Systems Engineer (Database Security) - FMRJP00039305

About the Role

An established global organisation is seeking an experienced Team Lead to lead a team focused on application security within a modern cloud environment.

This position combines people leadership, technical direction and strategic planning. You'll be responsible for building a high-performing team, shaping engineering practices and ensuring security is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop a team of engineers and security specialists.
• Define the team's vision, technical strategy and delivery roadmap.
• Own the successful delivery of key engineering initiatives and security improvements.
• Work closely with engineering, product and business stakeholders to prioritise work and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Champion Secure SDLC practices across development teams.
• Drive improvements in automation, CI/CD pipelines, testing, release processes and platform reliability.
• Establish engineering standards through architecture reviews, technical guidance and code quality initiatives.
• Use engineering metrics and data to support planning, prioritisation, capacity management and continuous improvement.
• Promote modern engineering practices while staying current with emerging security threats, technologies and frameworks.

Required Experience

• Extensive experience within Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevSecOps or Application Security.
• Experience leading and developing technical teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale, cloud-native applications within AWS environments.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Proven experience implementing Secure SDLC across engineering teams.
• Strong knowledge of DevSecOps principles and security-focused software delivery.
• Experience working with application security tooling, including:
  • SAST (Static Application Security Testing)
  • DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing)
  • SCA (Software Composition Analysis)
  • Secrets Management
  • Secrets Scanning
• Experience improving engineering practices through automation, testing and CI/CD.
• Ability to define technical roadmaps and deliver against strategic objectives.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence engineering and business leaders.
• Data-driven approach, using analytics and engineering metrics to guide technical decisions.
• Passion for mentoring engineers and building high-performing teams.

Desirable Experience

• Experience with modern Application Security tooling such as Checkmarx, Veracode, Fortify, SonarQube, Snyk or similar.
• Background working within enterprise-scale engineering environments.
• Experience leading security transformation or DevSecOps adoption initiatives.

Our client is looking for an experienced Databricks Solution Architect to design and deliver enterprise data platforms for clients within Banking and Financial Services, with a strong focus on Financial Crime and Risk.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end Databricks Lakehouse solutions.
• Lead solution architecture and work with business and technical stakeholders.
• Build scalable cloud-based data platforms supporting AML, KYC, Fraud Detection, Transaction Monitoring, Customer Risk Assessment (CRA), Sanctions Screening and Regulatory Reporting.
• Define data architecture, governance, security and best practices.
• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams.

Required Experience

• 10+ years in Data & Analytics.
• Strong hands-on Databricks architecture experience.
• Experience delivering solutions within Banking or Financial Services.
• Background working on Financial Crime, AML, Fraud or Regulatory Reporting projects.

Tech Stack

• Databricks: Lakehouse, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Lakeflow/DLT, MLflow, Databricks SQL, Auto Loader, Photon Engine, Vector Search
• Data Engineering: PySpark, Spark, Python, Scala, CDC, Batch & Streaming Pipelines, Data Modelling
• Cloud: Azure (preferred), AWS or GCP
• DevOps: Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, Terraform, Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

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

Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: Dublin (Hybrid)

Type: Permanent

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our client's team and help design, automate and maintain secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines. You'll work closely with engineering teams to improve deployment processes, infrastructure automation and platform reliability in a cloud-native environment.

Required Experience

• 5+ years' experience
• Strong experience with cloud platforms, containerisation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Solid understanding of cloud security, CI/CD best practices and microservices.
• Experience building secure, scalable and highly available cloud environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and manage cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Enterprise.
• Automate infrastructure deployments using Terraform for example.
• Develop automation scripts using Python and Bash.
• Deploy and manage containerised workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement monitoring and observability using CloudWatch, Datadog, Prometheus or equivalent tools.
• Manage artifact repositories with JFrog Artifactory.
• Integrate code quality and security tools including SonarQube
• Implement secure IAM roles, policies and permissions across environments.

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

My client is looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join their team on a day rate contracting basis. The role is based in Galway, with a requirement to be onsite 1 full week per month (3 weeks fully remote from Ireland).

Key Skills:

• At least 5 years working with Oracle, SQL & PL/SQL, data movement, and ETL processes
• Proven skills in SQL performance tuning, with familiarity in Agile methodologies
• Advanced knowledge of data analysis and logical data modeling, with a passion for relational database design
• Experience with data visualization tools, ideally Power BI
• Knowledge of data movement and ETL; Informatica experience is a plus
• Strong proficiency with source control systems
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with distributed project teams across multiple geographies
• Creative thinker with the ability to approach challenges strategically
• Hands-on, proactive, and driven, with a dynamic “can-do” attitude and a strong desire to deliver results

Please reach out to imran.jiwo@nicollcurtin.com for more information