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Hiring | Payroll Team Lead | Contract •          Duration: Initial 6-month contract •          Location: 2 days in office, 3-4 days remote •          Rate: £240 per day inside IR35 Main purpose of the job The Payroll Team Leader is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the  payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payment of employee salaries and compliance with relevant legislation and Internal policies. This role supervises payroll staff, manages workload distribution, oversees escalated issues, and works closely with HR and Finance. Duties and responsibilitiesLead, support, and supervise the payroll team to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll for all employees.Managing the Team development, identifying and planning training requirements.Responsible for processing payroll runs, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and standards. Maintaining an awareness of current and future HMRC developments; keeping up to date with changes that directly affect employees, related enhancements and changes within the payroll software, and other internal and external policy decisions that impact upon an individual’s pay and reward.To collaborate with colleagues to ensure all transactions throughout the employee lifecycle are processed accurately in the system and within published service standards and/or process deadlines.To ensure the timely and satisfactory resolution of payroll queries within the SLA to a high standard.Monitor and review payroll controls. Identifying opportunities to improve payroll processes, systems, and team efficiency.Lead on Testing and development for system updates, patches and legislative changes.Responsible for training of Payroll Advisors in all technical aspects of the system, including complex technical processes and investigative analysis to ensure accuracy of all payments.Responsible for creation of SOPs, updating and presenting changes to the Team.Deputise for the Payroll Manager at meetings as requested and provide cover for other colleagues in busy periods or when staff are on annual or sick leave.Responsible for the processing and reconciliation of the payroll, submission of statutory reports and pay over of any liabilities due to external bodies.Support the Payroll manager on any compliance and governance requirements.Prepare reports and analysis related to payroll metrics, audit requirements, and management information.Support internal and external audits by providing relevant documentation and explanations.Ensure accurate and timely submission of statutory filings and payments (e.g., HMRC).Maintaining regular 121’s with direct reports, coaching, training, and developing the team to be the best they can be.Work as an initiative-taking team member to ensure that the work for the team is completed accurately and within the relevant timescales for the monthly payroll run as determined by the Payroll Manager.Responsible for developing effective, positive relationships with customers, departmental contacts, and Professional Services colleagues, to create a dependable working relationship and positively assist in meeting their business needs, consulting with employees, pensioners, external bodies and internal departments.Be responsible for 100% GDPR compliance within Payroll, reporting and potential breaches immediately to Payroll Manager for review.Carry out regular audits on payroll data and process to ensure compliance against HR and Payroll policy and process providing outcomes and recommendations to the Payroll Manager GeneralFully participate and contribute to the wider PS Hub team, and departmental, policy, project and working groups.Be responsible for maintaining and updating your own continuous professional development.To follow and actively promote the HR Work Ethic Principles.To actively follow policies including Equal Opportunities policies and be expected to give consideration within their role as to how they can actively advance equality of opportunity and good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it.To maintain an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations.To carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager or Head of Department/Division.This job description reflects the present requirements of the post, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.Follow and actively promote the Ways of Working.Takes responsibility to carry out duties in a way that embodies 's environmental and social sustainability values, actively supporting 's Sustainability Strategy, policies and objectives within the remit of their role.Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.This job description may be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.

