Development Architect

  • Greater Giving, Inc.
  • City, Belfast
  • 24/05/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

What you'll be doing: Technical Leadership
  • Participating in the definition and validation of technical guidance. E.g. architecture principles, styles, policies, and standards

  • Coaching and Mentoring engineering staff in the effective and pragmatic application of software design principles and coding best practices

  • Producing and maintaining useful and fit for purpose documentation of work, and contributing regularly to the general Engineering body of knowledge

  • Building a strategic network of partnerships and relationships with individuals inside and outside of the engineering organization

  • Effectively collaborating with architects on cross-portfolio and enterprise-wide initiatives

Strategic & Enterprise
  • Contributing to the definition of technical strategy and, formal architecture delivery roadmaps for your assigned portfolio area

  • Making architectural decisions that impact on the entire distributed Payments platform

  • Assisting in establishing technical direction with a sound and pragmatic approach

  • Monitoring new technologies, applications of technology, and opportunities to leverage technology as a differentiator for your assigned portfolio area

  • Pinpointing strengths and weaknesses in the Payments platform, and effectively advocate for appropriate solutions to weaknesses

  • Communicating direction in terms that are meaningful to individuals and teams across the engineering group

  • Contributing to build vs. buy decisions.

Delivery
  • Leading Architecture and Design activities throughout the delivery lifecycle

  • Verifying code quality and implementation alignment with design decisions and platform guidance

  • Creating architectural mechanisms and core components to address concerns that have platform-wide impact

  • Contributing to the estimation and prioritization of work items

  • Participating in coding activities that are in support of design outcomes - up to 50% of the time depending on the project

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Flexible, hybrid working from our new office in the heart of Belfast city centre

- 26 days leave (plus Bank holidays) increasing with length of service

- Vitality private medical insurance

- Dental insurance

- Life insurance / income protection / critical illness

- Up to 5% matching pension contributions and Salary Sacrifice

- 26 weeks company paid maternity leave

- Cycle to work scheme

- Electric car scheme

- Stock purchase plan

- Twice annual worldwide community volunteering days

- Company social events