Platform Owner 100% (f/m/d)

YOUR CHALLENGE

Define and maintain the end-to-end technical vision, multi-year roadmap, and lifecycle strategy for the global data platform

Gathering requirements and maintaining relationships with current and potential consumer base. Ensuring the technical vision and roadmap enables their current and future business ambitions

Ensure platform scalability, reliability, performance, and security, embedding non-functional requirements (NFRs), observability, automation, and resilience-by-design principles

Lead the prioritisation and delivery of platform features and capabilities, collaborating with Product Manager, Scrum Masters, Development Teams, System Architect, and Release Train Engineer to coordinate work across Agile teams

Own the platform backlog, ensuring clear initiatives, features, and user stories. Prioritise the delivery, balancing trade-offs between innovation, tech debt reduction, and operational stability

Serve as the primary technical escalation point for incidents, problems, audits, and risk findings related to the platform

Establish and monitor SLAs, SLOs, and KPIs; leverage metrics and OKRs to measure platform health, usage, team performance, and business value delivered

Drive standardisation, reuse, and simplification across the platform ecosystem to reduce complexity, improve interoperability, and accelerate time-to-market

Coach and guide Technical Leads, and development teams, fostering best practices in coding, testing, deployment, and incident response

Shape the target operating model for platform operations—including staffing, governance, RACI definitions, and handover processes—supporting sustainable growth and efficient run-models

Represent the platform in executive forums and governance bodies, articulating progress, risks, investments, and strategic decisions to stakeholders across technology and business areas

YOUR PROFILE

Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related field

Minimum of 10 years of experience in technology roles within large, regulated enterprises—preferably in financial services

Proven experience owning, leading or scaling large-scale data platforms – preferably big data technology

Track record with defining and delivering technical platform visions and roadmaps in enterprise environments

Hands-on exposure to modern data technologies such as Apache Spark / Iceberg, Trino, Kafka, Kubernetes, Snowflake/Databricks, Hadoop ecosystems, or equivalent

Strong understanding of Agile methodologies, DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines

Track record in managing cross-functional initiatives involving multiple technical teams, vendors, and domains—demonstrating influence without direct authority

Familiarity with risk and compliance frameworks applicable to Swiss financial institutions and experience addressing audit points or IT risk items

Exceptional technical leadership and systems thinking, able to balance short-term delivery with long-term platform sustainability

Strong communication skills on all levels. Ability to summarise complex issues for management, while also being able to discuss on a detail level with technical teams

Expertise in software lifecycle governance, technical debt management, vulnerability remediation, and release approval processes

Skilled in road-mapping, backlog refinement, dependency management, and translating business capabilities into actionable technical initiatives

People person or comfortable with significant business / consumer interaction

Solid understanding of non-functional requirements—performance, availability, recoverability, monitoring, logging, and security-by-default

Strong analytical mindset with the ability to make data-informed decisions using KPIs, telemetry, and feedback loops

Fluent in English, both written and verbal; German language skills are a advantage

Ability to operate effectively in a matrixed, multinational environment with competing priorities

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