Senior System Architect - Business Rule Management Platform 100% (f/m/d) - (Contract through our external payroll partner with immediate start for 12 months with possible extension)

18 February 2026
100%
Zürich

Job summary

Join Julius Baer as a System Architect in IT Architecture. Shape the future of wealth management with us!

Tasks

Design and manage Solution Architectures for applications.
Ensure adherence to architecture standards and target designs.
Advise software engineers on implementation and feasibility.

Skills

2+ years in banking compliance and 3+ years as a senior architect.
Strong integration design skills, especially with APIs.
Experience in solution design and architectural styles.

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About the job

At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together.

You are a member of the System Architects team within global IT Architecture. Together with your colleagues from the Domain and Foundation Architecture teams, you are responsible for designing Solution Architectures.

As a System Architect, you build bridges to Software Engineering and ensure that software solutions follow the target architecture.

Design an on-prem rules and validation platform (based on Actico Platform) for compliance controls, including order eligibility checks, sanction checks and staff transaction rules.

IHRE AUFGABEN

You design and are responsible for the Solution Architecture for applications in delivery

You ensure that your Solution Architectures in delivery adhere to architecture standards and are aligned with the target architectures of the domain

You raise and manage architecture debt when there is a misalignment between transition and the target architectures

You initiate architecture decisions, document them as Architecture Decision Records (ADR) and have them approved by the relevant architecture boards

You advise and coach software engineers on the implementation of Solution Architectures and ensure technical feasibility

In addition to architecture design, you also support later phases of the software lifecycle, such as testing, release and operations

YOUR PROFILE

2+ years of experience in banking compliance or control environments, with 3+ years of experience as a senior architect as well as a lead or senior software engineer

Strong integration design skills (APIs and event-based integration, including Kafka)

Proven experience in solution design and knowledge of current architectural styles, such as event-driven, microservices, and modular monolith

Ability to identify options for solution architectures and make trade-off architecture decisions

Understanding and experience in software engineering, including DevOps

Ability to analyse complex business requirements and translate them into technical solutions

Experience with rules/validation concepts (rule execution, decision outcomes, traceability)

Experience with eligibility checks in trading/order flows

Ability to collaboratively develop and coordinate solutions with business and technology stakeholders, and architecture colleagues

Proactive mindset, with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines

Optional: Hands-on experience with Actico Platform and Flowable BPMN Engine (Enterprise Edition)

Fluency in English (written and verbal); German language skills are desirable

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