Team Lead Platform Infrastructure (mfd)

Since its creation in 2007 in the financial city of Frankfurt am Main Solactive AG has grown to one of the key players in the indexing space. The German multi-asset index provider focusses on tailor-made indices offering to its clients a faster service with greater flexibility and at a reasonable cost. Solactive AG and its subsidiaries have become one of the fastest growing index providers over the past few years and support the leading investment banks and asset managers across the globe. We have gained global recognition for our role in the Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) industry where we rank among the top providers worldwide for underlying indices. We also excel in diverse areas such as Structured Products and investment mandates showcasing the wide range of our capabilities. The impact and value we bring to the market is palpable but also in the reputation we have proudly built by being close to our customers solidifying Solactive AG as a trusted and reliable ally in the ever-evolving global financial landscape!

We run our own infrastructure. Our platform spans multiple on-premises datacenters plus public cloud and it carries index calculation and market data workloads where correctness and latency are not negotiable. We are looking for a Team Head to lead the group that owns our Platform Infrastructure end to end from the network fabric and storage layer up to the control plane and the developer-facing platform our product teams build on.
This is a leadership role with deep technical grounding. You will not be writing production code every day but you will be the person the team trusts to have an opinion on a Ceph placement group a BGP convergence window or a Kubernetes admission policy.

• The team Three squads (Application Platform Core Infrastructure Control Plane). You set the direction run the hiring grow engineers and are accountable for the teams delivery and health.
• The platform roadmap Translate business- and engineering strategy into a multi-quarter infrastructure plan and defend the trade-offs to leadership and to the team.
• Reliability Own SLOs incident response on-call sustainability and the blameless post-incident process. Reduce toil structurally not heroically.
• Datacenter strategy Drive consolidation of our on-prem footprint the buildout of new sites and the boundary between what we run ourselves and what we buy.
• Cost and capacity Own the infrastructure budget capacity planning and hardware lifecycle.
• Cross-team interface Be the partner for product engineering security and IT. Make the platform something teams choose to use not something they route around.
• A security-focused mindset and a high sense of taking ownership and responsibility.
• Excitement to thrive in an energetic fast paced and dynamic environment.
• Tech stack: Kubernetes distributed storage (Ceph or equivalent) Linux systems networking (BGP/EVPN firewalls L4/L7 load balancing) messaging (Kafka RabbitMQ) relational databases (MariaDB/Postgres) GitOps (ArgoCD) GCP.

• 8 years in infrastructure SRE or platform engineering including significant experience running production on-premises (not cloud-only).
• Demonstrated leadership: line management of engineers or tech-lead-plus scope with real accountability for a teams output. Formal management experience is welcome; a strong senior/staff engineer ready to step into their first Team Head role is equally welcome.
• You have a collaborative approach to how you work and ensure all groups are communicating with an understanding of your process and approach.
• Youre highly organised and have the ability to work on intricate details without losing the big picture.
• Fluency in the operational disciplines: observability capacity planning change management incident command.
• Excellent written communication in English. You can write a design doc a RFC and a post-incident review that people actually read.
• Youre resourceful and solutions focused making practical considerations for all groups involved.
• Outcome-driven: you track reliability cost efficiency and engineering velocity as business metrics not just technical ones.
• Youre a natural problem solver and have strong analytical skills.
• Youre a self learner and have an inquisitive mind.

• Knowledge about financial services market data or another low-latency high correctness industry.
• German (we work in English; German is useful but not required).
• Experience in regulated or high-compliance industries (NIS2 ISO27001 SOC2 GDPR data sovereignty ITIL).

• Global Team: Join our motivated international team at Solactive
• FinTech Excellence: Experience FinTech excellence at Solactive
• Modern Culture: Enjoy our modern flat hierarchy and startup-like culture
• Responsibility & Connections: Take over responsibility from day one and build relationships in- and outside the company
• Vacation: Enjoy 30 annual vacation days plus extra time off for Christmas Eve and New Year
• Competitive Compensation: Receive a competitive compensation package
• Special Benefits: Job ticket access to Corporate Benefits modern office space with ergonomic set-up employee lounge and free beverages and fruits
• Community & Networking: Engage in our various networking events
• Professional Development: Grow both personally and professionally through our diverse training offers
• Flexibility: Embrace a flexible work culture with the freedom to choose y our work hours including a hybrid work model all within a diverse and dynamic environment