Director of Solutions

Zürich - Switzerland

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Blockstream was founded in 2014 by Dr. Adam Back and a group of fellow cryptographers and engineers passionate about Bitcoin and its potential to change the future of finance. We have become a market leader in Bitcoin security and Layer-2 technologies. Our products are designed to make financial systems more efficient secure and robust.

Blockstream works with banks custodians asset managers and financial institutions to design and deploy secure production-grade Bitcoin and Layer-2 platforms in regulated environments.

We are seeking a Director of Solutions to act as the senior authority responsible for designing building and evolving client solution platforms. This role owns the translation of solution intent into cohesive scalable and secure client platforms spanning multiple products integrations and deployment models.

This role together with the Service team ensures that Blockstreams solutions are not only well-architected but buildable extensible and operationally sound across multiple client platforms.

What Youll Be Doing (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 across banking custody payments and digital asset environments.
Lead the execution and lifecycle of client platform builds translating architectural vision into concrete implementations deployments and scaled production that solution platforms preserve the security trust assumptions and operational guarantees of Blockstreams Bitcoin-native and Layer-2 infrastructure
Act as the senior authority on how Blockstream products are composed into end-to-end client platforms
Partner closely with:
- Director Industry Lead Financial Services to translate market needs and solution vision into platform designs
- Director Head of Delivery to ensure solutions are buildable deliverable and operable at scale
Define and maintain solution blueprints and platform patterns covering:
- Core banking and financial system integrations (e.g. Avaloq or equivalent)
- Custody treasury and payments platforms
- Blockstream Bitcoin and Layer-2 components
- External vendors market infrastructure and third-party services
Own platform-level design decisions including:
- API and integration models
- Data flows and event-driven architectures
- Deployment models (on-prem hybrid cloud)
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 and complexity
- Build assumptions and constraints
- Dependencies and sequencing across solutions
Act as a key feedback conduit to Product & Engineering influencing roadmap decisions based on platform realities and reuse opportunities
Support executive briefings architecture reviews and client workshops as the senior platform authority

What We Look for In You (Required Qualifications):

10 years of experience in solution architecture platform design or large-scale system implementation within banking or financial services
Proven success in senior roles such as:
- Head of Solutions
- Principal / Lead Solution Architect
- Platform Architect
- Enterprise Architect
Deep experience designing and building multi-system multi-platform solutions in regulated environments
Strong understanding of how to compose products integrations and services into cohesive client platforms
Hands-on experience with:
- Cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
- DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Containerization and modern deployment models
Strong architectural grounding in:
- API-first and service-oriented architectures
- Event-driven and message-based systems
- Data orchestration and consistency models
Demonstrated ability to bridge solution vision technical architecture and build execution
Strong grasp of security resiliency and compliance requirements in institutional environments
Proven leadership in building and managing high-performing teams stakeholder management and decision-making capabilities
Excellent stakeholder management skills able to operate confidently with:
- Client executives
- Product and Engineering leadership
- Delivery and commercial peers
Self-starter with proven ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams and geographies demonstrating high-quality and high-touch customer engagement throughout all phases of delivery
Languages: Swiss German or German and English required; French and/or Italian a plus
Location: Switzerland with focus on Zurich and Zug

Nice To Haves (Preferred Qualifications):

Experience building or scaling Bitcoin or digital asset platforms in institutional environments
Strong understanding of Bitcoin security models and Layer-2 technologies
Exposure to:
- Core banking platforms
- Custody payments or capital markets systems
- Market infrastructure and vendor ecosystems
Experience standardizing solution platforms for reuse and scale
Background in environments with multiple concurrent client platforms

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Blockstream works with banks custodians asset managers and financial institutions to design and deploy secure production-grade Bitcoin and Layer-2 platforms in regulated environments.

This role together with the Service team ensures that Blockstreams solutions are not only well-architected but buildable extensible and operationally sound across multiple client platforms.

What Youll Be Doing (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 across banking custody payments and digital asset environments.
Lead the execution and lifecycle of client platform builds translating architectural vision into concrete implementations deployments and scaled production that solution platforms preserve the security trust assumptions and operational guarantees of Blockstreams Bitcoin-native and Layer-2 infrastructure
Act as the senior authority on how Blockstream products are composed into end-to-end client platforms
Partner closely with:
- Director Industry Lead Financial Services to translate market needs and solution vision into platform designs
- Director Head of Delivery to ensure solutions are buildable deliverable and operable at scale
Define and maintain solution blueprints and platform patterns covering:
- Core banking and financial system integrations (e.g. Avaloq or equivalent)
- Custody treasury and payments platforms
- Blockstream Bitcoin and Layer-2 components
- External vendors market infrastructure and third-party services
Own platform-level design decisions including:
- API and integration models
- Data flows and event-driven architectures
- Deployment models (on-prem hybrid cloud)
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 and complexity
- Build assumptions and constraints
- Dependencies and sequencing across solutions
Act as a key feedback conduit to Product & Engineering influencing roadmap decisions based on platform realities and reuse opportunities
Support executive briefings architecture reviews and client workshops as the senior platform authority

What We Look for In You (Required Qualifications):

10 years of experience in solution architecture platform design or large-scale system implementation within banking or financial services
Proven success in senior roles such as:
- Head of Solutions
- Principal / Lead Solution Architect
- Platform Architect
- Enterprise Architect
Deep experience designing and building multi-system multi-platform solutions in regulated environments
Strong understanding of how to compose products integrations and services into cohesive client platforms
Hands-on experience with:
- Cloud platforms (preferably AWS)
- DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Containerization and modern deployment models
Strong architectural grounding in:
- API-first and service-oriented architectures
- Event-driven and message-based systems
- Data orchestration and consistency models
Demonstrated ability to bridge solution vision technical architecture and build execution
Strong grasp of security resiliency and compliance requirements in institutional environments
Proven leadership in building and managing high-performing teams stakeholder management and decision-making capabilities
Excellent stakeholder management skills able to operate confidently with:
- Client executives
- Product and Engineering leadership
- Delivery and commercial peers
Self-starter with proven ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams and geographies demonstrating high-quality and high-touch customer engagement throughout all phases of delivery
Languages: Swiss German or German and English required; French and/or Italian a plus
Location: Switzerland with focus on Zurich and Zug

Nice To Haves (Preferred Qualifications):

Experience building or scaling Bitcoin or digital asset platforms in institutional environments
Strong understanding of Bitcoin security models and Layer-2 technologies
Exposure to:
- Core banking platforms
- Custody payments or capital markets systems
- Market infrastructure and vendor ecosystems
Experience standardizing solution platforms for reuse and scale
Background in environments with multiple concurrent client platforms