System Architect

At Julius 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.

The primary objective of the System Architect is to work with the IT Asia Architecture team to provide architecture, design, and technical guidelines to enable the bank’s digital transformation. Candidates need to have a strong grasp of private banking/wealth management processes especially in the Finance and Credit domains.

Your Challenge

General

• Define IT Asia’s architecture roadmap and landscape in line with the business strategy of the bank
• Lead the system architecture areas in the initiatives by providing architecture runways, solution blueprints, architecture NFRs & trade-offs
• Support the architecture governance to manage architecture debts, architecture standards and guidelines
• Manage and drive proof of concepts on new technologies and tools that may be required for supporting the business initiatives

Client Management (internal & external)

• Participate and contribute to IT Architecture strategy of the bank by working together within the architecture COE
• Provide technical guidance to project teams along the entire software development lifecycle

Regulatory Responsibilities &/OR Risk Management

• Demonstration of appropriate values and behaviours including but not limited to standards on honesty and integrity, due care and diligence, fair dealing (treating customers fairly), management of conflicts of interest, competence and continuous development, adequate risk management, and compliance with applicable laws and regulations

Your Profile

Personal And Social

• Able to handle verbal and written communication where the main language used for internal and external communication is English
• Able to explain designs and solutions to developers and business users alike
• Strong leadership skills in matrix organizational setup, ability to lead, mentor and coach team members and developers
• Passionate and efficient self-learner in order to adopt new technologies and methodologies to create business value

Professional And Technical

• Bachelor/Master degree in Engineering or Computer science
• 10+ years of experience in design and implementation of enterprise systems in banking domain, preferably private banking/wealth management
• Knowledge of architecture frameworks like TOGAF or Zachmann
• Strong collaboration skills across hierarchy levels and organizational boundaries
• Very good knowledge and experience in modern web technologies
• Proficiency in enterprise technologies such as Java EE, spring boot, databases like Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL, integration technologies like IBM MQ, IBM Integration Bus, event streaming platform like Apache Kafka
• Experience in implementing cloud native applications
• Experience in implementing DevOps principles in the organisation
• Experience in implementing Machine Learning based solutions is good to have

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