Platform Owner 100% (f/m/d)

AtJulius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Define and maintain the end-to-end technical vision, multi-year roadmap, andlifecycle strategy for the global data platform

• Gathering requirements and maintaining relationships with current and potentialconsumer base. Ensuring the technical vision and roadmap enables their current andfuture business ambitions

• Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security, embedding non-functional requirements (NFRs), observability, automation, and resilience-by-designprinciples

• Lead the prioritisation and delivery of platform features and capabilities, collaboratingwith Product Manager, Scrum Masters, Development Teams, System Architect, andRelease Train Engineer to coordinate work across Agile teams

• Own the platform backlog, ensuring clear initiatives, features, and user stories.Prioritise the delivery, balancing trade-offs between innovation, tech debt reduction,and operational stability

• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for incidents, problems, audits, andrisk findings related to the platform

• Establish and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs; leverage metrics and OKRs tomeasure platform health, usage, team performance, and business value delivered

• Drive standardisation, reuse, and simplification across the platform ecosystem toreduce complexity, improve interoperability, and accelerate time-to-market

• Coach and guide Technical Leads, and development teams, fostering best practicesin coding, testing, deployment, and incident response

• Shape the target operating model for platform operations—including staffing,governance, RACI definitions, and handover processes—supporting sustainablegrowth and efficient run-models

• Represent the platform in executive forums and governance bodies, articulatingprogress, risks, investments, and strategic decisions to stakeholders acrosstechnology and business areas

YOUR PROFILE

• Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a relatedfield

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in technology roles within large, regulatedenterprises—preferably in financial services

• Proven experience owning, leading or scaling large-scale data platforms – preferablybig data technology

• Track record with defining and delivering technical platform visions and roadmaps inenterprise environments

• Hands-on exposure to modern data technologies such as Apache Spark / Iceberg,Trino, Kafka, Kubernetes, Snowflake/Databricks, Hadoop ecosystems, or equivalent

• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines

• Track record in managing cross-functional initiatives involving multiple technicalteams, vendors, and domains—demonstrating influence without direct authority

• Familiarity with risk and compliance frameworks applicable to Swiss financialinstitutions and experience addressing audit points or IT risk items

• Exceptional technical leadership and systems thinking, able to balance short-termdelivery with long-term platform sustainability

• Strong communication skills on all levels. Ability to summarise complex issues formanagement, while also being able to discuss on a detail level with technical teams

• Expertise in software lifecycle governance, technical debt management, vulnerabilityremediation, and release approval processes

• Skilled in road-mapping, backlog refinement, dependency management, andtranslating business capabilities into actionable technical initiatives

• People person or comfortable with significant business / consumer interaction

• Solid understanding of non-functional requirements—performance, availability,recoverability, monitoring, logging, and security-by-default

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to make data-informed decisions using KPIs,telemetry, and feedback loops

• Fluent in English, both written and verbal; German language skills are a advantage

• Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, multinational environment with competingpriorities

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