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Financial Crime Analyst – Contract Position - HIRING ASAPStart date: ASAP Duration: 6-month contract Location/Office Time: Onsite in Dublin office (5 days per week)Rate: €170 per day Summary The Financial Crime Analyst will be responsible for conducting sanctions, look-back reviews on users, transactions, payments, and associated entities. This role involves analysing historical data to identify potential sanctions violations and compliance risks. Analysts will document findings in line with internal policies, ensuring adherence to global sanctions frameworks. Key SkillsExperience in financial crime investigations, sanctions screening, or transaction monitoring.Proficiency in using case management systems and transaction monitoring tools.Strong analytical and investigative skills with the ability to interpret complex financial data.Detail-oriented with a methodical approach to reviewing and documenting findings.  Competency in Excel and data analysis for identifying trends and anomalies.Excellent written and verbal communication skills.ResponsibilitiesComplete an intensive training programme on sanctions regulations, investigative methodologies, and the supporting systems and technology used in the look-back review. This mandatory training will equip analysts with the necessary skills and knowledge to conduct effective case reviews. Conduct retrospective reviews of transactions, payments, and user activity to identify potential sanctions exposure.Analyse and assess alerts generated from sanctions screening tools, determining the legitimacy of flagged transactions.Document findings in the case management system with clear, well-supported rationales.Escalate potential sanctions violations to senior analysts and compliance teams as per internal protocols.Ensure compliance with global sanctions regulations, including OFAC, EU, UK, and UN regimes.Collaborate with internal teams to provide timely and accurate reporting of flagged activities.

Senior Full-Stack Engineer – Contract Position - HIRING ASAP Start date: ASAP Duration: 12-month contract Location: 1 week in Galway office, 3 weeks working from homeRate: €450 - €480 per day Summary This is a principal engineering role in the new Application Security Platform Squad. This is a new squad, building a new platform, offering the successful candidate the opportunity to build the squad and platform from the ground up. Verizon's 2024 Data Breach Investigation Report (containing 10,000 confirmed data breaches) states that ~70% of breaches involved exploitation of a web application. Our client has hundreds of web applications on the Internet that make hundreds of releases a month to production. These applications are the main point of interaction that their 40M customers have with our client. It is crucial to our clients’ reputation, and their customers’ livelihoods, that these applications are secure. The focus of the Application Security Platform squad will be to improve the security and vulnerability scanning coverage, and experience, for our clients’ developer community, driving a “security first” culture across the enterprise. For instance, this will involve creating a centralized scanning service to integrate policy management and security profiling into the developer workflow. Key Skills8 years of demonstrated experience in designing and developing enterprise-standard applications using one or more major programming languages (e.g. Java/Python/Go), frameworks (Spring, Apache Commons, Angular) and pipeline/build tools (e.g. Maven, Git, Jenkins, AWS CFT/CDK)Experience building scalable applications on Kubernetes, or similar platformsExperience providing technical leadership, mentoring & coaching to less experienced engineers.AWS certification preferred and have working experience with cloud environments.Any application security experience, including Pen Testing, Static Composition Analysis (SCA), Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), and Web Application Firewalls (WAF) would be considered a plus.Experience with unit and functional testing with tools such as JUnit, PyUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Karate, Cypress or similarHands on experience with automation & pipeline implementation (Testing, Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery pipeline).You possess strong engineering skills and have experience deploying maintainable, scalable multi-tiered applications.You are capable of designing and developing tools/applications using some of the following technologies: Java; Popular opensource frameworks/libraries (e.g. Spring, SpringBoot, Apache Commons, etc.); SOA and API frameworks such as SOAP and REST; Pipeline/Build tools including GIT, Maven, Jenkins, and AWS CFT/CDK; Front end languages/frameworks including JavaScript/Typescript, jQuery, Angular, NodeJS, Springboard or React a plus.You have experience with test automation, including solid understanding of test tools.You have experience working in an agile environment (Scrum).Ability to communicate optimally to positively influence peers, business unit and technology decision makers.Strong analytical skills and ability to tackle issues and work through ambiguous situations by making timely decisions based on facts, knowledge, experience, and judgement.You have a passion for continual learning and are always ready to guide, support and/or mentor other members of your team!ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop, test, deploy and maintain SAST, SCA and secret scanning tools into the CI/CD pipeline and developer workflow tools.Continued focus on engineering excellence, including improving automation, test coverage, release velocity and production health.You are a creator and a doer who will help us tackle real-life problems and meet real consumer needs.You have strong communication skills and technical expertise to drive and participate in meaningful discussions. You are a collaborative team-player in an autonomous team, owning all aspects of delivery (coding, quality, DevSecOps). You build relationships with key business partners and quickly establish trust to ensure effective delivery.You clearly detail requirements, and system designs in a way that can be understood by both technical and non-technical individuals.

