Solutions Architect

Job Title: Solutions Architect

Location: This post

will primarily be located in one of the core Client Offices e.g. Ballina, Co.

Mayo; Loughrea Co. Galway; Bowe Street, Dublin or other such place designated

as convenient to the winning candidate. (Hybrid)

Start Date: 26th

October 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter

Contract

Duration: 12 Months with further extension

About the Client

The Client is a statutory public-sector organisation

responsible for delivering critical national services and supporting strategic

programmes through technology, innovation and operational excellence.

The Client’s Technology Platforms & Solutions team

acts as a strategic technology partner to the business, delivering and

supporting business-critical systems and services for internal and external

users.

Role Overview

The Client is seeking an experienced Senior

Solutions Architect to provide technical leadership across solution

architecture, technology delivery and the ongoing evolution of the

organisation’s target technical architecture.

The role will ensure that technology solutions are fit

for purpose, aligned to business requirements, scalable, secure, maintainable

and consistent with the Client’s architecture standards and principles.

The successful candidate will work closely with

business and technology stakeholders, providing expert architectural guidance

and proactively identifying opportunities to improve technology solutions and

capabilities.

Requirements

Mandatory Requirements (Pass / Fail):Candidates MUSTmeet ALLof the following:

Experience

·It is a

mandatory requirement, that the Resource proposed has the equivalent of a

Senior resource i.e., 7 years + of relevant IT experience.

Qualifications

·It is a

mandatory requirement, that the Resource proposed hold the following

qualifications or equivalents:

oAt a

minimum, hold Level 8 on the National Framework of Qualifications with

computing/computational modules taken in the final year.

Availability

·Must be

available to start from 26th October 2026.

Driving

Licence

·Full driving

licence required

English

Language Proficiency (MANDATORY):

·Native

English speaker OR

·CEFR

C2 Proficiency/Mastery (or equivalent)

·If

there is no certificate, fluency will be assessed at presentation stage

Key

Deliverables:

The

following non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables are applicable to this Role.

The

Solutions Architect will work in the Technology, Platforms and Solutions

directorate in the CLIENT and will ultimately be responsible for designing and

implementing technical solutions that align with the CLIENT’s technology and

business goals and requirements.

The

Solutions Architect is the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for any technology

decisions, challenges and conflicts within the organization.

The

Solutions Architect must demonstrate a proven ability to undertake structured

analysis of technical issues, translating this analysis into technical designs

that describe a solution. They must ensure that any proposed solution adheres

as closely as possible to the CLIENT’s Architectural Standards and Principles.

They should also ensure that any proposed solution adheres to recognised

Architectural Design Patterns.

They

must also provide technical leadership, strategic vision and architectural

design across a broad range of solutions, both public facing and internal.

Professional

Fundamentals

a)Technical

Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of various technologies, platforms, and

frameworks. Proficiency in designing scalable, reliable, and secure systems

architectures that meet business requirements.

b)Strategic

Thinking and Planning - Ability to align technical solutions with the CLIENT's

technology and business strategic goals and requirements. Capable of creating

technology roadmaps that outline the future state of technology systems and the

steps required to achieve them.

c)Relationship

Management - Maintains and improves relationships with all internal and

external stakeholders

d)Stakeholder

Engagement: Maintains and improves relationships with all internal and external

stakeholders. Understand their needs and communicate technical concepts in a

clear and non-technical manner. Working closely with development teams, project

managers, and other technology leads to ensure successful implementation of

solutions.

e)Influencer

- relates to people, builds relationships, negotiates well, effectively

presents arguments

f)Results

seeker - meets deadlines, identifies actions, achieves goals

g)Leader

- not afraid to have regular, open, and sometimes difficult conversation.

Responsibilities

·Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand their needs, goals,

and constraints. Analyse business requirements to ensure they are clearly

defined and understood.

·Translate

business requirements into technical architecture artefacts (including

Diagrams, Functional Specifications and Technical Requirements)

·Design

solutions ensuring that all solutions adhere to industry standards, best

practices, and CLIENT principals including implementing security best practices

to protect systems and data from threat and compliant with relevant regulatory

requirements and standards.

·Ensure

maximum alignment with the Target Architecture across all project/initiative

deliverables.

·Work on

refining the Target Technical Architecture for the CLIENT.

·Ensure

that the latest Technical Architecture is documented, maintained and made

available through the CLIENT’s agreed architecture documentation approach,

ensuring alignment with the defined Business Architecture.

·Provide

technical leadership and guidance to development teams and systems analyst

throughout the project lifecycle.

oWork

with the Development Team Lead to agree the technical design of the proposed

solution.

oBreak

down the development effort into distinct work packages.

oWork

with the Development Team to provide estimates for the development effort.

oConduct

code and design reviews to ensure adherence to architectural standards and best

practices.

oAssist

in troubleshooting and resolving technical issues that arise during development

and implementation.

·Provide

technical support to project stakeholders

oAssist

project managers in planning and estimating project timelines, resources, and

costs.

oMonitor

project progress and provide updates to stakeholders, ensuring alignment with

project plans.

oProvide

relevant and accurate technical input into projects through engagement with

project stakeholders.

·Provide

feedback to the Enterprise, Solutions and Business Architects in terms of any

potential gaps or deviations between the Target Architecture and project

deliverables.

·Monitoring

on-going risks and provide mitigations and resolutions

·Help to

ensure that KPIs for the Solutions Architecture Team and Technical Solutions

Delivery team are defined and being met.

·Working

with third parties in the delivery of projects.

oReviewing

estimates to provide assurances on accuracy and achievability.

oReview

of Technical documentation and artefacts to ensure correctness and

understandability.

oReview

of agreed deliverables.

oManagement

of feedback.

oTracking

and management of issues.

This

job description is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all duties

involved and consequently, the post holder may be required to perform other

duties as appropriate to the post which may be assigned to him / her from time

to time and to contribute to the development of the post while in the role.

Key

Experience/Competencies/Skillsets:

The

following Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.

·Experience

in the design and implementation of Enterprise grade, high performance, mission

critical applications and solutions - Public websites and customer portals,

CRM, Document Management Solutions, Telephony Solutions.

·Strong

understanding of, and experience in Cloud native architectures (SaaS / Paas /

iPaas / Containers / Kubernetes / Docker / Serverless / CI-CD)

·Excellent

knowledge of databases including Relational Data Design e.g. MS SQL, MySQL,

MariaDB, Postgres, DataVerse.

·Full-stack

design experience

·Front

end - ReactJS, VueJS, Angular, Power Portals, UI Frameworks

·Back

End - Java, Spring, .NET (C#, VB.Net)

·Integrations

- Micro-services, web-services, event queues, message queues, integration

services

·Experience

in the design and delivery of workflow automation and low-code/no-code platform

solutions, including Power Automate, Azure Logic Apps, Power Apps or equivalent

technologies.

·Thorough

understanding of Application Security Models

·Working

knowledge of Linux operating systems such as AlmaLinux, Centos, and RedHat.

·Knowledge

of NoSQL databases such as MongoDB

·Experience

in DevOps and exposure to all DevOps areas like Source Control, Continuous

Integration, Infra Automation, Continuous Deployment, including experience

working with Application Lifecycle Tools such as Azure DevOps.

·Strong

knowledge and understanding of Architectural Design Patterns.

·Strong

communication skills, in both technical and non-technical environments.

·Ability

to quickly research and learn new technologies, tools and techniques

·Ability

to lead teams

·Ability

to lead on technology selection.