What is the opportunity?

The primary responsibility of the role is to support the Delivery Life Cycle by influencing solution designs and providing technical guidance from inception through to Production. Your main focus will be on developing and maintaining the core application architecture of our business and scanning the environment for new innovative solutions to anticipate our technology needs.

In This Role, You Will

• Design and architect solutions that support our business and technology goals.
• Collaborate with, and offer technical guidance to, our delivery teams, developers and test functions in all phases of solution delivery.
• Drive and implement cloud, data and cyber security improvement initiatives.
• Producing high-quality, properly functioning deliverables on time and on budget
• Form deep relationships with multiple technical and business stakeholders.

What will make you stand out?

• You will have extensive year's experience with IT architecture methodologies, helping to create solutions for complex digital front end and back end applications.
• You have a solid understanding of technology trends and how to solution cloud migrations.
• You are a critical thinker, skilled in taking complex requirements and presenting solutions in simplified form to business partners.
• You will be able to work independently and autonomously, leading day to day workload and priorities and empowering others in their day to day activities.

Essential Qualifications

• TOGAF Certified.
• Java certification
• AWS, Azure certification
• Experience in design of medium to large sized applications, preferably in the cloud and/or container environment
• Degree qualified in IT, Software Engineering or relevant Business Discipline.

More About The Team

The Solution Architect position is part of the I.T group within the Wealth and Insurance business unit. The team comprises a dynamic and dedicated mix of I.T professionals across the entire Software Delivery Lifecycle. The role will have a significant impact in aligning our IT strategy to our business goals, across our digital applications and supporting technology landscape.

This is a hybrid role and can be done anywhere in the Republic of Ireland with the primary office location as Dublin. Travel will be required for in-person collaboration -exact frequency to be agreed with manager.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Flexible working matching promise We know how important flexible working arrangements are to our colleagues, and we promise to try to match your current flexible working arrangement in this new role.

Key Competencies

• Agile - Leader
• Champion Transformation - Leader
• Amplify Capability - Leader
• Customer Focused - Leader
• Manage Risk - Leader

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

Bank of Ireland Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce. We offer reasonable accommodation at every stage of the application and interview process. If you require assistance, please contact recruitdirect@boi.com.