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Solution Architect (Java)

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€350 monthly

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Job Description - Solution Architect (Java)

Company Description

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services. 

 We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do: 

  • UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner 
  • 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business 
  • 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK 
  • Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW 
  • Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW 

We’re a core values [link to values] driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!. 

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to define, design, and guide the delivery of modern, scalable, and secure technology solutions. This role involves shaping target architectures, establishing technology standards, and ensuring that customer solutions adhere to best practices and enterprise-wide architectural principles. The ideal candidate has strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Architecture & Design

  • Define target architecture for specific business or technical domains, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture principles.
  • Design and select architecture patterns across areas such as APIs, integration frameworks, microservices, and distributed systems.
  • Establish standards, guidelines, and reference architectures for newly adopted technologies and platforms.
  • Architect and design Java-based enterprise solutions, ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability.

Solution Governance & Oversight

  • Conduct architecture reviews of proposed solutions to ensure compliance with best practices and alignment with the customer’s Reference Architecture.
  • Provide architectural leadership during application modernisation, including migration of monolithic systems to microservice-based architectures.
  • Collaborate with delivery teams to ensure solutions are implemented according to design specifications.

Research & Evaluation

  • Lead technology evaluations and product research, assessing market offerings to meet customer requirements.
  • Recommend tools, frameworks, and technology stacks that strengthen the organisation’s technology strategy.

Stakeholder Engagement

  • Communicate complex architectural concepts in a clear and compelling manner to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Influence and guide senior IT stakeholders, helping them make informed technology and investment decisions.
  • Work closely with cross-functional teams including engineering, product, operations, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Proven experience as a Solution Architect, ideally within enterprise-scale or customer-facing environments.
  • Strong background designing and implementing Java-based applications and enterprise-level solutions.
  • Demonstrated experience in application modernisation, including re-platforming or refactoring large monolithic systems into microservices.
  • Hands-on knowledge of containerised platforms such as Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift.
  • Strong understanding of API design, integration patterns, and event-driven architectures.
  • Experience developing architecture standards, guidelines, and technical governance frameworks.
  • Ability to perform technology research and comparative evaluations based on customer needs.
  • Excellent communication skills with a track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving architectural decisions.

Desirable

  • Experience in GIS technologies, such as ArcGIS or GeoServer.
  • Exposure to cloud-native patterns and distributed system design across platforms such as Azure, AWS, or GCP.
  • Knowledge of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code tools.

Additional Information

Why Version 1? 

  • Share in our Success through our Quarterly performance related Profit Share & an opportunity to join our new V1 Equity success Scheme.    
  • Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development review.  
  • Financial benefits including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice  
  • Ways of working now with remote & hybrid working options but there is always as a good excuse to get together too.   
  • Moments that matter & our enhanced maternity & paternity leave policies for life’s journey   
  • A large training budget for accreditations and educational assistance for courses relevant to your role. Ways 
  • Wellbeing activities: an innovative Well Tech Scheme, MyGym Discounts, Octopus Car Lease (electric UK only), Yoga, sponsored marathon, and local team sports  
  • Version 1 Annual Excellence Awards & our ‘ Call-Out’ platform where performance is called out and recognised   
  • Our active ESG & CSR initiative allows you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.  

PLUS, many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.

Ekta Bahl - Talent Acquisition Capability Partner



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