Head of Competence Center, Cloud Engineering
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Head of Cloud Engineering leading Axians Switzerland’s cloud services and customer platforms. Managing a seven-person team and driving cloud operations, innovation, governance, and service portfolio development.
Responsibilities:
- Disciplinary and functional leadership of the Cloud Engineering team comprising seven employees
- Coaching, performance reviews, employee development, and personnel reporting
- Responsibility for recruitment and strategic workforce, capacity, and resource planning
- Fostering a high-performing engineering culture with a strong service and customer focus
- Further developing the service and performance portfolio together with the Business Line
- Ensuring the reliable operation, continuous development, and innovation of customer platforms
- Ensuring sustainable knowledge and competency management within the team
- Defining, establishing, and enforcing professional and methodological standards and best practices
- Promoting innovation and identifying new technologies and market trends
- Ensuring compliance with normative, regulatory, and strategic requirements
- Contributing to budget planning, investment decisions, and the strategic development of the area of responsibility
- Promoting cross-functional collaboration and organization-wide knowledge transfer
- Managing escalations involving complex technical or organizational challenges
- Continuously developing processes, policies, and governance models
- Actively contributing to technical solution approaches and acting as a sparring partner on challenging projects
Requirements:
- Several years of leadership and hands-on experience in an engineering or infrastructure environment
- Industry experience in IT, ideally in a managed services environment
- Completed higher professional education (HF/FH) in Computer Science or an equivalent qualification
- In-depth understanding of modern cloud, platform, and infrastructure services
- Experience leading and developing technical teams and specialist functions
- Experience in knowledge, competency, and talent management is an advantage
- Demonstrated experience leading technical specialists
- Strong affinity for standardization, quality management, and automation
- Analytical, structured, and solution-oriented approach to work
- Very good written and spoken German and English
- Connected, strategic, and entrepreneurial mindset
- Ability to take visible responsibility and build trust through reliability
- Ability to develop employees and promote ownership
- Ability to address conflicts openly, make clear decisions, and implement them consistently
- Excellent communication skills at all levels
Benefits:
- Flexible working hours based on a 40-hour workweek, with part-time options
- Location-independent working, with the option to work from home or remotely from Switzerland
- 25 days of annual vacation (27 days from age 40 and 30 days from age 50)
- 13 paid public holidays and the option to take additional unpaid leave
- 100% salary continuation during three weeks of paternity leave / 16 weeks of maternity leave
- State-of-the-art hardware and a paid mobile phone plan, including a contribution toward a smartphone
- Above-average pension fund benefits, with the employer covering 60% and the employee 40%
- Private supplementary accident insurance
- Free charging for your electric vehicle at the Gerlafingen and Aarau locations
- Discounted access to fitness and physiotherapy center services
- Brands for employees & benefits at work
- Wellbeing@Work with Mario Kart racing, a silent room, foosball, aperitifs, and team events
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