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Software Architect – Data Products, Contract, Hybrid

The Company

Our end-user customer is one of the world's leading firms in their field, providing professional services across global industry and with revenues of around €1 billion.

The Team

The Data Product team is a dedicated, globally distributed internal support group that focuses on managing data sources and ensuring their integrity. You will lead a team of three data software engineers, managing tasks, output, and peer reviewing code.

The Opportunity

This Software Architecture role involves establishing an efficient, modern data management system utilising AWS. The system is being built on scalable patterns for data ingestion, processing, development, testing, deployment, and operations. The role requires adherence to a managed and collaborative process for evolving these patterns, with a strong focus on automation. Additionally, the candidate must lead and mentor other team members in all technical aspects.

Minimum Qualifications

• AWS Solution Architect or Developer certification, with working knowledge of the well-architected framework

• 5+ years' experience in a similar role as a Software Architect in the Data domain

Culture and Team

Their culture emphasises strong communication and collaboration, where team members enjoy working together and sharing ideas to create efficient solutions. The team values clear knowledge management practices and embraces collaboration with business users, engineers, and designers.

AI Adoption

• Enhance productivity and quality by effectively utilising CoPilot.
• Collaborate closely with CoPilot to shape innovative solutions.
• Embrace and integrate CoPilot seamlessly into daily tasks.

Ownership and Continual Improvement

• Architecture through Operations
• Adopt and contribute to standard practices, minimising variations
• Automates well-established processes and building blocks with cost optimisation
• Strive for elegance and simplicity by reducing complexity
• Drives change through team engagement & collaboration in an orderly manner

Responsibilities

The Software Architect role involves defining and driving the technical vision for the data product team, making high-impact decisions, and championing best practices in architecture. The role also includes leading and mentoring a team of software developers, managing team priorities, and delivering data solutions.

Strategic Vision and Technical Leadership

• Defines and drives the long-term technical vision, strategy and roadmap for the product portfolio of the data team, ensuring alignment with business objectives
• Makes high-impact architecture decisions on the technology stack, frameworks, design patterns and development methodologies.
• Champions best practices in code quality, scalability, security, performance and maintainability.

Software Design

• High-level understanding and practical application of Object-Oriented (OO) design principles. You should be able to articulate and implement designs that are modular, reusable and maintainable.
• A deep understanding of the SOLID principles as a standard for writing clean, scalable and testable code. You will be expected to review code with these principles in mind.
• Experience with data-specific architectural patterns and principles for building scalable and reliable data pipelines (e.g. Medallion Architecture)

Data Architecting

• Familiarity with architectures such as data lakes, lake houses, and data warehousing.
• Experience with processes for data pipeline execution and managing changes. Ability to maintain metadata specifications.
• Experience specifying data models at a conceptual and schema level.

Development Methodologies

• Experience working in an Agile environment. You should be comfortable with iterative development, sprint planning, retrospectives, and associated tools (JIRA, Confluence, UML modeling tools).
• Advocate for and practitioner for Test-Driven Development (TDD) or Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Proficiency with CI/CD principles and pipelines. You understand the value of automated testing, building and deploying and have experience implementing these processes.

Programming Languages

• Core Language:
  Expert proficiency in Python, Deep knowledge of the standard library, best practices and writing "Pythonic" code
• Data Ecosystem:
  Strong experience with the Python data stack libraries (Pandas, PySpark) for data manipulation and Jupyter notebooks
• Database and Querying:
  Ability to write complex, optimized queries and understand data performance

AWS Experience

• Excellent knowledge of the AWS Data tooling eco-system
• AWS Glue, Managed Airflow (MWAA), Athena, Redshift, RDS, S3
• Proficient with AWS development and deployment tools such as AWS CodeCommit, CloudFormation, and CodePipeline, and CodeBuild

This is a long-term day rate contract opportunity. You must be eligible to live and work in Ireland and be willing to be on-site in Dublin city centre two days each week.

Barden is proud to partner with a global SaaS company in their search for a GenAI Software Architect. This fully remote role, open to talent across Europe, offers a rare opportunity to shape the future of our client's solutions through cutting-edge Generative AI.

