding apprentices
	<li>Experience with M365
	<li>Fluency in German min C1 level
</ul>

If you are interested in this role please send your latest CV to nevena.jerinic@nicollcurtin.com

IT Support

Nevena Jerinic

<div style="text-align: justify;">My client is a leading Global DeFi proprietary trading firm that prides itself on its state-of-the-art Technology and Infrastructure as well as its rigorous Mathematical approach to portfolio construction and trading.  They are seeking an experienced Quant/HF Trader experienced in researching signals, building alpha-models, developing and executing strategies to lead the research, development, deployment, and execution of various high-frequency, market-neutral trading strategies.</div>
 
Responsibilities

<ul>
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;">Design, implement, and refine on-chain trading strategies, reducing latency to improve tick-to-trade to fill orders. 
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;">Conduct thorough market analysis to identify trading opportunities, leveraging data from blockchain networks and decentralised exchanges.
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;">Build real-time, automated trading algorithms that interact directly with smart contracts and decentralised protocols.
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;">Leverage custom datasets and analytics tooling to guide model development and execution logic.
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;">Deploy robust risk frameworks to ensure capital efficiency and downside protection in volatile markets. 
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt;">Work closely with other traders, developers, and data scientists to enhance trading models, share insights, and drive collective success.
</ul>
 
Requirements

<ul>
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Excellent academic record from a highly reputable university, Masters or PhD preferred, in Mathematics, Physics, Operational Research or related fields of study. 
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Minimum 8 years’ experience in Quantitative Trading, preferably in a market-making or latency-sensitive context. Quant Strats with Delta-Neutral, Delta 1, Vol, and Market Making background are desired too. 
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Does not need to be Crypto, but they need to be willing to move into it.
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Strong programming skills in Python and TypeScript, Rust skills and experience will be highly advantageous. A familiarity with Solidity and smart contracts is a plus.
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Curiosity and conviction about crypto and decentralised markets, immediate experience in crypto is a plus, not essential, but a willingness to move into the space is. 
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Excellent problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and exploiting trading opportunities.
	<li style="text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 36.0pt;">Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and evolving market structures, and to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
</ul>

Senior Quant Trader - Crypto

My client is a Hong Kong based Asset Management Company with a solid and formidable track record managing hedge funds and long only funds. Currently seeking Senior Operations Manager to manage Daily Fund Operations & NAV Preparation and Reconciliation, reporting to while assisting the COO with compliance work, you will be responsible for the following. 
 
Responsibilities 
 Daily fund operations
<ul>
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Responsible for all corporate actions while overseeing the daily work of 2 juniors
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Manage trade entry and affirmation process (via PMS), and monitor trade settlements
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Custodian and Prime Broker reconciliations 
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Liaise with prime brokers, fund administrator and system vendors on break resolution
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Cash management - margin and collateral, facilitating payments
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 36.0pt;">Monitor short positions and fulfil disclosure obligations
</ul>
NAV Preparation and Reconciliation 

<ul>
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Weekly NAV estimates
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Point of liaison with prime brokers and fund administrator
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">NAV and P/L review, ensure accuracy of accounting entries against fund administrator
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Checker of monthly fund valuation
	<li style="margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Calculating investor and distributor fee rebates
</ul>

<ul>
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Monitor fund capital activities 
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Streamline operations process, look for deficiencies and improvements.
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Work along with Risk and Finance on operations control and annual fund audit
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Ad-hoc projects (e.g. investors due diligence, broker onboarding)
</ul>
 
Requirements

<ul>
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Degree holder in Accounting and Finance or related discipline
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">3-6 years of relevant work experience in Fund Accounting and/or Hedge Fund Operations
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Basic understanding of financial products (Options, Fixed Income, Swaps, NDFs)
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Solid knowledge/experience with PMS systems, proficient in Microsoft Office, with Python skills being highly beneficial
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 36.0pt;">Highly motivated with a “can do” attitude, ability to multi-task and innovative, with great attention to detail.
	<li style="margin-top: 0.0cm;margin-right: 0.0cm;margin-bottom: 0.0cm;text-align: justify;margin: 0.0cm 0.0cm 8.0pt 36.0pt;">Fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin
</ul>

Senior Operations Manager

Site Reliability Engineer - DevOps – Financial Services, CI/CD, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Splunk

 

I’m looking for a DevOps Engineer for a leading consulting company based in London. You need to have strong experience with DevOps and Development within production, supporting multiple applications. You need to have experience working on Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (CI/CD).

