Head of Architecture
PostFinance Ltd is a FINMA-regulated Swiss financial institution and systemically important bank serving private and business customers with payments, savings, investments, pensions and digital banking solutions.
About PostFinance Ltd
PostFinance Ltd is a private-law Swiss company and wholly owned subsidiary of Swiss Post Ltd. It operates banking and financial-services products, including digital payments, savings, investing, retirement services, e-trading, and currently available cryptocurrency trading, custody and Ethereum staking.
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About the Role
You will shape the future of a whole bank by developing and owning PostFinance's target architecture across business model, processes, data, applications and technology. You will turn corporate strategy into capability, platform and transformation roadmaps, guide strategically important transformation programs, and advise management and stakeholders. You will reduce complexity through standardization and reuse, grow the architecture community, and support investment decisions in portfolio management. In your leadership role as CTO and Head of Architecture, you report directly to the CIO/COO.
Requirements
- Several years of leadership and transformation experience in a complex environment, ideally in finance or services
- Ability to translate strategic goals into actionable roadmaps
- Experience with demanding senior management or executive board stakeholders
- Strong understanding of enterprise architecture, platforms, data and modern technology landscapes
- Systemic thinking
- Strong persuasiveness and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset
Responsibilities
- Develop and own the target architecture for business model, processes, data, applications and technologies
- Translate corporate strategy into capability, platform and transformation roadmaps
- Steer and guide strategically important transformation initiatives
- Advise management and stakeholders on strategic questions across business, technology and organization
- Reduce complexity through standardization and reuse
- Ensure architecture decisions create long-term value and support investments
- Develop the architecture community and foster collaboration and innovation
- Support investment decisions in portfolio management
Benefits
- 6 weeks vacation and option for unpaid leave
- Flexible work models: part-time, job sharing and top sharing
- Modern tech stack
- Training and development offerings, temporary job changes and stages
- Modern workplaces, co-working in Bern and Zurich, home office
- 18 weeks paid maternity leave and 4 weeks paternity leave
- Health prevention offers and ergonomic workplaces
- Free half-fare travelcard or discounted GA, bike, car-sharing and e-car offers
- Staff vouchers up to CHF 500 per year
- Preferential mortgage rates and fee-free accounts, credit cards and depots
- Internal networks and communities