Your expertise and dedication make a difference. At Swiss Himmel, we drive growth for our clients’ businesses and accelerate digital transformation. For the same reason, we are looking for a Senior Cloud Solution Architect (Preferred AZURE) with DevOps CI/CD expert role to join us in Zurich.
About The Role:
- This is an exciting opportunity for someone interested in working in an international environment and interacting with various stakeholders.
- You’ll be joining the organization in its journey to transform its IT architecture, pushing forward with innovative solutions in various technologies.
- You will work with the latest technologies and share your technical expertise in a collaborative, agile, and forward-thinking team environment.
Responsibilities:
Investment Banking FXMM (Forex, Money-Market) Domain:
- Familiar working with applications in the bank’s FOREX, CASH FLOW, and MM (Money Market) areas supporting post-trade processing, Cash payments, Settlements, Client confirmations (via SWIFT) as well as Investment banking portfolio Management lines of business.
- Good understanding of control, and regulatory requirements and optimize the Precious Metals (Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, Rh) and Cash flows, MM Loans, Deposits, BankNotes, CHILE fundings, and inter-group engagements across the bank and its legal entities.
- Define and execute transformation strategy with key stakeholders and the business team.
- Coordinate and consult with different teams such as business analysts, change management, and IT to execute programs effectively.
- Coordinate with Business Stakeholders and Requirement Engineers to understand requirements and define the architectural model and high-level solution design.
- Implementation of required software components according to design specifications.
Digital and Data Engineering:
- You will create innovative digital and data engineering solutions and familiar with using distributed processing engine frameworks.
- Analyze and understand business and technical stories, write code, implement automated tests, contribute to release and iteration planning, and develop the working practices of the team.
- Capture detailed requirements based on user interviews and system/data analysis and collaborate to refine user requirements through test-driven development (TDD).
- Complete the unit testing of components for integration into larger subsystems.
- Support the business in resolving high-priority defects and deploying fixes to production systems.
- Perform code reviews and provide guidance/mentorship to junior developers.
- Adopt DevOps principles with CI & CD implementation, Cloud Integration, and Scaling.
- Be part of an Agile Team involving cycle-based development and implement a LEAN delivery approach.
Required Skills and Expertise:
- Extensive Knowledge & working experience in the bank’s forex and money market area supporting post-trade processing, Cash payments, settlements, client confirmations as well as Investment banking portfolio Management lines of business.
- Experience working with an understanding of control and optimizing the Precious Metals (Au, Ag, Pt, Pd, Rh) and Cash flows, MM Loans, Deposits, BankNotes, CHILE fundings, and inter-group engagements across the bank and its legal entities.
- Deep Banking & financial service expertise with an intimate working knowledge of financial service customers’ specific application requirements, KPIs (key performance indicators), and quality assurance goals.
- 10+ years of professional experience in financial services, driving design strategies, standardizing development tools, automation frameworks, and test processes to increase cost savings.
- 10+ years of Technical Expertise including Core Java, J2EE, REST API, Microservices, Spring framework, Spring boot, relational DBs, Hibernate, JPA, EJB.
- Deep expertise in distributed processing frameworks/engines like Murex, TICS, CSE (Cash Settlement Engine), DBO (Distributed Back-Office).
- You have worked with at least one Object Oriented language (Java preferred), or Scala, Python, and in any of the following legacy programming languages (GEMSTONE, SMALLTALK, COBALT)
- Ability to write complex SQLs for Data Base Validations and fine-tune complex queries.
- Experience in Performance Optimization Techniques used in Spark.
- Experience in using and debugging issues in reporting tools like BOXI, DWH Reporting, QlikView.
- Experience in Behavior-driven development (BDD) and Test-driven development (TDD) frameworks.
- Hands-on experience delivering automation with a focus on continuous integration/continuous deployment. (Git, Jenkins)
- Provisioning of Automated Scripts in Docker Containers using OpenShift.
- Skilled in designing high-performance and high-availability applications, stepping into and turning around failing high-risk projects, defining design strategies and project delivery plans, and managing system design and execution.
- Hands-on development experience, familiar with a wide range of technologies, and managing and/or working directly with industry leading and open-source languages and frameworks (e.g. Spark, Python, Scala).
- Proven experience with Agile methodologies and Exposure to tools like JIRA, Confluence, Odyssey.
- Good communication skills on all levels and fluency in English.
- 100% flexibility to work in different cities in Switzerland.
- Proven experience in working with global teams.
- Co-Ordination expertise with Onshore Offshore model.
We offer:
- A work culture focused on innovation and creating lasting value for our clients and employees.
- Ongoing learning and training opportunities to help you acquire new skills or deepen existing expertise.
- A flat, non-hierarchical structure that will enable you to work directly with senior partners and clients.
- A diverse, inclusive, meritocratic culture.