Hiring | Head of Payroll | Contract •             Duration: Initial 7-month contract •             Location: 2 days in office, 3-4 days remote •             Rate: £390 per day inside IR35   Main purpose of the job The Payroll Team Leader is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payment of employee salaries and compliance with relevant legislation and Internal policies. This role supervises payroll staff, manages workload distribution, oversees escalated issues, and works closely with HR and Finance.   Duties and responsibilitiesLead, support, and supervise the payroll team to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll for all employees.Managing the Team development, identifying and planning training requirements.Responsible for processing payroll runs, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and  standards. Maintaining an awareness of current and future HMRC developments; keeping up to date with changes that directly affect employees, related enhancements and changes within the payroll software, and other internal and external policy decisions that impact upon an individual’s pay and reward.To collaborate with colleagues to ensure all transactions throughout the employee lifecycle are processed accurately in the system and within published service standards and/or process deadlines.To ensure the timely and satisfactory resolution of payroll queries within the SLA to a high standard.Monitor and review payroll controls. Identifying opportunities to improve payroll processes, systems, and team efficiency.Lead on Testing and development for system updates, patches and legislative changes.Responsible for training of Payroll Advisors in all technical aspects of the system, including complex technical processes and investigative analysis to ensure accuracy of all payments.Responsible for creation of SOPs, updating and presenting changes to the Team.Deputise for the Payroll Manager at meetings as requested and provide cover for other colleagues in busy periods or when staff are on annual or sick leave.Responsible for the processing and reconciliation of the payroll, submission of statutory reports and pay over of any liabilities due to external bodies.Support the Payroll manager on any compliance and governance requirements.Prepare reports and analysis related to payroll metrics, audit requirements, and management information.Support internal and external audits by providing relevant documentation and explanations.Ensure accurate and timely submission of statutory filings and payments (e.g., HMRC).Maintaining regular 121’s with direct reports, coaching, training, and developing the team to be the best they can be.Work as an initiative-taking team member to ensure that the work for the team is completed accurately and within the relevant timescales for the monthly payroll run as determined by the Payroll Manager.Responsible for developing effective, positive relationships with customers, departmental contacts, and Professional Services colleagues, to create a dependable working relationship and positively assist in meeting their business needs, consulting with employees, pensioners, external bodies and internal departments.Be responsible for 100% GDPR compliance within Payroll, reporting and potential breaches immediately to Payroll Manager for review.Carry out regular audits on payroll data and process to ensure compliance against HR and Payroll policy and process providing outcomes and recommendations to the Payroll Manager  GeneralFully participate and contribute to the wider PS Hub team, and departmental, policy, project and working groups.Be responsible for maintaining and updating your own continuous professional development.To follow and actively promote the HR Work Ethic Principles.To actively follow policies including Equal Opportunities policies and be expected to give consideration within their role as to how they can actively advance equality of opportunity and good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it.To maintain an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations.To carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager or Head of Department/Division.This job description reflects the present requirements of the post, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.Follow and actively promote the Ways of Working.Takes responsibility to carry out duties in a way that embodies 's environmental and social sustainability values, actively supporting 's Sustainability Strategy, policies and objectives within the remit of their role.Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.Hiring | Head of Payroll | Contract •             Duration: Initial 7-month contract •             Location: 2 days in office, 3-4 days remote •             Rate: £390 per day inside IR35   Main purpose of the job The Payroll Team Leader is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the payroll function, ensuring accurate and timely payment of employee salaries and compliance with relevant legislation and Internal policies. This role supervises payroll staff, manages workload distribution, oversees escalated issues, and works closely with HR and Finance.   Duties and responsibilitiesLead, support, and supervise the payroll team to ensure timely and accurate processing of payroll for all employees.Managing the Team development, identifying and planning training requirements.Responsible for processing payroll runs, ensuring compliance with legal, regulatory, and  standards. Maintaining an awareness of current and future HMRC developments; keeping up to date with changes that directly affect employees, related enhancements and changes within the payroll software, and other internal and external policy decisions that impact upon an individual’s pay and reward.To collaborate with colleagues to ensure all transactions throughout the employee lifecycle are processed accurately in the system and within published service standards and/or process deadlines.To ensure the timely and satisfactory resolution of payroll queries within the SLA to a high standard.Monitor and review payroll controls. Identifying opportunities to improve payroll processes, systems, and team efficiency.Lead on Testing and development for system updates, patches and legislative changes.Responsible for training of Payroll Advisors in all technical aspects of the system, including complex technical processes and investigative analysis to ensure accuracy of all payments.Responsible for creation of SOPs, updating and presenting changes to the Team.Deputise for the Payroll Manager at meetings as requested and provide cover for other colleagues in busy periods or when staff are on annual or sick leave.Responsible for the processing and reconciliation of the payroll, submission of statutory reports and pay over of any liabilities due to external bodies.Support the Payroll manager on any compliance and governance requirements.Prepare reports and analysis related to payroll metrics, audit requirements, and management information.Support internal and external audits by providing relevant documentation and explanations.Ensure accurate and timely submission of statutory filings and payments (e.g., HMRC).Maintaining regular 121’s with direct reports, coaching, training, and developing the team to be the best they can be.Work as an initiative-taking team member to ensure that the work for the team is completed accurately and within the relevant timescales for the monthly payroll run as determined by the Payroll Manager.Responsible for developing effective, positive relationships with customers, departmental contacts, and Professional Services colleagues, to create a dependable working relationship and positively assist in meeting their business needs, consulting with employees, pensioners, external bodies and internal departments.Be responsible for 100% GDPR compliance within Payroll, reporting and potential breaches immediately to Payroll Manager for review.Carry out regular audits on payroll data and process to ensure compliance against HR and Payroll policy and process providing outcomes and recommendations to the Payroll Manager  GeneralFully participate and contribute to the wider PS Hub team, and departmental, policy, project and working groups.Be responsible for maintaining and updating your own continuous professional development.To follow and actively promote the HR Work Ethic Principles.To actively follow policies including Equal Opportunities policies and be expected to give consideration within their role as to how they can actively advance equality of opportunity and good relations between people who share a relevant protected characteristic and people who do not share it.To maintain an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations.To carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager or Head of Department/Division.This job description reflects the present requirements of the post, and as duties and responsibilities change/develop, the job description will be reviewed and be subject to amendment in consultation with the post holder.Follow and actively promote the Ways of Working.Takes responsibility to carry out duties in a way that embodies 's environmental and social sustainability values, actively supporting 's Sustainability Strategy, policies and objectives within the remit of their role.Carry out any other duties within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by the line manager.

