Senior Solutions Architect - Digital Payments & Fintech

About the role

An established fintech organisation specialising in cashless payment solutions and payment processing is looking for a Senior Solutions Architect to join its Enterprise Architecture & IT Solution Design team in Zurich on a hybrid basis. You will work alongside experienced architects, engineering teams, product specialists and partner banks to transform legacy systems into modern, scalable and resilient platforms, defining integration strategies, reference architectures and technical standards.

Key responsibilities

• Drive the modernisation of applications through event-driven architecture, event streaming and event sourcing, microservices, APIs and distributed systems
• Integrate risk management and fraud detection solutions
• Embed security-by-design, Zero Trust principles, threat modelling and continuous compliance, including FINMA and PCI DSS requirements
• Contribute to enterprise architecture governance and documentation

Required profile

• Experience across software engineering and solution architecture, with a proven track record designing and modernising large-scale distributed systems
• C1 German and English; applicants must be based in Switzerland and hold the right to work there
• Strong knowledge of financial services infrastructure and payment processing workflows

Required skills

• DDD, microservices, API design, Kafka and event-driven systems
• Cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes and Zero Trust security (highly valuable)
• Familiarity with EMV or ep2 payment standards is an advantage

The salary is CHF 120,000 to CHF 160,000. Applications are made by sending a CV to the recruiter named in the advert.