Head of Competence Center, Cloud Engineering

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

📋 Description

• Providing disciplinary and professional leadership for the seven-member Cloud Engineering team.

• Facilitating coaching, conducting performance reviews, promoting employee development, and overseeing personnel reporting.

• Taking charge of recruitment as well as strategic workforce, capacity, and resource planning.

• Cultivating a high-performing engineering culture that emphasizes service and customer orientation.

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

• Ensuring sustainable management of knowledge and competencies within the team.

• Defining, establishing, and enforcing professional and methodological standards along with best practices.

• Encouraging innovation while identifying new technologies and market trends.

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

• Contributing to budget planning, investment decisions, and strategic development within the area of responsibility.

• Fostering cross-functional collaboration and facilitating organization-wide knowledge transfer.

• Managing escalations that involve complex technical or organizational challenges.

• Continuously enhancing processes, policies, and governance models.

• Actively shaping technical solutions and serving as a sparring partner on challenging projects.

⛳️ Requirements

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

• Experience in the IT industry, preferably in a managed services context.

• Completed higher professional education (HF/FH) in computer science or an equivalent 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 in leading technical specialists.

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

• Analytical, structured, and solution-oriented work approach.

• Excellent command of both written and spoken German and English.

• Connected, strategic, and entrepreneurial mindset.

• Willingness to take on visible responsibility and build trust through reliability.

• Capability to develop employees and encourage personal accountability.

• Ability to address conflicts openly, make decisive choices, and implement them consistently.

• Exceptional communication skills across all levels.

🏝️ Benefits

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

• Location-independent working, allowing for remote work from home or anywhere within Switzerland.

• 25 days of annual vacation (27 days starting at age 40 and 30 days from age 50).

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

• Full salary continuation during three weeks of paternity leave or 16 weeks of maternity leave.

• Access to state-of-the-art hardware and a paid mobile phone plan, including a contribution towards a smartphone.

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

• Private supplementary accident insurance.

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

• Discounted access to fitness and physiotherapy center services.

• Employee brands and benefits at work.

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