Senior Data Platform Engineer – Asset Management Equity TechnologyGalway, Ireland |  12-Month Contract |  €450 - €480 per dayWe are seeking a highly skilled Senior Data Platform Engineer to join a dynamic delivery team within our Asset Management Technology group, supporting Equity Research. This is a high-impact role focused on building and evolving a financial data visualization and reporting platform used by senior analysts, portfolio managers, and executive leadership. You will take end-to-end ownership of a critical reporting engine—designing, developing, maintaining, and modernizing systems that sit at the core of investment decision-making.What You’ll DoOwn and enhance a mission-critical financial reporting platformDesign and implement data pipelines, transformation logic, and visualization toolsDevelop scripts and workflows to parse, process, and present financial dataPartner closely with research analysts and business stakeholders to translate requirements into meaningful insightsMaintain and modernize a legacy scripting ecosystem while ensuring stability and accuracyImplement CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and automation to improve reliability and scalabilityDrive continuous improvement in data quality, performance, and usabilityRequired Skills & Experience7 years of experience in software development or data engineeringStrong expertise in Linux systems (processes, networking, filesystem, cron, systemctl)Advanced shell scripting (bash, ksh, zsh)Professional experience with Python, Perl, or similar scripting languagesSolid understanding of data analysis, statistics, and data science conceptsStrong SQL skills with experience in schema design and query optimizationExperience with data visualization and charting toolsFamiliarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deploymentsNice to HaveExperience modernizing legacy systems or scripting environmentsKnowledge of ETL pipelines, APIs, message queues, or workflow orchestration toolsExposure to cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)Python experience in data automation, APIs, or machine learning workflowsExperience building internal tools or reusable libraries

.Net Developer – Contract Position - HIRING ASAP Start date: ASAP Duration: 3-month contract (View to extend) Location/Office Time: 1 day per week in the Dublin office, 4 days working from home Rate: €400 - €600 per day (Flexible) Summary This is an experienced, full-stack, cloud-based application development role. This is an opportunity to work with a compact development team focused on providing cloud-based systems that deliver value to end customers. This particular team provides support to the business through software procurement and development services. Their strategy is cloud-native, distributed application deployment in Azure. The teams’ philosophy is to seize every opportunity to deploy automation and productivity tools in order to: maximize human performance; increase agility; reduce friction in the production process; provide scalability; and enable around-the-clock availability and capacity. The teams’ primary development framework is C#, .NET Core with Angular and Blazor for UI development. Their primary IDE’s are Visual Studio and VS Code with Azure DevOps being used for continuous integration and delivery. Key Skills3rd level qualification, preferably in a technical disciplineExperience working with .NET 8 for Azure appsAble to work well in teams and with stakeholdersAn excellent communicatorHold a Microsoft professional certification in C# or Azure or similarFluent in English, any other language an assetIdeally experience working within a multicultural environmentYour work experience will help demonstrate your experience in key technologies, including:C# 8 and above.NET 8Experience of any of the following would be an advantage:Microservices architectureDevOps methodologiesAzure Active Directory security and authenticationResponsibilitiesWork with the ATG team of developers to migrate all applications to .NET 8. Tasks might include:Assessing existing code for any potential issues with the proposed migrationChanging the code accordinglyThorough testing, both automated and manual, to ensure continuation of expected functionalityAutomated build and release

