Senor Solutions Architect

Harvey Nash; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Harvey Nash is seeking a senior Solutions Architect to join the Risk Technology team at a major Dublin bank. You will design mission-critical applications, document architectures, and lead PoCs to validate feasibility while ensuring security and resilience.

You will collaborate with risk, compliance and engineering teams, define standards, mentor engineers, and present technical concepts to executives and auditors.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in solution architecture or equivalent roles.
• Expertise in microservices/SOA design using containerized environments.
• Experience with high-volume ETL/data processing.
• Experience designing polyglot systems with RDBMS and NOSQL databases.
• Experience with RESTful/GraphQL web APIs and async flows (Redis/Kafka).
• Strong communication and diagramming skills for diverse stakeholders.
• Experience with time-series and graph databases is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and document solutions to solve complex business problems.
• Define architecture standards, coding best practices, and DevOps/CI-CD pipelines.
• Hands-on PoCs/R&D to validate feasibility and drive innovation.
• Partner with risk, compliance, and engineering teams to translate needs.
• Create UML diagrams, Visio workflows, and clear technical docs for executives, developers, auditors.
• Advise on technology selection, vendor evaluations, and cost-benefit analyses.
• Mentor engineering teams on risk-aware design patterns and cloud security.

Skills

Years of experience

Microservices design

Containerized environments

ETL/data processing

Polyglot databases

REST/GraphQL APIs

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Job description

We are looking for a talented senior Solutions Architect to work in the Risk Technology team. The candidate should be interested in designing mission critical applications within one of the most interesting parts of one of the world’s largest banks.

As a Solutions Architect your main responsibilities will involve:

• Responsible for designing and documenting solutions to help solve complex business problems
• Define and enforce architecture standards, coding best practices, and DevOps/CI-CD pipelines.
• Hands-on development of PoCs/R&D initiatives to validate technical feasibility and drive innovation.
• Partner with risk, compliance, and engineering teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Create UML diagrams, Visio workflows, and clear technical documentation for diverse stakeholders (executives, developers, auditors).
• Advise on technology selection, vendor evaluations, and cost-benefit analyses for risk systems.
• Mentor engineering teams on risk-aware design patterns, cloud security, and resilient architecture.

As Solutions Architect your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• 5+ years in solution architecture or equivalent roles
• Expertise in microservices/SOA design using containerized environments
• Experience with high-volume ETL/data processing
• Experience designing polyglot systems using different database technologies – RDBMS (SQL Server or PostgreSQL), NOSQL (ideally MongoDB)
• Experience with RESTful/GraphQL web APIs and async communication flows using (Redis Streams, Kafka etc.)
• Exceptional stakeholder management, diagramming (UML/Visio), and presentation skills. Ability to simplify complex technical concepts for non-technical audiences
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Experience with TimeSeries databases (like Prometheus), Graph native databases like Neo4j or TigerGraph etc.