IT Sector Lead for Global Shared Services 100% (f/m/d)

Your challenge

• Actively promote Julius Baer’s core values—trust, ambition, collaboration, and courage—as well as its purpose, to ensure appropriate, ethical, and compliant behavior and to serve as a role model
• Contribute to the IT department’s technology strategy across all areas and ensure that it aligns with the bank’s strategic direction and governance. This includes, in particular, advancing the technical transformation roadmap to evolve current platforms toward a global TOM, and aligning architecture, processes, platform lifecycle, and workforce allocation
• Lead 3 teams to proactively manage and continuously improve technical platforms such as RPA (robotics), business process management, content management, and business rules across various banking domains, as well as to deliver and operate business applications that run on these platforms
• Establish technical delivery teams at various locations; develop a global engineering culture and a model for cross-location collaboration to support a modern, innovative, and efficient platform strategy
• Serve as a key technology partner for architecture and a strategic partner for our business partners to ensure consistent design decisions and platform development
• Budgeting and cost management for operations, including vendor and license management, as well as leveraging nearshoring opportunities and striving for cost efficiency
• Ensure that high-quality technical deliverables are produced through a strong engineering culture and modern development practices to successfully complete projects and small IT assignments
• Ensure effective risk management and resolution of architectural or governance issues. Identify and address architectural debt, risk mitigation measures, vulnerabilities, penetration test results, and other issues

Your profile

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
• Demonstrable ability and experience in leadership roles in the IT sector, including the effective management of staff—such as performance management and professional development—as well as the cultivation of leadership talent
• A visionary mindset for designing and implementing strategic initiatives that align with organizational goals
• Proven technical leadership in platform engineering, platform modernization, or target operations
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-oriented strategies
• Ability to work in an agile manner and adapt to new situations; ability to motivate others and collaborate across teams and cultures

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