Your new role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Solutions Architect to join a dynamic Risk Technology team within a major financial services organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to design mission-critical applications in a high-impact environment.

• Design and document innovative solutions to address complex business challenges.
• Define and enforce architectural standards, coding best practices, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Lead hands-on development of proof-of-concepts and R&D initiatives to validate new technologies.
• Collaborate closely with risk, compliance, and engineering teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Create clear technical documentation, UML diagrams, and workflows for a variety of stakeholders.
• Advise on technology choices, vendor evaluations, and cost-benefit analyses related to risk systems.
• Mentor engineering teams on secure, resilient, and scalable architecture design.

What you'll need to succeed

• 5+ years in solution architecture or a closely related role.
• Expertise in microservices and SOA design within containerised environments.
• Experience with high-volume ETL and data processing pipelines.
• Strong background in designing polyglot systems with RDBMS (SQL Server/PostgreSQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB).
• Skilled in RESTful and GraphQL APIs, and asynchronous messaging (Redis Streams, Kafka).
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills, including UML and Visio proficiency.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences clearly.
• Experience with TimeSeries databases (e.g., Prometheus).
• Familiarity with graph databases such as Neo4j or TigerGraph.
• Hands-on Python coding skills.
• Agile methodology experience.
  
  

What you'll get in return

• Candidates must be based in Dublin and able to attend onsite 3 days per week.
• This role is available only to Stamp 4 holders, EU citizens, or UK citizens currently residing in Dublin.
• Day rate contract – 500–600 euros per day
• Opportunity to work with a large Financial Organisation

What you need to do now
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