Client: Gentrack
Industry: Technology / Utilities Software
Location: London 
Engagement Type: Embedded Recruitment Support
Project Duration: 3 Months

Overview

Gentrack is a specialist technology company delivering software solutions to the energy, water and utilities sectors. As the business continued to scale internationally, they required support hiring across multiple specialist technical and business-critical positions within engineering, Salesforce, QA, DevOps and communications teams.

Rent a Recruiter partnered closely with Gentrack as an extension of their internal talent acquisition function, helping build qualified pipelines, support hiring managers and progress long-open roles in a highly competitive technology market.

The challenge

Gentrack needed support across multiple live vacancies, several of which had already remained open for an extended period before the engagement began. The company required fast access to qualified technical talent while maintaining strong screening standards across specialist engineering and business support functions.

Key hiring challenges included

• High competition for experienced software engineering and Salesforce talent
• Long-open technical vacancies requiring renewed market engagement
• Multiple concurrent hiring requirements across engineering, QA, DevOps and communications
• Need for structured recruitment support and stakeholder coordination
• Requirement for salary benchmarking and market insight
• Building interview-ready pipelines for both immediate and future hiring needs

The roles supported 

The engagement focused on sourcing and progressing high-quality talent across software engineering, cloud and platform operations, Salesforce, quality assurance, technical leadership and internal communications functions, while helping rebuild momentum on several hard-to-fill vacancies.

Talent acquisition strategy

At the beginning of the project, our team travelled onsite to London to align directly with key stakeholders, understand the technical environment and establish hiring priorities. From there, we delivered specialist sourcing, candidate screening, interview coordination, salary benchmarking and pipeline management across multiple software engineering, Salesforce, QA and business-critical hiring projects, while helping rebuild momentum on several long-open vacancies.

Geography

The engagement supported hiring across international technology markets, with close collaboration between Rent a Recruiter and Gentrack’s London-based stakeholders. The project focused on sourcing specialist technical talent across software engineering, cloud, QA and Salesforce ecosystems.

Outcome

Through an embedded recruitment partnership, Rent a Recruiter helped Gentrack strengthen hiring capability across software engineering, Salesforce, QA, DevOps and business support functions. The engagement delivered successful placements, strong technical candidate pipelines and measurable progress across long-open specialist technology vacancies.