Director, Platform and Integration Lead

About the role

Blockstream is seeking a senior leader to define and deliver client platform architectures across banking systems, enterprise infrastructure, and Blockstream technologies. The role bridges solution strategy and technical delivery, ensuring scalable, production‑ready implementations.

Key responsibilities

• Lead architecture and integration of multi‑system client platforms, connecting banking, enterprise, and Blockstream services.
• Define and own platform integration strategy, including API architecture, data flows, event‑driven messaging and cross‑platform interoperability.
• Guide engineering teams on DevOps, CI/CD, system integration, testing, scalability, reliability and performance.
• Act as senior authority for integration decisions, ensuring alignment between solution design and technical delivery.

Required profile

• 10+ years in platform architecture, enterprise integration or large‑scale system implementation.
• Proven experience delivering complex multi‑system platforms in banking, fintech or enterprise environments.
• Strong ability to translate high‑level solution architectures into executable platform designs.
• Fluent in German (or Swiss German) and English; additional French or Italian is a plus.

Required skills

• API‑first architecture
• Microservices and event‑driven systems
• Enterprise data platforms and data integration
• Cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)