Platform Owner (Full-Time) (f/m/d)

Job description

Julius Baer is seeking a forward-thinking Platform Owner to shape the future of the company’s technology platform. In this key leadership role, you will define and drive the technical vision, roadmap, and operational excellence of the global data platform to enable data-driven decision-making and reporting across the entire bank.

Your challenge

- Define and maintain the end-to-end technical vision, the multi-year roadmap, and the lifecycle strategy for the global data platform - Gather requirements and establish and maintain relationships with current and potential users to ensure that the technical vision and roadmap enable their current and future business ambitions - Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security, incorporating non-functional requirements (NFRs), observability, automation, and “resilience-by-design” principles - Leading the prioritization and delivery of platform features and capabilities, collaborating with the Product Manager, Scrum Masters, development teams, system architects, and the Release Train Engineer to coordinate work across Agile teams - Taking responsibility for the platform backlog, ensuring that initiatives, features, and user stories are clear, prioritizing delivery, and balancing trade-offs between innovation, technical debt reduction, and operational stability - Serving as the primary technical point of contact for incidents, issues, audits, and risk findings related to the platform - Define and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs; use metrics and OKRs to measure platform health, usage, team performance, and business value - Drive standardization, reuse, and simplification across the platform ecosystem to reduce complexity, improve interoperability, and accelerate time to market - Coaching and leading technical leads and development teams, promoting best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and incident response - Designing the target operating model for platform operations—including staffing, governance, RAC1 definitions, and handover processes—to support sustainable growth and efficient run-time models - Representing the platform in executive forums and governance bodies, and communicating progress, risks, investments, and strategic decisions to stakeholders in technology and business units

Your profile

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field - At least 10 years of experience in technology roles at large, regulated companies—preferably in financial services - Proven experience in owning, leading, or scaling large data platforms—preferably big data technology - Track record of defining and delivering technical platform visions and roadmaps in enterprise technology - Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong drive to drive transformational change through technical solutions - Exceptional technical leadership and systems thinking, able to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability - Strong communication skills at all levels, with the ability to summarize complex issues for management while also discussing them in detail with technical teams - Expertise in software lifecycle governance and technical