Principal Systems Generalist – Distributed Systems & Databases is a senior technical position responsible for solving foundational challenges across distributed systems, production databases, orchestration, and observability. The focus of this role is to ensure the platform is reliable, scalable, and fault-tolerant under real-world workloads.
This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems engineering, production-grade database operations, and systems programming using Rust. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working across the stack from low-level systems internals to orchestration and observability tooling and will act as a cross-functional problem solver across infrastructure teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement backend systems in Rust to manage and allocate GPUs across compute clusters.
- Scale and optimize high-performance SQL and NoSQL databases for low-latency, high-throughput workloads.
- Build and maintain resilient recovery and failover mechanisms to ensure availability during outages and cluster-level failures.
- Develop observability tooling, including monitoring, logging, and tracing, for diagnosing issues in distributed environments.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, and networking teams to design and operate a unified and reliable systems platform.
- Lead or contribute to architectural reviews, incident response, and reliability engineering efforts.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience building and operating distributed systems at production scale.
- Proficiency in Rust for systems and backend programming.
- Strong understanding of SQL
- Demonstrated ability to build tooling and automation for system health, monitoring, and recovery.
- Comfortable navigating and debugging complex interactions between kernel, databases, and orchestration layers.
Preferred Qualifications
- In-depth understanding of distributed consensus protocols (e.g., Raft, Paxos) and database internals.
- Experience with observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
- Exposure to GPU scheduling or high-performance computing (HPC) environments (optional).
- Familiarity with service-level objectives (SLOs), chaos engineering, and incident management workflows.
- Experience with Linux systems internals and container orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes or Nomad.
ERP Integration Architect - REMOTE - Greater London
A client of ours is actively recruiting for an agnostic ERP Integration Architect to sit between their ERP and CRM. The business is at RFP stage across 3 workstreams including ERP, so this is a vey exciting time to be joining. Netsuite plus a mixture of other ERP systems worked with is preferrable. Interviews are happening next week and the candidate would ideally be starting by early November.
Here are the general details for the role:
Title: ERP Integration Architect
Work mode: Fully remote
Role type: Contractor (Outside IR35)
Contract duration: 6+ months
Rate: Around £600/£650 a day with some flex
If you're interested, please apply with your CV or email h.gaut@lawrenceharvey.com asap.
Role: SAP Solutions Architect – MDG
Location: UK / Europe
Length: 6 months (initial), long-term extension potential
Pay Rate: Competitive Daily Rate
Overview:
We are supporting a global organisation embarking on a global S/4HANA implementation. Our client is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect with deep knowledge of SAP Data Architecture, specifically within MDG. This role requires someone who has the gravitas to challenge SI's, align business and IT, and drive data ownership across teams.
Key Requirements:
- Proven experience in SAP S/4HANA programmes as a Solution Architect
- Expertise in SAP Master Data Governance (MDG)
- Strong experience with SI, vendor, and stakeholder management
- Prior experience working on global complex E2E programmes
- Strong knowledge of BW/4HANA, reporting architecture, and experience integrating with Azure DataLakes would be beneficial
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the data architecture across the SAP S/4HANA ecosystem
- Define and oversee the implementation of SAP MDG frameworks for material, customer, and vendor master data
- Provide architecture oversight on SAP BW/4HANA, Embedded Analytics, Power BI, and Azure Data Lake integration's
- Collaborate with SI partners and internal teams to ensure sustainable, scalable data models
- Support solution design reviews and ensure documentation aligns with enterprise architecture principles
Are you interested in this position? If so, then please respond with your CV and I will be in touch ASAP.
I’m working closely with the CEO of an a16z backed company scaling the team with the first Marketing hire to lead the messaging to market. The company raised $9Mil in funding as a seed team and have already scaled working partnerships, successfully achieving PMF.
The comapny solves a growing issue in the delivered goods space by making a more accessible, cost effective and customized experience. Differently from monopoly good delivery companies like UberEats, DoorDash, etc. this company leverages a backend decentralized infrastructure to offer lower fees, more visibility, customization offerings, and reward incentives to the providers. They built and own the protocol that runs this decentralized physical infrasturcture network and are actively being used by providers across the Food, Restaurant, and Manufacturing markets.
The Role This is the first marketing hire, reporting directly to the CEO. You’ll be responsible for taking Palette Labs and its Local Protocol brand from stealth to scale, creating the voice, identity, and community that define the company. What You’ll Do:
• Build the brand from zero to one — craft the narrative, messaging, and visual identity that position Local Protocol as a leading crypto project.
• Own marketing end-to-end — brand marketing, product launches, PR, social, community engagement, and early crypto-native partnerships/funding announcements.
• Be hands-on — write copy, design campaigns, manage socials, pitch press, and run growth experiments without immediate team support.
• Create marketing infrastructure — content calendar, analytics, brand guidelines, and scalable processes.
• Lay the foundation for future scale — know when to bring on agencies or team members, and eventually build a marketing organization.
• Support adoption efforts — design creative campaigns that attract restaurants, onboard drivers, and excite local operators as co-owners of the network
Why Join
• Ownership upside — equity + tokens.
• Massive opportunity — rethinking a trillion-dollar industry, starting with food delivery.
• Founding seat at the table — first marketing hire, defining the voice of the core product
• Direct impact — report to the CEO, help onboard thousands of drivers and restaurants across the U.S., and shape how the world sees decentralized delivery
My big 4 consultancy client is looking for an SAP DRC consultant to join the next wave of their global greenfield on premise S/4HANA project.
The role is a 3 month initial contract with high chance of extension, and would start 01.11.25. It is 100% remote from anywhere in Europe, and English speaking.
Requirements:
Extensive experience with SAP DRC, Tax, e-invoicing, and statutory reporting.
S/4HANA implementation experience
Experience implementing and customizing the DRC module for local requirements
Experience with PEPPOL and KSeF
Previous experience implementing DRC for Poland and/or Germany (the countries in scope)
If this description sounds like you, please send me your CV and a number to reach you on as soon as possible!
Lead Scientific Data Architect
Hybrid – 4-5 days onsite in Greater Boston Area
Note: Visa sponsorship is not currently offered
Lawrence Harvey is partnering with a fast-scaling innovator at the intersection of Scientific Data and AI, working with some of the world’s most influential cloud and biopharma players. This organization is setting the industry standard for how scientific R&D data is structured, modeled, and activated for AI use cases across drug discovery, preclinical development, and manufacturing quality.
We're looking for a Scientific Data Architect to help design and implement extensible, AI-native data solutions for life sciences customers. This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in life sciences (e.g., drug discovery, CMC, preclinical) and hands-on experience building production-grade data models, pipelines, and applications.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a customer-facing technical lead, working directly with R&D teams to understand scientific workflows and translate them into scalable, cloud-based data solutions
- Architect and implement robust data models (tabular & JSON), integrating ELNs, LIMS, and lab instrumentation
- Build Python-based applications and parsers to support data processing, visualization, and integration with ML/AI models
- Collaborate closely with scientists, business analysts, and AI engineers to accelerate data activation
- Rapidly iterate on prototypes and present solutions through live demos and stakeholder meetings
Qualifications
- PhD with 7+ years or Master’s with 10+ years of industry experience in life sciences domains (drug discovery, quality, CMC, etc.)
- Strong technical fluency in Python, scientific data modeling, APIs, and cloud data infrastructure
- Prior experience building data pipelines and apps used by scientists and R&D teams
- Comfortable in dynamic, fast-paced environments with a high degree of ownership
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to work cross-functionally with science, engineering, and business teams
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