Basellandschaftliche Kantonalbank
Münchenstein
Head of Enterprise Architecture & Platform Services (80% – 100%)
- 12 November 2026
- 80 – 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
- Münchenstein
About the job
Our IT should already enable today what matters tomorrow. In the newly created Enterprise Architecture & Platform Services department, we combine Enterprise Architecture, Platform Engineering and Integration as well as our technology expertise.As the head of this key position, you will significantly shape the future IT landscape of BLKB. You connect strategic orientation with consistent implementation and, together with your team, ensure that our IT is further developed along the business strategy – technologically future-proof, resilient and with a clear focus on business value.
Head of Enterprise Architecture & Platform Services (80% – 100%)
Your area of responsibility
You ...
- lead the department both professionally and disciplinarily with responsibility for enterprise and domain architecture, platform engineering and integration. You develop your employees and teams purposefully and strengthen collaboration as well as effective working methods in IT and beyond.
- bear overall responsibility for the department and ensure the stability, further development and sustainable orientation of our platform and integration services. In doing so, you combine current operational requirements with long-term goals.
- further develop our IT landscape with around 300+ specialist applications along the corporate and IT strategy and manage it with regard to business value, standardisation, complexity, risks and costs.
- are responsible for architecture and technology governance, lead the architecture board and continuously develop target images, principles, standards and methods.
- manage our technology portfolio and the lifecycle of the technology stack and further develop modern platform and integration services such as API management, workflow orchestration as well as cloud and data platforms.
- monitor technological developments, especially in cloud, platform technologies and artificial intelligence, and assess their benefits for BLKB. You ensure that relevant innovations are sustainably integrated into architecture, governance and operations.
- actively shape the IT strategy, accompany strategic projects architecturally and create decision-making bases for specialist departments, security, management and partners.
- translate complex technical contexts into clear decision-making bases, provide orientation and make comprehensible and viable decisions even in the face of differing interests.
Your profile
You ...
- have a university degree in computer science, business informatics or a comparable field, ideally supplemented by further training in enterprise architecture, technology management or business administration.
- bring several years of leadership experience in a demanding IT environment. You develop people and teams, strengthen collaboration and combine clear orientation with personal responsibility.
- have proven experience in enterprise architecture and have successfully implemented target images, roadmaps and effective governance.
- are familiar with modern software development, DevSecOps and CI/CD as well as cloud, platform and integration architectures from practice. You understand the technical contexts and can classify them at a strategic level.
- have a good understanding of security, compliance, operational risks and resilience; experience in the banking environment is a plus.
- think strategically, act entrepreneurially and implement consistently. You combine long-term goals with pragmatic, implementable solutions and actively contribute where orientation, coordination and prioritisation are required.
- convince with leadership, communication skills and a confident manner up to management level and know how to win different stakeholders for joint solutions.
- are fluent in German and can confidently operate in an international IT environment in English.
What we offer you
- Flexible: We are committed to flexible working time models. We are open to home office and remote work, your workload can be adjusted and we ensure your successful comeback after a break or parental leave.
- Digital: We are going full throttle on the megatrend of digitalisation. We drive the automation of our business model forward, invest in technologies and adapt our organisation towards agile working methods.
- Innovative: With us, you will find an innovation-friendly climate and your ideas are in demand. We are big enough to tackle complex issues and at the same time small enough for you to make a significant individual impact.
- Forward-looking: Probably no other bank offers as many training opportunities as we do. Our employees confirm this with excellent scores in the training criterion on kununu.
- Casual: Our dress code is quite relaxed. Just like the interaction among each other with the wonderfully uncomplicated "du" culture.
Do you have questions?
For questions about the application process
Timo Degen (Human Resources)
Tel. +41 61 925 89 74
For technical enquiries
Patrick Sulzer (IT)
Tel. +41 61 925 92 80
