Head of Competence Center, Cloud Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Switzerland.

📋 Description

• Provide professional and disciplinary leadership to a Cloud Engineering team comprising seven members.

• Mentor team members, perform performance evaluations, facilitate employee development, and oversee personnel reporting.

• Oversee recruitment efforts along with strategic workforce, capacity, and resource planning.

• Cultivate a high-performing engineering culture with a strong emphasis on service and customer focus.

• Collaborate with the Business Line to enhance the service and performance portfolio.

• Ensure sustainable management of knowledge and competencies.

• Define, implement, and uphold professional and methodological standards and best practices.

• Encourage innovation and identify emerging technologies and market trends.

• Ensure adherence to normative, regulatory, and strategic requirements.

• Participate in budget planning, investment decisions, and strategic development.

• Foster cross-functional collaboration and organization-wide knowledge sharing.

• Address escalations involving complex technical or organizational challenges.

• Continuously refine processes, policies, and governance models.

• Contribute to technical solution strategies and serve as a sparring partner for challenging projects.

⛳️ Requirements

• Several years of leadership and hands-on experience within an engineering or infrastructure setting.

• Industry experience in IT, preferably within a managed services context.

• Completed advanced professional education (HF/FH) in computer science or a comparable qualification.

• Comprehensive understanding of modern cloud, platform, and infrastructure services.

• Proven experience in leading and developing technical teams and specialist functions.

• Experience in knowledge, competency, and talent management is a plus.

• Demonstrated experience managing technical specialists.

• Strong inclination towards standardization, quality management, and automation.

• Analytical, structured, and solution-oriented approach to tasks.

• Proficient in both written and spoken German and English.

• A networked, strategic, and entrepreneurial mindset.

• Proven ownership and reliable execution of responsibilities.

• A role model for values, standards, and expectations.

• Exceptional communication skills across all levels of the organization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours based on a 40-hour workweek, including part-time options.

• Location-independent work, allowing for remote work or work-from-home arrangements from Switzerland.

• 25 vacation days per year (increasing to 27 days at age 40 and 30 days at age 50).

• 13 paid public holidays along with the option for additional unpaid leave.

• Full salary continuation during 3 weeks of paternity leave and 16 weeks of maternity leave.

• Cutting-edge hardware and a company-paid mobile phone plan, which includes a contribution toward a smartphone.

• Above-average pension fund benefits, with the employer contributing 60% and the employee 40%.

• Additional private accident insurance.

• Complimentary charging for electric vehicles at the Gerlafingen and Aarau locations.

• Discounted access to fitness and physiotherapy center services.

• Employee benefits and perks at work.

• Wellbeing@Work initiatives, featuring Mario Kart racing, a quiet room, table football, aperitifs, and team events.