Software / Enterprise architect

About

Stelfox is supporting a SaaS provider operating in real-time risk management solutions as they look to expand their European presence from Dublin.

The CTO is looking to hire a Software / Enterprise architect who loves solving problems by designing systems / solutions from proof of concept right through to writing first code in early phase before handing over and showcasing to the engineering team.

This role will split between 50% Software / Enterprise / Solutions architecture and 50% hands-on coding (when creating new concept or pushing new tooling or features into the engineering team to be adopted across the board).

You will work very closely with the CTO to collaborate and bounce new ideas around future proofing technical roadmap and evolutions of their SaaS platform (replacing any legacy, designing for future scale, introduce new tools like the proper use of code assistants to improve productivity and allow engineers to operate at a faster speed (fail fast and move forward).

Responsibilities

• Designing systems / solutions from proof of concept right through to writing first code in early phase before handing over and showcasing to the engineering team.
• Splitting time between 50% Software / Enterprise / Solutions architecture and 50% hands-on coding.
• Collaborating with the CTO to bounce new ideas around future proofing technical roadmap and evolutions of their SaaS platform.
• Defining architecture standards, frameworks and best practices.
• Introducing new ideas and solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering, with at least 5 years in Software / Solution / Enterprise architecture.
• Experience designing, architecting and coding systems/applications from proof of concept/early stage exploration through to coding, testing and deploying into a pipeline in phase 1 for the team to take on and adapt to.
• Experience with Multi-tenant, Cloud-first architecture and microservices approach.
• Hands-on coding experience with Python or backend languages/framework - (Note - we are open to code agnostic architects who are not afraid to move between languages or general tooling).
• Hands-on experience with Docker / Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevOps pipelines and API management.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to collaborate and communication your ideas and solutions to the wider engineering & product organisation.

Additional Requirements

• Rolling your sleeves up and not be afraid to wear many hats in the pursuit of bringing good ideas, design & solutions to life within the team.
• Being comfortable sharing your knowledge plus act as a technical mentor to the engineering team.
• Being curious and fully embrace learning new skills for the benefit of the organisation (like exploring what are good AI code assistants that can be useful to the team or ways to automate workflows internally to drive outcomes for the business, or LLMs or orchestration frameworks if consideration the creation of LLM-powered applications).

Note - coding will be expected in this role and there is a live coding assessment as part of the interview process, so for full clarity, this is not a high level architecture role that only focuses on presenting slide decks on architectural diagrams, this is an end to end role of solving a problem via both the design and execution of the first working concept or PoC.

Visa Sponsorship

Please note, visa sponsorship and relocation support is not provided for this opportunity.