Hiring | Cybersecurity Architect  Job Title: Cybersecurity ArchitectPay Rates: up to €1000 per dayHybrid: Working in Dublin Office (3 days per week to office)Duration: Initial 6 months Specific responsibilities of this role include:5-10 years experienceAuthor and review architecture artefacts including ROMs (Rough order of Magnitude), HLDs (High Level Design) and BRDs (Business Requirement Document).Develop and maintain a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy and architecture.Recommend security controls and identify solutions that support our business partners.Design and document security solutions: including security for multi cloud environments, AI security and OT security.Advise on important security-related technologies and assess the risk associated with proposed changes. Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.Stay updated on the latest cybersecurity threats and technologies to proactively protect our organization.Establish cybersecurity policies, standards, and best practices.Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture, and develop a security risk management plan.Evaluate architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security designs and architecture proposed or provided.Strong ability to balance usability and security to ensure you are a business enabler

Hiring | Cybersecurity Architect  Job Title: Cybersecurity ArchitectPay Rates: up to €1000 per dayHybrid: Working in Dublin Office (3 days per week to office)Duration: Initial 6 months Specific responsibilities of this role include:5-10 years experienceAuthor and review architecture artefacts including ROMs (Rough order of Magnitude), HLDs (High Level Design) and BRDs (Business Requirement Document).Develop and maintain a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy and architecture.Recommend security controls and identify solutions that support our business partners.Design and document security solutions: including security for multi cloud environments, AI security and OT security.Advise on important security-related technologies and assess the risk associated with proposed changes. Identify and prioritize critical business functions in collaboration with organizational stakeholders.Stay updated on the latest cybersecurity threats and technologies to proactively protect our organization.Establish cybersecurity policies, standards, and best practices.Perform security reviews, identify gaps in security architecture, and develop a security risk management plan.Evaluate architectures and designs to determine the adequacy of security designs and architecture proposed or provided.Strong ability to balance usability and security to ensure you are a business enabler

Hiring | DevOps Engineer (6-9 years) •             Start date: ASAP •             Duration: 12 months •             Location: 1 week on site in Galway, 3 weeks working from home •             Rate: €400 - €450 per day Job Description: Strategic Advisors Technology is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer as a member of our Developer Enablement / DevOps team. While working to deliver business capabilities across a globally distributed team, we continually strive to advance technology innovation and agile practices and delivery efficiency across the delivery organization.   The Expertise We’re Looking For5+ years of software engineering, configuration management & release engineering for large scale enterprise applications.Strong understanding of CI / CD Processes, and experience with tools like Jenkins.Understanding of container technologies and orchestrators like Docker & Kubernetes.Understanding of different build tools and package managers for different programming languages, e.g.: Maven, Gradle, NPM, pip.Experience with git (and implementations like Bitbucket/Gitlab/GitHub), and with artifact repositories such as Artifactory.Developer oriented approach with ability to design automations to solve problems and create solutions - Proficient in scripting languages such as Java, Groovy, Shell, Python and/or similar languages.Ability to understand the complete development flow and make recommendations on changes or improvements to the development teams:Testing Stages, Coverage Reports, Quality Gates, Security Scans, Environment Promotions.Understanding different components of an application Database/Mid-tier/Messaging/User-Interface/Configuration.Experience with core AWS Services and ability to build automated processes using SDK or CLI.  Nice To haveExperience with Kubernetes for large scale enterprise services.Knowledge of Datadog or other logging, observability, monitoring or APM tool.  The Purpose of Your Role As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will be in-charge of our CI/CD pipeline through lower development environments all the way to production. You will review, analyze and recommend solutions and tools to improve the software development process all while maintaining existing build processes and leading the design and implementation of their replacement. You will be an integral part of the overall product release process.   The Skills You BringAbility to review, analyze and recommend solutions and tools to improve the software development & CI/CD process.Develop and support the Continuous Integration process, innovating where needed for solutions that are adaptable to current issues.Ability to create readable and detailed documentation to explain flows, architectural diagrams or processes.Trace complex CI/CD scenarios, release issues and environment issues in a multi-component environment.Develop, maintain and enhance key parts of the release procedures and processes. Coordinate release activities with Release Management, Project Management, QA, and Development teams to ensure a smooth roll out of releases.

