[Hiring] Principal Solutions Architect @BoyleSports

Role Description

As Principal Solution Architect you will provide senior architectural leadership across the BOYLE Sports platform, with sportsbook as your core specialism. You will translate our platform strategy into concrete, executable designs, set the technical direction for the transformation programmes, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering squads to deliver them – not just on paper, but in production.

You will partner closely with the Head of Engineering Delivery (who owns delivery coordination), the Director of Product (roadmap) and the CPTO (strategy), acting as the senior technical authority who de-risks the hardest problems and keeps our architecture coherent as it evolves.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and execute the transformation architecture.
• AWS migration (application architecture).
  • Own the application and workload architecture for our move to AWS.
  • Work in close partnership with our dedicated Cloud & Digital Infrastructure team.
• Sportsbook front-end re-architecture.
  • Own the target architecture for the new sportsbook front end (app-shell and micro-frontend model, SPA/PWA, React).
  • Ensure performance, SEO and a first-class mobile experience under peak load.
• Breaking down the monolith.
  • Plan and drive the surgical decomposition of the Oracle monolith into event-driven microservices.
  • Identify seams, define domain and service boundaries, sequence strangler-pattern extractions, and manage data migration without disrupting live trading.
• Plan and execute.
  • Take initiatives from strategy through solution design to delivery.
  • Produce the designs, prove them with prototypes and PoCs, embed with squads, and remain accountable for the outcome in production.
• Sportsbook domain leadership.
  • Bring deep, hands-on understanding of the sportsbook engine.
  • Architect for the throughput, low latency and resilience demanded by live/in-play betting.
  • Understand how the sportsbook connects to its surrounding sub-systems.
  • Bring practical experience integrating the key vendors in our space.
• Architecture leadership and governance.
  • Uphold and evolve our architecture principles.
  • Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical decisions.
  • Apply our open-source, open-standards, vendor-neutral and buy-over-build philosophy.
  • Design to the security and regulatory obligations of a UK and Ireland gambling operator.
• Collaboration.
  • Work closely with the Head of Engineering Delivery.
  • Partner with the Director of Product and CPTO to shape the roadmap.
  • Raise the architectural capability of the wider engineering organisation through mentoring, review and example.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering and architecture, with a substantial portion as a practising architect.
• Demonstrable experience as an architect at a recognised sportsbook (casino/iGaming experience also valued).
• Deep knowledge of core sportsbook logic.
• Proven track record architecting and delivering large-scale change.
• Hands-on experience integrating major industry vendors.
• Strong command of modern stacks and practices relevant to us.
• Ability to operate as a senior peer and technical authority.

Requirements

• Experience in regulated, high-availability environments.
• Experience with additional betting/iGaming platforms, trading systems or data providers.
• Experience working across distributed engineering hubs.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent industry track record.

What Success Looks Like

• The AWS migration, sportsbook front-end re-architecture and monolith decomposition are designed, sequenced and delivered with minimal disruption to live trading.
• Architecture decisions are made decisively and coherently.
• Squads have clear, executable designs and reference patterns.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and benefits package befitting a senior, business-critical role.
• The chance to own and execute a landmark platform transformation for a market-leading sportsbook.
• Flexibility to be based in Dundalk, our Serbia technology hub, or remote.
• A collaborative, ambitious engineering culture investing seriously in modern architecture.