Director Platform and Integration Lead
Skills
About the Role
You will define how client platforms are architected and integrated across systems, data environments, and Blockstream infrastructure. You will translate solution strategies into production-ready platform implementations, design API and data architectures, establish integration frameworks, guide engineering teams on DevOps and CI/CD, and make system-level integration decisions to ensure scalable, testable, and reliable production systems.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in platform architecture, enterprise integration, or large-scale system implementation
- Proven experience designing and delivering complex multi-system platforms in banking, fintech, or enterprise environments
- Expertise in API-first architecture
- Experience with microservice and event-driven systems
- Experience with enterprise data platforms and data integration
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)
- Ability to translate high-level solution architectures into executable platform designs
- Experience collaborating with industry/domain leaders and client-facing architects
- Strong understanding of system interoperability, integration patterns, and distributed system design
- Languages: German or Swiss German and English required
Responsibilities
- Lead architecture and integration of multi-system client platforms
- Partner with industry and solution leads to translate strategy into platform designs
- Define and own platform integration strategy including API architecture and system connectivity
- Design data flows, data models, event-driven architectures, and platform orchestration
- Establish and govern integration frameworks and reusable patterns
- Design interactions between APIs, data pipelines, platform services, and AI capabilities
- Guide engineering teams on DevOps, CI/CD, system integration, testing, scalability, and performance
- Act as senior authority for cross-platform dependencies, integration decisions, and system-level trade-offs
- Ensure alignment between solution architecture and technical delivery