Azure Cloud Architect, Ireland Insurance site lead, Vice President

Posted:
3/27/2025, 3:04:21 AM

Location(s):
Leinster, Ireland ⋅ Kilkenny, Leinster, Ireland

Experience Level(s):
Expert or higher ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
DevOps & Infrastructure ⋅ Software Engineering

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Who we are looking for

We are looking for a hands-on Full-Stack Solution Architect & Developer with extensive experience driving innovative technology solutions and leading complex projects across diverse domains like Investment Banking, Insurance, Securities, and Foreign Exchange. Needs to be proficient at bridging business requirements with pragmatic approach and cutting-edge technology to deliver scalable, low latency, high performance, secured enterprise solutions. The ideal candidate should have proven expertise in designing and implementing end to end system architectures optimizing system integrations, skilled in hybrid cloud computing and digital transformation initiatives in Financial Services industry.

Why this role is important to us

Our technology function, Global Technology Services (GTS), is vital to State Street and is the key enabler for our business to deliver data and insights to our clients. We’re driving the company’s digital transformation and expanding business capabilities using industry best practices and advanced technologies such as cloud, artificial intelligence and robotics process automation.

We offer a collaborative environment where technology skills and innovation are valued in a global organization. We’re looking for top technical talent to join our team and deliver creative technology solutions that help us become an end-to-end, next-generation financial services company.

Join us if you want to grow your technical skills, solve real problems and make your mark on our industry.

What you will be responsible for

As Azure Cloud Architect, Ireland Insurance site lead, Vice President you will:

  • Provide multiple concurrent project solution architecture guidance, best practices, and design direction

  • Hands-on solution pilot development and guidance through to MVP release

  • Work with multiple technology and project teams including business application development, Office of architecture, and infrastructure support teams.

  • Implement process for creation and maintenance of business application platform lifecycle roadmaps as part of the governance process

  • Collaborate with other developers, business analysts, product management to craft elegant solutions to front office trading requirements.

  • Participate in periodic code reviews with focus on functional integrity as well as extensibility and scalability

  • Provide mentoring to junior and senior staff 

What we value

These skills will help you succeed in this role

  • Ability to quickly learn business domain.

  • Desire to keep abreast with new technologies and their applicability to business needs.

  • Self-motivated, critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills.

  • Strong Hands-on large scale, multi-tenant application development experience.

  • Effective communication skills to interact with business and senior management.

Education & Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Math or associated areas

  • 15+ years of experience in a large financial services organization including 8+ years of experience in a Leadership or Architect role.

  • Extensive experience with C#, .NET Framework, Microservice/RESTful API based application development using full-stacks - Spring Boot (Java, React/JQuery/HTML5, RDBMS), Kafka, MQ, Oracle, SQL Server.

  • Design for auto scaling, self-healing, rolling upgrades, containerized microservice cloud-native applications

  • Azure Public Cloud, PaaS/IaaS - hybrid cloud-based system design and implementation end to end.

  • Low latency & high-performance computing system design & implementation.

  • Event driven system design & implementation (message brokers like Kafka, IBM MQ).

  • Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum SDLC methodologies and roles

About State Street

What we do. State Street is one of the largest custodian banks, asset managers and asset intelligence companies in the world. From technology to product innovation, we’re making our mark on the financial services industry. For more than two centuries, we’ve been helping our clients safeguard and steward the investments of millions of people. We provide investment servicing, data & analytics, investment research & trading and investment management to institutional clients.

Work, Live and Grow. We make all efforts to create a great work environment. Our benefits packages are competitive and comprehensive. Details vary by location, but you may expect generous medical care, insurance and savings plans, among other perks. You’ll have access to flexible Work Programs to help you match your needs. And our wealth of development programs and educational support will help you reach your full potential.

Inclusion, Diversity and Social Responsibility. We truly believe our employees’ diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives are a powerful contributor to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive and reach their maximum potential while adding value to both our organization and our clients. We warmly welcome candidates of diverse origin, background, ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and personality. Another fundamental value at State Street is active engagement with our communities around the world, both as a partner and a leader. You will have tools to help balance your professional and personal life, paid volunteer days, matching gift programs and access to employee networks that help you stay connected to what matters to you.

State Street is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Discover more at StateStreet.com/careers

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