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IT Project Manager - Change
LuxembourgContractnegotiableIT Project Manager - Change Overview The IT department delivers technology solutions supporting business operations and services across different fund types, including mutual funds, ETFs and alternative funds. The Project Manager is responsible for delivering IT projects within the agreed scope, timeline and budget. The role involves coordinating business and IT teams, ensuring projects are well planned, executed and reported according to project methodology and business objectives. The role also includes managing change projects, requiring both an IT background and a good understanding of business needs. This involves coordinating several small changes simultaneously, so strong organisation and a structured way of working are essential. Key Responsibilities Manage IT projects from planning to delivery within scope, budget and timeline. Coordinate business and IT stakeholders to deliver effective solutions. Manage and track multiple small change projects at the same time. Monitor project risks, issues and progress, and report to management. Ensure proper governance, planning and communication throughout the project lifecycle. Profile IT background with understanding of business processes. Experience in project coordination or project management. Well organised, structured and able to manage multiple priorities. Experience in financial services or asset management is a plus. Fluent English required; other languages are an advantage.
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DevOps Engineer
PragueContractNegotiableSenior DevOps Engineer Contract – Prague (Hybrid) On-site: 1 day/week Length: 12 months (extensions likely) A leading energy-tech team is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support major platform upgrades, a new product release, and CI/CD modernisation. You’ll work across cloud and on-prem environments, helping shape a complex high-availability trading platform. Key Responsibilities: • Lead the migration to a new Jenkins environment • Support delivery of a major product release (v5.0) • Improve CI/CD, pull-request standards, and deployment automation • Upgrade the current deployment platform and enhance observability • Contribute to cloud migration work (Lift & Shift from on-prem to GCP) • Provide senior technical guidance across teams Required Skills: • 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles • Strong Red Hat Linux • Ansible (advanced) • Jenkins (migration + CI/CD pipelines) • GCP (incl. Lift & Shift experience) • Python preferred • Solid experience with automation/orchestration tooling (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Git, etc.) Nice to Have: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenSearch, HAProxy, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, GitOps, serverless/microservices experience.
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DevOps Engineer
PragueContractNegotiableSenior DevOps Engineer Contract – Prague (Hybrid) On-site: 1 day/week Length: 12 months (extensions likely) A leading energy-tech team is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support major platform upgrades, a new product release, and CI/CD modernisation. You’ll work across cloud and on-prem environments, helping shape a complex high-availability trading platform. Key Responsibilities: • Lead the migration to a new Jenkins environment • Support delivery of a major product release (v5.0) • Improve CI/CD, pull-request standards, and deployment automation • Upgrade the current deployment platform and enhance observability • Contribute to cloud migration work (Lift & Shift from on-prem to GCP) • Provide senior technical guidance across teams Required Skills: • 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles • Strong Red Hat Linux • Ansible (advanced) • Jenkins (migration + CI/CD pipelines) • GCP (incl. Lift & Shift experience) • Python preferred • Solid experience with automation/orchestration tooling (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Git, etc.) Nice to Have: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenSearch, HAProxy, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, GitOps, serverless/microservices experience.
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DevOps Engineer
PragueContractNegotiableSenior DevOps Engineer Contract – Prague (Hybrid) On-site: 1 day/week Length: 12 months (extensions likely) A leading energy-tech team is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support major platform upgrades, a new product release, and CI/CD modernisation. You’ll work across cloud and on-prem environments, helping shape a complex high-availability trading platform. Key Responsibilities: • Lead the migration to a new Jenkins environment • Support delivery of a major product release (v5.0) • Improve CI/CD, pull-request standards, and deployment automation • Upgrade the current deployment platform and enhance observability • Contribute to cloud migration work (Lift & Shift from on-prem to GCP) • Provide senior technical guidance across teams Required Skills: • 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles • Strong Red Hat Linux • Ansible (advanced) • Jenkins (migration + CI/CD pipelines) • GCP (incl. Lift & Shift experience) • Python preferred • Solid experience with automation/orchestration tooling (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Git, etc.) Nice to Have: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenSearch, HAProxy, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, GitOps, serverless/microservices experience.