Reporting to the Head of AI, you'll own the design and delivery of intelligent agentic systems that will help redefine the company's SaaS platform. You'll work cross-functionally across engineering, architecture, and product teams to turn ambitious GenAI concepts into real-world impact.

ABOUT THE ROLE

• Lead the design and implementation of GenAI-powered features with a strong focus on agentic systems.
• Architect and own the full lifecycle of LLM solutions, from POC through to scalable, production-grade software.
• Build and orchestrate advanced pipelines using tools like LangChain, AutoGen, and vector databases.
• Collaborate with senior leaders across architecture, engineering, and product to drive strategic GenAI initiatives.
• Ensure performance, security, and maintainability across AI components integrated into a complex SaaS environment.
• Guide best practices in LLMOps and scalable AI system deployment.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• Strong software architecture background, ideally transitioned into GenAI in the last 3-4 years.
• End-to-end experience with production-grade GenAI projects, from research to deployment.
• Skilled in LLM Ops frameworks (LangChain, AutoGen) and classic NLP techniques.
• Experience deploying LLM systems in production SaaS environments.

OTHER DETAILS

• Remote role, with occasional travel to our client's HQ office in Ireland.
• Talent-led on salary plus company benefits such as bonus, healthcare, pension, flexible working hours, etc.

Are you a seasoned Software Architect with hands-on experience delivering production-grade GenAI projects?
Apply now or reach out to for more details.

Rate:
€ per day

Client:
Market-leading Irish-owned business

Location:
Hybrid, Dublin based (one day on-site a week)

Start Date:
ASAP

Contract Length:
12 months (very likely to extend)

A
market-leading Irish-owned business
is seeking a highly skilled and motivated
Software Architect
to join its growing architecture and engineering team. This is a hybrid contract role, offering the opportunity to shape technical direction and influence high-performing product development teams.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead software architecture for one of Ireland's most visited customer platforms, supporting large-scale digital transformation and complex system evolution.

The Role

As
Software Architect
, you will be responsible for guiding the overall technical direction, design standards, and development strategy across a key domain within the organisation.

You will play a leadership role in mentoring engineering teams, driving architectural excellence, and ensuring high-quality software delivery aligned to business goals.

This role requires strong hands-on technical expertise, leadership capability, and a clear vision for designing modern, scalable, service-oriented platforms.

What You'll Get

• Hybrid working with flexible contract arrangements (1 day on-site a week)
• Key role in a long-term digital transformation programme
• High-impact work on a major Irish digital platform
• Collaboration with forward-thinking engineering and product teams
• A culture of innovation, continuous learning, and technical ownership

Key Responsibilities

• Define and drive architecture strategy across software domains, including integration, APIs, event-driven systems, and service-oriented architecture
• Take ownership of architectural direction for your assigned domain, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals
• Lead technical teams across multi-phase projects, ensuring high standards in design, development, and governance
• Mentor developers and promote clean, testable, and scalable code practices
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish CI/CD best practices and improve delivery pipelines
• Review code, create proof of concepts (POCs), and introduce innovative approaches to problem-solving
• Influence technology strategy, development standards, and governance processes
• Contribute to API governance, architecture forums, and enterprise-wide standards
• Partner closely with product managers to align architecture with business priorities and roadmap delivery

Ideal Candidate Profile

Essential Skills & Experience:

• 6+ years' experience across multiple technology domains in high-performing environments
• Expertise in Java, Spring Framework, RESTful services, and service-oriented architecture
• Strong knowledge of API design, SOA, and event-driven design patterns
• Solid understanding of web-based and enterprise application architectures
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, Gradle
• Strong leadership, mentorship, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Fluent English speaker with excellent communication skills
• Eligible to live and work in Ireland
• Able to pass a standard 5-year background/security check
• Holds a valid, unrestricted worldwide passport

Desirable Skills:

• AWS certification and/or cloud solutioning experience
• Knowledge of architectural frameworks such as TOGAF, IASA, or ArchiMate
• Experience working in Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe, or Kanban)
• Exposure to microservices and high-volume e-commerce or digital platforms
• Familiarity with emerging technologies including AI and cloud-native architectures

Additional Requirements

• Non-Irish citizens must provide a valid police clearance from their home country
• Candidates who have lived outside Ireland for more than 6 months in the past 5 years will also require police clearance certificates for those countries

How to Apply

If you are an experienced Software Architect with strong technical leadership skills and a passion for delivering modern, scalable solutions, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your CV and availability to be considered for this opportunity.

