Senior Technical Architect required for expanding Irish RegTech business. Our client provides AI regulatory compliance solutions to the global Financial Services industry. This role will suit a hands-on Architect that codes and leads from the front, and is passionate about advancing engineering and product delivery using AI
This is hybrid working (1-2 days / week) in Dublin 4, and salary guide is c120-130K + 5% pension + Health ins + share options
Responsibilities
* Drive the technical architecture, design, and implementation of core SaaS platform, and lead technical design sessions and architecture reviews.
* Contribute to codebase in Python (backend APIs, business logic).
* Oversee integration of AI/ML models into products and development processes.
* Lead the integration and application of AI technologies (LLMs, AI-assisted engineering, GenAI etc) to improve engineering productivity, product features, and automate delivery workflows
* Work with product, engineering, and SMEs to design fault-tolerant, scalable systems
* Prototype new approaches, particularly in AI-powered features and automation
* Champion the adoption of new tools, frameworks, and methodologies
Requirements
* Proven experience leading architecture and engineering in high-scale SaaS environments.
* Strong hands-on coding in Python for API/web application development with knowledge of modern frontend development.
* Practical experience integrating AI services (LLMs, NLP, automation frameworks) into applications or engineering workflows.
* Strong SQL and relational data modelling skills (PostgreSQL preferred).
* Solid experience with cloud infrastructure (Azure or AWS) and modern DevOps practices.
* Proven ability to design secure, scalable, enterprise-grade systems.
* Desirable - exposure to AI model fine-tuning and/or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) architectures