Test Environment and Data Specialist 100% (f/m/d) (Contract through our external payroll partner with immediate start for 11 months, possible extension)

Bank Julius Bär & Co. Ltd.; Zürich; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. is seeking a Test Environment and Data Specialist to own the full lifecycle of CLM test environments, ensuring they are stable, compliant, and provisioned with synthetic or anonymised data.

The role requires coordinating with development, testing, operations and external partners to keep environments available and aligned with agile Release Trains. You will enable Scrum Teams through self-service guidelines, tooling, automation, and training while maintaining high

Qualifications

• Proven experience in test environment management and data lifecycle management in enterprise settings.
• Familiarity with anonymised test data and synthetic data handling.
• Strong collaboration with Scrum teams and external partners.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, configure, monitor, and maintain test environments.
• Keep Confluence docs complete and current on environment purpose, integrations, data types and access criteria.
• Monitor environment health and drive remediation for configuration drift.
• Coordinate environment refreshes, patches, upgrades, and incident resolution per change control.
• Define SOPs for test environment usage across the ART and align teams.

Skills

Test environment management

Data lifecycle management

Confluence documentation

CI/CD integration

Change control coordination

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Confluence

CI/CD tools

Test data anonymisation tooling

Job description

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

The Test Environment and Data Specialist facilitates high quality software delivery in the CLM (Client Lifecycle Management) ART (Agile Release Train) by maintaining stable, compliant test environments and data. This role owns the full lifecycle of key systems (2 environments with synthetic test data and 3 environments with anonymised production data) and serves as the central contact for all operational matters on these test environments. The role thus requires strong coordination and communication skills. Working closely with development, testing, operations, and external partners, this role keeps environments available, correctly configured, synchronised, and provisioned with synthetic or anonymised data. The role also enables Scrum Teams through self service guidelines, tooling, automation, and training to accelerate delivery while ensuring quality and compliance.

YOUR CHALLENGE

• Test Environment Management Design, build, configure, monitor, and maintain test environments
• Keep Confluence documentation complete and current, covering environment purpose, integrations, supported modules, data types, and access/entry criteria
• Continuously monitor environment health, performance, and configuration drift; drive proactive remediation
• Coordinate environment refreshes (e.g. every half year production data is freshly anonymized and loaded into test environments), patches, upgrades, and incident resolution in line with change control
• Environment Governance & Alignment Define and enforce standard operating procedures for test environment usage across the ART
• Provide clear, regular updates on environment readiness to Scrum Teams and stakeholders
• Test Data Strategy & Provisioning Own the full test data lifecycle: sourcing, preparation, provisioning, and retirement
• Manage recurring data refresh cycles in collaboration with other teams providing specialist functions such as data anonymization
• Ensure data consistency across paired environments (e.g. UAT1/UAT2); detect and resolve discrepancies promptly
• Maintain reusable, role‑based test personas and associated datasets with usage guidance
• Ensure Scrum Teams’ test data and environment needs are fully supported
• Self‑Service Enablement Define workflows enabling Scrum Teams to request and obtain test data efficiently, supported by a clear DoR and DoD
• Publish expected lead times for common test data provisioning activities
• Gather team feedback continuously to improve usability, speed, and relevance of self‑service data offerings
• Support & Collaboration Troubleshoot and resolve access issues, permission errors, connectivity problems, and defects related to environments and test data
• Support root‑cause analysis for environment or data‑related incidents.
• Act as escalation point for environment or data impediments impacting sprint progress
• Cross‑Functional Coordination Partner with application teams and programs that rely on the CLM Test environments or on client-related test data.
• Maintain seamless integration and interoperability
• Collaborate with CI/CD engineers to embed environment and data setups into automated release pipelines where applicable

YOUR PROFILE

• Proven experience in test environment management and test data lifecycle management within enterprise environments
• Proficiency in designing, building, monitoring, and maintaining test environments, including resolving configuration drift
• Experience coordinating environment refreshes, data anonymisation cycles, and ensuring data consistency across paired environments
• Familiarity with scaled agile frameworks, specifically working with Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and supporting Scrum Teams
• Proficiency with Confluence for maintaining comprehensive documentation and defining standard operating procedures
• Experience collaborating with CI/CD engineers to embed environment and data setups into automated release pipelines
• Competence in troubleshooting access, connectivity, and defect issues, alongside driving root‑cause analysis
• Strong communicator who can explain technical topics clearly to diverse audiences, including stakeholders and external partners
• Proactive and collaborative problem‑solver who anticipates challenges and works effectively across teams to resolve impediments
• Customer‑focused with a strong sense of ownership, viewing Scrum Teams as customers and taking accountability for environment readiness

Why join Julius Baer?

At Julius Baer our employees enjoy the benefits of a global company with the support and collegiality of a much smaller one. We are growing quickly, but we remain dedicated to maintaining our accessible structure with flat hierarchies, and approachable and supportive leaders.

With offices around the world, we offer an international and stimulating work environment and the opportunity to work with a diverse team of highly motivated colleagues, bringing the best of the bank to our clients.

Our core values of Care, Passion, and Excellence define the tone of how we interact with each other and our partners.

Committed to your success Whether nurturing young talent with our renowned apprentice scheme, enabling ambitious university graduates to put theory into practice with our Graduate Programme, or providing first‑class opportunities for experienced professionals, we look after our employees.

We believe in continuous learning as a company and as individuals, which is why we put a focus on the health and well-being of our employees and offer flexible working options, a wide array of benefits, and extensive career development programmes.

For more information visit www.juliusbaer.com or contact us via the Contact Form.