AI Solutions Architect - Financial Services Lisboa

AI Solutions Architect - Financial Services
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Staq is hiring an AI Solutions Architect to build a secure,
- native AI platform in a regulated domain. You’ll own orchestration, policy gating, HITL approvals and observability - shipping real, reliable automation.

About Staq

Staq is a leading
- finance platform enabling banks and financial institutions globally. We’re incubating a confidential initiative and looking for a
- on architect to build a secure, scalable AI platform in a regulated domain.

The Role

You will own the architecture and delivery of a
- native AI platform: workflow orchestration, agent/runtime controls, policy gating,
-
-
- loop approvals, observability and tight integration with Staq services - designed for reliability, safety and adaptability.

Key Technical Responsibilities

Platform architecture: Design a
- tenant, HA reference architecture with clear data boundaries and SLAs.

Workflow orchestration: Model durable workflows (retries, sagas, timers/signals, idempotency) using a modern engine (e. g. , Temporal/Cadence).

Policy-as-code & guardrails: Implement
- execute gates for business rules and AI safety (e. g. , OPA/Rego or equivalent), plus evals/red-teaming.

Governance & HITL: Design approval/exception flows, RBAC/MFA, and lightweight console/SDKs for approvals and notifications.

Data & integrations: Define connectors and event pipelines (webhooks, Kafka); enforce PII handling, encryption/KMS, consent, and data minimization.

Observability & audit: Establish
-
- end tracing/metrics (Open
Telemetry), immutable logs, and SIEM feeds; SLOs with alerting/runbooks.

MLOps foundations: Evaluation harnesses, prompt/model registries, canarying, drift/quality monitoring, rollback strategies.

Security & delivery: Zero-trust networking, secrets management, signed artifacts/supply chain, Ia
C (Terraform) and Git
Ops (e. g. , Argo
CD).

Internal enablement: Create SDKs/templates that let teams add new workflows safely and quickly.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years building distributed systems/platforms (2+ as principal/lead/architect).

Production experience with workflow engines and reliability patterns.

Demonstrated work with
-
- code or equivalent rule enforcement.

Shipped LLM/NLP or agentic systems with strong evaluation/guardrails.

Solid MLOps: CI/CD for prompts/models, telemetry, rollback.

Security & compliance depth: OAuth2/OIDC, RBAC/MFA, KMS, encryption in transit/at rest, PII handling.

Core Skills

Languages: Go and/or Python (Type
Script for SDKs/console a plus).

Infra: Kubernetes, containers, Terraform, Git
Ops (Argo
CD).

Data: Postgres plus column/No
SQL; Kafka/eventing; caching.

APIs: REST/Graph
QL, secure webhooks, reliability patterns.

Observability: Open
Telemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, SIEM.

Nice To Have

Fintech or other
- industry experience (payments, ledgers, KYC/AML).

Familiarity with
- risk governance and upcoming AI regulations.

Sandboxing (g
Visor/Firecracker), SLSA/supply-chain security, or confidential computing.

Experience building HITL consoles or approval SDKs (web/mobile).

What We Offer

Chance to architect a greenfield AI platform with
- world impact.

High ownership in a fast,
- led environment.

Competitive comp and equity;
- friendly.

Professional growth and influence over technical direction.

Application Process

Apply via Linked
In with your CV highlighting platform/distributed-systems leadership.

Complete job application form (the link will be sent to you if you are shortlisted).

Forward: examples of systems you’ve architected and the reliability/safety controls you implemented, a brief note on how you’d design
- gated, HITL-approved automation in a regulated setting, and links to talks, posts, or
- source work (if any).

Interview with our Director of People & Culture

Interview with our CEO + CTO

Offer stage

Please note, this role is open to candidates living in the EMEA region.