Product Manager Application Platform (m/w/d) — FFS Officine (Ferrovie Federali)
- Location
- Bern
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- Yesterday
Role overview
Product Manager Application Platform (m/f/d) 60-100% | SBB
Move Switzerland with us. Product Manager Application Platform (m/f/d) Bern / Work Smart, November 1st, 2026 or by arrangement, 60-100% Apply now
You can look forward to this. The “IT Base Infrastructure” solution provides cloud and platform services, data and messaging infrastructure, API management and developer experience for the entire SBB. Our Agile Release Train Application Platform provides the basic infrastructure so that business applications can be implemented and operated quickly, securely and scalably. You will play a key role at the interface of platform services such as databases, containers, IaaS, monitoring, API management and messaging. These are services on which hundreds of applications run and which form the backbone of the digital SBB. You keep the business running, drive further development and keep profitability under control. At the same time, you listen to the market and the digital solution organizations in order to recognize early on where new technologies or services are in demand. Validate, try out, shut down if you fail, scale massively if successful
- with built-in quality
- that's your playing field. A role with a great impact and a lot of scope for creativity. You can move that.
- As Product Manager (m/f/d) Application Platform, you are responsible for platforms that form the digital cornerstone of the SBB and are therefore the basis for rail operations in Switzerland.
- You create a demanding and very broad field of activity in an IT that must be designed for maximum availability, standardization and scaling and in which your decisions are directly noticeable.
- You work closely with ARTs such as Identity & Accessmanagement, Development Experience and Cloud Foundation to jointly establish even better, scaled and economical platforms and practices.
- You ensure that technology does not remain an end in itself, but rather reliably gets people from A to B every day.
- You also work actively in the ART management on the further development of the ART and initiate and drive forward cross-ART initiatives.
- In close communication with product owners, development, operations and SaaS providers, you balance requirements and ensure sustainable decisions in interaction with security, architecture and business IT. This is what you bring with you.
- Strong leadership skills to proactively advance topics, further develop teams and employees, promote personal responsibility and act effectively in the shared leadership model.
- Winning demeanor, curiosity about technology trends, entrepreneurial thinking and the tenacity to make topics fly across many stakeholders.
- Confident stakeholder management and target group-oriented communication in a complex area of tension between operations, development, business IT, security and architecture. Strong storytelling skills and executive presence to convey complex platform topics in an understandable manner.
- Sound understanding of infrastructure and platform technologies in order to work with architects and developers on an equal footing and to contribute to technology decisions.
- Several years of experience in product management of platform services in a scaled, agile environment with many customers.
- Validation-driven way of working with the courage to try out new things in a targeted manner, evaluate them with customers and scale them if necessary.
Your salary and your benefits.
We have a fair and progressive wage system and are actively committed to equal pay. Therefore, further and detailed information about the wage system at SBB can be viewed transparently. This position is at requirement level L, regional allowance level 1. More about wages and benefits.
This gets you started.
The fact that you want to move Switzerland with us is our greatest motivation. That's why we don't include a letter of motivation at this point. If you still want to tell us your motivation, you still have the opportunity to do so in our application tool. Doing great things is easier if you do it yourself. This starts with your application.
This is how it continues.
× You will receive initial feedback from us no later than 10 working days after receipt of your application. Final decision Application Final decision Any questions? About the application process SBB Recruiting Support Telephone + 41 51 220 20 29 [email protected] #simplyyou FAQ about the application On the spot Job ID 103967 Thomas Wehrli, People Leader Telephone +41 79 335 64 64 Unfortunately, applications via email cannot be considered. We do not accept dossiers from recruiters for this position.
This is what we offer.
Benefits
Find out more Wherever possible, we rely on flexible working hours and modern working time models. In addition, as an employer, we are also flexible when it comes to balancing your professional life with your private life. Find out more Find out more Differences welcome Differences welcome Find out more With over 150 different professions, we offer an impressive variety of entry and development opportunities. Our employees are just as diverse. That is why we are committed to ensuring that all employees can contribute their individual strengths and ways of thinking. Find out more Find out more Career and development Career and development Find out more We support our employees based on their personal needs and ambitions. To this end, we provide a wide range of cross-disciplinary and cross-departmental training courses. We contribute financially and temporally to selected external further training courses. Find out more Find out more
- Starke Leadership-Skills, um Themen proaktiv voranzutreiben, Teams und Mitarbeitende weiterzuentwickeln, Selbstverantwortung zu fördern und im Shared-Leadership-Modell wirkungsvoll zu agieren.
- Gewinnendes Auftreten, Neugier für Technologietrends, unternehmerisches Denken und die Hartnäckigkeit, Themen über viele Stakeholder hinweg zum Fliegen zu bringen.
- Find out more
- Wherever possible, we rely on flexible working hours and modern working time models.
Key requirements
- Starke Leadership-Skills, um Themen proaktiv voranzutreiben, Teams und Mitarbeitende weiterzuentwickeln, Selbstverantwortung zu fördern und im Shared-Leadership-Modell wirkungsvoll zu agieren.
