Senior Technical Manager & AI Platform Architect (Azure)

EPAM Systems Inc

Zürich

On-site

CHF 180,000 - 240,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

5 weeks of vacation

ESPP

Extended pension plan

Daily sickness allowance

Job summary

EPAM Systems Inc is seeking a Senior Technical Manager with Solution Architect skills to lead the build and operation of a shared AI platform on Microsoft Azure for a major financial services client in Zurich.

You will drive architecture-to-delivery, evaluate cloud-native vs open-source approaches, and manage a small platform engineering team across architecture, security, and operations, ensuring production readiness and strong governance post go-live.

Qualifications

Experience in building shared platform services to production and operating post go-live.
Ability to explain and defend build-vs-buy decisions and plan platform service architecture.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end delivery across architecture, engineering, security and operations.
Translate architecture into executable roadmap with milestones and dependencies.
Lead evaluations/PoCs with documented criteria and decisions.
Steer a platform engineering team; coordinate architects, security, operations and vendors.
Establish production-ready managed services on Azure with proper operations model and SLAs.
Transition to operations and own the service after go-live with monitoring and FinOps.