Senior IT Architect

Tasks

We are looking for an IT architect with a passion for IT innovations and trends—someone who is visionary, driven, and a team player. The role involves designing a visionary, high-performance, and secure IT landscape. Our bank, with its extensive and migration projects aimed at developing banking solutions, is constantly evolving. Your skills and experience, along with your ability to focus on what matters most and your expertise in key technical areas, make you the ideal candidate for this challenge. Your responsibilities will include:

• Consulting and review of solution designs for applications to ensure a robust and future-proof architecture.
• Further development and implementation of governance mechanisms and documentation standards to ensure compliance with IT standards.
• Consulting on software and cloud architectures, DevOps principles, and strategies for accelerating release cycles.
• Close collaboration with the IT Delivery Organization and other stakeholders to design a business-oriented and sustainable IT architecture.

Requirements

We are looking for a candidate with:

• More than 5 years of experience in IT architecture
• a degree (from a university, ETH, teacher training college, or university of applied sciences) in computer science
• German (business fluent) and English (fluent)
• In-depth knowledge of IT systems, application platforms, security and software architectures, as well as solid technical expertise
• Experience in setting up and using EA frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, etc.) as well as the underlying enterprise repository tools
• Experience in end-to-end IT architecture, cloud technologies, and data architectures
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to convey complex technical information to management, including C-level executives
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

We offer

We offer our employees:

• Benefits for management staff: One additional week of vacation per year for management staff
• Flexible work location / home office: Individual options for home office
• Coaching: Personal coach for managers
• Childcare: up to CHF 300 per month per child to external childcare providers
• Occupational benefits: Very attractive pension fund with above-average employer contribution