Are you passionate about shaping the future of automation in the pharmaceutical industry? 
  
As an Automation Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and optimizing cutting-edge DeltaV control solutions that keep vital biopharma operations running safely, efficiently, and in full compliance. Leveraging your hands-on experience with process control systems and your deep understanding of GMP environments, you will contribute directly to the reliability and continuous improvement of highly regulated production facilities. Working on-site within a collaborative, international environment, you will transform technical requirements into robust, user-centric automation solutions that support long-term operational excellence. 
  
In this role, you will take ownership from concept to commissioning—designing and configuring DeltaV systems, supporting ongoing operations, and ensuring seamless integration with production, quality, and IT functions. You will drive troubleshooting efforts, develop clear and compliant technical documentation, and ensure all automation activities meet the highest regulatory standards. Beyond day-to-day operations, you will contribute to the continuous enhancement of automation platforms, identifying improvement opportunities and implementing sustainable technical solutions that enable stable, efficient, and compliant manufacturing processes. With the backing of a global and well-established organization, you’ll have the chance to expand your skills, explore new technologies, and grow your career in a dynamic environment. 
  
To excel in this position, you bring a degree in engineering, computer science, or a related discipline, along with several years of hands-on experience as an Automation Engineer in pharmaceutical or biopharma manufacturing. You have strong practical expertise with Emerson DeltaV—including coding, configuration, and troubleshooting—and a solid understanding of process control, batch operations, system integration, and GMP standards. Familiarity with GAMP 5 is an advantage. You combine analytical thinking and a solution-oriented approach with a readiness to work on-site and closely with cross-functional teams. If you’re looking to make an impact in a stable, international company with ample opportunities for development, this role offers the ideal platform to advance your career in pharmaceutical automation. 
  
For more information about this position please send your CV to me at Dmitrij.Geier@nicollcurtin.com or call directly under +41 43 215 45 14.

Automation Engineer

Dmitrij Geier

Are you an experienced Procurement / Purchasing Consultant?

 

Do you enjoy working on supplier management, procurement processes, and operational purchasing?

 

Then the role of Procurement / Purchasing Consultant might be a great fit for you!

 

Our client, a leading financial services organization, is looking for an expert to support them in supplier management and procurement operations.

 

As a Procurement / Purchasing Consultant, you will provide expertise in the domain of procurement, supplier onboarding, contract management, and operational purchasing.

 

Setting:

 

As part of the team, you will focus on providing the best possible solutions in procurement operations, working closely with internal stakeholders and suppliers to ensure smooth and compliant processes.

 

Focus:

 

<ul>
	<li>Creation and maintenance of suppliers in the procurement platform
	<li>Independently obtaining, evaluating, and negotiating prices and quotes up to a defined monetary threshold, as well as managing small to medium-sized procurements
	<li>Operational review, preparation, approval, and execution of contracts
	<li>Reviewing, processing, and completing purchase orders and digitally releasing them to suppliers (SAP SRM / e-Shop)
	<li>Responding to inquiries regarding orders from internal teams and suppliers
	<li>Helpdesk and company-wide operational procurement support
	<li>Operational management of various buying channels/tools, including procurement catalogs
	<li>Training and maintaining knowledge and process documentation related to the ordering process and procurement platforms
</ul>

 

Background / Required Experience:

 

<ul>
	<li>Initial work experience, preferably in indirect procurement (ideally in the financial industry)
	<li>Independent and structured working style, proactive and team-oriented
	<li>Negotiation skills (internal and external)
	<li>Sociable, communicative, and open-minded personality
	<li>Resilient and versatile personality
	<li>Loyal and discreet
	<li>IT affinity, particularly strong MS Office skills
	<li>Holistic process thinking and structured, analytical approach
	<li>Excellent verbal and written communication skills in German, and good skills in English
</ul>

 

Duration: This is a 12 month engagement with an option of internalisation.

 

Workload: 100%

 

For more information on this Procurement / Purchasing Consultant opportunity or any other roles

I am currently working on, please send your CV to:

 

📧 vuk.susa-stupar@nicollcurtin.com

 

📞+41 43 508 26 71

Procurement Buyer

<h3>Key Responsibilities</h3>

<ul>
	<li>
	Lead the end-to-end prototyping lifecycle for data and AI systems, from concept design to Proof-of-Concept development.
	
	<li>
	Develop and refine AI prototypes using novel techniques, with emphasis on LLM development, fine-tuning, optimisation, and real-world integration.
	
	<li>
	Produce clear, detailed technical documentation for experiments and prototypes.
	
