Director Platform and Integration Lead

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.

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

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