Euro Top Tech Jobs - Week 28
Hand-picked roles + Skills Pattern Analysis (SPA) Framework intro
Quick article today.
Some hand-picked roles from this week’s EuroTopTechJobs.com update:
SRE - Monitoring Systems Engineer- Experienced Hire at Susquehanna International Group in Ireland [link] (very high pay, maybe even $300k+)
Software Engineer - fresh graduate at Oracle Barcelona [link]
UI Engineer (L4/L5) - Content Promotion & Distribution Engineering at Netflix Warsaw [link] (this is one of the best UI/FrontEnd team in Europe)
The Skills Pattern Analysis (SPA) Framework
Don't apply to jobs on autopilot without knowing what you're doing.
You'll end up wasting years.
Instead, do this:
Create a document in your favourite editor
Whenever you find a job you like, copy paste the description in this doc
Use AI to strip the doc of the non-mandatory job requirements
Then, do what I call a Skills Pattern Analysis (SPA) 👇
Check which requirements recur often (programming languages, technologies, frameworks, languages, etc).
Use this to inform your career strategy decisions.
💡 Here's how I used this method some years ago:
I was targeting Big Tech roles in Zurich and Europe.
I applied the above framework, and I saw some patterns among the roles I liked:
Java appeared often
Large-Scale Distributed Systems knowledge was frequently required
Full-Stack, Frontend, and Python showed up occasionally
This insight helped me focus my learning journey and career direction specifically toward backend distributed systems with Java.
For example, I did my MSc thesis on Java bytecode instrumentation for performance analysis of large-scale systems.
Or took some exams that were aligned with these skill sets.
In my consulting role in Zurich, I prioritised assignments that involved these skills, such as Cloud projects.
Later on, I landed a role in Oracle's Zurich MySQL team, working with Java, and a bit of Python, in a cloud control plane (= distributed systems) team.
You can be "spontaneous" about your career.
Or you can be intentional:
Assess your skills and interests
Assess the market
Create and follow a strategy
Which one do you think is more likely to yield results?
If you're curious about the SPA framework, go here for my detailed article, including:
Step-by-step implementation guide
Real document examples from my job search
How to effectively analyze skill patterns
Tips for applying this method to your career
Whenever you're ready, there are 2 ways I can help you:
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