	<li>
	Support and run innovation challenge activities to surface new ideas and prototype approaches.
	
	<li>
	Contribute technical thought leadership through papers, blogs, and presentations on AI best practices.
	
	<li>
	Participate in demos, technical showcases, and internal knowledge-sharing sessions.
	
	<li>
	Engage with global research and industry partners to stay current with emerging trends and represent the team at international forums.
	
</ul>

<hr>
<h3>Requirements</h3>

You should have at least 5 years of experience in two or more of the following domains:

<h4>AI Product Engineering / Prototyping</h4>

<ul>
	<li>
	Translating real-world problems into AI/ML problem statements.
	
	<li>
	Building ML/LLM models using modern AI libraries and techniques.
	
	<li>
	Deploying AI workflows to enhance product development or operational processes.
	
	<li>
	Assessing the effectiveness, scalability, and sustainability of AI workflows.
	
</ul>

<h4>Data Engineering</h4>

<ul>
	<li>
	Hands-on experience with data collection, ingestion, storage, transformation, and pipeline design.
	
	<li>
	Ability to map complex data sources, design data flows, and integrate multiple streams into usable datasets.
	
	<li>
	Familiarity with data management and optimisation practices.
	
</ul>

<h4>AI Ethics & Governance</h4>

<ul>
	<li>
	Applying ethical guidelines and governance frameworks in AI development.
	
	<li>
	Ensuring responsible and compliant use of AI in projects.
	
</ul>

<h4>Additional Attributes</h4>

<ul>
	<li>
	Experience commercialising or translating emerging technologies into practical applications.
	
	<li>
	Strong understanding of the practical limitations and challenges in AI and data systems.
	
	<li>
	Passion for hands-on experimentation and rapid prototyping.
	
	<li>
	Interest or experience in LLM development, model fine-tuning, agentic workflows, or generative AI applications.
	
</ul>

AI Scientist 

Are you an experienced Technical Project Lead with a strong background in electrical engineering, infrastructure systems, and hands-on coordination across multiple sites?

 

Do you enjoy leading technical projects, managing external partners, and ensuring that complex infrastructure environments run reliably and efficiently?

 

Then the role of Technical Project Lead could be an excellent opportunity for you!

 

We are supporting a leading telecommunications organisation that is looking for a Technical Project Lead to manage and coordinate projects across their technical infrastructure, including electrical systems, cooling and air-conditioning, fire protection, building automation, and security systems.

 

In this role, you will take ownership of end-to-end project coordination for new installations, upgrades, conversions, and decommissioning activities. Your work will directly support infrastructure stability, capacity planning, and cost efficiency across multiple key locations in Switzerland.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

 

Project Leadership & Coordination

<ul>
	<li>Leading and coordinating infrastructure projects across multiple sites
	<li>Defining and clarifying project scope, planning deliverables, and ensuring delivery within time, budget, and quality targets
	<li>Supporting lifecycle and budget planning for technical infrastructure
</ul>

 

Technical Responsibilities

<ul>
	<li>Ensuring optimal system performance for power supply, cooling/air conditioning, fire protection, building automation, and security installations
	<li>Contributing to the optimisation of infrastructure components to improve efficiency, stability, and operations
	<li>Providing second-level support and technical expertise to internal teams
</ul>

 

Vendor & Stakeholder Management

<ul>
	<li>Coordinating external specialists, including reviewing offers, ordering, supervising execution, and validating invoices
	<li>Managing documentation and ensuring all work is properly recorded according to internal standards
	<li>Acting as a technical point of contact for internal stakeholders
</ul>

 

Field Operations

<ul>
	<li>Maintaining a strong onsite presence (60–80%) across regions such as Basel, Bern, Valais, and Romandie
	<li>Supporting on-site interventions, inspections, and technical assessments
</ul>

 

To succeed in this role, you should bring:

 

Technical background

<ul>
	<li>Completed technical education in electrical engineering
	<li>Additional technical degree (FH/HF) or equivalent education
	<li>Experience working in ICT-related technical environments
	<li>Solid understanding of building systems, technical infrastructure, and operations
</ul>

 

Languages

<ul>
	<li>Fluent German
	<li>Fluent French
	<li>Fluent English
</ul>

 

Contract details

<ul>
	<li>Location: Zurich (Ambassador House)
	<li>Travel: 60–80% across Swiss sites
	<li>Start date: January 2026
	<li>Duration: 3-month Try & Hire contract
	<li>Workload: 100%
</ul>

 

If you want to hear more about this Technical Project Lead role, or other similar technical infrastructure opportunities, please reach out directly to:

📩 Sava.Ocokoljic@nicollcurtin.com

📞 +41 43 508 95 78

Technical Project Manager 

Are you an experienced Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager with a passion for building high-performing teams and driving Agile transformation?

