Senior Quant Risk Analyst

Principal Software Architect – Cloud & Software Platforms
📍 Location: Zurich, Switzerland | 💰 Salary: CHF 130’000–135’000 base + 20% bonus
🏡 Work model: Hybrid (2 days/week remote, flexible)

A high-impact opportunity is available for a Principal Software Architect with a strong background in software development and a deep, hands-on understanding of cloud-first architectures. This role is perfect for someone who combines technical strategy with real coding experience, and who thrives on working closely with engineering teams to deliver robust, scalable solutions.

You’ll lead the design and implementation of secure, cloud-native architectures, collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure high performance and reliability. You’ll work with Azure or AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines, and support data-driven initiatives through Snowflake, Databricks, and visualization tools like Power BI or Grafana. Your hands-on knowledge of C#, Java, Python, .NET, Node.js, and modern frontend frameworks such as React or Angular will be crucial.

We're looking for someone with 10+ years of experience in architecture and development who can confidently bridge technical detail with business priorities. You should be fluent in German and English (C1+), and comfortable with occasional on-site visits 🚗.

This role offers a competitive package: CHF 130’000–135’000 base salary, a 20% bonus, flexible working hours, and a hybrid setup with two remote days per week (negotiable based on project needs). You’ll be part of a collaborative, modern, and forward-thinking tech team solving impactful challenges every day 🌍🚀.

I have a brand new contract role (6 month initial) with a financial services client of mine based in Galway. This will be paying up to €500 per day.

Key Skills:

• Extensive hands-on experience designing and building software systems
• Deep familiarity with modern database platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Oracle)
• Proficiency in object-oriented programming, Python preferred
• Solid experience with cloud ecosystems, AWS preferred
• Expertise in developing scalable ETL pipelines and data workflows
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and DevOps practices (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub, Docker, Terraform)
• Understanding of messaging and queuing systems (e.g., SQS, SNS, Artemis MQ)
• Experience with job orchestration and batch processing tools (e.g., Control-M, AWS Batch)

*Please note you must have a Stamp 4/EU citizenship to be considered*

• Design, implement, and refine on-chain trading strategies, reducing latency to improve tick-to-trade to fill orders.
• Conduct thorough market analysis to identify trading opportunities, leveraging data from blockchain networks and decentralised exchanges.
• Build real-time, automated trading algorithms that interact directly with smart contracts and decentralised protocols.
• Leverage custom datasets and analytics tooling to guide model development and execution logic.
• Deploy robust risk frameworks to ensure capital efficiency and downside protection in volatile markets. 
• Work closely with other traders, developers, and data scientists to enhance trading models, share insights, and drive collective success.

• Excellent academic record from a highly reputable university, Masters or PhD preferred, in Mathematics, Physics, Operational Research or related fields of study.
• 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.
• Does not need to be Crypto, but they need to be willing to move into it.
• 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.
• 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.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and exploiting trading opportunities.
• Ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and evolving market structures, and to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

• Responsible for all corporate actions while overseeing the daily work of 2 juniors
• Manage trade entry and affirmation process (via PMS), and monitor trade settlements
• Custodian and Prime Broker reconciliations
• Liaise with prime brokers, fund administrator and system vendors on break resolution
• Cash management - margin and collateral, facilitating payments
• Monitor short positions and fulfil disclosure obligations

• Weekly NAV estimates
• Point of liaison with prime brokers and fund administrator
• NAV and P/L review, ensure accuracy of accounting entries against fund administrator
• Checker of monthly fund valuation
• Calculating investor and distributor fee rebates

• Monitor fund capital activities
• Streamline operations process, look for deficiencies and improvements.
• Work along with Risk and Finance on operations control and annual fund audit
• Ad-hoc projects (e.g. investors due diligence, broker onboarding)

• Degree holder in Accounting and Finance or related discipline
• 3-6 years of relevant work experience in Fund Accounting and/or Hedge Fund Operations
• Basic understanding of financial products (Options, Fixed Income, Swaps, NDFs)
• Solid knowledge/experience with PMS systems, proficient in Microsoft Office, with Python skills being highly beneficial
• Highly motivated with a “can do” attitude, ability to multi-task and innovative, with great attention to detail.
• Fluency in English, Cantonese and Mandarin

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

• CI/CD
• Python
• AWS
• Banking experience

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

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.

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

Requirements:

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

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.

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:

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

Responsibilities:

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