Software Development Specialist Advisor

This role is focused on application and digital-channel solution architecture for customer-facing and operational platforms in a banking environment. The architect owns end-to-end application architecture, defines service boundaries and deployment models, leads modernization of legacy applications, designs scalable and secure microservices/API/event-driven solutions, and provides technical leadership to multiple engineering teams.

Required Skills Strong application and solution architecture experience Enterprise-scale application design Customer-facing/operational application architecture Microservices architecture RESTful APIs Event-driven architecture Distributed application design Application integration patterns Domain-driven/domain-aligned design Legacy-system integration API and service-contract design Application security Authentication and authorization Encryption Functional and non-functional requirements Scalability Performance Availability Resilience Observability Recoverability Maintainability Supportability Technical leadership Technical design reviews Preferred / Additional Skills Digital banking / financial-services experience Corporate or retail customer journeys Corporate/Retail FX Cloud-native modernization Containers Kubernetes/orchestration API gateways Caching Service mesh Coconet multi:versa or similar digital-banking platform Murex MX.3 or similar treasury/markets platform Bank of Ireland processes such as DEX, ADF, ISR or Service Transition