Solution Architect

About us

At Fenergo, we’re not just building software—we’re transforming how the world’s leading financial institutions fight financial crime. Headquartered in Dublin and trusted by over 100 of the world’s top financial institutions, we’re on a mission to change the game.

We’re more than a global leader in AI-powered client lifecycle management—we’re reimagining how financial institutions tackle compliance. From Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) to rapidly evolving regulations, we turn complexity into clarity. Our FinCrime Operating System, powered by agentic AI and intelligent automation, helps financial institutions move faster, act smarter, and stay safer across 120+ countries.

But we don’t stop there.

At Fenergo, we believe in a world where financial institutions aren’t just compliant—they’re confident. Where technology doesn’t just meet regulations—it stays ahead of them. Our mission is to empower financial institutions to stop financial crime and create a safer world.

Every product we build, every innovation we deliver, and every partnership we forge is shaped by that belief. We’re tackling some of the toughest challenges in financial technology. From speeding up onboarding to uncovering hidden risks, our work empowers banks to serve their customers with speed, integrity, and peace of mind.

Join us, and be part of a team that’s building smart solutions, solving real problems, and shaping the future—together.

What does this role entail?

A Fenergo Solution Architect is at the heart of transforming how our clients leverage Fenergo’s cutting-edge SaaS product. This role is for you if you thrive on combing deep technical expertise with forward- thinking strategy, ensuring solutions align with business objectives through optimising Fenergo’s market leading platform. You will be a key player in delivering innovative, scalable, and impactful solutions that drive real business value. You’ll work closely with stakeholders, translating complex business needs into sleek, high-performance designs. This is a incredible opportunity to join a market-leading SaaS company headquartered in Dublin as we continue our rapid growth and continue to make a impact on the future of SaaS and financial services

Key Responsibilities:

Solution Design and Delivery:

• Work closely with clients to understand their business processes, goals, and technical requirements.
• Design and implement robust, scalable, and flexible solutions that integrate the SaaS platform with the client’s existing systems and architecture.
• Define and document end-to-end solution architectures, ensuring alignment with both client and internal standards, best practices, and strategic goals.
• Serve as the technical authority during all phases of project delivery, including discovery, design, implementation, testing, and post-go-live support.
• Ensure that solutions meet both functional and non-functional requirements, including security, performance, and scalability.

Holistic Approach and Big Picture Thinking:

• Take a big-picture view of the client’s ecosystem to recommend solutions that align with their overarching business strategies and technology roadmaps.
• Understand and address cross-functional dependencies and impacts across data, business, and technology architectures.
• Advocate for the client’s long-term success by delivering solutions that support both current and future needs.

Leadership and Collaboration:

• Act as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders, guiding them through complex decision-making processes.
• Collaborate with internal teams, including product, engineering, and professional services, to tailor solutions to client needs while aligning with the SaaS company’s roadmap and capabilities.
• Lead and mentor cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless collaboration among developers, consultants, and client resources.

Proof of Concepts (PoCs):

• Lead the development of PoCs to validate solutions, showcase product capabilities, and address specific client use cases.
• Guide teams in iterative solution development, leveraging PoCs to refine requirements and approaches.

Problem Solving:

• Analyse complex client environments and troubleshoot technical challenges to identify root causes and design effective solutions.
• Resolve critical issues that arise during solution implementation or post-deployment, balancing client satisfaction with project timelines and scope.
• Leverage creative and analytical skills to mitigate risks and ensure project success.

Core Competencies:

Business Architecture:

• Analysing Business Processes and Requirements: Understanding and analysing business requirements and processes to ensure that proposed technical solutions align with the organization's business goals and objectives. (IE: Fit Analysis to TOM)
• Strategic Planning: Developing strategic plans to enhance business operations through technology. This includes assessing the impact of new technologies on business processes and proposing changes to optimize performance. (IE: Feature release adoption)
• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborating with business leaders and stakeholders to understand their vision and translate it into actionable technology strategies.

Data Architecture:

• Data Modelling and Design: Designing and overseeing the implementation of data storage solutions, ensuring they are scalable, secure, and efficient.
• Data Governance and Compliance: Ensuring compliance with data governance policies and regulations (IE: GDPR). Implementing measures for data security, quality, and integrity.
• Data Integration and Management: Overseeing the integration of new data sources and managing the lifecycle of data across the organisation.

Application Architecture:

• Designing Application Solutions: Creating architectural designs for software applications that meet the business requirements and are scalable, reliable, and maintainable. (IE: Integration Application Solutions)
• Application Portfolio Management: Overseeing the application portfolio to ensure alignment with business needs and technology trends. Mapping product portfolio to client ecosystem.
• Quality Assurance: Ensuring that application designs meet quality standards and performance requirements, Non-Functional Delivery (NFRs)

Technology Architecture:

• Infrastructure Planning: Designing and planning IT infrastructure that supports the organization's technology needs, including cloud services, networks, and hardware.
• Emerging Technologies: Keeping abreast of emerging technologies and assessing their potential impact on the client's technology strategy.
• Disaster Recovery and Security: Developing strategies for disaster recovery and maintaining the security of the technology infrastructure.

Requirements:
Key Expectations

Collaboration and Communication:

• Utilize strong collaboration skills for Fenergo project networks
• Demonstrate excellent communication skills
• Identification and Communication of risk to adoption, implementation or reputation.
• Ability to provide experience-based advice and/or analogy-based content to negotiate challenging topics.

Analytical Skills and Solution Design:

• Apply solution development controls
• Apply analytical skills to assess and understand technology and requirements
• Apply knowledge of web-based security practices
• Utilize experience in Engineering & Software Architecture Design

Industry knowledge:

• Have an overarching knowledge around cloud native technologies
• Apply knowledge of web-based security such as OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, etc
• Apply familiarity with integration patterns and designs with an event driven SaaS offering
• Experience with complex distributed compute and service-based architecture

SaaS Experience

• Must have experience in a SaaS environment

Our promise to you

We are striving to become global leaders across all the categories we operate in and as part of that we are a high-performing highly collaborative team that works cross functionally to accommodate our client’s needs.

What we value is at the CORE of how we succeed:

• Collaboration: Working together to achieve our best
• Outcomes: Drive Success in every engagement
• Respect: A collective feeling of inclusion and belonging
• Excellence: Continuously raising the bar

Benefits:
What’s in it for you?

• Healthcare cover through the VHI
• Company pension contribution
• Life assurance/ Income protection
• 23 days annual leave
• 3 company days
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Work From Home set-up allowance
• Opportunity to work with clients and colleagues on a global scale for a world leader in Client Lifecycle Management
• Other competitive company benefits, such as flexible working hours, work from home policy, bike to work scheme, sports and social committee, weekly fitness and sports classes and much more
• Buddy system for all new starters
• Collaborative working environment
• Extensive training programs, classroom and online, through ‘Fenergo University’
• Opportunity to work on a cutting-edge Fintech Product, using the latest of tools and technologies
• Defined training and role tracking to allow you see and assess your own career development and progress.
• Active sports and social club
• State of the art offices in the heart of Dublin’s Docklands with great facilities, canteen and games area

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusivity

Fenergo is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, where all employees are valued, respected, and can reach their full potential. We do not discriminate based on race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Our hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We believe that a diverse workforce enriches our company culture, fosters innovation, and contributes to our overall success. We strive to provide a fair and supporti