Our passion is to help our customers to sustainably grow their business while providing our employees with opportunities to thrive and do what they love!
We greatly value long-term partnerships, dedication and commitment, technical excellence, and work-life balance.
Our strategy consultants and project managers have extensive experience in running technology-related companies, navigating public tender procedures, and setting up successful projects. We also see such projects through successfully, on time, and within budgets.
We support our customers with highly qualified software development teams processes and covering the whole software lifecycle from requirements engineering to design, coding, quality assurance and deployment.
Management Team
Before the inception of METIQ in 2014, our management team has been working together for different companies since the year 2000 and has also forged a close personal friendship. Together with our team we now serve our employees and customers at METIQ and additionally are part of the management team of Frequentis Solutions & Services, a Slovak subsidiary of the Austrian Frequentis group.
Pavol Kopečný
Managing Partner: Strategy & Business Development
Pavol was educated at Bentley University, in Boston, USA. Thus, he earned his MBA degree at one of the leading IT related MBAs programs in the U.S. and in the world. At Bentley, he worked as softwared developer at Academic Technology Center. He continued his carreer as E-Commerce Development Manager with Teradyne in Boston, Massachusetts – a high-tech and fortune 1,000 manufacturing company. In 2002, he returned to Slovakia and worked as strategy consultant with many local and international corporations in various fields and industries. Pavol enjoys freeride skiing and many other sports including beach volleyball, hockey, and soccer. He also enjoys reading about Physics especially theory of relativity, antimatter and quantum physics.
Robert Pollai
Managing Partner: Consulting & Technology
Robert has more than 20 years of experience working in the ICT industry in executive management, consulting and software development. Clients included Atos, Frequentis, Siemens and Telekom Austria with focus on the fields of defense, public safety, telecommunications and energy utility. Robert has also worked on projects all over the world, including long-term stays in Canada, Sweden and Thailand. When off from work, Robert loves to take photos and ride his mountain bike.
METIQ name
The name is a combination of three important words: METIS + ETIQ + IQ: smart, ethical and intelligent.
Metis
Metis refers to wisdom, skills, or craft. Metis in mythology had become the mother of wisdom and deep thought. Metis name originally connoted “magical cunning” and was as easily equated with the trickster powers of Prometheus as with the “royal metis” of Zeus. The Stoic commentators allegorised Metis as the embodiment of “prudence”, “wisdom” or “wise counsel”, in which form she was inherited by the Renaissance.
It had been prophesied that Metis would bear extremely powerful children which reflects our goal of creating solid and powerful solutions.
Further, in 1998 book Seeing Like a State, the author James C. Scott used “metis” to describe the knowhow, experience and wisdom that people acquire in building expertise, as a key contributor to success in society that is not accounted for by the high modernist approach to central administration.
ETIQ
ETIQ reflects our goal of a highly ethical approach with a straightforward approach and ultimately achieving full trust of our clients and the people that work for us.
IQ
IQ mirrors our objective to create intelligent, unique and complex solutions.
Services
Advising & Consulting
We support our clients with our expertise based on extensive experience in various industries such as telecommunications, logistics and energy utilities. With that experience, we help create business and IT strategies, manage strategic procurements on the public and private sector and setup successful IT delivery projects.
Client Benefits:
- Profit from expertise that complements your own inhouse skills
- Get an unbiased outside view
- Fast results
Managing Projects
We help our clients in setting up successful projects for delivery on time and in budget. We are experienced in various project management frameworks such as PMI or Prince and can provide delivery teams covering not only project management but also technical management, system engineering and quality assurance.
Client Benefits:
- Get experts to manage your time-limited IT projects
- Expand your inhouse capacities with seasoned, multi-functional teams that work well together
- Profit from our ability to implement your projects anywhere in the world
- Get transparent and understandable project reporting
Managing Projects
We help our clients in setting up successful projects for delivery on time and in budget. We are experienced in various project management frameworks such as PMI or Prince and can provide delivery teams covering not only project management but also technical management, system engineering and quality assurance.
Client Benefits:
- Get experts to manage your time-limited IT projects
- Expand your inhouse capacities with seasoned, multi-functional teams that work well together
- Profit from our ability to implement your projects anywhere in the world
- Get transparent and understandable project reporting
Developing Software
We support our customers throughout the software development lifecycle based on both agile (Scrum, Kanban) and conventional processes. Our services encompass not only coding but also structured requirements engineering, design, quality assurance with automated and manual quality testing and deployment and DevOps.
Client Benefits:
- Quick expansion of your software development team
- Outsource the challenge to find people with the specific skills and experiences you need
- Outsource the complete lifecycle management of your custom software solution or software product
- Profit from low hourly rates combined with geographical closeness to especially Austrian customers
References
Slovakia and especially Bratislava is the ideal location for expanding your R&D and project delivery capacities!
With its strong technical universities and large IT sector, the region has an abundance of well-educated and motivated professionals with experience in international environments. And since Bratislava and Vienna are only 54 kilometers apart, especially Austrian clients can profit from being able to do business face-to-face when needed.
Our team has a proven track-record in staffing and managing R&D and project delivery teams with focus on state-of-the-art technologies, reliablity and usability.
Our existing customers include:
Career
For our customers, we are developing next generation IT solutions, and our delivery teams deploy such solutions around the globe, with responsibility for commercial and technical project management, engineering, and quality assurance. To grow our team, we are constantly looking for talents in all these fields. Our company offers work in interesting domains, challenging technical environments, a people-focused culture with good work-life-balance and long-term development opportunities.
Currently we are especially looking for talented Java developers with experience in modern stacks with Spring and Spring Boot, microservices and event streaming with Apache Kafka or similar platforms. While Java is our focus, we also have projects working in Microsoft environments, with .NET, MS SQL Server, and other current Microsoft technologies.
Generally, also useful are experiences with modern frontend frameworks such as Angular, React and Vue.
We value pro-active and communicative people who are willing to engage with our clients and actively contribute to the teams that they are part of. Most of the roles in our projects can be filled remotely, with occasional travel to come together for team-buildings and building relationships. In some projects, language skills besides English can be useful, particularly German and Spanish, and we are open for applications from across Europe. While most of our work force is based in Slovakia, we already employ or work with engineers from six other countries, namely Croatia, Austria, Romania, Lithuania, Macedonia, and Ukraine.
If you are interested, you can send us your CV via the form below.
What is it like working with METIQ
Our people work on interesting projects and in most cases work for clients that are from countries other than Slovakia
What can new hires expect at METIQ
Nice and nurturing work environment supporting self-development and passionate approach to work. Team of good people.
Who is METIQ looking for
Java developers (detailed description in a link)
Contact
If you are interested in our services or in employment with us, we are ready to respond to your calls or if you prefer you can send us an email via the form.
METIQ Solutions s.r.o.
City Business Center
Karadžičova 7244/8
821 08 Bratislava
Slovakia