Senior ICT Architect (80-100%)

Swissgrid is a technology- and innovation-driven company focusing on the electricity future of Switzerland. With a maximum level of quality, motivation, and commitment, our employees develop the best solutions for the Swiss transmission grid. As a national grid company, we offer you exciting and meaningful tasks. Apply and shape the electricity future of Switzerland with us.

Senior ICT Architect (80-100%)

Ensuring electricity in Switzerland

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

You, as part of the architect team, 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 realization of the cross-divisional Enterprise Architecture and thus 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 a view 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
• Functioning 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 the 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 the design of secure and resilient solutions ("security by design")
• High goal orientation, solution orientation, and assertiveness
• Strong conceptual and communicative skills, combined with a healthy measure 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 with us:

• 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

We offer you versatile and exciting tasks in a company that is unique for Switzerland. In addition, you benefit from the following benefits with us:

• Flexible working hours (42 hours per week)
• 25-30 working days of vacation as well as paid company holidays between Christmas and New Year
• Progressive social benefits and an attractive pension fund
• Financial and / or temporal support for internal or external further training
• Most modern working environment in the immediate vicinity of the Aarau station