Software Architect – Contract Position - HIRING ASAP Start date: ASAP Duration: 6-month contract Location/Office Time: 1-2 days per week in the Dublin office, 3-4 days working from homeRate: €600 - €800 per day (Flexible) Key SkillsArchitect who understands Front End, Back End (Django) and Databases (SQL Server) wellGood project coordination / management capabilityGood communicationGit / Repo / Branch management expResponsibilitiesThe client wants to achieve the following by the new digital undertaking system:Consistent, automated application of sponsorship rules across all units and personnelReal-time visibility into both individual obligations and organisation-wide financial liabilitiesA complete audit trail of every approval action for governance and complianceData centralization start point for future data warehouse building

Cloud Security Architect – Contract Position - HIRING ASAP Start date: ASAP Duration: 6-month contract Location/Office Time: 1-2 days per week in the Dublin office, 3-4 days working from homeRate: €600 - €750 per day (Flexible) Summary A hands‑on Cloud Product Security Architect, to serve as a lead security engineer safeguarding the banking products (web, mobile, thick client, etc.), platforms, and business applications. This role will be responsible for proactively reducing technical security risk through deep engagement with product teams, rigorous architecture and application reviews, and the design and validation of embedded security controls across cloud and distributed environments. Key SkillsAt least 6-8 years of experience focused on Product and Cloud security, preferably within financial services sectorExperience with SAST, and SCA tools like Snyk, CodeQL, Veracode, Checkmarx, SonarQube, etc.Experience in cloud security architecture (AWS or Azure) and management, as well as knowledge of security best practicesAWS or Azure Cloud Security certification will be a plusExperience in collaborating with engineering teams and senior technical stakeholdersResponsibilitiesConduct hands-on security assessments in line with secure by design principles at the application, platform, and system levels using threat modelling, and architecture reviews to identify design flaws, cloud misconfigurations, insecure dependencies, and API abuse scenarios.Design and recommend concrete security controls that are embedded directly into system and application architectures, including secure identity and access design, cryptographic protections, network isolation, runtime enforcement, and secure defaults across cloud and distributed environments.Operate effectively within agile engineering environments, embedding security into iterative delivery through DevSecOps and Shift-Left principles including but not limited to ensuring the execution and delivery of automated security testing and compliance checks like SAST, SCA, DAST, and secure CI/CD pipelines.Lead the implementation and management of CSPM tools to continuously monitor, assess, and remediate misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in cloud environments

Software Architect – Contract Position - HIRING ASAP Start date: ASAP Duration: 6-month contract Location/Office Time: 1-2 days per week in the Dublin office, 3-4 days working from homeRate: €600 - €700 per day (Flexible) Key SkillsArchitect who understands Front End, Back End (Django) and Databases (SQL Server) wellGood project coordination / management capabilityGood communicationGit / Repo / Branch management expResponsibilitiesThe client wants to achieve the following by the new digital undertaking system:Consistent, automated application of sponsorship rules across all units and personnelReal-time visibility into both individual obligations and organisation-wide financial liabilitiesA complete audit trail of every approval action for governance and complianceData centralization start point for future data warehouse building

Technical Business Analyst – Big Data & Regulatory Reporting - HybridWe've had a new role just go live with one of our multinational clients in the managed services space. We’re seeking an experienced Technical Business Analyst with strong big‑data, ETL, and banking regulatory knowledge. You’ll play a key role in analysing complex datasets, improving data workflows, and supporting high‑impact regulatory reporting initiatives.What You’ll DoAnalyse and model data across big‑data environments.Develop and optimise workflows using KNIME and advanced SQL.Support regulatory reporting with clear documentation and analysis.Review and remediate complex EUC structures.Work closely with technical and non‑technical teams to deliver data solutions.What You Bring5–8 years in a data‑centric role within banking/financial services.Strong experience in big data, ETL concepts, data analysis, and modelling.Hands‑on KNIME and SQL expertise.Solid understanding of regulatory reporting requirements.Excellent communication and documentation skills.Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.Nice to HaveLinux/Bash or Python scripting experience.Knowledge of data governance in regulated environments.Familiarity with PowerBI/Tableau.Experience with Jira, Confluence, or ServiceNow.Understanding of data warehousing concepts.Interest in AI/ML applications in data workflows.If you enjoy working with complex data, solving regulatory challenges, and building robust analytical solutions, this could be the right next step for you. Send across your CV or contact Adam Whitehurst at Trust in Soda for more info!