 

Do you enjoy coaching teams, removing obstacles, and helping organizations shift from traditional delivery models to modern Agile ways of working?

 

Then the role of Scrum Master could be a great opportunity for you!

 

We are supporting a leading private bank in Luxembourg that is looking for a Scrum Master to guide their teams through an Agile transformation within the IT Governance, Risk, Compliance & Portfolio Management function.

 

In this role, you will act as a servant leader and Agile coach, helping teams adopt Agile principles, improve collaboration, and consistently deliver value. You will play a key role in evolving the team's way of working, fostering self-organization, transparency, discipline, and high performance.

 

Your responsibilities will include:

 

<ul>
	<li>Leading and facilitating Agile ceremonies, events, and artifacts
	<li>Coaching Agile teams through their transformation journey
	<li>Supporting Product Owners in backlog and product management
	<li>Organizing quarterly planning sessions and facilitating team breakouts
	<li>Managing dependencies and coordinating with other teams
	<li>Collaborating with stakeholders to ensure clear priorities and shared understanding
	<li>Identifying and removing impediments and supporting conflict resolution
	<li>Promoting best practices, quality standards, and data-driven performance improvements
	<li>Managing team capacity and delivery progress
	<li>Acting as a change agent to promote Agile culture and behaviours
	<li>Managing small projects in scope of the Agile team and adhering to internal project delivery frameworks
</ul>

 

To succeed in this role, you should bring:

 

<ul>
	<li>Scrum Master certification (mandatory)
	<li>Proven experience as a Scrum Master or Agile Project Manager
	<li>Strong understanding of Agile delivery, coaching, facilitation, and continuous improvement
	<li>Knowledge of tools such as JIRA, Confluence, Miro, and other Agile collaboration platforms
	<li>Good understanding of the software lifecycle and operational management
	<li>Experience in the IT or financial services sector
	<li>Experience with Temenos Core Banking (T24 / TAP) is a strong advantage
	<li>Excellent English skills and basic German skills are required; French or other languages are an advantage
</ul>

 

This is a 100% workload contract position based in Luxembourg, starting ASAP, with an open-ended duration.

Scrum Master

Our financial services client is working on something fresh in the digital asset space, a greenfield project that’s focused on innovation and impact in the blockchain domain. You’ll be designing and delivering secure, scalable solutions from the ground up. It’s a hands-on role in a fast-moving environment where your ideas will help shape both the product and the tech stack. If you value ownership and enjoy working with curious, collaborative people, this could be a great fit. 
 
What You’ll Do

<ul>
	<li>
	Build large-scale, secure applications that can handle serious traffic.
	
	<li>
	Architect cloud-native solutions on AWS using microservices, APIs, and containers.
	
	<li>
	Work across the stack with Python, Rust, TypeScript or Go, plus frameworks like Next.js, Django, and React.
	
	<li>
	Design and optimise data systems, think relational DBs, ORMs, and analytics tools like Elasticsearch or Snowflake.
	
	<li>
	Partner with product and design teams to turn ideas into reality.
	
	<li>
	Drive agile practices, rapid prototyping, and smooth CI/CD pipelines.
	
	<li>
	Mentor engineers and keep technical standards high.
	
</ul>

 
What We’re Looking For

<ul>
	<li>
	8+ years building and scaling production-grade software.
	
	<li>
	5+ years designing cloud-native apps on AWS.
	
	<li>
	Strong experience with data modelling, ORMs, and distributed systems.
	
	<li>
	Proficiency in modern languages (Python, Rust, Go or TypeScript) and full-stack development.
	
	<li>
	Ability to lead technical discussions and influence architecture decisions.
	
	<li>
	Comfortable in fast-moving environments with shifting priorities.
	
	<li>
	Bonus if you’re curious about DeFi and blockchain (not a dealbreaker).
	
	<li>
	Bonus for candidates with a "start-up mindset"
	
	<li>
	Degree in CS or Engineering is nice to have, but not essential.
	
</ul>

 
Details

<ul>
	<li>
	70,000€ + 15% bonus
	
	<li>
	Dublin
	
	<li>
	Hybrid (3 weeks remote / 1 week on-site)
	
	<li>
	Only candidates with Stamp 4, Irish or EU citizenship can be considered
	
</ul>

Senior Software Engineer 

We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to play a key role in shaping the next generation of a global platform serving users across Europe and the US. If you’re passionate about building systems that are fast, secure, and reliable, and you have a strong interest in modern AWS serverless technologies, this could be the right opportunity for you. 
 
