Strategic Tech Architect Lead — Cloud, Data & Security

Lever, Inc.; Ireland; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Senior leadership exposure

Diverse client engagements

Fast-moving consulting environment

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Tech Architect Practitioner based in Ireland to lead complex architecture engagements across applications, cloud, data, security, and delivery.

You will translate business priorities into pragmatic technology solutions and deliver practical transition roadmaps for clients. The role demands strong enterprise architecture experience, deep cloud knowledge, and the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in technical, solutions, or enterprise architecture, software engineering, or related leadership roles.
• Strong practical knowledge of modern technology architectures and platforms, including cloud services, application architecture, infrastructure, integration patterns, software delivery practices, security, and reliability.
• Experience assessing technology estates and defining target-state architectures, transition strategies, and delivery roadmaps.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies, security, resilience, observability, performance, scalability, and operational considerations.
• Expertise in data architecture and modern data platforms, including data warehouses, data lakes, lakehouses, integration patterns, data modelling, data governance, data quality, and analytics.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, practical recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Credibility when working with CTOs, CIOs, CDOs, Heads of Engineering, Heads of Data, and enterprise architects.
• Experience across architecture lifecycle from design to delivery, operations and modernisation.
• Hands-on mindset to move between architecture and client-facing advisory work.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical architecture workstreams across client engagements, assessing applications, infrastructure, cloud environments, integration, data platforms, and constraints.
• Define pragmatic target-state architectures aligning business priorities with application, infrastructure, data, security, scalability, resilience, and delivery requirements.
• Advise clients on technology platform and architecture decisions, including cloud platforms, modernisation, integration, data platforms, and analytics environments.
• Translate requirements into architecture principles, designs, transition approaches, and delivery priorities.
• Develop and present architecture recommendations credible to senior technology leaders and accessible to non-technical stakeholders.
• Identify risks, dependencies, debt, constraints, and delivery challenges, proposing practical mitigations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support product, engineering, cloud, security, data, and transformation objectives.
• Challenge assumptions and balance ambition with cost, complexity, resilience, and value delivery.
• Develop prioritized technology roadmaps to move from current-state limitations to scalable capabilities.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architectures

Data architecture

Security and resilience

Stakeholder communication

Delivery roadmaps

Consulting/advisory

Architecting for scalability

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Tech Architect Practitioner based in Ireland to lead complex architecture engagements across applications, cloud, data, security, and delivery.

You will translate business priorities into pragmatic technology solutions and deliver practical transition roadmaps for clients. The role demands strong enterprise architecture experience, deep cloud knowledge, and the ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to senior leaders and non-technical stakeholders.