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Whether you need to migrate legacy systems to AWS, design complex microservices architectures, or integrate enterprise SAP S/4HANA environments, we connect you with vetted, available freelance professionals matched precisely to your technical stack.

About the role

Bridging Business Strategy and Technical Execution

A freelance solution architect translates complex business requirements into scalable, secure, and resilient technology systems. Operating at the intersection of business strategy and engineering, these professionals define the overall structure of a software solution. They choose the right technologies, establish architectural standards, and ensure that the final product aligns perfectly with the organizational goals and existing IT infrastructure.

Core Deliverables in Enterprise Projects

Freelance architects provide concrete blueprints and leadership throughout the project lifecycle to minimize technical debt and ensure smooth deployment. Typical outcomes include:

  • Detailed architectural blueprints and system design documentation
  • Evaluation and selection matrices for software vendors and cloud providers
  • Proofs of concept and prototypes for high-risk technical components
  • Migration roadmaps for transitioning legacy infrastructure to modern cloud setups
  • Security, compliance, and disaster recovery frameworks

Navigating Swiss Compliance and Integration Challenges

In Switzerland, technology projects often operate under strict regulatory frameworks, such as the revised Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection and specific FINMA guidelines for the financial sector. Freelancers working in this region must possess a deep understanding of local compliance standards, data residency requirements, and high security baselines. Additionally, navigating Swiss enterprise environments often requires seamless collaboration across multilingual teams and integration with legacy on-premise systems common in the Swiss banking, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing industries.

When to Bring in a Freelance Architect

Companies typically engage external architectural expertise when launching major transformation initiatives, migrating to cloud environments, or integrating new platforms like SAP S/4HANA. A freelance specialist brings unbiased, objective views unencumbered by internal politics, allowing them to make architectural decisions purely based on technical merit and efficiency. This external perspective is particularly valuable during the initial phases of large-scale projects, where setting the correct technical direction prevents costly realignment efforts later.

Meet FRATCH Solution Architects

Nikita Verkhoshintcev

Salesforce Technical Architect

Meilen

Last position:

Salesforce Technical Architect at Fennia

  • Designed and engineered a shared web component library for a customer portal serving 360,000+ private users and integrated the LWC framework with Storybook via Rollup.
  • Resolved WCAG AA compliance issues to support strict accessibility requirements.
  • Integrated legacy systems into a new portal via REST API to support existing products.
Nikita Verkhoshintcev

Lenka Pytelkova

Enterprise HR Project Manager | Workday Solution Architect

Zürich

Last position:

Workday Technical Architect at Swisscom

(Project Assignment via consulting company HighPerfPeople)

  • Lead the Workday Optimization Board, defining and presenting the Workday enhancement roadmap; drive prioritization based on stakeholder input, system analysis, and identified capability gaps.
  • Challenge business requirements and proposed solutions to ensure alignment with long-term architecture principles, platform strategy and operational sustainability.
  • Own the complete lifecycle of Workday enhancements from business discovery and solution design through implementation governance, testing strategy, deployment and stabilization.
  • Act as functional/technical lead for key product areas including Peakon, Workday Learning, and Talent/Performance processes (e.g., year-end cycle, goal setting).
  • Define and implement Workday branding and communication standards (templates, notification design, messaging structure) to improve consistency and employee experience.
  • Build and enhance manager- and HR-facing tools (reports, dashboards, guidance/Journeys, process support assets) to reduce manual effort and improve decision-making.
  • Translate complex system behavior, security/privacy constraints, and process implications into clear options for business stakeholders and leadership.
  • Drive cross-functional collaboration with HR process owners, IT/security, and vendors to resolve issues and enable scalable solutions.
  • Strong focus on adoption: ensure changes are usable, understandable, and actionable for employees, managers, and HR teams.
Lenka Pytelkova

Robin Ochsner

Co-Founder & AI Solutions Architect

Winterthur

Last position:

Co-Founder & AI Solutions Architect at airdys

  • Product strategy, architecture, and technical co-direction
  • AI workshops, client onboarding and go-to-market activities
  • Design and implementation of AI architectures (LLMs, RAG, MCP, agents, voice, automation)
  • Hands-on development of prototypes and production-ready AI integrations
  • Consulting clients on AI adoption, workflows, and integration into existing infrastructure
  • Collaboration with co-founders on strategic direction
  • Collaboration in sales and customer acquisition

Tools and Technologies: OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure, Vercel AI SDK, RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), MCP (Model Context Protocol), FastAgent, VAPI, n8n, make.com, LibreChat, PostgreSQL, OpenAPI, Next.js, Vercel, Docker

Robin Ochsner

Max Rosari

ICT Solution Architect Senior

Bern

Last position:

ICT Solution Architect Senior at ewb, Energy, Water

  • Questioning and discussion of technical requirements and coordination with the team
  • Contributing to objectives of the Digital Transformation Services unit and implementation of objectives
  • Analyzing, specifying, updating and delivering architecture models to implement digital solutions in line with business, data infrastructure and requirements
  • Selecting suitable technical options for application design considering interoperability, reversibility, scalability, usability, accessibility and security and optimizing cost/quality ratio
  • Creating and maintaining concept documents, architecture models and other technical documentation
  • Reviewing services to be provided and other documents for solution development
  • Collaborating with IT enterprise architect, business analyst, project manager, developers, testers and process owner in design and documentation of technical specifications for new and further developments
  • Communicating and supporting concepts to relevant stakeholders
  • Participating in enterprise architecture activities and ensuring compliance with principles, standards and guidelines
  • Monitoring compliance with defined design at application, solution and enterprise level
  • Developing and testing existing and new solutions as required
  • Supporting and guiding development teams in implementation of new projects or maintenance of existing products, assuming product manager role if required
  • Establishing and ensuring best practice in implementation, documentation, testing and packaging for distribution
  • Contributing to handling of reported incidents and requests assigned to third level support and follow-up actions as required
Max Rosari

