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Data & AI Talent · US & EU · Financial Services

Contract  ·  SoW  ·  Permanent

We place Data, AI Contractors and Leaders into Investment Management, Banking, FinTech, and Financial Services firms across the US and EU

Snowflake  ·  Databricks  ·  Palantir  ·  AI/ML Tools  ·  Aladdin  ·  dbt  ·  Airflow

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“The best Data & AI experts in financial services are never on the market for long. They move through networks and commit to firms that run a sharp, efficient process. We know where they are, when they’re free, and what it takes to get them started.”

– SO Digital

Contract

Data and AI specialists – available, vetted and delivered at pace. Security hiring fails when the brief is too broad and the search too shallow. When a programme needs capability today and not next quarter, we place engineers and architects who have shipped in regulated environments: pipelines against market data, models through risk review, platforms in trading firms.

Databricks · Snowflake · Fabrics · dbt · Airflow · Aladdin · AWS · Azure

Data Engineer
AI/ML Engineer
Data Architect
Platform Engineer
Quant Analyst

Statement of Work

Light touch, heavy impact. Defined outcome, fixed scope, delivered by an agentic team. For work packages where you want the result – AI use cases moved from PoC to production, a migration completed or a platform build. One agreement, one point of accountability.

Platform Builds · Agentic Services · Cloud & Data Migrations · Pipeline Delivery · Troubleshooting

Delivery Leader
Agentic Engineering 
Product Team
Emergency Team

Workplace

Modern Work practice leadership is consistently underestimated as a hiring challenge. The people who can drive Copilot adoption, lead an M365 transformation, and give clients confidence are rarely visible and rarely available – for Microsoft Partners scaling Modern Work delivery and organisations moving off legacy collaboration platforms.

Microsoft 365 · Teams · Copilot · SharePoint · Intune · Viva

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Modern Work Architect
Copilot Deployment Lead
Head of Digital Workplace
Modern Work Practice Lead

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How We Work

Three stages. No volume drops. No wasted process.

01 — Alignment

Before any search begins, we run a stakeholder alignment call to scope the role precisely — compensation, culture, technical requirements, and what a successful hire actually looks like in six months. Most searches fail because this conversation never happens. Ours starts here.

02 — Market Mapping

Within the first week, you receive a map of the available talent in the relevant Microsoft ecosystem across DACH and the US. You see the landscape — who exists, what they are earning, and what it will take to move them — before a single candidate is approached.

03 — Curated Shortlist

Three to five candidates. Each with a written narrative covering stack depth, seniority, cultural fit, and why they are worth your time. Never a volume drop. Never a CV without context. The average time from search open to accepted offer is six weeks.

Every search is retained. That means our incentive is the same as yours — the right hire, closed, at pace.

What clients say

Microsoft Partners and enterprise data teams across DACH and the US.

Every client reference is available on request. If you want to speak directly to someone we have placed or worked with — we will make the introduction.

Workplace

Global Head of IT

Manufacturing Organisation

“Michael is always easy to contact, reacts quickly, competently and is solution-oriented. We can gladly recommend SO Digital Recruitment as a partner for recruiting matters and look forward to further cooperation.”
Data & AI

CTO

Microsoft Partner

“Michael’s open personality, trustworthiness and the care he takes to foster a good relationship with all persons involved in the process, makes it a pleasure to work with him.”
Security

Managing Director

Global Banking Group

“We particularly value Michael's professional, fast, and flexible approach. Calls and emails are structured and time-efficient, and the profiles are of very high quality and tailored to our requirements and our company.”
Data & AI

Senior Technology Leader

Microsoft Partner

“It is a pleasure working with SO Digital due to their empathy, communication skills and positive energy, no matter how challenging the situation is. Those with the opportunity to work with Michael will be lucky.”