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. In this role, you will translate complex customer requirements, RFP specifications, and regulatory constraints into technically sound and commercially viable solutions. You 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 while ensuring compliance with relevant State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) regulatory requirements.
- Manage relationships with technology partners including hyperscalers, ERP and platform vendors, OEMs, and system integrators; structure joint venture and consortium technical arrangements when necessary.
- 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, protecting design intent through delivery and product transition phases.
- Develop reusable reference architectures, solution accelerators, pricing models, and proposal libraries to improve win rates and shorten proposal response cycles.

Required Qualifications

- 6-8 years of experience in solution architecture, pre-sales engineering, enterprise IT consulting, or digital product engineering, with significant client-facing solutioning exposure.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or a related field.
- Proven track record of architecting and winning 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, and integration standards including middleware.
- In-depth fintech and payments knowledge covering switches, payment rails, wallet architecture, digital KYC, core banking integration, and regulatory compliance.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to manage compliance-heavy documentation, exercise commercial judgment, collaborate across teams, and maintain resilience under pressure. Relevant certifications are a plus.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits

JazzWorld offers a unique opportunity to build products and solutions that impact millions at a national scale. The company’s extensive reach across connectivity, transactions, and identity enables innovators to transform ideas into category-leading businesses. Employees at JazzWorld are encouraged to build, scale, learn, and repeat in a dynamic environment.

As a certified Top Employer, JazzWorld is committed to maintaining global workplace standards and fostering an inclusive environment where diverse talent can thrive and perform at their best. Joining JazzWorld means contributing to Pakistan’s next-generation digital services platform and shaping the future of digital, AI, and fintech innovation.