Technical Architect

Brightwater Recruitment; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Job summary

Brightwater Recruitment has partnered with a major Dublin-based bank to hire a Technical Architect for the EMEA Regulatory Reporting Technology team. The role focuses on driving architectural vision, designing scalable solutions and ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy.

The successful candidate will lead design discussions, review architecture, and guide the engineering teams to deliver secure, performant and maintainable systems within a hybrid, South Dublin setting.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering complex software architectures.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture and data concepts.
• Proven ability to lead technology teams and align business goals with IT strategy.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the architecture roadmap and solution designs.
• Lead design discussions and ensure architectural quality and non-functional requirements.
• Provide technical leadership across multiple technologies and teams.
• Mentor engineers on best practices and architecture standards.
• Collaborate with business to translate requirements into scalable architectures.
• Identify risks and mitigations, and drive implementation decisions.

Tools

Oracle PL/SQL

Angular

Java

Spring

Hadoop

Cloud technologies

Job description

6 Month (rolling) Contract, Hybrid, South Dublin

About the Company

My client is one of the largest and most successful banks in the world with offices in Dublin. They are a leader in the Fintech industry, working on cutting edge technology that’s shaping the future of finance and investments. They have a number of exciting projects and new developments underway and they are looking to add to the growing teams in multiple divisions.

About the Role

My client is currently looking to add a skilled and experienced Technical Architect to join their EMEA Regulatory Reporting Technology team, to drive the architectural vision and architecture for their technology platform in line with the enterprise technology architecture and business strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the creation of the architecture roadmap
• Work across business and technology to create the solution design and architecture and evolve it based on an emerging backlog
• Provide technical thought leadership based on experience of building multiple software solutions
• Contribute to the development of design and technology implementation best practices
• Look for better ways to solve technical problems and design solutions
• Ensure architecture is flexible, modular and designed to adapt easily
• Facilitate solution-driven discussions and lead the design, finding creative solutions
• Clarify the architecture and assist with system design (where needed) for the development teams to support implementation and resolve any architectural impediments
• Perform design and code reviews to ensure all non-functional requirements for a solution are sufficiently met (e.g. security, performance, maintainability, scalability, usability, and reliability)
• Support the Engineering team as needed to select the technology stack required for solutions
• Educate team members on the technology practices, standardization strategies and best practices
• Build business-technology relationship through aligning business goals and strategy with technology implementation
• Identifies risks/dependencies that are not easily evident and defines controls needed to resolve/mitigate.

Requirements:

• Proven track record in solution architecture and design across multiple technologies
• Ability to build strong knowledge of products and services at functional and data level
• Excellent technical skills (key technologies used: Oracle PL/SQL, Angular, Java, Spring)
• Good knowledge of emerging technologies and Big Data (Hadoop)
• Experience with data technologies and understanding of metadata and data lineage concepts
• Experience of interfacing with 3rd party vendor platforms
• Exposure to Cloud technologies
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues
• Ability to create reusable components that can be leveraged across the enterprise
• Strong leader, capable of guiding the technology team to implement technical designs
• Ability to face off to and build strong relationships with business and technology partners
• Experience of working within a large organization or financial services company

Remuneration:

• Generous daily rate between 650-850 per day in line with experience.