 

Key Skills

<ul>
	<li>CI/CD
	<li>Python
	<li>AWS
	<li>Banking experience
</ul>

 

Hybrid 3 days per week from Battersea.

 

Offering up to £70k salary.

 

Must hold British or EU Citizenship or ILR - no sponsorship available.

 

Site Reliability Engineer - DevOps – Financial Services, CI/CD, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, Splunk

SRE - DevOps 

Are you an experienced Senior JAVA software engineer with a passion for clean code? Have you been involved in the rearchitecture of large monolithic applications into Microservices? Are you interested in becoming part of a team that is responsible for API development, which enables developers to develop their own microservices? If so, this could be the perfect Senior JAVA Software Engineer job for you!

You will join a specialist team based in Zurich take responsibility for API development. The team developed an integration engine that enables developers to develop their own microservices. They are a crack team that take responsibility for digitalisation efforts.

They do this by following a strict Agile approach to development, making use of high test coverage and also Cucumber for BDD. The core competencies are strong JAVA development skills, good knowledge of the Spring framework (Boot, Integration), microservices and Kafka for streaming. Given the nature of their work, there is containerization using Docker & Kubernetes and their cloud provider is AWS.

As part of this team you will get the best of both worlds in the sense that you will work for a large well funded firm, but get to operate without as much of the classic red tape associated with a large environment.

The company has a very flexible work from home policy, you are expected to be available to come to the office when needed but otherwise are flexible.  
 
You will ideally speak fluent German, however candidates will be considered without the language skills.

If you are interested in finding out more about this Senior JAVA Software engineer job, please send your CV to yves.amar@nicollcurtin.com or alternatively you can call me on 044 5785 330.

JAVA Developer

I have a new role for a senior platform engineer with a financial services client of mine based in Galway. This role will fall within the application/infrastructure security team, therefore allowing you to gain knowledge and experience in the cybersecurity area. 
 

Skills required:

<ul>
	<li>Cloud/Devops experience and data skills
	<li>Experience in automation and CI/CD pipeline implementation.
	<li>Knowledge of application security (e.g., Pen Testing, SCA, SAST, DAST) and API protocols (REST, SOAP, GraphQL, etc.) is a plus
	<li>Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 and secure coding practices
</ul>

Responsibilities:

<ul>
	<li>Develop and maintain security tools for CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
	<li>Evaluate and leverage technologies to eliminate application vulnerabilities.
	<li>Improve automation, test coverage, and production health.
	<li>Collaborate with business partners to deliver effective solutions.
	<li>Document and share processes to promote knowledge transfer.
</ul>

Senior Platform Engineer

We're looking for a Strategic Partnerships Manager knowledgeable about the Gaming industry and how developers can maximise revenue by leveraging on platforms and other tech tools and services. This role will focus on the Greater China Region, and is based in the Singapore office.

