HP creates 105 jobs

Pro

14 December 2010

HP has announced that it will be adding 105 highly skilled jobs to its Enterprise Business unit in Galway, to boost the company’s software engineering base.

With the support of investment promotion agency IDA Ireland, HP is looking for IT workers with a range of skills, including enterprise data architecture, application development, and software engineering and testing.

The positions range from entry level to architect IT, and engineering positions from graduate to PhD level.

 

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The workers will be located in HP’s Ballybrit campus, and will work on two multi-year projects that are currently underway at the site. New recruits will work on HP’s latest technologies including its cloud infrastructure, as well as for its services business.

Martin Murphy, managing director of HP Ireland, said: “HP’s strategic intent is to continue the shift towards research and development, including working with institutions such as LERO, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre at Limerick University.”

The Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Batt O’Keeffe TD, described the HP jobs as significant boost for research and development in Ireland.

“HP has chosen Galway for these highly strategic and knowledge-based roles in a move that reinforces our global reputation for high-end research and development activity. The investment shows that we can compete for highly skilled jobs in the information technology sector as we forge ahead with efforts to make Ireland Europe’s innovation hub,” said Minister O’Keeffe.

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