MCS Group is thrilled to be partnering alongside an exceptional client in Dublin as they a seek a talented Software Architect to join them on a contract basis for a minimum of 12 months.

As the Software Architect you will lead the architecture of a modern, automated data platform on AWS. You'll set technical direction, champion engineering best practice, and guide a small team to build reliable, scalable data pipelines and services.

(Hybrid 2 days office - Dublin)

Responsibilities:

• Architecture leadership: Define roadmaps, set standards, choose tools, review designs.
• Hands-on engineering: Still coding in Python/PySpark, designing pipelines, embedding CI/CD.
• Mentorship: Guide and review other engineers' work.
• Security ownership: Especially around AWS IAM roles and least privilege access.
• Governance: Data models, metadata, documentation, and standards.
• Collaboration: Work closely with global colleagues; communicate designs clearly.

Requirements:

• AWS data stack, hands on experience: Glue, Airflow/MWAA, Athena, Redshift, RDS, S3.
• Strong coding skills in Python & PySpark/Pandas & SQL. Ideally software engineering background prior to architecture work
• CI/CD automation: AWS CodePipeline, CloudFormation (infrastructure as code).
• Architect-level experience: At least 5 years in a senior/lead role.
• Security-first mindset: Solid understanding of IAM roles/policies and AWS security best practice.
• Happy to be work on-site as required in Dublin (2 days per week)
• Full right to work in Ireland

Strong daily rate DOE and strong chances of extension after 12 months. Not to be missed for those in this field

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Calum Omand Specialist Recruitment Consultant at MCS Group on

Even if this position is not right for you, we may have others that are. Please visit MCS Group to view a wide selection of our current and exclusive roles

Who we are

Welcome To Fidelis
At Fidelis Services, we are on a mission to transform product development with cutting-edge teams capable of tackling complex challenges. As part of a young and ambitious organization, your contributions will have a direct impact on both your success and ours.

We're growing fast and building the team that will drive our vision forward. We are looking for a Software Architect to lead the technical design of our digital platform, aligning business and technology requirements. In this role, you'll define the architecture of systems that ingest data from diverse feeds, aggregate, transform and distribute it in real-time across multiple tenants, ensuring scalability, reliability and performance. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to bring this vision to life.

This is the perfect opportunity for a software architect who is passionate about creating innovative solutions. If you're excited by complex tech challenges, eager to work on cutting-edge projects, and ready to join a creative, enthusiastic team in our Dublin office, we'd love to hear from you. Come be part of our journey

What you'll do

• Define and own the overall architectural vision and technical roadmap of the product.
• Collaborate with product managers to translate business requirements into sound technical designs.
• Work with project stakeholders to shape delivery plans by providing technical input.
• Partner with engineering teams to evaluate and guide decisions on technologies and frameworks, balancing fast delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Review and approve solution designs, ensuring alignment with architectural principles and product goals.
• Identify and define appropriate non-functional requirements (e.g., scalability, security, performance) and ensure they are embedded in the overall solution.
• Work with other technical stakeholders (such as DevOps or IT teams) to ensure solutions align with the overall strategy.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers, promoting technical excellence within the team.

What you'll bring

• Proven experience as a Software Architect, Principal Engineer, Lead Engineer or similar role designing large-scale distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with modern messaging technologies (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ) to support real-time event driven architectures.
• Expertise in data modelling, including aggregating, consolidating and normalising data coming from disparate sources.
• Experience designing mulit-tenant, API-first platforms.
• Solid understanding of scalability, fault-tolerance, and high-availability patterns.
• Strong background in cloud-native architectures, including containerisation and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Ability to formally document complex architectures, solutions, and concepts in a simple, clear and concise manner.
• Excellent ability to communicate and influence across business and engineering stakeholders, adapting style to suit different audiences.

