Product Owner – Identity Security & Authentication

We're seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead large-scale transformation initiatives within a fast-paced financial services environment. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in managing complex programmes, coordinating cross-functional teams, and delivering strategic business outcomes from initiation through implementation.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of transformation projects, including planning, scope management, governance, and execution.
• Develop and manage project plans, timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensure successful outcomes.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, manage interdependencies, and proactively resolve delivery challenges.
• Maintain effective oversight of project risks, issues, dependencies, and key decisions throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and drive Agile or hybrid delivery practices, including release planning and delivery cadence.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, providing clear communication, reporting, and alignment across business and technology teams.
• Ensure projects adhere to governance standards, regulatory requirements, and organisational controls.
• Oversee testing activities, implementation readiness, go-live planning, and post-deployment support.
• Monitor project performance, track key metrics, and measure delivery against expected business benefits.

About You

• 5–15 years of project management experience delivering complex transformation programmes, ideally within financial services.
• Demonstrated success managing large, cross-functional initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence at all organisational levels.
• Solid understanding of project governance, risk management, and delivery controls.
• Experience working with Agile, hybrid, or traditional project delivery methodologies.
• Professional certifications such as PMP, PRINCE2, or Agile are advantageous.

Location & Requirements

• Based onsite in Hong Kong.
• Professional fluency in English is required.
• Cantonese and Mandarin language skills are highly desirable.

A large global financial institution is looking for an M365 Copilot SME to lead the engineering, configuration, and governance of Copilot capabilities across its Microsoft 365 environment.

The organization operates across multiple countries and regions, with a strong focus on security, compliance, and responsible AI adoption. This role sits at the intersection of AI enablement, enterprise architecture, and end-user productivity.

This is an initial 12-month onsite contract role in Hong Kong.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and govern Copilot and agent solutions using Copilot Studio, including prompt design, knowledge grounding, and publishing controls

• Automate workflows and processes using Power Platform (Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse) to complement Copilot use cases

• Integrate Copilot and agents with enterprise data and services via Microsoft Graph API, ensuring correct authentication, permissions, and data access

• Implement enterprise-grade guardrails covering access controls, content boundaries, DLP, and information protection

• Measure adoption and productivity impact using Work IQ and telemetry; iterate on agent design based on data and user feedback

• Run end-to-end testing (functional, safety, regression) for prompts and agent solutions, and remediate issues as they arise

• Partner with data and platform teams to align Copilot scenarios to trusted data foundations, including Microsoft Fabric where applicable

Requirements:

• Hands-on experience delivering Copilot and/or agent solutions in a large, regulated enterprise environment

• Deep proficiency in Copilot Studio — connectors, actions, knowledge grounding, and lifecycle management

• Strong Power Platform skills across Power Automate, Power Apps, and Dataverse

• Practical experience integrating Microsoft Graph API across Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, mail, calendar, and identity scenarios

• Solid understanding of prompt engineering patterns, grounding strategies, and responsible AI principles

• Ability to define and track success metrics using Work IQ and related analytics tools

• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric for data sourcing, semantic modelling, and reporting

• Comfortable working across cultures and time zones in a global, matrixed organisation

Nice to have:

• Experience with enterprise change management and Copilot adoption programs

• Exposure to Microsoft Purview for data governance and compliance within Copilot environments

This is a strong fit for Microsoft AI practitioners who are equally comfortable in hands-on configuration and stakeholder engagement — and who can operate with confidence in a highly regulated, globally distributed environment.

About the job

We're looking for an autonomous back-end developer to own the engineering layer behind a Sales Performance Dashboard for a banking and financial services client, with particular emphasis on wealth management. This sits inside the Data & Analytics group, but it is an engineering build, not an analytics seat: the focus is shipping microservices and APIs that surface governed, entitlement-controlled data to dashboards and other consuming systems. The right candidate is comfortable navigating a layered bank data environment, owns problems end-to-end, and can turn shifting business asks into secure, production-grade technical solutions.

This is a 12-month contract onsite role in Hong Kong.

What You'll Be Doing

Backend & Microservices Engineering

• Architect, build, and operate the microservices layer that drives sales performance reporting
• Build secure, scalable REST APIs that connect this platform to other internal systems
• Hold services to production standards: performance, reliability, monitoring/observability, and clean operational practices

Data Ecosystem & Integration

• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to map how data moves end-to-end, including frontline workflows and finance-aligned metric definitions
• Connect to upstream and downstream sources, and help troubleshoot data quality issues affecting reporting
• Tune queries and access patterns so analytics/reporting workloads run efficiently in a banking context

Security, Access & Governance

• Build in strong protections for sensitive financial data
• Apply authorization models so what data a user sees lines up with their entitlements and governance rules

Stakeholder Engagement & Delivery

• Work directly with business stakeholders to pin down requirements and recommend workable technical approaches
• Partner with cross-functional teams, including offshore counterparts, to deliver in agile increments
• Adapt quickly to shifting priorities and push work through to completion without close supervision

What We're Looking For

Experience

• 5–8 years in backend/microservices engineering, API development, or other data-intensive engineering work
• Banking or financial services background strongly preferred; wealth management exposure (products, processes, or analytics) is a plus

