Solution Engineer

Join the Business Applications Group at Partners Group. We design, optimize, and evolve business application solutions across the firm, working hand-in-hand with business teams to deliver high-quality, well-architected solutions. Our work spans in-house, SaaS, and cloud-based applications operating in a fully cloud-native environment.

We are looking for a Solution Engineer to play an active role in the design, development, integration, and delivery of business application solutions within your delivery group, while also contributing to the broader Business Applications platform — spanning Front Office (Investments & Sales) and Corporate functions. In this role, you will work across a diverse solution landscape that includes custom-built applications, SaaS platforms, and third-party provider solutions. You will be engaged across the full solution lifecycle — from collaborating on solution design and contributing your engineering perspective to architectural decisions, through building software components and integrating external platforms, to supporting deployment and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

Within your Delivery Group

Design, Development, Integration & Delivery

• Actively contribute to solution design in collaboration with solution architects and senior engineers — bringing your engineering perspective to shape designs that are practical, maintainable, and aligned with architectural standards, whether the solution involves custom development, SaaS configuration, or platform integration
• Design, develop, test, and maintain software components and features for business applications within your delivery group, ensuring code quality, performance, and reliability
• Configure, extend, and integrate SaaS solutions and third-party provider platforms into the delivery group's application landscape, ensuring they operate seamlessly within the broader solution architecture

• Participate in the full solution lifecycle:Collaborate on translating business requirements into well-structured solution designs and technical specifications — covering both custom-built and vendor-provided componentsBuild and integrate APIs, services, and data pipelines to connect in-house applications with SaaS platforms and external provider systemsImplement and maintain integrations using vendor APIs, webhooks, connectors, and middleware, ensuring data consistency, reliability, and security across system boundariesWrite and maintain unit, integration, and end-to-end tests to ensure software quality and stability across both custom and integrated solution

• Take ownership of the design and implementation of individual components, features, or integration workflows, making sound technical decisions within the boundaries of the agreed solution architecture
• Contribute to the evolution and improvement of existing applications and integrations by refactoring code, resolving technical debt, optimizing platform configurations, and proposing design improvements
• Support deployment, release, and production operations activities, including troubleshooting and resolving software defects, integration failures, and production incidents

Business Alignment & Collaboration

• Develop a solid understanding of the business domain your delivery group supports, and use that knowledge to make informed design and engineering decisions
• Collaborate with solution architects, product owners, and cross-functional team members to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions, estimate effort, and deliver high-quality solutions
• Engage with third-party vendors and SaaS providers as needed to resolve technical issues, understand platform capabilities, and ensure integrations meet business and technical requirements
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies (e.g., stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives) and contribute to backlog refinement and iterative delivery within Scrum or Kanban frameworks

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Stay current with modern engineering practices, tools, and technologies — including developments in the SaaS and vendor platform ecosystem — and proactively suggest improvements to the team's development workflows, tooling, and integration approaches
• Explore and experiment with emerging technologies and approaches — including AI-assisted development tools — where they can improve code quality, productivity, or solution outcomes

People & Governance

• Support colleagues through code reviews, pair programming, and knowledge sharing within your team
• Follow and promote compliance, security, and operational best practices in your day-to-day engineering work, including when configuring and integrating third-party platforms

Across the Business Applications Group

• Contribute to building up engineering, integration, and design capabilities across the wider Business Applications Platform by sharing knowledge, reusable components, integration patterns, and lessons learned from your delivery group
• Adopt and promote platform-wide engineering standards, shared design patterns, and common integration approaches to ensure consistency and reuse across delivery groups
• Contribute to understanding and applying relevant security, compliance, and regulatory requirements in the software you design, build, and integrate
• Collaborate effectively with geographically distributed teams across the globe, fostering alignment and knowledge sharing across locations and time zones

What we expect

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related discipline
• At least 3–5 years of professional experience in software engineering or a similar role
• Hands-on experience both designing and developing software solutions in enterprise or team-based environments, with a strong focus on code quality, sound design decisions, and collaboration
• Strong proficiency with Python and/or Java
• Solid understanding of relational databases and SQL; exposure to modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks) is a plus
• Experience designing, building, and consuming APIs, including RESTful services; familiarity with OpenAPI specifications, event-driven architectures, and modern integration patterns is a plus
• Practical experience integrating SaaS solutions and third-party platforms into enterprise application landscapes — including working with vendor APIs, webhooks, connectors, and middleware — is a strong plus
• Practical experience working with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including deploying and operating applications in cloud-native environments
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, version control systems, and modern DevOps practices
• Understanding of security-by-design principles and secure coding practices; awareness of how data protection and compliance considerations apply to software design, development, and third-party integrations
• Comfortable communicating with both technical and non-technical team members, including participating in design reviews, demos, and planning sessions
• Proven ability to work effectively within cross-functional teams and coordinate with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders
• Comfortable working with geographically distributed teams across multiple time zones
• Proactive, curious mindset with a drive to learn, improve, and contribute to the team's success
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English

Good To Have

• Track record of delivering solutions end-to-end — from contributing to solution design and implementation through testing, deployment, and production support — across both custom-developed applications and integrated SaaS or third-party platforms
• Openness to exploring and adopting AI-assisted software engineering tools and practices where they can improve code quality and delivery efficiency
• Experience with troubleshooting and resolving software defects, integration failures, and production incidents, including participation in root-cause analysis across both in-house and third-party systems
• Familiarity with observability practices for distributed systems — including structured logging, monitoring, and alerting using modern tooling (e.g., OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) Ability to contribute meaningfully to solution design discussions — covering both custom development and platform integration scenarios — articulate trade-offs, and document design decisions clearly
• Experience producing or contributing to technical design documents, integration specifications, diagrams, and documentation
• Experience working in or building solutions for financial services