Technical Architect

HireWise; Leinster; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health cover

Job summary

HireWise is seeking a Technical Architect to own the technical direction of a modern EdTech SaaS platform. You will work hands-on with engineering and product teams to define the target architecture, set standards, and drive the long-term technology roadmap.

You’ll lead platform modernisation, tackle complex challenges, ensure scalability, security and reliability, and influence AI-driven development. Flexible working with a strong senior stake in technology strategy is offered.

Qualifications

• Approximately 8–10 years of software engineering experience including architectural roles.
• Strong SaaS or cloud-native background with modern software architecture and distributed systems experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms, AWS is highly relevant.
• Hands-on credibility: comfortable reviewing implementations and guiding engineering teams.
• Strategic thinker with ability to balance ideal solutions with product priorities.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the target architecture and guide the technology roadmap.
• Lead platform modernisation, balancing debt, speed, scalability and sustainability.
• Solve complex technical challenges and provide architectural guidance across teams.
• Build for scale, resilience and security including CI/CD, observability and automation.
• Drive AI architecture and embed AI/ML capabilities with governance and cost controls.
• Provide technical leadership to engineers and senior stakeholders across distributed teams.

Skills

Software architecture

Distributed systems

AWS

Cloud-native

APIs

SaaS

Technical leadership

AI architecture

Tools

Docker

Job description

Six-Figure Salary + Pension + Health Cover

Technology is changing quickly. For this organisation, the opportunity is to help shape what comes next.

Our client is an established EdTech SaaS business using technology to transform the assessment experience for organisations and their customers. With a modernisation programme underway and significant opportunities to unlock the potential of data and AI, they're now looking for a Technical Architect to take ownership of the technical direction of the platform.

This isn't an architecture role where you'll sit on the sidelines producing diagrams.

You'll be highly hands-on, working closely with engineering and product teams to define the target architecture, make important technical decisions, solve complex problems and ensure the platform continues to scale.

You'll have genuine ownership and the opportunity to influence the technology strategy at a senior level.

If you're an experienced architect, or a Principal/Lead Engineer ready to step into a broader architectural role, this is an opportunity to have a meaningful impact on a platform undergoing significant transformation.

What You'll Be Doing

Defining the Technical Direction

You'll own and evolve the target architecture, ensuring technical decisions support the wider product and business strategy. You'll establish architectural principles, standards and patterns while helping shape the longer-term technology roadmap.

Leading Platform Modernisation

A major part of the role will involve supporting the transition from a legacy platform to a modern architecture. You'll help determine how the platform evolves while balancing technical debt, delivery speed, scalability and long-term sustainability.

Solving Complex Technical Challenges

You'll act as a senior technical escalation point, getting involved where problems require deep architectural thinking. You'll review implementations, challenge technical decisions and help engineering teams navigate complex design trade-offs.

Building for Scale, Resilience & Security

You'll lead architectural decisions around performance, availability, scalability, resilience, disaster recovery and security, ensuring the platform remains robust as the business grows.

You'll influence cloud architecture, infrastructure design, deployment patterns, CI/CD, observability and automation. The environment includes AWS, Docker, distributed systems, microservices and event-driven architecture.

Driving AI Architecture

AI is becoming an increasingly important part of the product and engineering strategy. You'll help define how AI/ML capabilities are embedded into the platform while establishing appropriate standards around AI-assisted development, testing, privacy, monitoring, model performance and cost.

Providing Technical Leadership

You'll work across distributed engineering teams, mentoring engineers and technical leads and providing architectural guidance. You'll also communicate technical strategy clearly to product, project management and senior stakeholders.

What You'll Bring

You’ll have approximately 8–10 years of software engineering experience, including significant experience working in architectural roles. A strong SaaS or cloud-native background will be highly relevant.

You’ll have deep experience with modern software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, scalability and cloud platforms. AWS experience is particularly relevant.

Hands-On Technical Credibility

This is a hands-on role. You’ll be comfortable getting into the detail, reviewing implementations, assessing technical designs and helping solve difficult engineering problems rather than simply setting direction from a distance.

Strategic Thinking

You can look beyond the immediate technical problem and understand the wider implications of architectural decisions. You’ll be able to balance the ideal technical solution with commercial realities, delivery timelines and product priorities.

High Ownership

You’re comfortable operating autonomously and taking responsibility for major technical decisions. You’ll be someone who can walk into a complex situation, understand what needs to happen and drive it forward without requiring constant direction.

Leadership & Influence

You don’t need to rely on hierarchy to have influence. You’ll be confident challenging ideas, bringing engineering teams with you and communicating architectural decisions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

You’ll have a genuine interest in AI and modern software development, with the ability to help engineering teams use AI-assisted development tools safely and effectively.

What You’ll Get

Join a Growing EdTech SaaS Business

You’ll join a technology-led organisation operating in the EdTech space, with the opportunity to influence the architecture behind a platform used to deliver modern assessment experiences.

Competitive Rewards

• Pension
• Health cover

Work on Meaningful Technology

You’ll have the opportunity to work across cloud, data, infrastructure, distributed systems and AI while helping shape the next generation of the platform.

Real Technical Ownership

You’ll have significant ownership over architectural decisions and direct exposure to senior leadership, engineering and product teams.

Flexible Working

The organisation operates a flexible working model, giving you autonomy while maintaining strong collaboration across the wider team.