Dublin-based IT services company Origina is to create 350 new jobs in an expansion it claims will deliver up to €28 million annually for the Irish economy.
Origina specialises in independent software support and maintenance for enterprise software from vendors including IBM, HCL, and VMware. The company said the expansion will allow it to scale globally, with Ireland as its “centre for future growth”.
The new roles will span disciplines including software engineering, security, data and AI, and enterprise technology operations.
Origina chief executive Tomás O’Leary said: “This investment in our Irish operations reflects our ambition to grow and scale the company over the next five years.”
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The company has also announced an investment in a larger, technology-forward Dublin office based in Sandyford, which will serve as a central hub for product development, innovation, and collaboration. The new workplace is expected to more than double its existing staff capacity.
He said Origina is a “unique Irish business” in that they have not received “any external investors” but was seeing average annual turnover growth of 30 per cent in recent years.
“We are competing with some of the biggest players in technology [..] and that is not an easy thing to do,” he said.
Mr O’Leary said the company is looking to address issues caused by enterprise software being acquired on a rental model, which is “not a sustainable future for businesses, only having one option in the marketplace”.
By offering third-party support, he believes Origina has significant potential for growth. The company saw €90 million in contract revenue in 2025, the company said, with €50 million of which coming from the US market.
“We see a great opportunity over there to expand. In the US alone, it is a $2 billion market opportunity.”
Rowan O’Donoghue, chief innovation officer and co-founder of Origina, said the company is looking to reverse “conditioning that software publishers are the only ones that can give you support for their products” or to create new features and software updates.
“We have built a business to prove that [incorrect] over the last decade”.
Origina said Ireland will continue to act as a strategic base for delivering services to customers globally, supporting the company’s continued growth across Europe, North America and other international markets.
