Director of Solutions
Skills
About the Role
You will design, build, and evolve client solution platforms that translate solution intent into cohesive, scalable, and secure production systems. You will lead platform architecture, drive implementation and deployment strategies, and ensure solutions meet security, resiliency, and compliance requirements. You will mentor and grow a high-performing team, guide DevOps and CI/CD practices, and serve as the primary escalation point for architecture and platform risks. You will work with stakeholders to validate platform scope, influence product roadmaps, and present architecture reviews and client workshops.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in solution architecture, platform design, or large-scale system implementation within banking or financial services
- Proven senior experience such as Head of Solutions, Principal or Lead Solution Architect, Platform Architect, or Enterprise Architect
- Deep experience designing and building multi-system, multi-platform solutions in regulated environments
- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
- Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with containerization and modern deployment models
- Knowledge of API-first and service-oriented architectures
- Knowledge of event-driven and message-based systems
- Experience with data orchestration and consistency models
- Strong grasp of security, resiliency, and compliance requirements in institutional environments
- Proven leadership in building and managing high-performing teams and stakeholder management skills
- Languages: Swiss German or German and English required
Responsibilities
- Build, mentor, and lead a high-performing team to scale the delivery of financial services solutions
- Own the solution platform architecture and build strategy for enterprise and institutional client platforms
- Lead the execution and lifecycle of client platform builds, translating architectural vision into implementations and deployments
- Ensure solution platforms preserve security, trust assumptions, and operational guarantees
- Act as the senior authority on how products are composed into end-to-end client platforms
- Define and maintain solution blueprints and platform patterns
- Make platform-level design decisions including API and integration models, data flows, and deployment models
- Guide platform build approaches across DevOps, CI/CD, security, and environment design
- Serve as the primary escalation point for solution-level design risks, cross-platform dependencies, and architectural trade-offs
- Support deal shaping by validating platform scope, build assumptions, dependencies, and sequencing
- Influence product and engineering roadmaps based on platform realities and reuse opportunities
- Support executive briefings, architecture reviews, and client workshops as the senior platform authority