Senior Business Analyst

Squad Leader – Product Manager | Permanent | Galway | 95k - 110k base salary + bonus of 30%

We’re looking for an experienced Squad Leader – Product Manager for our leading client, a great opportunity to lead an agile squad, drive innovation in contact centre technologies, and deliver first-class experiences for associates and members.

Galway, Ireland

EU Passport or Stamp 4 required

Permanent / Hybrid

95k - 110k base salary + bonus of 30%

What you bring:

✔️ 8–10 years’ experience in product management, systems/product development, or project/product leadership.

✔️Experience working in a large regulated industry, ideally in financial services contact centres/call centres.

✔️ Agile experience and ability to work iteratively.

✔️ Strong influencing, leadership, and collaboration skills.

✔️ Curiosity, adaptability, and a continuous improvement mindset.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and inspire an agile squad with clear mission, priorities, and goals.
• Partner with leaders to define strategy, resources, and roadmaps.
• Ensure platforms and services are stable, scalable, and continuously improved.
• Act as the voice of clients and partners, guiding execution with a data-driven approach.
• Make informed trade-offs balancing quality, cost, and timelines.
• Coach, mentor, and empower team members to excel in an agile, innovative culture.

EU passport or Stamp 4 required

If this sounds like a good fit for you – or if you know someone in your network who might be interested – feel free to reach out or share!

📩 Contact me at:

jelena.mijajlovic@nicollcurtin.com

We're looking for an experienced Scrum Master (10+ years) to join one of the top players in the financial sector! You’ll be part of a high-performing agile environment focused on value delivery, coaching, and continuous improvement.

📍Galway-based | Hybrid (3 weeks WFH, 1 week in-office per month)

📅 1year contract opportunity

👉 Stamp 4 visa or EU passport required

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate agile ceremonies and maintain backlog
• Manage blockers, risks, dependencies, and release plans
• Drive team performance using metrics and continuous improvement
• Collaborate with leaders and stakeholders to ensure delivery
• Mentor and coach squads to improve agile maturity

Skills & Experience

• Proven Scrum Master experience in software development teams
• Certified Scrum Master (CSM) required
• Strong knowledge of agile practices and delivery management
• Advanced Jira expertise and familiarity with agile tools
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Our client is looking for a Security Analyst for an exciting contract role in Galway!

Details below:

📍 Location: Galway

🗓️ Contract role

✅ Stamp 4 or EU Passport required

🏠 Hybrid working model: 3 weeks remote, 1 week onsite – perfect balance of flexibility and collaboration

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years software engineering experience, with strong focus on Application/API Security
• Solid knowledge of API protocols and frameworks (REST, SOAP, GraphQL, gRPC)
• Expertise in Authentication & Authorization protocols like OAuth2, OIDC, JWT
• Familiarity with OWASP API Security Top 10 and secure coding practices
• Experience with API Security testing tools (DAST, AST) and runtime protection is a plus

What you’ll deliver:

• Lead API security solution deployment end-to-end
• Collaborate with dev, ops, and security teams for smooth integration
• Monitor and optimize platform security performance
• Help integrate API security into CI/CD pipelines

Please reach out or apply via email!

jelena.mijajlovic@nicollcurtin.com

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Principal Software Engineer

We're looking for a seasoned Principal Software Engineer to join a cross-functional Agile team building scalable, high-availability communication platforms (voice, email, chat) used by millions of users globally. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on delivering impactful solutions in a modern, cloud-native environment.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain scalable APIs and microservices

• Own and enhance platform architecture with a focus on availability and resilience

• Work with tools like Java, Python, Ansible, Kafka, Docker/Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines

• Contribute to cloud transformation (AWS or Azure)

• Collaborate in an Agile environment, championing clean code and TDD

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience

• Deep knowledge of Java and experience with cloud-native development

• Strong understanding of CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and event-driven architecture

• Experience working across the full tech stack and troubleshooting complex systems

• A mindset that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement

Ready to take the lead on critical platforms serving millions? Apply now and help us build the future of customer engagement.

We're looking for an experienced Scrum Master (8+ years) to join one of the top players in the financial sector! You’ll be part of a high-performing agile environment focused on value delivery, coaching, and continuous improvement.

Dublin-based | Hybrid (3 weeks WFH, 1 week in-office per month)

Contract opportunity

Stamp 4 visa or EU passport required

What you will do:

🔹 Collaborate closely with Product Owners and cross-functional teams

🔹 Drive agile ceremonies and remove delivery obstacles

🔹 Leverage tools like Jira, Confluence, and agile metrics to support delivery

🔹 Champion agile principles and team development

🔹 Be part of a strong, supportive Scrum Master Chapter

If you thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments and are passionate about agile delivery – let's chat!

📩 Reach out to me at: jelena.mijajlovic@nicollcurtin.com

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join one of our leading clients in the financial services industry, located in Galway. You’ll be working on both client and server-side development within a collaborative Agile environment, helping to shape future-ready solutions in a complex and fast-moving domain.

