Solution Architect

Taktile empowers financial institutions to transform into truly AI-native organizations. As Solution Architect, you are a senior technical voice in our customer conversations - a sparring partner to enterprise architects at large financial institutions, helping them design how Taktile fits into their broader solution architecture.

Responsibilities

Act as the trusted architecture counterpart for enterprise architects and technical leadership on the customer side, from first pre-sales conversations through large-scale production deployments; Design the target solution architecture for enterprise transformations; Own the hardest architecture questions in deals - integration patterns, deployment models, throughput, latency, security, compliance, data residency - and turn them from blockers into reasons to buy; Lead architecture workshops, whiteboarding sessions, and reference architecture reviews with customer stakeholders from engineers up to CTOs; Represent Taktile in senior architecture discussions on the customer side; Build reusable reference architectures, integration blueprints, and best practices; Work across pre-sales and post-sales, supporting Account Executives and Solution Engineers and partnering with Forward Deployed Engineers

Requirements

10+ years of experience in solution or enterprise architecture, with significant time spent working directly with large enterprises, ideally in financial services; Deep, hands-on knowledge of AWS and enterprise integration patterns (event-driven architectures, messaging, APIs, batch, streaming), and knowing when to use which; Experience with enterprise-grade legacy systems - core banking platforms, loan origination systems (LOSs), loan management systems (LMS), front-end SDKs, mainframes, on-prem estates - and knowing what it takes to integrate a modern SaaS platform into them; Solid grounding in security and compliance for regulated enterprises: authentication and authorization patterns, network architecture, encryption, data residency, and audit requirements; Ability to hold your own with the most senior technical stakeholders - enterprise architects, Heads of Engineering, CTOs - as a peer, not a vendor; Ability to communicate complex architecture crisply in writing, on a whiteboard, in a slide deck, and in the room, to both technical and executive audiences; Comfortable operating across pre-sales and post-sales, and making architecture decisions that are right for the customer and commercially sound

Nice to have

Experience as a Solution Architect, Enterprise Architect, or Principal Consultant at a B2B SaaS company, cloud provider, or top-tier consultancy serving financial institutions; Experience designing architectures involving AI/ML or Generative AI workloads in production; Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Professional, TOGAF); Experience responding to enterprise RFPs and security/architecture reviews

Benefits

Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow; Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company; Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members; Learn from experienced mentors and achieve personal and professional growth; Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package; Get access to a self-development budget for conferences, books, or classes; Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up