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.