Senior Application Engineer / IT Business Analyst (f/m/d)

Workload: Hybrid 80-100%

Axpo, Switzerland's leading renewable energy producer supports the optimal usage of green energy produced by our hydro plants with our IT systems. Power production combined with energy trading is in the middle of a fascinating transformation process, driven by international trends and current energy challenges. We require new IT solutions to cope with the increased complexity, speed and volume of information and data.

This role is ideal for an application engineer, developer or a technical business analyst who brings broad technical experience and is keen to share his experience within a young team having a strong hands-on mentality resulting in direct business impact.

What you will do:

• Manage software applications which we use to optimize our hydro power plants in combination with energy trading


• Cover a wide range of activities from specifying application strategies to contributing to team-wide projects (e.g. migration to Azure cloud)


• Contribute to establishing a support and maintenance organization for highly critical, internally developed high quality software written in C#


• Keep close contact with business stakeholders, get the end-to-end understanding of the processes and propose technical solutions, collaborating with architecture, development and vendor consultants.


• Manage software vendors (offers, contracts, quality controls) and closely work with them in projects.


• Depending on your skills, interests and experience, you will shape the role to a certain extent, weight of engineering, software development/testing and solution architecture


• Be part of the 24/7 support team


• Show your sense of responsibility, tech savviness and your team player attitude


• Fluent in English and German is mandatory

What you bring & who you are:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, engineering, economics or equivalent


• 3-5 years of experience as application engineer, developer, technical Business analyst, cloud engineer or similar role


• Proven expertise in application engineering and management, covering strategy, application life cycle, security and vendor management


• Excellent analytical skills and strong team player


• Solid understanding of software development best practices and methodologies.


• One or more of the following are a big plus


• Working experience in the energy sector and/or in trading,


• Experience with software development and testing, especially in C# or Python.


• Experience with Azure Cloud infrastructure engineering


• Experience working with message queues, preferably with RabbitMQ

About the team:

You will be part of a very dedicated team which takes responsibility for critical IT applications, short-term (operations) and long-term (projects). We collaborate closely with business stakeholders, IT architects, on-premise and Azure infrastructure system engineers and application vendors in order to get the most business value out of our IT applications.

What we offer

• Yearly Performance Bonus


• Hybrid work with one team office day per week


• Flexible Schedule


• Additional compensation for on-call duty


• Periodical travels within Europe


• Personal development related to the role is supported