 

Responsibilities:

<ul>
	<li>Think creatively with prominent companies in the gaming industry to build durable, long-term, and scaled partnerships by understanding their strategy and goals
	<li>Represent the company and provide thought leadership and perspectives in external meetings with partner executives
	<li>Drive adoption and integration of new features from gaming platforms
	<li>Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, design, marketing, and finance
	<li>Track, analyze and communicate key quantitative metrics and business trends as they relate to partner relationships at scale
	<li>Use analysis and gaming industry expertise to source and develop new partner opportunities
	<li>Manage and consult existing partners on building up their success on the platform.
	<li>Adapt quickly to product changes and limitations, and communicate these strategically to stakeholders both internally and externally
</ul>

 

Requirements:

<ul>
	<li>Relevant experience in business development or account management
	<li>Degree in a highly quantitative field, such as Economics, Business Commerce, or equivalent experience preferred
	<li>Understanding or prior experience of the Greater China Region
	<li>Experience working effectively and cross-functionally with all levels of management, both internally and externally
	<li>Ability to define, initiate and drive business opportunities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
	<li>Good understanding of the internet industry
	<li>Deep domain knowledge of the gaming industry preferred
	<li>Ability to handle day to day operational work to also structure, negotiate, and maintain significant and complex strategic relationships with game companies advantageous
	<li>Ability to identify and leverage trends within industry of expertise/focus
</ul>

 

This is a contract role based in Singapore.

Strategic Partnerships Manager, Gaming (Greater China Region)

Are you passionate about solving complex problems with data? We’re looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our client’s team in Singapore and drive impactful solutions in the financial services space.

Responsibilities:

<ul>
	<li>
	Develop and deploy machine learning models using supervised and unsupervised learning techniques.
	
	<li>
	Apply outlier and anomaly detection methods to improve risk monitoring and business decision-making.
	
	<li>
	Work with large, complex datasets to deliver actionable insights for high-stakes projects.
	
	<li>
	Collaborate with cross-functional teams (business, technology, and compliance) to translate requirements into data-driven solutions.
	
	<li>
	Contribute to the continuous improvement of data science practices and methodologies within the team.
	
</ul>

Requirements:

<ul>
	<li>
	5–8 years of hands-on data science experience in a banking or financial services setting.
	
	<li>
	Strong expertise in machine learning (supervised, unsupervised, anomaly detection).
	
	<li>
	Proficiency in Python, R, SQL, and modern ML libraries (e.g., Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, PyTorch).
	
	<li>
	Analytical mindset with experience handling large and complex datasets.
	
	<li>
	Strong communication and stakeholder management skills to explain models and insights clearly.
	
</ul>

Nice to Have

<ul>
	<li>
	Experience in banking, financial crime, AML/KYC, or network link analytics.
	
	<li>
	Knowledge of MAS/HKMA AML/CFT regulatory requirements.
	
	<li>
	Familiarity with cloud data platforms and MLOps practices.
	
</ul>

Data Scientist

A Global technology company at the forefront of innovation in digital content is looking for a detail-oriented and proactive Talent Acquisition Resourcer to help identify and engage exceptional talent for a fast-growing creative production studio.

 

THIS IS A 1 YEAR CONTRACT ROLE SUBJECT TO CONVERSION OR EXTENSION BASED ON PERFORMANCE AND BUSINESS NEEDS

 

In this role, you’ll work closely with recruiters and hiring managers, supporting both immediate and long-term hiring needs in a high-paced, dynamic environment.

 

<ul>
	<li>Partner with recruiters to identify and source candidates, leveraging innovative methods to find niche skill sets and emerging talent beyond traditional platforms.
	<li>Conduct in-depth market research and talent mapping to build pipelines for immediate and future hiring needs.
	<li>Gather and share market insights to inform recruitment strategies and decision-making.
	<li>Provide candidates with role information and guidance, ensuring a smooth and professional hiring experience.
	<li>Manage multiple administrative and coordination tasks while meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
</ul>

 

Requirements

 

<ul>
	<li>Around 2+ years of experience in recruitment, sourcing, or talent research.
	<li>Strong English & Korean communication skills for working with global teams.
	<li>Preferably someone who has sourced for Global MNCs or Technology companies across various verticals.
	<li>Curious, resourceful, and able to go beyond surface-level profiles to uncover hidden talent.
	<li>Highly organized, detail-focused, and comfortable managing multiple priorities.
	<li>Previous experience with specialized or niche hiring is a plus, especially in creative or technical industries.
</ul>

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