Leiter Enterprise Architektur und Technologie-Management (m/w/d) — Raiffeisen

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28.09.2026 St. Gallen Zurich

Become part of our team!

For the further development of our IT architecture, we are looking for an experienced leader with strategic foresight and a sound understanding of architecture and technology. In this key position, you lead and develop the Group-wide Enterprise Architecture function and are responsible for technology management and architecture governance. Together with your team, you will shape the long-term development of our IT landscape and ensure that business strategy, processes, data, applications and technologies follow a common goal. So we can do it. You are the basis for stable, secure and sustainable solutions.

What awaits you?

• Professional and disciplinary management and further development of a team of 12 enterprise and domain architects
• Strategic development of the IT landscape with around 500 business applications and a broad technology portfolio, oriented towards the group and IT strategy
• Managing the IT landscape taking into account business value, standardization, complexity, risks and costs
• Responsibility for architecture and technology governance including management of architecture and technology board
• Further development of architectural metamodel, methods, standards and architectural principles of the Raiffeisen Group
• Responsibility for technology management including technology portfolio, technology standards and lifecycle control of the Group-wide technology stack
• Co-design of the IT strategy as well as architectural management of strategic transformation initiatives and ensuring architecture-compliant solutions
• Assessment of relevant technological developments, in particular in the areas of cloud, platforms and artificial intelligence, as well as their sustainable integration into architecture, governance and operational models
• Active stakeholder management via business, IT, security, management bodies and external partners as well as the development of convincing basis for decision-making

What do you bring?

• university degree in computer science, business informatics or a similar discipline
• Further education in Enterprise Architecture, Technology Management or Business Administration are beneficial
• Multi-year management and budget responsibility in a demanding IT environment
• Proven experience in enterprise architecture as well as in the strategic development and management of complex IT landscapes
• Demonstrate success in the development and implementation of architectural strategies, targets and roadmaps as well as in the development of effective architecture and technology governance
• Sound understanding of modern software development, DevSecOps and CI/CD as well as experience with cloud and platform architectures
• Experience in a regulated environment and a good understanding of security, compliance, operational risk and resilience
• Strategic and entrepreneurial thinking, strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to bring different interests together and drive change consistently
• Sovereign appearance, high analytical competence and convincing communication at all hierarchical levels up to the management; very good knowledge of German, at least level C1.

«You give a clear direction in complex architecture and technology issues and pursue the goals set consistently.» Do you manage to involve people, bring different perspectives together and develop viable compromises? We look forward to your application. Erich Auer Division Head Architecture & Control Why Raiffeisen?

We offer flexible working models

The work-life balance of our employees is important to us. That’s why we create the conditions for flexible working hours – with offers for mobile work, home office and part-time work.

We maintain a family environment

Cooperative values are our fundamental pillars: togetherness. For each other. They shape our cooperation and our interaction with each other. The Du culture creates personal closeness and eye level across all functional levels.

We live diversity and equal opportunities

We promote the different perspectives, experiences and competencies in our teams. Because this diversity makes us special and contributes decisively to our success.

We offer a collective participation in success instead of individual bonuses

We bring collective performance to the fore. That is why we have a collective share of success instead of individual bonus payments. This promotes a healthy corporate culture in which overarching goals are pursued together.

We promote personal and professional development

Lifelong learning is part of our culture. We create space for individual professional and personal development and support our employees in a targeted manner – with a wide range of internal training opportunities and a cost share for external further education.

We make “healthy living & working” a program

With our holistic offer "healthy living & working", we support our employees in finding a healthy balance between work and private life and maintaining it in the long term.

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