Senior Solutions Architect (Fort Lauderdale)

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Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Avaloq's R&D Lab is building a SaaS, API-first, composable banking platform for enterprise wealth managers and private banks. As Senior Solutions Architect, you will be the technical bridge between that platform and the institutions we serve, combining deep investment and portfolio domain knowledge with hands-on technical skill. 

This is amongst the first technical roles we are hiring for our Fort Lauderdale site. You will work closely with our Product, Engineering, and Sales teams, and support client implementation teams through their integration journey. 

The first three to six months:

Some of what you can expect early on: 

• Building depth in our platform, its data model, and its integration surface 
• Getting to know our clients, their systems, and how their data reaches us 
• Working with Sales on live opportunities, joining client conversations and technical discovery as you build context 
• Taking on increasing responsibility as you build context, always in alignment with the Zurich team 

What you will do:

• Architect and support proof-of-concept implementations, translating client requirements into integration designs 
• Run technical discovery with prospective clients to understand their portfolio, performance, and data requirements, and partner with Sales to address technical questions 
• Provide hands-on technical support to client implementation teams, troubleshooting integration issues and advising on API and MCP usage 
• Shape the structure and standards for our technical documentation, covering implementation guides, API references, data models, and integration patterns, and work with the team to keep it accurate and current 
• Design reference architectures, sample code, and integration accelerators that reduce time to value for client onboarding 
• Translate domain models such as positions, transactions, performance, and fees into clear integration guidance for client engineering teams 
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to channel client feedback and influence roadmap priorities 
• Stay current on platform capabilities, releases, and roadmap so you can advise clients on what is coming 
• Contribute to the knowledge base and self-service resources that help clients move faster on their own 
• Build and maintain detailed knowledge of Avaloq and other core banking systems that feed data into our platform 

Our stack:

Serverless-first on AWS: Lambda, DynamoDB, SQS, S3, and Bedrock. Terraform and OpenTofu for infrastructure, GitHub Actions for CI/CD. Clients integrate with us over our APIs and through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Product teams work in Rust, TypeScript, Python, Vue, and Angular. We do not run containers. 

Qualifications

• 10+ years in financial services technology, with strong domain expertise across investment and trading platforms, portfolio data, performance calculation, fee mechanics, and rebalancing 
• Proven architecture experience: data architecture, solution design, and translating complex domain models into efficient implementations 
• Experience with event-driven, API-first architectures and modern integration patterns 
• Solid programming and scripting ability for building demos, accelerators, and integration examples. We are language-agnostic; Rust, TypeScript, or Python all work here 
• A track record of producing clear technical material for varied audiences, from client engineers to executives 
• Exceptional communication skills: present and demo to technical and executive audiences, and bridge business, product, and engineering 
• Experience supporting enterprise clients through complex implementations, ideally in banking or wealth management 

It would be a real bonus if you have: 

• Hands-on experience with AWS or another major cloud platform 
• Experience with core banking systems, whether Avaloq or a comparable platform 
• Experience defining documentation standards or information architecture for a technical product 
• Experience with AI-assisted engineering and documentation tools 
• Familiarity with GIPS, performance attribution methodologies, or regulatory reporting in wealth management 

Additional Information

This role will require regular travel to Switzerland as well as regular travel to client site as the role grows

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.