CluneTech
CluneTech
1,001 – 5,000 Employees
ConsultingLogisticsMarketing
CluneTech is a global technology group building and scaling solutions for businesses that operate across borders. Its portfolio includes fintech and software companies such as TransferMate, Fintua, Taxback, Sprintax, and Benamic, covering international B2B payments, tax compliance, VAT reclaim, digital sales, and promotional management. Through shared expertise, investment, and technology, CluneTech supports multinational clients while helping its businesses grow in complex international markets. Its work spans technology, consulting, marketing, logistics, and financial services, creating opportunities for professionals interested in software, fintech, cross-border commerce, and operational growth.

Principal Platform Architect – Fintua, Hybrid Ireland

Lead the technical direction of Fintua’s global indirect-tax compliance platform. Modernize legacy systems, integrations, and shared data architecture at scale.

Description

  • Lead the technical vision and architectural integrity of Fintua’s fintech platform across new and existing systems
  • Own end-to-end solution architecture for new products and production systems
  • Evaluate architectural debt, integration gaps, and duplicated capabilities, then prioritize remediation roadmaps
  • Design integration-ready solutions with clear target architectures and migration paths
  • Set and enforce architectural guardrails and standards, including standards for AI and agentic capabilities
  • Maintain a platform-wide technical debt register and drive debt reduction
  • Identify and remove redundant systems, data stores, and integration patterns
  • Define completion standards for testing, documentation, decoupling, and observability
  • Design the integration layer for internal products and external partners
  • Establish API-first integration patterns and lead API strategy and governance
  • Assess and onboard external integrations and partners for architectural and security suitability
  • Define the architecture and roadmap for a shared data lake or data platform
  • Design data models, ingestion pipelines, access patterns, governance, lineage, access controls, and privacy-by-design measures
  • Lead migration from siloed or duplicated client data stores to the shared data layer
  • Design highly available, fault-tolerant systems that support low-latency transaction processing at scale
  • Lead architecture reviews and establish design standards across engineering teams
  • Mentor senior and staff engineers and serve as a technical escalation point
  • Maintain architecture documentation, decision records, technical debt registers, and system and data-flow diagrams
  • Support due diligence activities, audits, and regulatory examinations
  • Evaluate emerging technology trends in fintech

Requirements

  • At least 15 years of software engineering experience, including 5 or more years in solution or enterprise architecture
  • Demonstrated experience architecting fintech systems
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture, and API design
  • Practical experience with cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and infrastructure as code
  • Strong knowledge of financial-sector compliance and security standards, including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR, or equivalents
  • Experience designing high-throughput, low-latency transactional systems with strong consistency and auditability
  • Excellent communication skills and experience presenting architecture decisions to technical, executive, and senior customer audiences
  • Experience with relational, NoSQL, and event-streaming database technologies
  • Track record of modernizing or migrating legacy systems in live production without business disruption
  • Experience designing integration layers across heterogeneous systems using event-driven and API-first approaches
  • Experience designing or implementing a data lake, data warehouse, or shared data platform with governance, access control, and lineage
  • Ability to identify, quantify, and reduce technical debt at organizational scale
  • Working knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF or Zachman, with experience applying them in engineering organizations
  • Previous experience in a scale-up fintech, including legacy-to-cloud migration and post-acquisition platform integration, preferred
  • Experience with data mesh or federated data governance models, preferred
  • Experience with containerization and orchestration, preferred
  • Familiarity with master data management or customer 360 initiatives in regulated data environments, preferred
  • Relevant certifications such as TOGAF 9 or 10, AWS/GCP/Azure Architect, CISSP, or data engineering and architecture certifications, preferred

Benefits

  • Competitive pension plan
  • Flexible working policy combining remote and office work with adaptable working hours
  • Competitive annual leave allowance
  • IVF leave
  • Compassionate leave
  • Marriage leave
  • Maternity leave
  • Paternity leave
  • CluneTech Cares employee-led CSR program, including one paid volunteer day each year
  • Death-in-service benefit
  • Milestone recognition program
  • Professional and personal development support
  • Rewards and recognition program
  • CluneTech Life employee wellbeing program

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