Solution Architect / Technical Lead

Full Title : Senior Technical Lead / Solution Architect

Location: Dublin, Ireland 2 days a weeks)

Employment: Fixed 1-year full-time contract to long term

Client: Ness Digital

Salary: Market Range

The Role

We are seeking an experienced hands-on Senior Technical Lead / Solution Architect to provide technical leadership, execute customer technology roadmap, architect scalable enterprise solutions, and lead the successful delivery of high-quality software products. The ideal candidate should possess strong full-stack development expertise with Python, SQL, AWS & React JS, along with hands-on experience in cloud platforms, DevOps practices, modern software architecture, and mentoring engineering teams.

The role requires a highly self-driven individual who can independently drive technical initiatives with minimal oversight while collaborating closely with product owners, business stakeholders, architects, and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Leadership

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture for assigned products and platforms;

• Define and drive the technology roadmap aligned with business objectives;

• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend adoption where appropriate;

• Make architectural decisions considering scalability, security, performance, maintainability, and cost;

• Establish engineering best practices, coding standards, and architectural guidelines;

• Lead technical design discussions and architecture reviews;

• Drive Migration from legacy to newer technology stack.

Solution Architecture

• Design scalable, secure, resilient, and cloud-native applications;

• Define microservices, APIs, integration patterns, messaging, and event-driven architectures;

• Produce high-level and low-level design documents;

• Ensure applications meet non-functional requirements including availability, reliability, observability, and security;

• Drive API-first architecture and reusable component design.

Software Development

• Lead full-stack application development using: Python, SQL, AWS, React JS;

• Contribute to complex software development activities where required;

• Review code and ensure adherence to engineering standards;

• Resolve complex technical challenges across frontend, backend, databases, and integrations.

Project Delivery

• Drive technical deliverables from inception through production deployment;

• Build solutions with minimal supervision while ensuring high quality;

• Estimate development efforts and identify technical risks;

• Ensure timely delivery through effective planning and execution;

• Support Agile delivery methodologies.

Team Leadership

• Mentor and coach a small team of software engineers;

• Conduct technical reviews and provide constructive feedback;

• Foster engineering excellence and continuous learning;

• Guide developers in design, coding, testing, debugging, and deployment;

• Assist in hiring and onboarding technical talent when required.

Cloud & DevOps

• Design and implement cloud-native architectures;

• Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployments and infrastructure;

• Define CI/CD pipelines and release strategies;

• Improve application observability using logging and monitoring tools;

• Ensure infrastructure scalability and operational excellence.

Quality & Security

• Promote secure coding practices;

• Ensure applications comply with security and compliance standards;

• Drive automated testing strategies;

• Improve code quality through static analysis, code reviews, and automated pipelines.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Business Analysts, UX teams, QA, and customers;

• Translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions;

• Present architectural recommendations to senior leadership;

• Communicate technical decisions effectively to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What you’ll bring

• 10–14 years of professional experience in software engineering and technology, across relevant technical roles and responsibilities;

• Solid experience with Python and backend development using frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, or Django;

• Experience designing and developing RESTful APIs;

• Good understanding of front-end development with React JS, JavaScript (ES6+), and TypeScript; intermediate knowledge is sufficient;

• Familiarity with state management using Redux or Context API and experience integrating REST APIs into front-end applications;

• Good knowledge of SQL and experience working with relational databases such as PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or MySQL;

• Experience working with AWS Cloud Platform and understanding of cloud-based architectures;

• Familiarity with serverless architecture and AWS services related to cloud networking and storage;

• Experience with cloud scalability and availability concepts, including Auto Scaling and Load Balancing;

• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation;

• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes;

• Experience using GitHub and modern development workflows.