Data Platform Responsible 100% (f/m/d) — Julius Baer
CHF 73'500 - 111'500
Julius Baer · Zurich (ZH)
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SalaryCHF 73'500 - 111'500
Role overview
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.
As a Data Platform Responsible (PR) you are responsible for the end-to-end technical leadership and lifecycle management of a global data platform (datalake house) ensuring alignment with business needs, architecture standards, and operational resilience.
- 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.
- At least 8 years of experience in Data Platforms / Data Lakes / Data Lake houses (Kubernetes, Kafka, Distributed Storage like S3/HDFS) – preferably On prem.
- Several years of work experience in a similar capacity in the financial industry
Key requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in Data Platforms / Data Lakes / Data Lake houses (Kubernetes, Kafka, Distributed Storage like S3/HDFS) – preferably On prem.
- Several years of work experience in a similar capacity in the financial industry
- Experience in leading technical direction of data platforms, keeping up to date with the modern possibilities of tooling, formats, concepts.
- Experience in managing the full platform lifecycle, from concept and design through development, testing, deployment, operation, and eventual retirement, including responsibility for master data, incident support, and release coordination
- VM setup and scaling (pods), K8S scaling, managing Docker with Harbor, pushing Images through CI/CD together with development team
- Higher Education in Computer Science (University, University of Applied Sciences or equivalent diploma)
- Very strong communication and planning / coordination skills
- Willingness to bring in new ideas and initiate changes and sees themselves as proactive, reliable and solution driven
- Good English language skills (written and verbal), German a plus Strong team player
- Customer oriented with focus to support an organisation in providing solutions
- Very good understanding of data technology and its operational management
- Very high level on self-motivation to drive initiatives and initiating changes
Application process
- Plan and coordinate application releases in line with Change- and Release Management processes, jointly deciding on production go-live with the Product Owner, Platform Owner and ITSO
- Supervise platform infrastructure and data development activities, promote “shift-left” practices (automation, unit testing, CI/CD), and ensure robust implementation of functional and non-functional requirements
- Provide 3rd level support, serve as master data custodian in JBAR, and lead supplier management for third-party applications, including performance and delivery oversight
- Estimate effort for changes, advise on technical risks and mitigation, support budgeting, and ensure technical requirements are properly validated and tested prior to release
- You feel responsible for the global data platform which serves global data for different analytics use cases and ensure a running and stable environment
- Support the System Architect in the raising and maintenance of technical debts
- Support Business Responsible and IT Product Owner in shaping platform service and its execution
- Collaboration with support teams in Asia to ensure enhanced support hours
Additional details
- The role combines hands-on technical oversight with supplier management, risk assessment, quality assurance, and deep involvement in agile delivery and incident support.
- Good English language skills (written and verbal), German a plus Strong team player
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- Good English language skills (written and verbal), German a plus
- Strong team player
