Principal Solutions Architect
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, the Director of Product, and the CPTO, acting as the senior technical authority who de-risks the hardest problems and keeps our architecture coherent as it evolves.
- Own and execute the transformation architecture AWS migration (application architecture).
- Own the application and workload architecture for our move to AWS – how latency-sensitive, high-availability sportsbook services are designed, decomposed and migrated – working in close partnership with our dedicated Cloud & Digital Infrastructure team, who lead on the underlying cloud platform (landing zones, networking, security and cost). This role complements that team rather than replacing it.
- Own the target architecture for the new sportsbook front end (app-shell and micro-frontend model, SPA/PWA, React), ensuring performance, SEO and a first-class mobile experience under peak load.
- Plan and drive the surgical decomposition of the Oracle monolith into event-driven microservices – identifying seams, defining domain and service boundaries, sequencing strangler-pattern extractions, and managing data migration without disrupting live trading.
- 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.
- Bring deep, hands-on understanding of the sportsbook engine: odds and price ingestion, market and event modelling, bet placement and validation, liability and risk/trading management, cash-out, and the settlement pipeline.
- Architect for the throughput, low latency and resilience demanded by live/in-play betting and major sporting and racing events, including idempotency, event-driven flows and graceful degradation.
- Understand how the sportsbook connects to its surrounding sub-systems – player account management (PAM) and wallet, bonuses & promotions, payments, and responsible-gambling and compliance controls.
- Bring practical experience integrating the key vendors in our space – for example Sportradar (data, pricing and integrity feeds), Optimove (CRM and retention) and Seon (fraud, KYC/AML) – and the judgement to know when to buy versus build.
- Uphold and evolve our architecture principles – high cohesion and low coupling, clear domain boundaries, API-first and API-based integration, stateless and containerised services – and set reference patterns and standards teams can reuse.
- Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical decisions, architecture reviews and trade-offs, balancing tactical change against long-term goals to minimise technical debt.
- Apply our open-source, open-standards, vendor-neutral and buy-over-build philosophy, and our infrastructure direction (hub-and-spoke, IaC with Terraform/Ansible, containerisation with Docker/Kubernetes/ECS, blue-green deployment).
- Design to the security and regulatory obligations of a UK and Ireland gambling operator – PCI, tokenisation of cardholder data, GDPR and gambling regulations.
- Work closely with the Head of Engineering Delivery so architecture is realistic, sequenced sensibly and executable across our Dundalk and Serbia teams.
- Partner with the Director of Product and CPTO to shape the roadmap with a clear-eyed view of technical feasibility, risk and effort.
- Raise the architectural capability of the wider engineering organisation through mentoring, review and example.
- 10+ years of industry experience in software engineering and architecture, with a substantial portion as a practising architect (required).
- Demonstrable experience as an architect at a recognised sportsbook (casino/iGaming experience also valued), with first-hand understanding of the fundamentals of building a sportsbook and its related sub-applications (required).
- Deep knowledge of core sportsbook logic – odds/price ingestion, bet placement, liability and risk/trading, cash-out and settlement – and the scalability, latency and resilience challenges of live betting (required).
- Proven track record architecting and delivering (not just designing) large-scale change: cloud migration to AWS, monolith-to-microservices decomposition, event-driven architectures and front-end re-architecture (required).
- Hands-on experience integrating major industry vendors such as Sportradar, Optimove and Seon (or close equivalents), and sound buy-versus-build judgement (required).
- Strong command of modern stacks and practices relevant to us – .NET, React/micro-frontends, Oracle and other data stores, Kafka/event streaming, CI/CD, containerisation and IaC (required).
- Ability to operate as a senior peer and technical authority – influencing stakeholders, leading through complexity and remaining hands-on in delivery (required).
- Experience in regulated, high-availability environments and familiarity with PCI, KYC/AML, GDPR and responsible-gambling controls (nice-to-have).
- Experience with additional betting/iGaming platforms, trading systems or data providers, and with payments, CRM or fraud/identity vendors (nice-to-have).
- Experience working across distributed engineering hubs (nice-to-have).
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent industry track record (nice-to-have).
- 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.
BOYLE Sports is an international sports betting and gaming company, with an extensive online business and retail portfolio. Founded by John Boyle in 1982, the Irish family-owned firm has grown to become Ireland’s largest and most successful independently-owned bookmaker and has over 390 shops across Ireland and the UK. Its Head Office is located on the outskirts of Dundalk in the Republic of Ireland and the company currently employs over 2,700 employees across Ireland, the UK and Gibraltar. BOYLE Sports offers a world class betting and gaming experience with a ‘Customer First’ approach, committed to bringing customers closer to the action. Its mission is boosted by a rich sponsorship portfolio – the company is a proud principal sponsor of West Ham United Football Club and it stays at the heart of the action all year round by backing some of sport’s most prestigious events, including the Irish Grand National, the Irish Greyhound Derby and the World Grand Prix of Darts.