Senior Financial Services Solutions Architect

Realtime Recruitment; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Realtime Recruitment is hiring a Solution Architect for the Financial Services sector in Ireland. The role focuses on designing critical risk technology applications and leading architecture across strategic programs.

You will define target-state designs, create HLDs, and ensure data integration and security compliance while collaborating with stakeholders to drive delivery and governance. Strong communication and cloud/microservices expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in an Architect role within a highly regulated financial services environment.
• Strong experience in microservices/SOA design.
• Experience with high-volume ETL projects and multiple database systems including SQL, NoSQL & PostgreSQL.
• Coding skills with Python are beneficial.
• Background in financial services transformation and regulatory-driven implementations.
• Ability to architect solutions across complex multi-stack enterprise ecosystems.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong systems-thinking mindset for enterprise-scale architecture.
• Modern cloud architectures and microservices design.
• Experience with enterprise risk and compliance systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution architecture for strategic programs, defining target-state designs.
• Produce high-level design (HLD) documents and detailed architecture specs.
• Define integration and data architecture for scalable, interoperable platforms.
• Ensure regulatory and security compliance in partnership with stakeholders.
• Guide solutions from design through delivery and implementation.
• Align architecture with enterprise technology strategy.
• Support vendor selection, governance, and architectural assurance.
• Translate complex architectural decisions for technical and business audiences.

Skills

Solution architecture

Microservices/SOA design

Data architecture/ETL design

Cloud architectures

Regulatory/compliance awareness

Stakeholder management

Communication

Systems-thinking

Tools

SQL

NoSQL

PostgreSQL

Python

Job description

Realtime Recruitment is hiring a Solution Architect for the Financial Services sector in Ireland. The role focuses on designing critical risk technology applications and leading architecture across strategic programs.

You will define target-state designs, create HLDs, and ensure data integration and security compliance while collaborating with stakeholders to drive delivery and governance. Strong communication and cloud/microservices expertise are essential.