Job Description

Job content
• Evolve the firms’ strategy for application- and data integration and lead its execution; Lead, collaborating with all other IT departments, the implementation of an automation strategy (among other topics: DevOps, Test Automation), with key focus on improving productivity, maintainability, and stability.
• Lead the adoption of a state-of-the-art integration and automation solutions and take the integration lead role in integration-heavy technology projects.
• Establish standards, guardrails, policies and best practices for integration and automation to achieve high speed of delivery while ensuring operational stability
• Collaborate with different IT & Business delivery teams and build up the Community of Practice “Integration & Automation”
• Support decentralized citizen integrators in various investment and business operations teams to deliver integration & automation use cases
• Be a hands-on sparring partner and the go-to person for integration and automation topics.

Requirements
• Degree in Information Technology or similar (Master’s degree is preferred); Experience in data architecture and data modelling
• Proven hands-on experience in devising and implementing an automation strategy and increasing the maturity of automation in an enterprise context
• Software Engineering background and knowledge, experience in integrating solutions in large-scale / complex software landscapes is of advantage
• Experience managing integration projects with cross-functional teams
• Abstract thinking and ability to manage complexity, willing to learn new topics and drive them forward
• Ability to communicate technical complex topics with the right level of details to be understood by business stakeholders
• Experience in financial services and / or asset management is of advantage
• Excellent English oral and written communication skills; German is a plus.