Director of Solutions

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 Blockstream’s solutions are not only well-architected, but buildable, extensible, and operationally sound across multiple client platforms.

What You’ll 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 platforms.Ensure that solution platforms preserve the security, trust assumptions, and operational guarantees of Blockstream’s 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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