In this role, you’ll take ownership of infrastructure and automation, enabling developers to work more efficiently. You’ll collaborate with a distributed engineering team and enjoy a mix of flexibility, autonomy, and continuous learning. 
 
What You’ll Do
<ul>
	<li>Keep AWS and serverless stack (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, IAM) running smoothly.
	<li>Deploy and manage infrastructure using Terraform or CloudFormation.
	<li>Monitor health, respond to alerts, and troubleshoot issues proactively.
	<li>Handle incident response and participate in blameless postmortems.
	<li>Build dashboards, configure alerts, and improve observability.
	<li>Implement security best practices and manage IAM policies.
	<li>Optimize serverless architecture for performance and cost.
	<li>Support cross-region reliability and failover capabilities.
</ul>
 
What We’re Looking For

<ul>
	<li>5+ years in Infrastructure, DevOps, or SRE roles.
	<li>Strong AWS experience (Lambda, API Gateway, ECS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch).
	<li>Hands-on with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
	<li>Familiarity with observability tools (ELK, Datadog, Prometheus).
	<li>Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar).
	<li>Security-first mindset and solid troubleshooting skills.
	<li>Comfortable with on-call rotation and out-of-hours support.
	<li>Experience working in a SaaS environment
</ul>
 
Bonus Points For:

<ul>
	<li>Experience with Clerk, Inngest, Vercel, Kafka, or similar platforms.
	<li>Knowledge of FinOps principles and AWS cost optimization.
	<li>Familiarity with compliance frameworks (ISO27001, SOC 2, GDPR).
</ul>

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Are you an experienced Data Analyst with strong skills in metadata management, data modelling, and enterprise data governance?

 

Do you enjoy working closely with business and IT stakeholders to define data requirements and build high-quality data dictionaries and data models?

 

Then the role of Data Analyst (Digital Business Transformation) could be the right next step for you!

 

We are supporting a leading private bank in Luxembourg that is looking for a Data Analyst to support the Digital Business Transformation function. In this role, you will be responsible for developing, curating, and documenting critical data dictionaries, data models, and metadata, ensuring full alignment with internal standards and enterprise data governance requirements.

 

You will collaborate with stakeholders across the organization to capture business definitions, data structures, data flows, and model relationships within key data domains. A key focus of the role is to prepare and maintain conceptual, logical, and physical data models, while coordinating with the central data management team to validate and upload metadata into the Enterprise Data Catalogue.

 

To succeed in this role, you should bring:

 

<ul>
	<li>Proven experience as a Business Analyst and Data Analyst
	<li>Hands-on experience with metadata management
	<li>Knowledge of data governance tools such as Collibra
	<li>Experience with data modelling tools such as Hackolade
	<li>Strong understanding of data dictionaries, data structures, and data flows
</ul>

 

This is a full-time 10 month contracting role based in Luxembourg.

 

Fluency in English (C1/C2) is required.

 

If you want to hear more about this Data Analyst role, or similar opportunities I may have, please reach out directly to:

 

📩 Sava.Ocokoljic@nicollcurtin.com

📞+41 43 508 95 78

Data Analyst

I have a brand new permanent opportunity with a financial services client of mine based in Galway. This will be a hybrid position, with a requirement to be onsite 1 week per month (3 weeks fully remote from Ireland).

Required Qualifications

<ul>
	<li>Minimum 5 years of software development experience using Python, NodeJS, or Java, with emphasis on SDLC and automation.
	<li>5 years of experience in AWS cloud development and migration, including building and operating highly resilient platforms.
</ul>

Preferred Skills & Experience

<ul>
	<li>Practical expertise with containers (Kubernetes) and serverless applications (Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB, S3).
	<li>Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform and AWS CloudFormation.
	<li>Strong background in CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins Core.
	<li>Proficiency in scripting with PowerShell or Bash/Unix shell scripting.
	<li>Solid understanding of Linux administration, networking, and load balancing.
</ul>

 

Key Responsibilities

<ul>
	<li>Collaborate with application teams to support deployment activities.
	<li>Design and maintain shared pipeline utilities for cross-team use.
	<li>Administer AWS cloud accounts and perform ongoing maintenance tasks.
	<li>Develop reusable code templates and document standardized procedures.
	<li>Monitor infrastructure for performance optimization and cost efficiency.
	<li>Participate in scheduled on-call rotations to provide operational support.
</ul>

*You must be based in Ireland, hold a stamp 4/EU Citizenship to be considered*

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