Senior ICT Architect (80-100%) Job Details | Swissgrid

Electricity moves our lives. And we move electricity. Every day we are committed to grid-side security of supply in Switzerland. On behalf of Switzerland and in cooperation with international partners, our employees ensure a high-performance and reliable power grid.

The Swiss energy system is changing rapidly, and with it, the requirements for our IT. As a Senior ICT Architect, you will help shape the digital future of Swissgrid and ensure that our IT architecture remains high-performing, secure, and future-oriented.

For our architect team at the headquarters in Aarau, we are looking for you as

Senior ICT Architect (80-100%)- 1653

Ensure electricity in Switzerland

In this exciting function, you play a central role in the development and implementation of the IT domain architecture for our Business Unit Market.

As part of the architect team, you take responsibility for the domain architectures in the mentioned Business Unit, design architectural solutions together with business and IT experts, and ensure that these meet business requirements and comply with architectural guidelines and standards.

In addition, you support the design and implementation of the cross-divisional Enterprise Architecture and thereby contribute significantly to achieving our corporate goals. In doing so, you undertake the following tasks:

• Development, further development, and ongoing maintenance of domain architectures with regard to a cross-divisional overall architecture
• Translation of business and technical requirements into architectural designs and development of solution architectures using target images, roadmaps, and transition planning
• Monitoring of the current solution portfolio, identification of critical deficiencies, legacy issues, and technical debt, and derivation of concrete improvement measures
• Observation of technological developments and assessment of their potential for new and changing business requirements
• Serving as a contact person for the use of new technologies and methods and accompanying concrete digitalization and automation projects
• Continuous coordination with those responsible for information security or cyber security
• Cooperation with architects from other areas and the Enterprise Architecture to design a future-oriented and sustainable IT landscape

This is how you make a difference

You think in networks, are proactive and independent, and enjoy interdisciplinary cooperation. In doing so, you keep an eye on the essentials, take responsibility, and remain calm even in hectic situations. You are characterized by your good team spirit and your strong communication skills. In addition, you bring the following:

• Master's degree Uni/ETH/FH, preferably in computer science, business informatics, or an equivalent education
• Several years of professional experience in the planning, development, and construction of cross-divisional IT architectures, ideally with critical infrastructure operators
• Good understanding of strategic and new technology trends and the practical application of existing and new technologies to evolving business requirements
• Experience in designing secure and resilient solutions ("security by design")
• High goal orientation, solution orientation, and assertiveness
• Strong conceptual and communicative skills, combined with a healthy amount of pragmatism
• Very good German and English skills, French skills are a plus

This is how we inspire you

We offer versatile and exciting tasks in a company that is unique for Switzerland and a modern working environment in the immediate vicinity of the train station in Aarau. In addition, you benefit from the following benefits:

• Flexible working hours (42 hours per week), including home office options
• 25-30 working days of vacation as well as company holidays between Christmas and New Year
• Progressive social benefits and an attractive pension fund
• Opportunities for professional development
• Financial and/or temporal support for internal or external further training
• Competitive salary and recognition of good performance

Your contact person ##

Laura Frey
Talent Acquisition

If interested, Laura looks forward to receiving your complete application documents. Please apply online via our career portal. Applications by email cannot be considered.

Swissgrid AG
Bleichemattstrasse 31
Postfach
5001 Aarau
Schweiz

www.swissgrid.ch
Telephone +41 58 580 21 11