Technical Leader IT – Infrastructure & Platform Delivery

We are looking for a Technical Leader IT with a strong background in infrastructure and platform services (IaaS/PaaS), combined with excellent communication, collaboration, and technical leadership skills. This role acts as a key bridge between engineering teams and business stakeholders, ensuring that complex technical topics are clearly understood and that delivery is aligned with business objectives. Your key tasks - Lead the technical delivery of infrastructure and cloud platform solutions, ensuring quality, consistency, and scalability - Act as a bridge between technology and business, translating complex technical concepts into clear and actionable insights - Collaborate closely with Project Managers and business stakeholders to align priorities, constraints, and solutions - Provide strong technical leadership to cross-functional teams (internal and external), fostering ownership and accountability - Facilitate technical decision-making, including trade-off analysis and architectural direction - Promote a collaborative, solution-oriented mindset, effectively managing dependencies and conflicts - Support technical planning, risk identification, and mitigation strategies - Drive best practices across cloud, automation, security, and resilience domains - Develop and communicate the technical roadmap for infrastructure and platform services, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and business goals - Mentor and develop technical team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the infrastructure domain - Monitor and optimize infrastructure performance, cost efficiency, and resource utilization across OCI environments - Manage vendor relationships and coordinate with external partners to ensure service quality and contractual compliance - Establish and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, knowledge repositories, and runbooks to support operational excellence - Oversee compliance with IT governance frameworks, security policies, and regulatory requirements in infrastructure delivery - Drive continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to enhance processes, tools, and architectural patterns Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 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.