Solution Architect - Event Streaming, Data Ingestion & Cloud - JazzCash

Grade Level: L3

Location: Islamabad

Last date to Apply: 10 October 2025

What is Solution Architect – Event Streaming, Data Ingestion & Cloud?

We are seeking a highly skilled Solution Architect to design, develop, and manage enterprise-grade architectures for JazzCash’s large-scale digital payments ecosystem. The role requires a strong foundation in enterprise solution design, hands-on development expertise, and deep knowledge of Kafka, MQ, and real-time data ingestion frameworks, combined with solid experience in cloud-native platforms and DevOps practices..

What does Solution Architect – Event Streaming, Data Ingestion & Cloud do?

• Lead the end-to-end solution architecture for real-time payments, transactions, analytics, and fraud detection platforms.
• Design and govern event-driven microservices architectures, ensuring scalability, resilience, and security.
• Architect, deploy, and operate Kafka clusters, ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ/IBM MQ, and other enterprise messaging platforms.
• Define and implement best practices for schema management, message governance, and integration patterns.
• Collaborate with application development teams to deliver high-throughput, low-latency services using Java, WSO2, and Node.js microservices.
• Drive the adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, containerization, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Establish enterprise-level monitoring, observability, and alerting frameworks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Confluent Control Center).
• Develop and oversee capacity planning, scaling strategies, HA/DR solutions, and regulatory compliance (SBP, PCI-DSS, data privacy).
• Mentor engineering teams, providing technical leadership and architecture guidance.
• Partner with vendors on Kafka licensing, cloud integration, and enterprise platform support.

JazzCash is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support, and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Requirements

What are we looking for and what does it require to be Solution Architect – Event Streaming, Data Ingestion & Cloud at JazzCash

• 5+ years of IT experience with at least 4+ years in solution architecture.
• Strong development experience in Java, WSO2, Node.js, or equivalent backend frameworks.
• Proven expertise in Apache Kafka (Confluent/OSS) – setup, scaling, partitioning, replication, security (Kerberos/SASL/ACLs).
• Hands-on experience with ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, RedHat AMQ and enterprise integration patterns.
• Solid knowledge of data ingestion frameworks (Kafka Connect, NiFi, Flume, Debezium) and stream processing (Kafka Streams, Flink, Spark Streaming, ksqlDB).
• Deep understanding of cloud-native event streaming platforms (AWS MSK, Azure Event Hub, GCP Pub/Sub).
• Strong exposure to DevOps tools & practices, including CI/CD, automation, observability, and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Familiarity with microservices design patterns, pub-sub, and API-first integration.
• Experience working in high-transaction financial services/fintech environments is a strong plus.
• Leadership skills to drive enterprise-wide architecture standards and mentor technical teams.

Benefits

Why Join Jazzcash?

As one of the leading employers in the country, JazzCash epitomizes the philosophy that each JazzCash employee is passionately living a better every day inspired and enabled by visionary leadership, a unique professional culture, a flourishing lifestyle, and continuous learning and development.

Our core values include qualities essential for a positive organizational culture - truthfully guiding entrepreneurial and innovative mindsets, harnessing professional and interpersonal collaboration, and fostering across-the-board customer obsession.

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be part of something transformative, someone who can play a critical role in driving our success. Together, we can empower millions more with the tools necessary to progress in an increasingly digital economy.