Major Incident Manager | Galway | Up to €400 per DayWe are seeking an experienced Major Incident Manager to join a global technology operations team in Galway. This role requires a strong operational background, excellent communication skills, and solid networking/infrastructure knowledge. You will lead the resolution of high-impact IT incidents, coordinate technical teams, manage stakeholder communications, and drive service restoration within SLA targets.Working Pattern4 x 10-hour shifts (8:00 AM – 6:00 PM Irish Time)Typically Saturday–TuesdayOccasionally Thursday–Sunday based on business needsRemote on weekends, hybrid during weekdaysKey RequirementsPrevious Major Incident or Incident Management experienceStrong understanding of IT operations, infrastructure, and networkingAbility to manage multiple priorities in high-pressure environmentsExcellent stakeholder management and communication skillsExperience working with global technical teamsITIL experience preferredInterested? Apply now to learn more.

Hiring | Senior Data EngineerStart date: ASAPDuration: 6 monthsLocation: 1 week on site in Galway, 3 weeks working from homeRate: €450 - €480 per dayThe Role Are you looking for a collaborative new opportunity? Do you want the opportunity to work closely with business and technology partners across Ireland and the US? The Expertise and Skills You Bring Your strong analytical skills and problem-solving ability provides the foundation for the role. A superb communicator you effortlessly build relationships at various levels in the business, presenting technology solutions with confidence and poise in varied situations.  Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related disciplineMinimum of 5 years of experience in Oracle, SQL & PL/SQL, data movement and ETLStrong Experience in SQL performance tuning along with exposure to Agile development practicesDeep knowledge and expertise in data analysisExpertise in data visualization using Powerbi preferredYou have a real passion for logical data modeling and relational database designYou are familiar with Data movement and ETLA proficiency with a source control systemYour communications skills are excellent, and you have a proven ability to work with project teams located in multiple geographic locationsCreativity and your ability to think strategically are highly valued skills, that you take pride inA hands-on work style: with a dynamic ‘can do’ attitude with a strong desire to make things happen

Location: Galway, Ireland (Hybrid)Contract: 12 MonthsWorking Pattern: 1 week on-site, 3 weeks working from homeRate: €350 - €400 per dayAre you a passionate Full Stack Engineer who enjoys building modern, scalable applications using the latest technologies? We're partnering with a leading global financial services organisation that is investing heavily in digital innovation and looking for a Senior Full Stack Engineer to join a high-performing Agile engineering team.This is an opportunity to work on enterprise-scale platforms used by thousands of customers worldwide, leveraging cloud-native technologies, modern engineering practices, and AI-assisted development tools. As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, developing and delivering high-quality software solutions within an Agile environment. Working alongside Product Owners, Architects, Technical Leads and fellow Engineers, you'll help shape the technical direction of strategic digital products while championing engineering excellence.Key ResponsibilitiesDesign, develop and maintain scalable full stack applicationsDevelop RESTful APIs using Java and Spring BootBuild modern front-end applications using Angular and/or ReactDevelop cloud-native solutions using AWS and KubernetesContribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automationParticipate in code reviews, design discussions and technical decision-makingDrive test automation and engineering best practicesCollaborate with distributed Agile teams across multiple locationsProvide production support when requiredWork closely with Product Owners, Architects and Technical Leads to enhance the platform and influence technical directionRequirements: A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or a related discipline5+ years' experience in software developmentStrong hands-on experience with:JavaSpring BootAngular and/or ReactREST API developmentAWSKubernetesExperience with CI/CD and automated deployment pipelinesA solid understanding of Agile (Scrum) deliveryExcellent communication and stakeholder management skillsThe ability to mentor others and provide technical leadershipExperience working within distributed development teamNice to HaveFinancial services or other regulated industry experienceExposure to GitHub Copilot or other AI-assisted development tools