Senior Enterprise Architect — AI-Driven Enterprise Scale

vector8; Zürich; Hybrid; CHF 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary with bonus

Zurich office

Hybrid work model

Professional development

Gen AI learning opportunities

Parental leave: 16 weeks

Job summary

Vector8 in Zurich, Switzerland seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect who designs and delivers secure, scalable enterprise systems. You will combine hands-on coding, end-to-end integration, and AI capabilities to drive real-world production solutions for financial services, manufacturing, and beyond, ensuring risk controls and governance are built in from day one.

You will challenge engineers, own architectural quality, and work with senior stakeholders across Switzerland, delivering practical,

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of professional experience in complex environments.
• Led end-to-end integration/rollout of an enterprise-scale system.
• Recent work on cloud-native, API-first, event-driven stacks.
• Hands-on production experience with data stores, messaging, containers, and middleware.
• Fluent in German (Swiss German preferred) and business English.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical advisor elevating architectural quality across Switzerland portfolio.
• Lead pre-sales support with integration and deployment questions.
• Build trust with senior client stakeholders and push back when needed.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Code review

System integration

AI in Enterprise

German language

English language

Tools

Kubernetes (k8s)

Cloud platforms

API gateways

Job description

Vector8 in Zurich, Switzerland seeks a Principal Enterprise Architect who designs and delivers secure, scalable enterprise systems. You will combine hands-on coding, end-to-end integration, and AI capabilities to drive real-world production solutions for financial services, manufacturing, and beyond, ensuring risk controls and governance are built in from day one.

You will challenge engineers, own architectural quality, and work with senior stakeholders across Switzerland, delivering practical,