Elias Vasiliadi

Cloud Architect & Security Advisor

Fribourg

Last position:

Cloud Architect & Security Advisor at BaFin

  • Designing hybrid cloud architectures (on-prem + cloud)
  • Implementing cloud governance structures according to NIS2, BSI, ESCB/SMM
  • Developing policies for cloud security & access control
  • Target designs, management decision frameworks, internal audits & cloud integration
Elias Vasiliadi

Matthias Isler

Fractional CTO (Principal Engineer / Technical Architect)

Zürich

Last position:

Fractional CTO (Principal Engineer / Technical Architect)

  • Designed large-scale systems and APIs serving thousands of concurrent users.
  • Refactored a 650k-LOC monolith and led full AWS migration for stable performance.
  • Introduced SLO-based observability, improving reliability and recovery flow.
  • Optimised cloud and databases, achieving significant cost and latency reduction.
  • Delivered LLM, RAG, and document-automation pipelines adopted in production.
Matthias Isler

Christoph Wagner

System Architect / System Engineer / Programmer

Hofstetten-Flüh

Last position:

System Architect / System Engineer / Programmer at Deutsche Vermögensberatung (DVAG)

  • Create requirements for the modularization of the promotion forecast.
  • Set up and expand the various competitions for 2024.
  • Customize and test the CICS dialog.
  • Create various reports for the department using SQL.
  • Implement and test new requirements in batch processes with IWS.
  • Update documentation for the new requirements.
  • Provide on-call support for daily and monthly production.
  • Technologies used: SCRUM, Jira, Confluence, Windows 11, Unix, Enterprise Developer, z/OS, GIT, Mineral, Moped, IWS/TWS, JES, COBOL, CICS, DB2, SQL, Rocket, FortiClient, Citrix.
Christoph Wagner

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Solution Architects statistics

Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.

Experience

24 years

Position duration

2.8 years

Positions per freelancer

13

Top business areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Top industries

Banking and Finance, Information Technology, Professional Services

Certification focus areas

Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management

Bachelor's degree or higher

80%

Master's degree or higher

60%

Certifications per freelancer

4

Most common languages

German, English, French

Speak two or more languages

100%

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Daily rate avg. 901 €

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Median rate 940 €

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Frequently Asked Questions

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A solution architect designs the technical framework of a specific software system to solve a defined business problem. They select the appropriate tech stack, design integration points, and define how different applications, databases, and APIs interact with each other. They act as the vital bridge between business stakeholders and development teams to ensure technical execution matches strategic goals.

While an enterprise architect focuses on the overall IT landscape, standards, and governance across the entire organization, a solution architect focuses on designing the specific system or application that solves a particular project need. The former looks at the long-term business-IT alignment, whereas the latter delivers concrete, hands-on designs for immediate implementation.

Hiring a freelance system architect allows companies to scale up specialized expertise for high-impact phases like system design and cloud migration without long-term overhead. Freelance specialists bring diverse cross-industry experience and objective insights to Swiss enterprises, making them ideal for leading complex digital transformations where internal teams may lack specific architectural experience.

While much of the technical design and modeling can be completed remotely, a software architect often benefits from initial on-site workshops in Switzerland to understand the existing IT infrastructure and meet key stakeholders. A hybrid model is highly effective, allowing the expert to conduct critical discovery phases on-site in hubs like Zurich or Geneva and execute the detailed architectural modeling remotely.

A top-tier cloud solution architect must demonstrate mastery in modern cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform, alongside expertise in microservices and containerization. Additionally, strong skills in API design, database modeling, and integrating legacy systems are crucial for ensuring the new architecture functions seamlessly within your current ecosystem.

The quality of an experienced IT architect is reflected in their portfolio of successfully delivered systems, the clarity of their technical documentation, and their ability to explain complex concepts to non-technical stakeholders. You can also judge their caliber by asking how they handle technical debt, manage trade-offs between speed and scalability, and ensure compliance with security standards.

For projects in Switzerland, a data solution architect must design systems that comply with strict regulatory frameworks such as the Swiss FADP and FINMA circulars for financial institutions. This involves architecting secure data-at-rest and data-in-transit pipelines, ensuring local data residency, and implementing robust access management controls to protect sensitive corporate and customer data.

You should engage a technical architect during the early discovery and planning phases, well before coding begins. Getting them involved early ensures that the foundational technology decisions, scalability plans, and security protocols are properly defined, preventing expensive refactoring and delays during the development and deployment stages.

The average hourly rate for Solution Architects in Switzerland is 113 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 901 € based on an 8-hour working day.

Of the freelancers working as Solution Architects in Switzerland, 80% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 60% hold at least a Master's degree.

On average, freelancers working as Solution Architects in Switzerland have 24 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.8 years.

The most common languages among freelancers working as Solution Architects in Switzerland are German (100%), English (100%), and French (71%).

The most common industries among freelancers working as Solution Architects in Switzerland are Banking and Finance (100%), Information Technology (100%), and Professional Services (57%).

The most common business areas among freelancers working as Solution Architects in Switzerland are Information Technology (100%), Product Development (71%), and Project Management (71%).

FRATCH Solution Architects main locations

Our freelancers and interim experts are at home across the DACH region — available on-site in the major business hubs or fully remote. Choose a location to discover matched specialists, local market insights and up-to-date availability.

Zurich Geneva Basel Bern

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