Software Architect

Acuity Inc.; Ireland; Remote; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Inc. is seeking a Software Architect to define and maintain the technical architecture for the PDM system, aligning with business goals and enterprise standards.

You will lead architecture planning, governance, and modernization while partnering with product, security, and operations teams. The role blends hands-on coding, architectural leadership, and governance to ensure scalable, secure solutions across commerce, quoting, and manufacturing domains.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience with significant architecture responsibility.
• Strong experience with enterprise application design.
• Experience defining architecture for large-scale business-critical applications.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, integration patterns, event-driven architectures, and microservices concepts.
• Experience with Azure, CI/CD, DevOps, security, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Experience working within Agile and SAFe delivery models.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise System Design: Architect end-to-end distributed systems with a focus on scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and loose coupling across complex enterprise platforms.
• Cloud Architecture: Design and optimize multi-tier cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), apply cloud-native patterns, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and cost-effective resource management.
• API & Integration Strategy: Define standards for API design, lifecycle management, and service integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), ensuring robust contracts, backward compatibility, and developer ergonomics.
• Multi-Language Fluency: Leverage deep hands-on expertise in core enterprise programming ecosystems, principally Python, C# (.NET), and Java, to guide language-appropriate architectural decisions and evaluate technical trade-offs.
• Software Craftsmanship & Design Patterns: Champion clean architecture, domain-driven design (DDD), and classic design patterns to ensure codebases remain maintainable, testable, and modular over time.
• Data Architecture & Modeling: Lead database topology decisions across relational engines (SQL) and NoSQL stores, balancing data consistency models, read/write performance, and long-term storage strategies.
• Event-Driven Architectures: Architect asynchronous, event-driven platforms utilizing messaging systems and streaming fabrics (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) to support decoupled, reactive workflows.
• DevOps & Continuous Delivery: Collaborate with platform engineering to embed CI/CD, observability, automated testing, and secure deployment pipelines.

Skills

Architecture leadership

Distributed systems

Cloud architecture

API design

Java, C#, Python

DevOps & CI/CD

SAFe / Agile

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD tooling

OpenAPI

Miro

Job description

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market-leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at www.acuityinc.com .

Job Summary

The Software Architect for the Acuity Product Data Management (PDM) system is responsible for defining and maintaining the technical architecture, engineering standards, and technology roadmap for one of Acuity's most critical enterprise platforms. PDM manages product series, option groups, attributes, assets, pricing, validation, and ordering information consumed by commerce, quoting, ordering, manufacturing, and downstream enterprise systems.

This role combines deep technical leadership with hands‑on architecture and coding, solution design, modernization planning, and engineering governance. The architect partners with Product Management, Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, DevOps, Security, Data, and business stakeholders to ensure solutions are scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned to business objectives.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Enterprise System Design: Architect end-to-end distributed systems with a focus on scalability, high availability, fault tolerance, and loose coupling across complex enterprise platforms.

• Cloud Architecture: Design and optimize multi-tier cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP), apply cloud-native patterns, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and cost-effective resource management.

• API & Integration Strategy: Define standards for API design, lifecycle management, and service integration (REST, GraphQL, gRPC), ensuring robust contracts, backward compatibility, and developer ergonomics.

• Multi‑Language Fluency: Leverage deep hands‑on expertise in core enterprise programming ecosystems, principally Python, C# (.NET), and Java, to guide language-appropriate architectural decisions and evaluate technical trade‑offs.

• Software Craftsmanship & Design Patterns: Champion clean architecture, domain‑driven design (DDD), and classic design patterns to ensure codebases remain maintainable, testable, and modular over time.

• Data Architecture & Modeling: Lead database topology decisions across relational engines (SQL) and NoSQL stores (document, key‑value, graph, and wide‑column), balancing data consistency models, read/write performance, and long‑term storage strategies.

• Event‑Driven Architectures: Architect asynchronous, event‑driven platforms utilizing messaging systems and streaming fabrics (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ, event brokers) to support decoupled, reactive workflows.

• DevOps & Continuous Delivery: Collaborate closely with platform engineering to embed modern CI/CD automation, observability (metrics, logs, traces), automated testing, and secure deployment pipelines across all architectural boundaries.

• Internal Developer Platforms (IDP): Drive the architecture and adoption of self‑service internal developer platforms that standardize deployment patterns, accelerate developer velocity, and enforce architectural guardrails.

• AI Fluency & Emerging Technologies: Pragmatically evaluate and incorporate artificial intelligence, machine learning pipelines, and LLM integrations into core system architectures to modernize capabilities and improve operational efficiency.

• Cross-Functional Influence & Alignment: Translate complex business objectives into pragmatic technical roadmaps, aligning engineering teams, product managers, and executive leadership behind unified architectural decisions.

• Engineering Mentorship & Talent Growth: Coach and mentor staff engineers, technical leads, and development teams, fostering a strong culture of continuous learning, system-level thinking, and modern software craftsmanship.

• Stakeholder Translation & Executive Communication: Distill intricate distributed system concepts, platform constraints, and technology investments into clear, outcome-focused narratives tailored for senior and non‑technical executives.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related discipline.

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with significant architecture responsibility.

• Strong experience with enterprise application design.

• Experience defining architecture for large‑scale business‑critical applications.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, integration patterns, event‑driven architectures, and microservices concepts.

• Experience with Azure, CI/CD, DevOps, security, monitoring, and operational excellence.

• Experience working within Agile and SAFe delivery models.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Proficiency with AI‑assisted software development practices.

• Experience with Product Data Management (PDM), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), or Product Information Management platforms.

• Experience in commerce, quoting, ordering, manufacturing, supply chain, or digital‑product ecosystems.

• Experience with event streaming, API management, cloud‑native architecture, and modernization programs.

• Experience leading architecture reviews, technical strategy, and portfolio‑level technology decisions.

Tools & Technologies

• Development: Multi‑language fluency

• Delivery Approach: SAFe, Jira, Confluence, Miro

• Cloud & DevOps: Multi‑tier cloud environments, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Observability

• Integration: REST APIs, OpenAPI, Event‑driven Architecture

• Enterprise Platforms: PLM, CPQ, Product Data Systems, CRM

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Accommodation in the Application Process: Acuity Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. It complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and other applicable laws requiring reasonable accommodation of persons with disabilities in employment. This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation in the application process. If you believe you need reasonable accommodation to assist with our online application system or any aspect of the application process, please contact Human Resources at [phone], and select option 4. Please be prepared to identify the requisition / position applied for and the aspect of the application process for which you believe accommodation is needed. The company will engage in an interactive process with you to better understand the request and to determine whether reasonable accommodation is needed and available.