Senior System Architect - Finance & Credit

You design and are responsible for the solution architecture for applications in delivery. You ensure that your solution architectures in delivery adhere to architecture standards and are aligned with the target architectures of the domain. You raise and manage architecture debt when there is a misalignment between transition and the target architectures. You initiate architecture decisions, document them as Architecture Decision Records (ADR) and have them approved by the relevant architecture boards. You advise and coach software engineers on the implementation of solution architectures and ensure technical feasibility. In addition to architecture design, you also support later phases of the software lifecycle, such as testing, release and operations.

You are a member of the System Architects team within global IT Architecture. Together with your colleagues from the Domain and Foundation Architecture teams, you are responsible for designing Solution Architectures.

• 3+ years of experience as a senior architect, 5+ years of experience as a lead or senior software engineer

• Responsible for solution architectures: from design and implementation to operation

• Ability to identify options for solution architectures and make trade-off architecture decisions

• Experience with SAP solutions, especially S4/HANA, BW/HANA, BTP

• Good understanding of Financial Accounting, Management Accounting

• Knowledge of IFRS and Swiss GAAP in financial service industries

• Analysing complex business requirements and translating them into technical solutions

• Ability to abstract complex topics and focus on the key issues that need architecture decisions

• Collaboratively develop and coordinate solutions with business and technology stakeholders and architecture colleagues

• Proactive mindset, able to work under pressure and meet deadlines

• Proven experience in solution design and knowledge of current architecture styles, such as event-driven, microservices, modular monolith

• Excellent communication and presentation skills

• Fluency in English (verbal/written), German is beneficial