- Gewinnendes Auftreten, Neugier für Technologietrends, unternehmerisches Denken und die Hartnäckigkeit, Themen über viele Stakeholder hinweg zum Fliegen zu bringen.
- Souveränes Stakeholder-Management und zielgruppenorientierte Kommunikation in einem komplexen Spannungsfeld zwischen Betrieb, Entwicklung, Business-IT, Security und Architektur. Starke Storytelling-Fähigkeiten und Executive Presence, um komplexe Plattform-Themen verständlich zu vermitteln.
- Fundiertes Verständnis von Infrastruktur- und Plattform-Technologien, um mit Architekt:innen und Entwickler:innen auf Augenhöhe zu arbeiten und Technologieentscheide mitzutragen.
- Mehrjährige Erfahrung im Product Management von Plattform-Services in einem skalierten, agilen Umfeld mit vielen Abnehmern.
- Validierungsgetriebene Arbeitsweise mit dem Mut, Neues gezielt auszuprobieren, mit Abnehmern zu bewerten und bei Bedarf zu skalieren.
What the company offers
- Find out more
- Wherever possible, we rely on flexible working hours and modern working time models.
- In addition, as an employer, we are also flexible when it comes to balancing your professional life with your private life. Find out more Find out more Differences welcome Differences welcome Find out more
- With over 150 different professions, we offer an impressive variety of entry and development opportunities.
- Our employees are just as diverse.
- That is why we are committed to ensuring that all employees can contribute their individual strengths and ways of thinking. Find out more Find out more Career and development Career and development Find out more
- We support our employees based on their personal needs and ambitions.
- To this end, we provide a wide range of cross-disciplinary and cross-departmental training courses.
- We contribute financially and temporally to selected external further training courses. Find out more Find out more
Application process
- Product Manager Application Platform (m/f/d) 60-100% | SBB
- Move Switzerland with us.
- Product Manager Application Platform (m/f/d)
- Bern / Work Smart, November 1st, 2026 or by arrangement, 60-100% now
- You can look forward to this.
- The “IT Base Infrastructure” solution provides cloud and platform services, data and messaging infrastructure, API management and developer experience for the entire SBB.
- Our Agile Release Train Application Platform provides the basic infrastructure so that business applications can be implemented and operated quickly, securely and scalably.
- You will play a key role at the interface of platform services such as databases, containers, IaaS, monitoring, API management and messaging.
Contacts
- Unfortunately, applications via email cannot be considered. Telephone + 41 51 220 20 29
- [email protected] simplyyou Telephone +41 79 335 64 64
Company and context
- At the same time, you listen to the market and the digital solution organizations in order to recognize early on where new technologies or services are in demand.
- Validate, try out, shut down if you fail, scale massively if successful with built-in quality
- that's your playing field. A role with a great impact and a lot of scope for creativity.
- You can move that.
Additional details
- Bern / Work Smart, November 1st, 2026 or by arrangement, 60-100%
- Validate, try out, shut down if you fail, scale massively if successful with built-in quality
- that's your playing field. A role with a great impact and a lot of scope for creativity.
- You will receive initial feedback from us no later than 10 working days after receipt of your application. About the application process SBB Recruiting Support FAQ about the application Thomas Wehrli, People Leader Telephone +41 79 335 64 64
- In addition, as an employer, we are also flexible when it comes to balancing your professional life with your private life. Differences welcome
- That is why we are committed to ensuring that all employees can contribute their individual strengths and ways of thinking. Career and development
- We contribute financially and temporally to selected external further training courses.
Notes and original content
- Validate, try out, shut down if you fail, scale massively if successful
- with built-in quality
- that's your playing field.
- A role with a great impact and a lot of scope for creativity.
- You will receive initial feedback from us no later than 10 working days after receipt of your application.
- Final decision
- Application
- Any questions?
- About the application process
- SBB Recruiting Support
Questions about this listing
What salary does FFS Officine (Ferrovie Federali) offer for this role?
FFS Officine (Ferrovie Federali) lists CHF 113'000 - 192'000 gross per year for this position in Bern. This is the salary published in the original listing (or, when the employer omits a figure, a realistic estimate for the role and sector) — the calculator on this site converts it to your actual net take-home once cross-border tax and social contributions are applied.
Is this a full-time role, and what type of contract does FFS Officine (Ferrovie Federali) offer?
This listing is a full-time position. The contract type shown here comes directly from the employer's original posting; always confirm exact hours, notice period and probation length with FFS Officine (Ferrovie Federali) during the application process, since these details can vary by role even within the same contract category.
Do I need a cross-border work permit for a role in Bern?
EU/EFTA residents living in the border zone of the country adjoining Canton Bern can apply for a G permit; the Swiss employer files it with that canton's migration office after the contract is signed. Border-zone rules and processing times vary by neighbouring country and canton, so confirm the specifics with Bern's cantonal migration office or with HR during the application.
How do I apply for this position at FFS Officine (Ferrovie Federali)?
Use the "Apply now" button on this page — it links directly to FFS Officine (Ferrovie Federali)'s original listing at jobs.sbb.ch, so your application goes straight to the employer's own applicant-tracking system. Frontaliere Ticino does not collect or forward applications itself.