What is the opportunity?

This role offers a high impact opportunity for a Solution Architect to shape New Irelan's Wealth and Insurance technology landscape. You will design end to end end solutions across Policy Administration Systems, modernise legacy platforms, and ensure seamless alignment between business needs, governance frameworks, and technical delivery.

The position provides strong visibility with senior stakeholders and influence over long term architectural direction, integration strategy, and future ready transformation initiatives.

In this role, you will:

Design and deliver end to end solutions across Enterprise Policy Administration Systems and large scale transformation programmes.
Lead integration initiatives within the Wealth & Insurance Hub, ensuring seamless alignment between legacy systems and modern platforms.
Contribute to the evolution of future-state architecture through analysis and optimisation of Enterprise Banking Systems.
Translate complex architectural designs into clear, business-friendly language for senior stakeholders and non-technical audiences.
Ensure governance alignment across business, technology and enterprise standards while participating in solution integrity checks and Architectural reviews.

What will make you stand out?

You'll bring strong experience in Policy Administration Systems, Life and Pensions, or broader Financial Services, along with the ability to design solutions that span both legacy and modern architectures. This role will suit someone who understands the wider group and IT landscape, communicates confidently with senior leaders, and can simplify sophisticated architectural concepts.

Experience delivering enterprise-level integrations or modernisation programmes will significantly enhance your impact, particularly where you've helped transition legacy systems into future ready architectures. Solid understanding of governance frameworks, enterprise banking platforms and modern integration patterns, such as API led design, event driven services or cloud based connectivity will be valuable.

Essential qualifications

Degree in a relevant IT-related discipline (e.g. Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or similar).
Candidates without a formal qualification may be considered based on equivalent practical experience and demonstrated expertise in solution architecture and their ability to deliver strategic architectural solutions within a complex enterprise environment.

More about the team

You'll join a high energy, collaborative technology group working across wealth, insurance and Enterprise Banking Systems. The team plays a central role in New Ireland's integration and modernisation agenda, crafting how legacy platforms evolve into future state architectures and ensuring solutions meet governance, business and technical standards. You'll work closely with architects, engineers, governance specialists and business partners, contributing to solution assurance, architectural reviews and cross functional decision making.

This is a hybrid role, based primarily at our Ballsbridge office, with a minimum of 8 in person days per month to support collaboration and connection. The environment is supportive, open to diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and offers strong opportunities to grow your architectural, strategic and stakeholder management capabilities.

Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with a commitment to hybrid working, along with 25 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy along with working parent and carer supports.

Your health and wellbeing is important to us; we offer a substantial health insurance contribution, employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

Flexible working matching promise

We know how important flexible working arrangements are to our colleagues and we promise to try to match your current flexible working arrangement in this new role (all existing working arrangements considered!)

Key Competencies

Customer Focused - Leader
Better together - Leader
Be Decisive - Leader
Take Ownership - Leader
Manage Risk - Leader

We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives. We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions. If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email. Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers. Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

Your Journey, Our Support

We believe that embracing the perspectives of all of our employees is a value that connects us with our customers and our communities, and makes it an even better place to work. We're building an organisation that is welcoming to all, which enables our colleagues to thrive and reach their full potential.

Neurodiversity

We are on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace. We have recently partnered with Auticon, to improve inequalities in employment for neurodivergent adults.

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Gender Balance

Our Gender Balance Network creates an inclusive space where colleagues of all genders can connect, learn from one another, and work together to achieve our gender balance objectives.

Multicutural

We support colleagues from all backgrounds, cultures and ethnicities. We want our colleagues to feel safe, included and experience a sense of belonging.

With Pride

Our objective is to drive representation and inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community, promote bringing your whole self to work, and increase visibility across locations, regionals and mediums.

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Flexible Working

We're committed to giving our colleagues the flexibility they need to thrive. Our hybrid working model is central to this approach, enabling more productive ways of working while supporting a healthier work-life balance.

For roles that offer hybrid working, we typically ask that colleagues spend a minimum of 8 days per month working in-person. Specific working arrangements will be confirmed with your recruiter to ensure they meet the requirements of the role and the team you will be joining.

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Our Benefits

Every job at New Ireland Assurance Company comes with...

Pay & Perks

Competitive pay package
Premium pension contribution
Pay reviews & profit-share scheme
Financial wellbeing coaches
Excellent healthcare contributions

Work-Life Balance

23 days annual leave
Flexible leave: buy or sell your days
6 months paid maternity leave
Fertility and surrogacy policies
Working parent and carer supports

Career Growth

Support for professional qualifications
Award-winning career framework
Clear pathways for development and progression

Hear what San San has to say:

"At Bank of Ireland there's a range of development programmes and supports. That brings fresh opportunities and the chance to futureproof my career."

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