Lead Solution Architect - Digital, AI & Fintech Solutions

JazzWorld, Pakistan’s fastest-growing digital ecosystem, is seeking a Solution Architect specializing in Digital, AI, and Fintech Solutions to join their team in Islamabad or Lahore. This role involves translating complex customer requirements, RFP specifications, and regulatory constraints into technically sound and commercially viable solutions. The successful candidate will lead solution design and technical proposals across enterprise digital transformation, applied AI, and fintech domains. Collaborating closely with Sales, Product, Delivery, and technology partners, you will ensure that solutions are practical, compliant, and deliverable for public sector institutions, regulators, and large enterprise clients.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead end-to-end solution design, including requirements discovery, architecture blueprints, integration design, and deployment across cloud, on-premise, hybrid, or sovereign models.
- Drive technical responses to RFPs, RFQs, and tenders by preparing proposals, compliance matrices, architecture diagrams, Bills of Quantities (BoQs), and effort estimates aligned with PPRA rules and evaluation frameworks such as Single Stage Two Envelope and QCBS.
- Evaluate solution options through build-versus-buy-versus-partner assessments, considering total cost of ownership and delivery risk.
- Design AI and data solutions by identifying viable use cases, selecting appropriate models and platforms, defining data pipelines, and embedding governance, privacy, and responsible deployment guardrails.
- Architect fintech solutions covering payments, wallets, digital onboarding, KYC, lending, and merchant ecosystems, ensuring compliance with relevant State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) regulatory requirements.
- Manage technology partners including hyperscalers, ERP and platform vendors, OEMs, and system integrators; structure joint ventures and consortium technical arrangements as needed.
- Present and defend solution architectures to CXO-level stakeholders, evaluation committees, and technical panels.
- Align Sales, Partners, OEMs, Procurement, Delivery, and Product teams on solution feasibility and protect design intent through delivery and product transition.
- Develop reusable reference architectures, solution accelerators, pricing models, and proposal libraries to improve win rates and shorten proposal response cycles.

Required Qualifications

- 6 to 8 years of experience in solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, enterprise IT consulting, or digital product engineering, with significant client-facing solutioning experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related field.
- Proven track record of architecting and securing large, complex deals, preferably involving public sector tenders and multi-vendor engagements.
- Strong expertise in modern application architecture, including microservices, APIs, event-driven design, containerization, and DevOps practices.
- Solid understanding of cloud, sovereign, and on-premise infrastructure, including AI workload compute sizing, security architecture, and high-availability design.
- Practical knowledge of AI and data technologies such as large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns, MLOps, data warehousing, and analytics.
- Familiarity with enterprise platforms like ERP, HRMS, CRM, BPM, integration standards, and middleware.
- In-depth fintech and payments knowledge, including switches, payment rails, wallet architecture, digital KYC, core banking integration, and regulatory compliance.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, ability to manage compliance-heavy documentation, exercise commercial judgment, collaborate across teams, and maintain resilience under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

Relevant certifications in fintech, AI, or cloud technologies are highly valued. JazzWorld offers the opportunity to build innovative products and solutions that address real national-scale challenges. Leveraging the extensive reach of Jazz Telco and shared capabilities across connectivity, transactions, and identity, you will help transform ideas into market-leading businesses.

As a certified Top Employer, JazzWorld is committed to fostering an inclusive environment where diverse talent can thrive and perform at their best. Join a dynamic organization where you will not only maintain existing platforms but also create the next generation of digital services.

Application Deadline: 30th October 2026