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DevOps Engineer
PragueContractNegotiableSenior DevOps Engineer Contract – Prague (Hybrid) On-site: 1 day/week Length: 12 months (extensions likely) A leading energy-tech team is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to support major platform upgrades, a new product release, and CI/CD modernisation. You’ll work across cloud and on-prem environments, helping shape a complex high-availability trading platform. Key Responsibilities: • Lead the migration to a new Jenkins environment • Support delivery of a major product release (v5.0) • Improve CI/CD, pull-request standards, and deployment automation • Upgrade the current deployment platform and enhance observability • Contribute to cloud migration work (Lift & Shift from on-prem to GCP) • Provide senior technical guidance across teams Required Skills: • 5+ years in DevOps/SRE roles • Strong Red Hat Linux • Ansible (advanced) • Jenkins (migration + CI/CD pipelines) • GCP (incl. Lift & Shift experience) • Python preferred • Solid experience with automation/orchestration tooling (Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, Git, etc.) Nice to Have: Prometheus/Grafana, OpenSearch, HAProxy, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, GitOps, serverless/microservices experience.
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Risk Management Consultant (UCITS & AIF)
LuxembourgContractTBDRisk Management Consultant (UCITS & AIF) 6-month Assignment | Luxembourg | Part-time (4h/day) with potential Full-time depending on profile About the Opportunity We are currently supporting a confidential private bank in Luxembourg in the search for a Risk Management Consultant to reinforce an established risk team covering an investment fund universe including UCITS and AIF structures (with strategies such as Private Equity and Real Estate). The assignment is currently scoped at 4 hours per day to support the team’s operational risk monitoring and reporting workload. Depending on your experience, autonomy, and ability to take ownership, the mission can be performed on a full-time basis. This opportunity is ideal for a fund risk professional who enjoys combining technical analysis, investment restriction monitoring, and high-quality reporting, in a regulated environment where rigor, pragmatism, and attention to detail are essential. Assignment Details Location: Luxembourg Start date: May 2026 Duration: 6 months (extension possible depending on project needs) Workload: Part-time: 4 hours/day Full-time possible depending on profile and scope coverage Remote work: On-site presence expected during onboarding and initial ramp-up Hybrid set-up may be possible afterwards depending on autonomy and team organisation Your Responsibilities Fund Risk Monitoring (UCITS & AIF) You will support the day-to-day risk monitoring across a range of fund strategies, ensuring reliable analysis and actionable insights. Monitor key risk metrics (market risk, liquidity risk, concentration risk, counterparty risk, leverage where applicable) Perform exposure analysis by asset class, issuer, sector, geography, currency, and other relevant risk dimensions Investigate drivers behind risk movements and exceptions, and support root-cause analysis Contribute to scenario analysis and stress-testing exercises based on internal methodologies Investment Restrictions & Regulatory Framework You will help ensure fund monitoring aligns with the applicable regulatory environment and internal policies. Support the monitoring and interpretation of investment restrictions applicable to UCITS and AIFs Contribute to control evidence and documentation (traceable, well-structured, audit-ready) Escalate breaches, anomalies or data inconsistencies in a clear and solution-oriented way Risk Reporting & Governance Support You will contribute to producing and improving high-quality risk reporting deliverables for internal stakeholders. Prepare periodic risk reporting packs (dashboards, KPIs, exception logs, and commentary) Improve reporting structure, consistency, and robustness (quality checks, reconciliations, version control) Handle ad-hoc reporting requests and support governance-related deliverables when required Financial Products & Derivatives Exposure A solid understanding of instruments is required to interpret exposures and reporting impacts. Analyse and interpret exposures linked to financial derivatives and their impact on risk measures and limits Support the consistent treatment of instruments within risk templates and reporting logic Tools & Automation (Excel / VBA) This role requires strong Excel capabilities and an improvement mindset. Build, maintain, and enhance reporting tools and templates in Excel Automate recurring tasks and controls using VBA where relevant Strengthen data quality checks and reconciliation logic to improve reliability and efficiency Your Profile Experience You meet one of the following criteria: 3+ years of professional experience in Risk Management within the investment fund industry, covering UCITS and AIF (ideally with exposure to Private Equity and/or Real Estate strategies), or prior experience as a Risk Management Consultant supporting fund-related risk topics (UCITS/AIF), such as risk reporting, investment restriction monitoring, risk frameworks, or data/control improvements. Skills Strong understanding of UCITS and AIF regulatory constraints, especially investment restrictions Good knowledge of financial products, including derivatives Excellent command of MS Office, particularly Excel VBA is a strong advantage (automation, robust reporting packs, controls) Mindset Strong team spirit with a pragmatic, hands-on approach Detail-oriented with a high standard for quality, structure, and traceability Comfortable delivering recurring outputs as well as investigating exceptions Solution-oriented, reliable, and able to operate with autonomy Languages French & English: professional working proficiency required Interested ? If you would like to learn more about this opportunity or apply confidentially, please contact: Rémi Simon Skillfinder International rsimon@skillfindergroup.com +352 27 30 06 27
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