Technical Skills

• Java + Spring Boot OR Python + FastAPI
• Strong REST API design, testing, and production-support experience

Data & Platform Fundamentals

• Comfortable working with relational/analytical data stores such as PostgreSQL, BigQuery, or similar
• Able to design, optimize, and debug queries and access patterns for reporting/analytics use cases

Engineering Practices

• Solid grounding in API security (OAuth/token-based auth, least-privilege access)
• Used to working in agile, iterative delivery cycles
• Comfortable with Git/GitHub for source control and team collaboration

Communication & Working Style

• Can explain technical trade-offs clearly to non-technical stakeholders, in writing and verbally
• Self-directed; comfortable diagnosing issues and driving toward resolution independently
• Reads/writes English fluently enough for daily collaboration with global teams

Nice to Have

• Frontend literacy (not required) enough to understand how backend/API choices ripple into the user experience
• Exposure to BI/dashboard tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or Looker
• Familiarity with GCP services (BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Cloud Functions) and/or containerized deployments
• Awareness of data security and regulatory expectations specific to banking

Senior Data Scientist (Contract)

Location: Dublin (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Duration: Initial 12-month contract

The Opportunity

My financial services client is looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join a product-focused engineering team developing AI and advanced analytics solutions. You'll work across the full data science lifecycle, helping design, build and deploy machine learning models that solve real business problems at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop and deploy machine learning and advanced analytics solutions.
• Build supervised and unsupervised ML models from concept through to production.
• Work closely with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Analyse large datasets to generate insights and improve product performance.
• Develop dashboards and visualisations using Tableau.
• Drive research into new AI, machine learning and analytical techniques.
• Lead technical delivery on complex data science initiatives.
• Mentor junior team members and promote best practices across the team.
• Ensure high-quality, scalable solutions are delivered on time.

Required Experience

• 5+ years' experience in Data Science or Machine Learning within a product or commercial environment.
• Strong understanding of machine learning, advanced analytics and statistical modelling.
• Excellent Python and SQL skills.
• Experience working with Spark and large-scale data processing.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and Databricks.
• Experience with Tableau or similar BI/visualisation tools.
• Knowledge of Hadoop technologies (Hive, Spark, Impala) is beneficial.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and communicate technical concepts clearly.

Reach out to imran.jiwo@nicollcurtin.com for more information

We're looking for a skilled professional to join a dynamic financial services environment, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver innovative, business-focused solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business challenges, define project scope, and establish measurable outcomes.
• Elicit, analyse, and document detailed business and functional requirements that are clear, complete, and testable.
• Evaluate existing business processes, identify improvement opportunities, and recommend practical, value-driven solutions.
• Lead workshops and facilitate discussions between business and technology teams to align on objectives and requirements.
• Contribute to Agile delivery by managing and refining product backlogs while supporting sprint planning and execution.
• Assess the impact of organisational change and help drive business readiness for new initiatives.
• Support system and user acceptance testing, ensuring solutions meet business expectations and quality standards.
• Prepare comprehensive documentation and assist with knowledge transfer to enable successful implementation.

About You

• 5–10 years of Business Analysis experience, ideally within the financial services sector.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate business needs into effective solutions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills across both business and technical audiences.
• Experience working on digital transformation or enterprise change initiatives.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Experience with data analysis or SQL is advantageous.

Location & Requirements

• Based onsite in Hong Kong.
• Professional fluency in English is essential.
• Cantonese and Mandarin language skills are highly desirable.

A global organisation is in the middle of a large, complex transformation. They need someone on the ground in Hong Kong to make sure it's done right and within the local reality — getting processes documented the right way, people genuinely ready for change, and leadership kept informed every step of the way.

You'll primarily work across three areas: shaping and reviewing how local processes are designed and documented, driving change management so adoption actually happens, and keeping governance tight so nothing gets lost between global and local.

Day to day, you'll be:

• Presenting process templates and methodology to local teams, then reviewing what they produce — checking for completeness, consistency, and the right level of detail
• Preparing and running local design workshops and post-playback configuration validation sessions
• Consolidating playback outputs and chasing open points until they're closed
• Maintaining the L4 Process Book, capturing local roles, interfaces, and any approved deviations from the global standard
• Running and refining Change Impact Assessments and building out the local Change Management Plan — covering communications, training, and readiness
• Preparing materials for local change activities and working alongside local Change Leads to get them executed
• Participating in weekly territory governance, tracking actions and decisions, and escalating risks or key decisions to the global programme when needed

You'll be a strong fit if you have:

• Solid experience on enterprise transformation programmes — ERP rollouts or similar global process standardisation work
• Hands-on ownership of L4 process documentation — swim lanes, role mapping, deviation handling — not just familiarity with it
• Change management artefacts you've personally built and delivered: impact assessments, change and training plans, readiness dashboards
• Experience reviewing and giving structured feedback on other people's process or change deliverables
• HK or APAC project background preferred
• HR programme experience is a plus; Prosci/ACMP certification and Cantonese/Mandarin are welcome bonuses

📍This is an urgent contract role and is based in Hong Kong.