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CAREER DILEMMAS: Hedge fund admin is so boring I’ve resigned in order to get a job in technology. Was this a bad idea?
By Monday 22nd August, I will officially be unemployed. Unlike the many people facing redundancy within the banking sector, my new-found status will be entirely self-inflicted. For four years, I’ve been working as a senior trade administrator in Dublin, but as I’m based in Bettystown, this has involved spending half my life commuting on a [...]
Ireland’s financial sector is facing a shortage of technologists
In contrast with most other sectors in Ireland, if you work in technology you’re likely to have no shortage of new job options available to you. Ireland’s growing reputation as a centre for research and development means that announcements from IT companies expanding are appearing on a near weekly basis. In the last couple of [...]
Why Scotland, Ireland…and Bournemouth are increasingly desirable locations for financial technologists
With more financial services firms ‘nearshoring’ IT functions, the prospect of a move to Ireland, Scotland or even Bournemouth for technologists seems like an increasingly attractive option. Fidelity Investments has just unveiled plans to create 100 tech jobs in its Dublin and Galway offices – entry to management level positions for Java, .Net and database [...]
Raising Ireland’s corporation tax would stem inward investment and economic recovery
Any increase in Ireland’s 12.5% corporation tax, a long-standing carrot to inward investment and – ultimately – job creation, would have to be forced on the country by the powers that be in the EU. At the time of writing, the European Central Bank was upping the pressure on Ireland to accept an EU/IMF bailout, [...]
Bye-bye London, hello Belfast, Dublin and Glasgow
Because it’s traditionally been where the jobs (and the money) are, technologists working within investment banks have obviously gravitated towards the City. But, with more development work being ‘nearshored’, is there an argument for moving to a more provincial location? Examples of relatively highly-skilled development work being carried out beyond the confines of the square [...]
Financial services firms in Ireland want techies too
While IDA Ireland has been encouraging a raft of technology companies to either set up shop here or expand their presence, the financial sector has largely been excluded from this recruitment frenzy. Now, however, a number of firms are kick-starting new projects which is creating job opportunities. The likes of IBM, LinkedIn, Citrix, Lumension, RiotGames, [...]
Irish tech firm plans up to 50 development hires
Capital markets technology firm First Derivatives is set to add another 40-50 development staff in Dublin, Belfast and Newry after kick-starting a new R&D project. The Newry-based company has been on an aggressive recruitment spree for some time now, having added 142 new jobs over the last year. A fresh injection of cash from Invest [...]
Irish tech firm jobs may be safe after all
Staff at Dublin-based financial technology vendor Cognotec – which went into receivership last week – can breathe slightly easier now that Northern Irish rival First Derivatives has struck a deal to buy it. Cognotec, which supplies software for the foreign exchange market, employs 65 people (45 of whom are in Dublin) who were fearing for [...]
RBS unveils further job cuts in Ireland
Ireland has found itself at the sharp end of Royal Bank of Scotland’s ongoing restructuring programme once again – this time 221 jobs are being cut from its technology services division in Dublin and Belfast. The bank is closing its Technology Services Division over the next nine months, but said that it would make an [...]
The quietly booming financial IT sector in Ireland
Global technology budgets within financial services have shrunk this year, which ironically has worked to Ireland’s advantage. A focus on buying in cheaper third-party systems (rather than building in-house) has provided a boon to the country’s financial software vendors, while banks have also begun to view Ireland as a development hub. Part of the reason [...]
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