Solutions Architect

About the role

FNZ is looking for a Solutions Architect to deliver its technology to market. You will design and oversee the implementation of complex systems, ensuring scalability, reliability and security, and guide development from conception to delivery in close collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business, regulatory and operational requirements into solution architectures using cloud deployment models.
• Partner with sales and account teams on pre-sales engagements, including discovery, solution shaping and technical due diligence.
• Develop solution proposals, architecture overviews and high-level estimates for RFPs, RFIs and bids.
• Define end-to-end architectures across application, data, integration, identity, security and infrastructure layers.
• Align solutions with enterprise architecture, cloud governance and financial services compliance.
• Produce and maintain architecture artefacts such as diagrams, design specifications and integration models.
• Lead solution definitions from pre-sales through go-live, providing hands-on consulting and coordinating with engineering, platform, security and operations teams.
• Support production readiness, operational design, monitoring, support models and handover.

Required profile

• Proven experience in an Architecture or similar role in a technology-driven environment.
• Expertise in designing complex, scalable, resilient and secure systems with high-volume transaction processing and systems integration.
• Commercial awareness, including effort estimation, delivery assumptions and solution feasibility.
• Excellent communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior clients.
• Desirable: prior experience in financial services or capital markets.

Required skills

• Software development with multiple languages, strong software engineering foundations and strong Java skills.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and relevant tools and deployment patterns.

What we offer

• 26 days of holiday and 7 sick days per year.
• Home office support with flexible working hours.
• Meal allowance of 100 CZK per day and extra paid overtime upon agreement.
• Multisport card, cafeteria system and premium and on-call remuneration upon agreement.
• Fully paid maternity, paternity, bereavement and emergency leave.
• Pension or life insurance after probation, education and training funding, relocation and business trip support.