GEMMA MURPHY

Group Head of Change
At a Glance
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<li>Full Time, Permanent</li>
<li>Belfast</li>
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About the Company
A well-established group operating across financial and professional services, currently undergoing a significant period of strategic change to support its ambitions for growth, innovation and financial capacity. The organisation places real emphasis on culture, aiming to create an environment where people are supported, challenged and empowered to do their best work.
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The Role
This is a senior leadership role with full ownership of the Group's strategic change agenda. You will chair the Group's central change governance forum, hold accountability for a portfolio of high-profile strategic projects, and provide direction and oversight to the wider change team. The role requires someone who can balance long-term strategic priorities with the immediate, practical needs of the individual businesses within the Group, while building a culture where change is embraced rather than resisted.
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Key Responsibilities
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<li>Own the definition, management and delivery of the strategic change programme</li>
<li>Work closely with senior leadership to define change objectives, build stakeholder buy-in, and ensure consistent delivery across the Group's businesses</li>
<li>Build and embed a culture of change readiness and adaptability across the organisation</li>
<li>Develop and mature the PMO framework and function, driving consistent, high-quality project delivery&nbsp;</li>
<li>Monitor the effectiveness of change initiatives, adjusting approach as needed and staying current with emerging change management practice</li>
<li>Lead, mentor and develop a team of change management professionals</li>
<li>Identify risks to successful change delivery and build effective mitigation plans</li>
<li>Own and manage allocated budgets tightly and effectively</li>
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What You'll Need
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Essential:
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<li>Significant experience as a senior change leader</li>
<li>Proven ability to lead delivery of a complex, multi-stream change portfolio&nbsp;</li>
<li>Strong grounding in recognised project methodologies (PRINCE2, PMP, Agile or similar)</li>
<li>Strong financial acumen, with experience managing significant budgets and commercials&nbsp;</li>
<li>Track record of building, evolving and running a PMO framework, including governance models and budgetary control</li>
<li>Excellent leadership, influencing, negotiation and stakeholder management skills</li>
<li>Exceptional written and verbal communication, comfortable engaging C-suite audiences on complex topics</li>
<li>Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, complex and compliance-driven environment</li>
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Why Apply
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<li>Genuine Group-level influence, shaping the strategic change agenda from the top</li>
<li>Opportunity to build and mature a PMO function at scale</li>
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For more information on this role, or any other Accountancy and Finance position, please contact Gemma Murphy.

Group Head of Change

Java Technical Specialist (Low Latency)At a Glance<ul><li>Senior individual contributor role in a high-growth prediction markets trading firm</li><li>Core stack: Java, Kafka, Aeron, FIX Protocol exchange and clearing infrastructure</li><li>Salary: £80,000 - £95,000 + highly attractive bonus package.</li><li>5+ years experience required - strong fintech or financial markets background essential</li></ul>bout the CompanyOur client is a specialist prediction markets trading firm, operating at the frontier of financial markets in partnership with major institutional players. They are building the premier prediction market platform, empowering traders to take positions on real-world events and generating market-driven forecasts for decision makers. The engineering team is lean, highly skilled, and building infrastructure that operates at genuine exchange scale.The RoleAs a Java Technical Specialist you will contribute to the development of a high-throughput matching engine and clearing system at the core of the firm's trading platform. Working alongside Staff Engineers, you will take full ownership of significant components and features, with genuine input into architectural decisions. This role suits an engineer who is comfortable working in a production financial environment, motivated by complex performance challenges, and ready to operate with a high degree of autonomy.Key Responsibilities<ul><li>Contribute to the design and architecture of core exchange and clearing infrastructure</li><li>Design and implement features within the matching engine, order management systems and clearing workflows</li><li>Build ultra-low-latency messaging architecture using Aeron and related frameworks</li><li>Implement customer-facing API interfaces using FIX, REST and WebSocket protocols</li><li>Build fault-tolerant distributed systems using Kafka, PostgreSQL and in-memory data structures for hot-path processing</li><li>Profile, benchmark and tune system performance at the JVM level</li><li>Participate in on-call rotations and respond to production incidents requiring deep technical troubleshooting</li><li>Collaborate with product and business stakeholders to translate requirements into production-quality implementations</li></ul>What You'll NeedEssential:<ul><li>5+ years of professional software engineering experience building high-performance distributed systems</li><li>Strong Java proficiency including concurrency, memory management, JVM behaviour and performance optimisation</li><li>Experience with Kafka and relational databases, specifically PostgreSQL</li><li>Familiarity with low-latency or high-throughput production environments (10,000+ messages/second, low-millisecond latencies)</li><li>Understanding of network protocols with experience implementing REST and WebSocket APIs</li><li>Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related discipline</li><li>Eligibility to work in the US on a permanent, indefinite basis (no visa sponsorship available)</li></ul>Desirable / Nice to Have:<ul><li>Experience with Aeron or other low-latency messaging frameworks</li><li>FIX protocol experience in a trading or exchange environment</li><li>Exposure to derivatives, futures, options or prediction markets</li></ul>Why Apply?<ul><li>£80,000 - £95,000 salary with a highly attractive bonus and benefits package.</li><li>Genuine architectural ownership at component level not a ticket-driven role</li><li>Work on exchange-grade infrastructure at real production scale</li><li>Join a well-backed, high-growth firm at an early and formative stage</li><li>Build alongside senior engineers from top-tier financial markets backgrounds</li></ul>How to Apply:If you believe you meet the criteria for this role and are excited about the opportunity, please apply via the link. Alternatively, reach out to Phil Gamble directly for an informal chat via LinkedIn or WhatsApp.About Phil Gamble: Phil Gamble has over 21 years of experience recruiting in global software engineering markets, delivering high-quality technical hires for scaling organisations. His relationship-driven approach ensures candidates are supported throughout the entire process.Recent LinkedIn Testimonials: "I cannot recommend Phil and Ocho enough…Phil is a professional who does not treat his candidates as resources…" "Phil was by far the best recruiter I have ever dealt with…I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Phil to my friends or colleagues." "Phil has helped me find new roles more than once…he takes the time to understand what I'm looking for…"

