Manager - Enterprise Architect — PwC Switzerland
CHF 75'500 - 120'500
PwC Switzerland · Zürich (ZH)
- Location
- Zürich
- Contract
- other
- Posted
- 58 days ago
SalaryCHF 75'500 - 120'500
Role overview
Close collaboration with product and delivery teams, as well as with digital compliance and information security stakeholders, is a core part of the role.
The position also works with PwC stakeholders beyond Switzerland to ensure alignment with global strategies and standards while addressing local regulatory and business requirements.
- Close collaboration with product and delivery teams, as well as with digital compliance and information security stakeholders, is a core part of the role.
- The position also works with PwC stakeholders beyond Switzerland to ensure alignment with global strategies and standards while addressing local regulatory and business requirements.
- Contribute to the definition and evolution of the future-state enterprise architecture, translating business strategy and operating model needs into principles, standards and reference architectures
- Experience in enterprise architecture and/or solution or domain architecture, with the ability to connect strategy, governance and delivery
- Strong capability to lead architecture discussions, influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams without direct authority
Main responsibilities
- Contribute to the definition and evolution of the future-state enterprise architecture, translating business strategy and operating model needs into principles, standards and reference architectures
Key requirements
- Experience in enterprise architecture and/or solution or domain architecture, with the ability to connect strategy, governance and delivery
- Strong capability to lead architecture discussions, influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams without direct authority
- Practical experience with enterprise architecture repositories and tools such as Ardoq or comparable solutions
- Solid modelling skills, for example using ArchiMate, and the ability to create clear, decision-ready architecture diagrams
- Strong knowledge and proven experience with Azure and the Microsoft technology stack, ideally supported by advanced-level certifications such as Azure Solution Architect
- Hands-on experience in technical areas including cloud, infrastructure, networking, identity, APIs and integration, and security patterns
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure complex topics and communicate them clearly
- A university degree in business informatics, computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
- Excellent communication skills with proficiency in English; German proficiency is an advantage
Application process
- This role contributes to shaping and evolving the firm's enterprise-wide architecture across business, data, application, integration, technology and security domains.
- The team connects strategy with execution by translating architectural direction into clear standards, reference architectures, patterns and roadmaps that delivery teams can apply in practice.
- Maintain and evolve transparency of the IT landscape across applications, platforms, integrations and key data flows, including inventories, capability maps and dependency views
- Ensure the IT landscape is accurately captured and usable in enterprise architecture repositories and tools, applying data quality practices and creating stakeholder-friendly views
- Support architecture governance and compliance by helping teams align designs with agreed standards and guardrails, and by documenting exceptions and trade-offs clearly
- Act as a trusted advisor to delivery teams and stakeholders, ensuring non-functional requirements such as security, resilience, performance, maintainability and cost are addressed early and consistently
- Translate architectural direction into consumable assets, including minimum viable patterns, reusable building blocks, templates and reference implementations, to accelerate delivery and reduce rework
- Evaluate technologies and standards, recommend fit-for-purpose solutions, and support standard configurations to improve resilience, scalability and cost-effectiveness
Additional details
- Descrizione This role contributes to shaping and evolving the firm's enterprise-wide architecture across business, data, application, integration, technology and security domains.
- Excellent communication skills with proficiency in English; German proficiency is an advantage
Notes and original content
- Excellent communication skills with proficiency in English;
- German proficiency is an advantage
