Company Description

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!

Job Overview

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.

Your Tasks

The team, Three squads (Application Platform, Core Infrastructure, Control Plane). You set the direction, run the hiring, grow engineers, and are accountable for the team's 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.

Your Profile

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 team's 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.
You’re 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.
You’re 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.
You’re a natural problem solver and have strong analytical skills.
You’re a self learner and have an inquisitive mind.

Nice To Have

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).

Our Offer

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

Your Application

This role sounds like you? Then we look forward to receiving your application. Please make sure to also upload your CV, a cover letter is not compulsory. If you have any futher questions just drop us an email! Your contact person is stefanie.blasi@solactive.com. You want to know more about life at Solactive? Visit Work@ Solactive    Please Note No artificial intelligence (AI) is used in the screening, assessment, or selection of candidates for this position. Solactive does not charge candidates any fees at any stage of the recruitment process and will never request payment for CV enhancement, interviews, training, equipment, or other recruitment-related services. Please be cautious of fake profiles or fraudulent messages claiming to represent Solactive. If you are unsure whether a communication is legitimate, contact us at careers@solactive.com. Solactive does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruitment agencies. Any cooperation request must be addressed directly to People & Culture. Costs related to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles will not be covered by Solactive.

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