Senior System Architect - Finance & Credit

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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.As a System Architect, you build bridges to Software Engineering and ensure that software solutions follow the target architecture.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• 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

YOUR PROFILE

• 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 

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