Senior Project Manager Cloud Infrastructure

• Full-time

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.

We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

• Execute infrastructure projects to improve our technology capabilities towards our software development teams as well as our customers, including cloud technologies, data center and infrastructure, automation, middleware all the way to software development and supporting IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities
• Drive and support the entire project lifecycle, from sales support to initiating new projects to successful execution and closure
• Lead development teams, drive and deep dive into technology topics from analysis to architecture, development and all the way through providing services to deliver working solutions to our customers
• Set up sound and efficient project governance incl. management of financials, resources and timeline and discuss and get buy-in from senior stakeholders, peers and engineers
• Manage scope and quality in alignment with senior stakeholders and manage risks and issues along the entire lifecycle and remove blockers for the team
• Instruct and manage technical delivery teams to engineer and develop infrastructure services and solutions for the cloud
• Effectively communicate and manage customer and sales expectations, provide status information to senior stakeholders and support our sales teams along the project implementation
• Bridge the gap between business vision and services/software offerings to detailed technical implementation

Qualifications

• University degree in technology and/or business or similar
• 7+ years of experience in Project Management for technical cross-functional projects
• Proven track record of delivering results in a complex international, diverse and agile driven environment
• Experience managing end-to end execution of complex programs that span multiple engineering teams through the software project lifecycle (build, test and release on time).
• Experience in IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and BPaaS concepts and building capabilities and services for customers
• Completed cloud trainings with one or multiple hyper scalers, certification is a plus
• Aptitude to discuss technical details with developers and drive consensus among all stakeholders
• Highly motivated with a can–do attitude, excellent problem-solving abilities, willingness to drive difficult conversations to a practical solution
• Effective presentation skills (German and English, French or Italian is a plus) with the ability to deliver a polished and professional business and technical pitch to C-Suite and Board levels
• Ability to quickly learn, understand, and work with new and emerging technologies, methodologies, and solutions in the Cloud/IT technology space
• Background in technology and/or financial services is a plus

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.

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