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Founder / Director - Senior Appointments @ RECRUITERS
Solutions Architect (Cloud)
Want to work for an exciting Irish Financial services firm in West side Dublin that is doing well and expanding. This newly created role reports to the Head of IT Architecture, and is responsible for creating and maintaining the architecture and processes for governance, risk and compliance for the organisation. This role will be focused on delivering secure & resilient, DORA compliant solutions in a hybrid cloud (public and Private AZURE environment), utilizing primarily on-premise infrastructure alongside public cloud (Azure, M365) services. Great team and company culture, this is a high impact role suited for a technical architect ready to step up to solutions architecture.
Job Responsibilities
* Actively supporting the development & enhancement of IT Strategy, governance and architecture.
* Designing target states for technology architecture & operating model as needed.
* Facilitating the evaluation and selection of software/hardware as well as the design of standard and custom software configurations.
* Define and drive best-practices in a hybrid infrastructure environment.
* Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement and ensuring improvement initiatives are documented and actioned.
* Promote collaboration and engagement across the team.
* Creating deliverables including architecture diagrams and descriptions, solution blueprints and high and low-level solution designs for secure, scalable and reliable solution architectures.
* Understanding end-to-end business and technical requirements and determining corresponding enterprise system designs and change requirements.
* Work in a highly collaborative way with cross-functional teams on projects, providing support to project teams to ensure the project is aligned with the overall target enterprise architecture and target integration architecture.
* Managing the delivery of architecture governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements including:
YOU
* Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or relevant experience and relevant architecture certification e.g. TOGAF certification, IASA or relevant technical certifications in cloud.
* 7 years + experience in operational topics with 3+ years as an architect/technical lead in a regulated entity (experience of working in the insurance industry or other regulated industry would be an advantage).
* Hands-on experience of designing solutions for a hybrid environment, particularly with on-premise private cloud solutions.
* Experience working with M365 Microsoft Azure, including PaaS, SaaS, IaaS technologies strongly preferred.
* Strong experience of architecture governance, compliance and risk management processes.
* Strong knowledge of architectural patterns, IT standards and IT controls (including IT risk management).
* Experience in the use of one or more architecture tools for design.
* Experience in dealing with both internal & external stakeholders, technical & non-technical.
€NEG + Pension and loads of benefits. Hybrid role 1-2 days in the offices in West Dublin.
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Information Technology
* Industries
* Insurance and Financial Services
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