Specialized talent

Senior engineers, Oracle specialists and data people embedded in your team.

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What is it?

Where you need specific expertise inside your own team rather than a delivered project. People work to your process and in your tooling, and the engagement is designed so capability stays behind when it ends.

For a technical reader

Assessment is the part most staffing fails at: keyword matching on a CV predicts very little about whether someone can work effectively in your codebase. We assess through technical discussion of real decisions and trade-offs the candidate has made. Integration matters equally — people working to your standards, in your tooling, inside your ceremonies, rather than as a parallel team whose output has to be merged later, which reproduces exactly the integration problems you were trying to avoid.

Our services

Capability-scoped placementRoles defined by the specific capability needed and for how long, rather than a generic job title.
Technical assessmentCandidates evaluated against the actual work through technical discussion, not keyword screening.
Embedded deliveryEngineers working inside your process, tooling and standards.
Knowledge transferPairing and documentation planned from the start so capability stays when the engagement ends.

What’s covered

Senior engineers
Backend, frontend and full-stack engineers who have run systems in production
Oracle consultants
Functional and technical specialists across ERP, SCM, HCM and EPM
Data engineers and scientists
Pipeline, warehouse and modelling capability
Cloud and DevOps
Platform, SRE and infrastructure engineers
Solution architects
People who can hold the whole design and make the trade-offs explicit

Business problems we solve

Hiring takes too long for the deadlinePermanent recruitment has a long lead time. Embedded specialists cover the gap while hiring continues.
We need a skill we will not need permanentlyA migration or implementation may need expertise for months, not forever. Hiring permanently for it is the wrong instrument.
Contractors left and took the knowledgeKnowledge transfer treated as optional. We plan it from day one and make it a deliverable.
Previous contractors did not fit the teamUsually assessment on paper rather than on the work, plus working in parallel instead of inside the team.

Our delivery approach

  1. 01
    Scope the gap preciselyThe specific capability and how long it is needed for. Vague requirements produce poor matches.
  2. 02
    Match on evidenceCandidates assessed against the actual work, with technical discussion rather than keyword matching on a CV.
  3. 03
    Integrate into your teamYour standards, your tooling, your ceremonies. Parallel teams create integration problems later.
  4. 04
    Transfer knowledge deliberatelyPairing and documentation planned from the start so capability remains when the engagement ends.

Solutions & project types

Examples of the work we take on in this area. These describe project shapes, not named client engagements.

Oracle implementation specialistsFunctional and technical consultants for a defined implementation phase.
Engineering capacity for a programmeSenior engineers embedded in your teams for a delivery window.
Data capabilityData engineers or scientists for a platform build or model development.
Architecture supportA solution architect holding the design across a multi-team programme.

Technologies & platforms

Engineering

  • TypeScript / Node.js
  • Python
  • Java
  • Go
  • React
  • Kubernetes

Oracle

  • Cloud ERP
  • SCM
  • HCM
  • EPM
  • OCI
  • Integration Cloud

Data & AI

  • SQL
  • dbt
  • Spark
  • Python ML stack
  • LLM application engineering

Cloud & platform

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • OCI
  • Terraform
  • CI/CD

Architecture

  • Solution architecture
  • Integration architecture
  • Security architecture
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Where to start with specialized talent.

Secondary to the work itself, but genuinely useful if you are building the skill. Every link goes to official documentation or an official channel.

Beginner

  • Pick one stack and go deep before going broad
  • Build something real and deploy it publicly
  • Learn to read other people's code
  • Version control and code review etiquette

Intermediate

  • Production experience: on-call, incidents, debugging live systems
  • Writing for other engineers: design docs, ADRs
  • Testing discipline and refactoring safely
  • Estimating and communicating uncertainty

Advanced

  • Technical leadership without authority
  • Making and defending architecture trade-offs
  • Mentoring and raising the level around you
  • Domain depth in a vertical such as Oracle or data platforms

Certifications

  • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Practice projects

  • Ship something to production and operate it for a month
  • Write an architecture decision record and have it reviewed
  • Debug a live incident and write the postmortem
  • Mentor someone through their first production change
  • Go deep on one vertical until you can hold the whole design
FAQs

Questions we get asked.

Is this staff augmentation?

In shape, yes, but we scope by capability and build knowledge transfer in. The difference matters when the engagement ends.

How quickly can someone start?

Depends on how specific the capability is. Common engineering profiles move faster than niche Oracle module expertise.

Do they work for us or for you?

They work inside your team, to your process and standards. We handle employment, performance and continuity.

What if the fit is wrong?

We replace, and we would rather find out early. Assessment against real work exists to make that rare.

Can this convert to permanent?

That is a conversation we are open to rather than one we obstruct. It is usually a good outcome for everyone.

Managed Services

Related services.

Application supportOngoing support for the applications we build and the ones you already run.Cloud & infrastructure operationsRunning the platform day to day: patching, capacity, resilience and cost.Monitoring & SREKnowing a service is degraded before your users tell you, and having a path to fix it.Continuous improvementA funded, prioritised backlog after go-live, so the system keeps getting better.
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