St. Gallen und Zürich-Flughafen (Circle)
Head of Enterprise Architecture and Technology Management (m/f/d)
- 28 September 2026
- 100%
- Permanent position
- German (Fluent)
- St. Gallen und Zürich-Flughafen (Circle)
About the job
For the further development of our IT architecture, we are looking for an experienced leader with strategic foresight and a solid understanding of architecture and technology.In this key position, you lead and develop the group-wide enterprise architecture function and are responsible for technology management as well as architecture governance.
Together with your team, you shape the long-term development of our IT landscape and ensure that business strategy, processes, data, applications, and technologies follow a common target vision.
This creates the foundation for stable, secure, and future-proof solutions.
Head of Enterprise Architecture and Technology Management (m/f/d)
What can you expect?
- Professional and disciplinary leadership and further development of a team of 12 enterprise and domain architects
- Strategic further development of the IT landscape with around 500 business applications and a broad technology portfolio, aligned with the group and IT strategy
- Management of the IT landscape considering business value, standardisation, complexity, risks, and costs
- Responsibility for architecture and technology governance including chairing the architecture and technology board
- Further development of the architecture metamodel, methods, standards, and architectural principles of the Raiffeisen Group
- Responsibility for technology management including technology portfolio, technology standards, and lifecycle management of the group-wide technology stack
- Co-design of the IT strategy as well as architectural control of strategic transformation initiatives and ensuring architecture-compliant solutions
- Assessment of relevant technological developments, especially in the areas of cloud, platforms, and artificial intelligence, and their sustainable integration into architecture, governance, and operating models
- Active stakeholder management across business, IT, security, leadership committees, and external partners as well as preparation of convincing decision-making bases
What do you bring with you?
- University degree in computer science, business informatics, or a comparable field; further training in enterprise architecture, technology management, or business administration is an advantage
- Several years of leadership and budget responsibility in a demanding IT environment
- Proven experience in enterprise architecture as well as in the strategic development and management of complex IT landscapes
- Demonstrable success in developing and implementing architecture strategies, target visions, and roadmaps as well as in building effective architecture and technology governance
- Solid understanding of modern software development, DevSecOps, and CI/CD as well as experience with cloud and platform architectures
- Experience in a regulated environment is an advantage and a good understanding of security, compliance, operational risks, and resilience
- Strategic and entrepreneurial thinking, strong leadership and communication skills, and the ability to reconcile different interests and consistently drive change forward
- Confident appearance, high analytical competence, and convincing communication at all hierarchical levels up to executive management; very good German skills, at least level C1.
We offer flexible working models
The work-life balance of our employees is important to us. Therefore, we create the conditions for flexible working hours – with options for mobile working, home office, and part-time positions.
We foster a family-like environment
The cooperative values are our cornerstones: Together. For each other. They shape our collaboration and our interactions. The informal "Du" culture creates personal closeness and equality across all functional levels.
We live diversity and equal opportunities
We promote the different perspectives, experiences, and skills in our teams. Because this diversity makes us special and contributes decisively to our success.
We offer collective profit sharing instead of individual bonuses
We focus on collective performance. Therefore, we have collective profit sharing instead of individual bonus payments. This promotes a healthy corporate culture in which overarching goals are pursued together.
We support personal and professional development
Lifelong learning is part of our culture. We create space for individual professional and personal development and support our employees specifically – with a diverse internal training offer as well as a cost contribution for external further training.
We make "healthy living & working" a programme
With our holistic offer "healthy living & working" we support our employees in finding and maintaining a healthy balance between work and private life in the long term.
Do you have questions?
For content-related questions about the position:
Sarah Luschnig
Senior HR Business Partner
+41 (71) 225 89 45
For questions about the application process:
Ana Olmo
Recruiting Partner
+41 (71) 2258340
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