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Barden is delighted to partner with a global business on the appointment of an Enterprise/Software Architect. This role offers a rare opportunity for a hands-on architect who enjoys defining technical direction and validating it through code. You’ll work closely with engineering leadership to modernise a large-scale platform and drive the next phase of innovation across data, cloud, and AI.
ABOUT THE ROLE:
- Lead the architectural vision for our client’s product suite
- Design scalable, cloud-native architectures
- Stay hands-on, building proof-of-concepts and contributing production code to validate architectural decisions
- Partner with platform, data, and product teams to define service boundaries, APIs, and integration patterns
- Play a key role in the modernisation of legacy systems, evolving them toward scalable, modern, AI-enabled platforms
- Drive opportunities to embed AI and intelligent automation
ABOUT YOU:
- Experienced software architect or principal engineer who enjoys staying close to the code
- Strong background designing and building distributed systems at scale
- Deep expertise with .NET / C# and modern architecture patterns
- Strong TypeScript / Angular experience, with the ability to own features end-to-end across the full stack
- Experience with cloud-native systems (Azure preferred) and API-driven architectures
- Comfortable influencing engineering standards across large teams
- Curious about how AI and emerging technologies can transform complex workflows
OTHER DETAILS:
- Work alongside senior engineering leadership and an established architecture team
- Influence the direction of a platform used by hundreds of clients
- Modern engineering environment with strong focus on AI-enabled development tools
- Opportunity to shape architectural standards
Our client is based in Cork City Centre, the team is in the office three days per week.
