Head of E-ID

Bern (and home office) | 80-100% |

Your contribution

• Lead the specialist department in technical, personnel, organizational, and financial terms
• Be responsible for the operation and further development of the trust infrastructure for electronic identity
• Assess requirements from politics, administration, economy, and society and manage their implementation
• Further develop legal bases and implementing regulations for electronic identity
• Advise administrative units on questions regarding electronic identity and represent the interests of the specialist department in committees and commissions
• Analyze innovations and technological developments and develop solutions for new requirements

What makes you unique

• University degree in law, business informatics, business administration, or comparable qualification
• Several years of leadership experience as well as experience in program management
• Knowledge of public law as well as an understanding of digital technologies and their application
• Ability to analyze complex issues and develop sustainable solutions
• Negotiation skills and confident action in a political and institutional environment
• Good active knowledge of a second official language as well as good English skills

In a nutshell

You shape the further development of the Swiss E-ID and its trust infrastructure. In this role, you combine law, technology, and politics, assess new requirements, and ensure a secure and sustainable operation of the infrastructure.

What we offer

• Working for Switzerland We are committed to the success model of Switzerland and work for the well-being of the population.
• Lived diversity Thanks to equal opportunity, we develop our competencies and contribute different perspectives.
• Healthy at the workplace We support and advise our employees in the area of physical and mental health.

All benefits (https://www.stelle.admin.ch/stelle/de/home/bundesverwaltung/ihre-vorteile-auf-einen-blick.html)

The Federal Office of Justice is the legal competence center of the Confederation. It manages legislative projects in state, administrative, private, and criminal law, accompanies all legislative transactions of the Confederation in an advisory capacity, and is active in the international field. It conducts its business in a multilingual environment.

The e ID specialist department leads the e ID large-scale project and the construction of the e ID trust infrastructure and is responsible for its operation and further development.

Additional information

Questions about the position

Serge Guignard
Deputy Director and Head of Central Services Directorate
+41 58 465 82 67