Lead Solution Architect - Digital, AI & Fintech Solutions

About the role

JazzWorld, Pakistan's fastest-growing digital ecosystem spanning connectivity, financial services, entertainment, lifestyle, enterprise and software services, is hiring a Solution Architect for its Digital, AI and Fintech Solutions team (grade L3, Islamabad/Lahore). You will turn complex customer requirements, RFP specifications and regulatory constraints into technically sound, commercially viable solutions, leading solution design and technical proposals for public sector institutions, regulators and large enterprise clients.

Key responsibilities

• Own end-to-end solution design, from requirements discovery and architecture blueprints to integration design and cloud, on-premise, hybrid or sovereign deployments.
• Drive technical responses to RFPs, RFQs and tenders, including proposals, compliance matrices, architecture diagrams, BoQs and effort estimates aligned with PPRA rules and evaluation frameworks such as Single Stage Two Envelope and QCBS.
• Evaluate options using build-versus-buy-versus-partner assessments, total cost of ownership and delivery risk.
• Design AI and data solutions, including use cases, models and platforms, data pipelines, and governance, privacy and responsible-deployment guardrails.
• Architect fintech solutions across payments, wallets, digital onboarding, KYC, lending and merchant ecosystems, with applicable SBP regulatory requirements.
• Manage technology partners across hyperscalers, ERP and platform vendors, OEMs and system integrators, and structure JV and consortium arrangements where needed.
• Present and defend architectures to CXO-level stakeholders, evaluation committees and technical panels, and align Sales, Partners, OEMs, Procurement, Delivery and Product.
• Develop reusable reference architectures, solution accelerators, pricing models and proposal libraries.

Required profile

• 6-8 years of experience in solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, enterprise IT consulting or digital product engineering, with client-facing solutioning.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or a related field.
• Track record of architecting and winning large, complex deals, ideally public sector tenders and multi-vendor engagements.
• Strong communication, presentation, compliance documentation and commercial judgement; collaboration across teams and resilience under pressure.

Required skills

• Modern application architecture: microservices, APIs, event-driven design, containerisation and DevOps.
• Cloud, sovereign and on-premise infrastructure, AI workload compute sizing, security and high availability.
• AI and data: LLMs, RAG, MLOps, data warehousing and analytics.
• Enterprise platforms (ERP, HRMS, CRM, BPM) and integration standards and middleware.
• Fintech and payments: switches, payment rails, wallets, digital KYC, core banking integration and regulations.

Candidates should apply by 30 October 2026. Relevant certifications are valued.