Banks, insurers and payment providers modernise decades-old core systems while the regulator keeps raising the bar. That combination makes specialist expertise scarce and the cost of a wrong hire high.
Start a conversationCore banking and policy systems are being decoupled, payment flows are becoming real time, and DORA has turned operational resilience into a board-level topic. Most programmes run for years and cannot pause for a hiring cycle.
Profiles need domain literacy as much as technical depth. A data engineer here has to understand risk reporting; a security architect has to speak the language of the regulator and the auditor.
We keep a live view of who is genuinely available in this niche across Belgium, the Netherlands and France, including people who never respond to open adverts. Screening covers clearance, audit exposure and the ability to work inside a controlled change process.
A Belgian insurance group lost two key functional consultants eleven weeks before go-live.
Case: a Business Continuity Management consultant for a large insurerA large insurance company had searched for months for a BCM consultant who fitted a medior budget.
NIS2: what it actually changes for security hiringThe directive created demand for two very different profiles, and most organisations only budget for one of them.