What we're looking for:

✔ 7+ years of software development experience

✔ Strong hands-on experience with Java, Spring Boot, and REST APIs

✔ Proven knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools

✔ Experience with Angular is a plus

✔ Comfortable working in Agile/Scrum and distributed team environments

✔ Familiarity with database technologies

What you'll be doing:

🔹 Designing and delivering high-quality, maintainable software solutions in an Agile environment

🔹 Contributing to automation testing and CI/CD pipeline improvements

🔹 Supporting AWS pipeline management and deployments

🔹 Participating in design/code reviews and collaborating with cross-functional teams

🔹 Engaging with business partners to understand requirements and deliver effective technical solutions

🔹 Providing production support when required

📍 Location: Galway (Hybrid)

📄 Type: Contract

🌍 EU passport or Stamp 4 visa required

If this sounds like the right fit, feel free to apply directly or reach out for more information. Referrals are also welcome!

jelena.mijajlovic@nicollcurtin.com

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join our team!

Our development teams are highly collaborative and encourage creativity, innovation, and excellence. Your experience, skills, and input will be critical to our shared success.

The Expertise We’re Looking For
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
• Advanced development experience, building enterprise applications using Java, Spring/Spring boot, Python, REST APIs, Swagger, Postgres, SQL
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS cloud deployment/application management is a plus
• Experience building and deploying applications using continuous integration pipelines and automated deployment tools such as Jenkins/Jenkins Core
• Experience using source control and pull requests for collaborative development in code repository tools such as GitHub
• Experience with testing and test automation libraries/strategies such as Selenium, Cucumber is a plus
• Experience designing, developing and testing using Angular is a plus
• Strong communications and problem-solving skills
• Experience working in an Agile Scrum development environment
• You will work closely with the product owner, scrum master, systems analyst, architects, tech leads and other software engineers to design, build, test, and deliver a new application for cloud, building new features and helping to shape the direction and technical implementation of the product

The Value You Deliver
• Work within a multi-functional team to understand project objectives, use cases and systems design requirements
• Work closely with technology and business partners to design and build new features
• Deliver high quality code, with high test coverage
• Ensure software solutions in your assigned area are robust, resilient and stable
• Help to maintain code quality, security, organisation, and automation
• Look beyond individual business requirements considering the overall solution
• You are a collaborative teammate who can work independently across local and distributed teams
• Build positive relationships within and across teams and share your knowledge with your colleagues

We are looking for a self-driven engineer to help scale our growing public cloud presence. The team is responsible for cross-cutting cloud management capabilities and are the experts on the state of cloud platforms at any moment. The team comes from diverse technical backgrounds, and the responsibilities provide opportunity for a variety of challenges that require engineers to work on software and systems challenges. Ideal candidates will have a background in either software engineering or systems engineering with a desire to learn the other or previous experience as an SRE. As a Site Reliable Engineering in the Cloud domain, you will have the opportunity to shape the cloud operations that support over 30 million investors and their financial futures.

The Expertise We’re Looking For 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technology related field (e.g. Engineering, Computer Science, etc.) required, Master’s degree a plus
• 4+ years of hands-on experience deploying and/or supporting highly distributed multi-tiered systems at scale.
• Hands-on experience with Public Cloud environments, preferably AWS and Azure. Certifications a plus.
• Experience with container orchestration, preferably with Kubernetes
• Collaboration and Relationships - Ability to work with a variety of individuals and groups, both in person and virtually, in a constructive and collaborative manner and build and maintain effective relationships
• Overall 8+ years of working experience is required
• Experience with enabling and managing cloud services, usage, and optimizations
• Experience with enabling and managing cloud services, usage and optimization
• 4+ years experience designing, implementing and managing Kubernetes (EKS, AKS)
• Experience with programing languages such as Python and Go
• Experience designing, implementing and hosting solutions based in AWS and/or Azure
• AWS, Azure and/or Kubernetes certifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related sciences – or equivalent work experience
• 8+ years IT experience

The Skills You Bring 

• Hands on experience on Observability and Resiliency set up for platform and applications.
• Solid understanding/experience of networking, virtualization, storage, containers, and serverless
• Experience with Linux systems, ideally with experience in systems administration
• Ability to automate with various scripting languages (Python, Shell scripting, etc.)
• Experience managing systems using infrastructure as code tools (IAM, ARM, Terraform, Chef, …)
• Demonstrated ability to utilize modern monitoring tools (DataDog, Prometheus, Splunk, …)
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools, especially Jenkins
• Ability to triage, execute root cause analysis, and be decisive under pressure
• Experience managing and interpreting large datasets using query languages and visualization tools
• Ability to think in systems and apply technical and non-technical problem solving
• Experience with Enterprise IT asset management or other related practices
• Proficient communication skills with an ability to reach both technical and non-technical audience
• Desire to call yourself a Site Reliability Engineer and a commitment to reducing toil

The Value You Deliver

• Help define and execute a comprehensive cloud reliability and observability strategy, ensuring that cloud systems are always available when our customers need them.
• Bring together technical, procedural, and financial data to reduce toil and increase efficiency
• You will execute plans for technical standardization and process refinement within the engineering organization, especially for Site Reliability Engineers.
• Troubleshoot stack-wide engineering issues related to hardware, software, network, applications and cloud service providers.
• Take part in peer code reviews providing qualitative feedback and facilitate and learning environment through equitable exchange of ideas.
• Coach peer SREs and development teams on how to build highly available cloud systems