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AOL create 20 New Software Engineering Jobs

AOL are seeking a further 20 software engineers to join their Media Technology, Advertising Technology and Patch teams in Dublin. They are aiming to fill the posts as soon as possible and plan to begin interviews within the next couple of weeks. They had a strong response to their last recruitment drive in June and are confident they can find the right people with the skill set we need.

The new jobs are all high value experienced professional software engineering positions, suitable for candidates with Java qualifications. Opportunities are available for both senior and intermediately experienced recruits, with industry experience ranging between five to eight and two to four years respectively. Successful candidates will have excellent opportunities for travel within AOL’s global network of companies and enjoy highly attractive benefits as part of their packages.

AOL has been based in Dublin for the past 10 years and currently employs 133 people. Dublin is its development engine for Europe and works alongside its sister Development Centres in San Francisco, Dulles, New York, Bangalore and Frankfurt. The Company announced in June that it plans to move to a new headquarters in Dublin City Centre.

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Business Objects will create 100 new jobs in Dublin as a result of a EUR29m investment. Business Objects will establish a R&D center in Citywest in Dublin. SAP bought Business Objects in January of this year so new jobs will be located at SAP’s facility in West Dublin.

These high value positions will be created over the next 4 years he next four years and they will be focus on new generation of performance optimisation applications. Jobs created will be for graduates and experienced IT professionals. IT roles will include IT architects, Software testers and programmers. There will also be a recruitment drive for engineers with Java, Eclipse, XML languages.

Business Objects & SAP currently employ over 1000 staff in Dublin & Galway. Business Objects set up in Dublin in 2004 and employs 200 of the 1000 staff.
This is some positive news for the government as these are they type of high-end jobs they have promised to deliver.

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Unum Ireland is opening of a Software Development Centre in Ireland. Unum, is a leading U.S. employee benefits company, ranking 251 on the Fortune 500 list. News was announcement in February of their expansion into Ireland. Since then they have employed a number of dynamic staff and they are now starting the second wave of recruitment. They are recruiting candidates with strong Java J2EE or Cobol/Mainframe skills and talented .NET developers.

Unum will be hosting walk-in open days in Dublin – 9th May and Carlow -10th. If you are interested in finding out more information visit the website.

It was reported earlier in the week that Senior Technology Executives were optimistic about the year ahead for the IT Sector. They were obviously privy to information that the rest of us mere mortals were not. There were more job announcements today which results in an even better week for the IT sector across the island. Thank Crunchie its Friday!!!

Opennet

Dublin-based Openet announced plans to hire an additional 50 staff which will increase its 250 staff to 300 employed in Park West, Dublin. Openet are a software company specialising in the telecoms sector. The demand for new staff is due to increase demand for existing products but also plans to increase product range. Openet will be recruiting for a number of skills including software engineers, software programmers and professional service engineers. For info on these jobs check out – Openet.

Saaspoint

Saaspoint are also experiencing increased customer demand and has plans to double its staff numbers of 40. The number of jobs to be created could rise further if demand keeps rising. For more info check out – Saaspoint.

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Good News for the Dublin today as ServiceSource announced the creation of 100 Multi-Lingual sales jobs in Cherrywood. ServiceSource is based in San Fran and established its EMEA offices in Dublin 2005. The company currently employs 175 staff in Ireland.

There was also good news for Belfast where Fidessa announce that it would be setting up a Development Center. This will mean the creation of 26 high skilled software programming jobs. Hey are these not the type of jobs the Government and IDA have promised us!! Apparantly we were considered but the availability of Engineers in Belfast swung it – hmmmm!!