What's in it for you

• Hybrid work model
  :
  Split your time between working remotely and coming to the office 3 days a week.
• Co-working space in the heart of Dublin.
• 25 Days Annual leave + Bank Holidays
• Private Medical Insurance

We're hiring a Software Architect to lead the technical vision. You'll design scalable APIs, responsive UIs, and robust backend systems, while mentoring developers and driving innovation across the platform.

What You'll Do:

• Architect and build core product components (C#, .NET, Angular, )
• Own performance, scalability, and security
• Guide teams on design, code quality, and best practices
• Collaborate cross-functionally and lead tech strategy
• Stay ahead of emerging technologies

What You Bring:

• 8+ years in software architecture and development
• Strong CS fundamentals, cloud (AWS/Azure), ElasticSearch, SQL/NoSQL
• Experience with CI/CD, SonarQube, agile practices
• Passion for solving complex problems and mentoring others

What you need to do now

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Principle Software Engineer / Architect

Architecture & Delivery

Location: Dublin (Hybrid Onsite)

Salary: €80-100k

Type: Perm or Contract

Are you an expert in technical architecture and software delivery, ready to make a real impact on mission-critical airline systems? We're seeking a highly skilled Technical Lead to elevate engineering standards, drive system design, and ensure the delivery of robust, scalable software solutions.

About the Role

This is a technical management position (not people management), focused on architecture, technical delivery, and operational excellence across business-critical platforms. You'll influence senior stakeholders, set high standards for code quality and automation, and help shape sustainable engineering practices. This role requires onsite presence in Dublin at least once per week.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the technical lifecycle of key systems: architecture, build, release, and ongoing support
• Champion code quality through peer reviews, guidance, and embedding best testing practices
• Lead architectural decisions for critical systems (e.g., broker services, check-in kiosks)
• Drive scalable, maintainable system design; collaborate with ops and QA for seamless deployment and alerting
• Communicate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment on priorities like performance, reliability, and scalability

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive hands-on software development and system architecture experience
• Advanced Java and Groovy skills, with strong Spring Boot / Spring Framework expertise
• Deep understanding of software quality, design patterns, clean code, and modern engineering best practices
• Proven experience with automated deployment and testing pipelines (CI/CD)
• Ability to influence technical direction and senior business leaders, especially regarding non-functional requirements (scalability, reliability, alerting)
• Experience supporting/maintaining large-scale production systems with a focus on uptime and stability

Desirable Skills

• Experience with MongoDB (performance tuning, schema design)
• Hands-on AWS knowledge (especially Lambda/serverless)
• Exposure to the airline industry (operational disruption, check-in systems)

Job Requisition ID #
25WD89961

Position Overview
Autodesk is on a journey to transform its business through the realisation of our
platform strategy
and is seeking a
Principal Software Architec
t to help us in that journey. Our ability to deliver a trustworthy solution becomes paramount as our customers move their data and workflows into the Autodesk Platform. Delivering solutions that our customers consider dependable and performant while simultaneously addressing security, privacy, and cost concerns.

As Software Architect, you will report to the Senior Distinguished Architect. You will identify, assess, prioritise, and, most importantly, drive the projects through which we will achieve this outcome. You will play a key part in realising Autodesk's platform vision and transforming multiple industries. As we transition from a product company to a platform company, this is a high-impact role that will shape the direction of our systems and practices.

This role can be a hybrid or remote working model aligned to our Dublin, Ireland offices.
Key Responsibilities

