Solutions Architect

Role Description

As a Solutions Architect, you will play a crucial role in delivering our technology to market. Your responsibilities will include designing and overseeing the implementation of complex systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and security. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, guiding the development process from conception to delivery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Translate complex business, regulatory, and operational requirements into pragmatic solution architectures using cloud deployment models
• Partner with sales and account teams to support 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, ensuring solutions meet performance, scalability, security, and regulatory requirements before production deployment
• Align solutions with enterprise architecture principles, cloud governance standards, and financial services compliance obligations
• Produce and maintain solution architecture artefacts, including architecture diagrams, design specifications, and integration models
• Lead solution definitions from pre‑sales through implementation and go‑live, ensuring architectural continuity; provide hands‑on consulting during delivery, coordinating with engineering, platform, security, and operations teams
• Support production readiness activities including operational design, monitoring, support models, and handover

Experience required

Successful candidates are likely to have the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience in an Architecture or similar role in a technology-driven environment.
• Expertise in designing and implementing complex, scalable, resilient and secure systems incorporating high volume transaction processing and systems integration.
• Commercial awareness, including effort estimation, delivery assumptions, and solution feasibility
• Software development experience using multiple programming languages, with a strong foundation in software engineering principles and strong Java skills.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior client audiences
• Experience with cloud platforms, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and relevant tools and deployment patterns
• Desirable - prior experience in Financial services, or Capital Markets 

What we offer:

• 26 days of holiday & 7 sick days per year
• Home Office support (flexible working hours)
• Meal Allowance 100 CZK/day
• Extra paid overtime (upon agreement)
• Multisport card (available also for partner or child)
• Cafeteria system (600 CZK/month)
• 26 weeks fully paid maternity and paternity leave (including 26 weeks for the Primary Caregiver and 13 weeks for the Secondary Caregiver)
• 8 weeks fully paid bereavement leave
• 2 weeks fully paid emergency leave
• Pension or Life Insurance (2% from Contractual Monthly Gross Salary) – after probation period
• Education and Training (funding of professional exams, LinkedIn trainings)
• Relocation and Business Trips support
• Support for statutory leaves (e.g., wedding day, blood donation)
• Health and Maternity Care
• Premium and On-call Remuneration (upon agreement)
• Referral program

About FNZ Culture

Our culture is what drives us. It's at the heart of who we are and everything we do. It's what inspires, excites and moves us forward. Our ambition is to create a culture for growth, one that opens up limitless opportunities for our employees, customers and the wider world. At FNZ we know that great impact is only possible with great teamwork. That’s why we value the strength and diversity of thought in our global team.  

The FNZ Way is the cornerstone of what we do. It is comprised of four values that set the standard for how everyone at FNZ interacts with each other, with our customers, and with all our diverse stakeholders around the world. 

• Customer obsessed for the long-term
• Think big and make an impact
• Act now and own it all the way
• Challenge, commit and win together

Read more about The FNZ Way and our values: www.fnz.com/culture

Opportunities

• Right from day one, you will work alongside exceptional, multicultural teams - experts in their respective fields - who will inspire and challenge you to make your greatest impact.  
• Be part of a highly successful, rapidly growing, global business that is leading the delivery of financial services via cloud computing and partners with some of the world’s largest companies; 
• Working in a flexible and agile way that meets the needs of the business and personal circumstances;  
• Remuneration, significant financial rewards and career advancement is based on individual contribution and business impact rather than tenure or seniority; 
• We provide global career opportunities for our best employees at any of our offices in the UK, EU, US, Canada, South Africa and APAC. 

Commitment to Equal Opportunities

At FNZ, we recognise that diversity, equity and inclusion are important factors contributing to our success. We embrace the unique perspective and capabilities of our current and future employees, which will help us continue to drive innovation and achieve our business goals. Recruitment decisions at FNZ are made in a non-discriminatory manner without regard to gender, ethnicity/race, faith, age, nationality, gender identity, sexual orientation,

marital status, socio-economic background, disability or military veteran status where all applicants and employees are valued and respected.  

In addition, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, if you require specific support please advise us.

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About FNZ

FNZ is committed to opening up wealth so that everyone, everywhere can invest in their future on their terms. We know the foundation to do that already exists in the wealth management industry, but complexity holds firms back. 

We created wealth’s growth platform to help. We provide a global, end-to-end wealth management platform that integrates modern technology with business and investment operations. All in a regulated financial institution. 

We partner with the world’s leading financial institutions, with over US$2.4 trillion in assets on platform (AoP).

Together with our clients, we empower nearly 30 million people across all wealth segments to invest in their future.