Lead Engineer

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

• Designing from the vision down to the application and infrastructure architecture level - supporting the Solution Architecture and Solution Engineering to Infrastructure Team.
• Design and implement robust data assets, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance.
• Being the principal SME and owning the roadmap for one of our foundational technologies such as Databases, Finance Systems, or API Integrations.
• Partnering with Finance teams and other technology teams to contribute to setting technical strategy and roadmaps. Collaboration and initiative are the key.
• Providing direction to technical leads on projects in work and reviewing designs.
• Initiating and leading ‘What if', ‘What next' and ‘Why not' planning.
• Mentor and guide development teams.
• Research current and emerging technologies and be an ambassador for new technologies.
• Initiation of Proof-of-Concept projects and drive innovative changes.
• Customer-facing solution collaboration with our client reporting teams.
• Manage, track, evaluate technical capability across Value Chain to facilitate the selection and alignment of a technical solution following enterprise guardrails. Execute POCs where applicable.
• Ensure seamless interaction between data components and front-end applications. 

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field; Advanced degree or relevant certifications in data architecture, machine learning, or related areas is highly desirable.
• 8+ years of experience (Software Engineering preferred)
• 2+ years of experience as Architect
• Experience creating end to end Data Flow Diagrams.
• Strong understanding of data architecture principles, including data modelling, ETL processes, and data warehousing.
• Experience with Machine Learning framework and tools with track record of successful model development and deployment.
• Experience of designing end to end Chat bots is highly preferred.
• Proven ability to work in a team environment, creating partnerships across multiple levels.
• Demonstrated drive for results, with appropriate attention to details.
• Experience of managing databases, Metadata, Taxonomies.
• Proven experience in working on Microsoft/Oracle Database.
• Prior experience with Fabric/Snowflake/Databricks is a huge plus.
• Prior experience of working on Pyspark – Preferred.
• Strong business acumen (of whichever industry the candidate belongs)
• Ability to multi-task and be proactive & independent in a dynamic environment.
• Highly motivated individual with excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Strategic and Critical approach towards solving problems and decision making.
• Results-oriented; proven ability to prioritize, drive and achieve results.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.