Head Data Integration Platform (80-100%)

Vontobel; Zürich; Vor Ort; CHF 180.000 - 240.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Lunch provided

Collaborative office

Zusammenfassung

Vontobel in Zurich is seeking a hands-on Head Data Integration Platform to lead a compact senior team. You own three lanes: event streaming (Kafka), transactional messaging (JMS/AMQ), and secure file transfer, building a self-service platform that other teams love to build on and retiring the legacy integration layer.

You will code alongside your engineers, design and review solutions, productize the platform with documentation, SLOs and observability, and drive adoption while aligning with

Qualifikationen

• Proven experience leading platform or infrastructure teams while shipping code.
• Deep production-grade Apache Kafka knowledge and operations.
• Strong understanding of messaging semantics and secure file-transfer patterns.
• Solid platform engineering foundations and observability practices.
• Platform-as-a-product mindset with focus on adoption and developer experience.
• Experience migrating legacy systems in regulated environments.

Aufgaben

• Lead a senior engineering team owning three integration lanes: event streaming, transactional messaging, and file transfer.
• Design, review and contribute code alongside engineers in a player-coach role.
• Productize the in-house platform with docs, SLOs and a clear roadmap.
• Provide self-service provisioning, onboarding templates and golden paths.
• Hardening current systems while planning for managed cloud services.
• Establish guardrails and decision framework for asynchronous integration.
• Foster a resilient, collaborative, T-shaped engineering culture.

Kenntnisse

Hands-on leadership

Kafka expertise

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Observability

OpenShift/Kubernetes

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes/OpenShift

GitOps

CI/CD tooling

Jobbeschreibung

What would your role be?

Do you want to run the asynchronous integration backbone of a modern private bank — and still write code? For our Data & AI Platforms department in Zürich, we are looking for a hands‑on Head Data Integration Platform: a player‑coach who leads a compact senior team operating the bank's event streaming, messaging and file‑transfer rails, turns them into a self‑service platform other teams love to build on, and enables the retirement of our legacy integration layer.

Lead a compact, senior engineering team that owns three integration lanes for the entire bank: event streaming (Kafka), transactional messaging (JMS/AMQ), and file transfer — internally through our self‑built, event‑driven delivery platform, externally through managed file transfer with banks, custodians and market infrastructure. Stay hands‑on: you design, review and regularly contribute code alongside your engineers — this is a player‑coach role in a team where everyone builds. Productize our in‑house event‑driven delivery platform: documentation, SLOs, shared ownership, observability and a roadmap that keeps it the front door for internal asynchronous integration.

Turn the rails into paved roads: self‑service topic and queue provisioning, onboarding templates, partner file‑exchange workflows and golden paths that let delivery teams integrate without waiting on tickets. Evolve the platform deliberately: harden what runs today, reduce single‑person dependencies, and shape the path of our streaming estate towards managed cloud services when capacity and regulation allow.

Own the integration guardrails and decision framework: workloads are routed by pattern — volume, latency, delivery guarantees, transactional behaviour — not by habit or escalation, in close collaboration with architecture, security and compliance. Build a resilient, T‑shaped team: paired ownership per lane, a shared engineering substrate (OpenShift, GitOps, CI/CD, observability) and a service mindset towards the teams who build on your platform.

What are we looking for?

• A hands‑on engineering leader: you have led platform or infrastructure teams and you still ship code — and you want to keep it that way.
• Deep, production‑grade experience with Apache Kafka: cluster operations, schema management, consumer patterns, and honest judgement about what streaming is and is not good for.
• Strong grasp of messaging semantics — delivery guarantees, ordering, transactionality, exactly‑once versus at‑least‑once — and of secure file‑transfer patterns in a regulated, partner‑facing environment.
• Solid platform engineering foundations: Kubernetes/OpenShift, GitOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD and observability as daily tools, not buzzwords.
• A platform‑as‑product mindset: you measure success in adoption, developer experience and golden‑path usage, and you protect engineering capacity for platform work against pure ticket operations.
• Experience running legacy and target platforms in parallel: keeping critical operations stable while migrating and decommissioning, ideally in financial services or another regulated industry.
• A people leader for small senior teams: you coach, pair, reduce bus factors and grow specialists into T‑shaped engineers — and you can retain strong builders by giving their work a future.
• A clear communicator who can explain asynchronous integration to non‑engineers, make trade‑offs explicit, and push back on senior stakeholders with facts rather than volume.
• Affinity for Artificial Intelligence and a willingness to embrace AI‑enabled tools and ways of working.
• Fluency in English; German is an advantage.

What do we offer?

Top Zurich location with collaboration spaces (including rooftop terraces) and free lunch. Friendly, diverse team in an open‑office space. All the latest technology to help you excel and advance. Agile environment in how we think, the way we work and our trust for each other. Flat hierarchy with collaboration at all levels. Campus feeling and a collaborative spirit.

Why Vontobel?

At Vontobel, you are building better futures for our clients and society, as well as for yourself. As a family‑owned and publicly listed company with over 2,000 professionals based in 28 locations globally and headquartered in Zurich, we’re committed to long‑term thinking and sustainability. Our diverse team values unique perspectives, and we hire individuals determined to deliver in a dynamic and changing world.

By 2030, we want to be known as one of the leading and most trusted global investment firms. We have 2,300+ engaged professionals, based in over 25 locations globally and headquartered in Zurich. We are both majority family‑owned and publicly listed. Our capacity for long‑term focus, on topics such as sustainability, is underpinned by the security of the family’s 100-year commitment. Driven by an ownership mindset, you can unlock your potential and translate insights into opportunities. We are hiring talented individuals who are determined to deliver in a changing world and who come from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Do you want to be Vontobel?

At Vontobel, we are an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. We value the many voices within our teams and are committed to creating an environment where everyone who wants to be part of our performance culture can be themselves. It is based on mutual respect and zero tolerance for any form of discrimination.