• Work with peers throughout Autodesk to understand our architectural landscape and challenges, articulate opportunities, and motivate change with an emphasis on building trust
• Drive technical standards and approaches
• Work with leadership to articulate our current architecture and inform future investments via quantitative and qualitative arguments
• Assess current development and operational practices from an architectural perspective, emphasising privacy, security and especially resilience.
• Propose, prioritise and encourage adoption of Autodesk architecture and practice standards
• Coordinate with multiple industry division product development teams, other members of our centralised platform team, and other teams, as required, through effective communication and networking
• In collaboration with peers in PSET's architectural organisation, provide input on solving current and ongoing architecture challenges, designing and articulating architectural direction for the platform and interrelated divisions
• Lead the resolution of complex problems within one's discipline, often with the need to integrate cross-functional processes and outcomes.
• Contribute to cross-organisation working groups targeted to solving some of Autodesk's most pressing architectural challenges
• Maintain expert-level knowledge of architectural patterns, technologies and trends
• Bring innovative, state-of-the-industry architectural thinking to our practice of software architecture
• Support configuration management and help create a build-once, deploy-anywhere strategy for efficient deployment pipelines.
• Track industry best practices and advocate where relevant
• Influence leaders within your function to adopt solutions, establish priorities, and allocate resources
• Anticipate business challenges that could significantly impact Autodesk's operational and financial success and proactively develop solutions to address them.
• Advise on the development and adoption of Autodesk and AWS technologies, including databases, compute frameworks, CI/CD, and regionalisation strategies
• Write and speak internally about your work through internal conferences, mentoring, seminars, etc. Travel to at least four international trips per year will be required for internal meetings

Minimum Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and Software Architecture.
• 5+ years in a senior architecture role in a SaaS business pursuing a platform strategy
• Excellent experience in Java, Python, Golang and other programming languages.
• Develop and maintain cloud architecture on AWS (Azure or other clouds acceptable), working with managed services such as RDS, Aurora, ECS, and Lambda
• Drive continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) improvements, with experience in Jenkins, Harness and creating "golden paths" for developers
• Self-directed with an ability to complete work strategically and efficiently

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven track record of innovation demonstrated through patents, publications, or conference presentations
• Experience leading a company's transition from a product-centric model to a platform-centric approach, focusing on scalability and agility
• Strong background in architecting and building large-scale, highly available, resilient cloud-based solutions
• Ability to lead teams or initiatives with significant organisational impact and visibility
• Expertise in developing novel, cutting-edge solutions that push the boundaries of existing technology
• Comfortable collaborating with cross-functional teams, influencing diverse stakeholders, and driving results in a dynamic environment. Background in creating scalable solutions that can be integrated into multiple business functions

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Welcome to Autodesk Amazing things are created every day with our software – from the greenest buildings and cleanest cars to the smartest factories and biggest hit movies. We help innovators turn their ideas into reality, transforming not only how things are made, but what can be made.

We take great pride in our culture here at Autodesk – it's at the core of everything we do. Our culture guides the way we work and treat each other, informs how we connect with customers and partners, and defines how we show up in the world.

When you're an Autodesker, you can do meaningful work that helps build a better world designed and made for all. Ready to shape the world and your future? Join us

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Salary is one part of Autodesk's competitive compensation package. Offers are based on the candidate's experience and geographic location. In addition to base salaries, our compensation package may include annual cash bonuses, commissions for sales roles, stock grants, and a comprehensive benefits package.

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Barden is proud to partner with a leading global SaaS company in their search for a GenAI Architect. This fully remote role offers a rare opportunity to shape the future of our client's solutions using cutting-edge GenAI technologies.

Reporting to the Head of AI, you will design and deliver intelligent, agentic systems that redefine the company's SaaS platform. You'll work closely with engineering, architecture, and product teams to turn ambitious GenAI concepts into real-world impact.

ABOUT THE PERSON

• 10+ years of experience in software architecture, with at least 3-5 years specifically focused on Machine Learning & AI Architecture.
• Hands-on with the
  latest agentic AI stack
  , leading the design and implementation of GenAI-powered features.
• Expertise in architecting full-lifecycle LLM solutions, from POC to scalable, production-grade software.

MUST-HAVE REQUIREMENTS

• Experience with agentic AI frameworks such as
  Langsmith, AutoGen, LlamaIndex, LangGraph, Crew AI, Amazon Bedrock
  , or similar.
• At least
  2–3 productionised Agentic AI projects
  in SaaS or enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of AI
  deployment, scalability, and evaluation frameworks
  .
• Familiarity with AI observability tools like
  Langsmith, Opik, and Arize
  .
• Knowledge of classical
  NLP techniques
  (NER, parsing, tf-idf, etc.).

OTHER DETAILS

• Remote role, with occasional travel to our client's HQ office in Ireland.
• Talent-led on salary including company benefits such as a bonus, healthcare, pension, flexible working hours.

Please carefully review the requirements before clicking apply.