Java Technical Specialist (Low Latency)

Software Engineer (TypeScript / AWS)
Ocho People | Technology Recruitment
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Software Engineer opportunity at a fast growing technology company in a mission critical, regulated domain
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; TypeScript across the full stack, AWS serverless, ISO 27001 certified environment
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; AI first engineering culture &mdash; you will be building software with AI agents from day one
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Hybrid working from Derry/Londonderry &mdash; minimum three days per week in office
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Salary up to &pound;55,000 plus performance bonus
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Why This Organisation
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If you are an engineer who wants to ship real software that matters, work with people who trust you to own your work, and build your skills in an AI first environment before most of the industry has caught up, this is worth reading.
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Our client is a fast growing technology company that has successfully delivered software across multiple high profile, mission critical campaigns in a regulated domain. Their client base is forecast to grow significantly over the next twelve to eighteen months and they are hiring engineers who can grow with them. The engineering team is small, the responsibility is real and the work directly impacts important outcomes.
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The environment is AI first in a genuine sense. You will be expected to build software using AI agents, embed AI into your day to day workflow and help the team develop those practices further. You do not need to be fluent already, but you do need to be curious, quick to adapt and ready to push yourself. That kind of hands on experience with AI assisted engineering is becoming one of the most valuable things an engineer can have on their CV.
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The benefits are strong too. Free food and drinks from an onsite caf&eacute;, subsidised gym membership, bike to work scheme, flexible and hybrid working including condensed working patterns, and a defined performance bonus on top of your salary.
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The Role and What It Can Do For Your Career
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This is a Software Engineer position with genuine end to end ownership. You will ship features from design through to production, contribute to code reviews and architectural discussions, and take responsibility for components and projects without needing constant direction. The role reports to the Head of Engineering and sits at the heart of a team that is building out its engineering function as the company scales.
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What makes this role valuable for your career is the combination of ownership, AI exposure and the pace of growth. You will not be a small cog in a large machine. You will be someone whose work is visible, whose decisions have impact and who is expected to grow into more senior responsibilities as the team expands. Engineers who join now will be well placed to step into lead roles as the organisation scales over the next twelve to eighteen months.
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The stack is TypeScript across the board, AWS native serverless architecture primarily using Lambda, relational and document based data stores, modern frontend, CI and CD pipelines on AWS and infrastructure as code via AWS CDK. The organisation is ISO 27001 certified, which means you will be working to high security and compliance standards on sensitive, mission critical software.
What you will need:
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Strong technical fundamentals across front end, back end API design and database work
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ability to work independently &mdash; pick up a piece of work, remove ambiguity, define what done looks like and deliver it
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Composure and integrity under pressure &mdash; direct, willing to admit mistakes and calm under stress
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Curiosity about AI assisted engineering and a willingness to dive into new tooling quickly
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Comfortable working in a small startup environment with broad responsibility
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Visible growth across recent roles and openness to feedback
Nice to Have:
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience with TypeScript, AWS native serverless (Lambda), Postgres or Angular
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience with regulated or mission critical software
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Experience working in a small team with broad responsibility
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Why You Should Apply Now
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This is the kind of role that is easy to overlook and hard to find again. A small, ambitious team at an inflection point in its growth, an AI first mandate that will genuinely develop your skills, end to end ownership of real work and a company operating in a domain where what you build actually matters.
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Salary up to &pound;55,000 plus a defined performance bonus on agreed targets. Hybrid working from Derry/Londonderry with a minimum of three days per week in the office.
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If this sounds like the right move, please reach out to Nick Napier directly on LinkedIn or submit your CV via the link below.

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