Lead Enterprise Architect (m/f/d) 80-100% • Valora Digital
Lead Enterprise Architect (m/f/d) 80-100% • Valora Digital
Lead Enterprise Architect (m/f/d) 80-100%
With our flat hierarchies and diverse backgrounds, we make sure to take all our team members’ viewpoints into account. We offer flexible working hours and a culture centered on learning and growth. We put emphasis on creating a collaborative working atmosphere where everybody is empowered.
Key tasks and responsibilities
- Lead the development and implementation of the IT architecture strategy for multiple departments and a digital unit.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders to identify business needs and develop technology solutions and roadmaps to meet those needs and are aligned with our IT Strategy.
- Propose an implementation of shared infrastructures and applications to reduce costs and optimize technological resources and balance with sufficient flexibility and autonomy in the business.
- Foster the adopting of practices, principles and guidelines by enabling rather than controlling.
- Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends and provide recommendations for the adoption of new technologies that can drive business value.
- Manage and mentor a team of architects in a matrix organization to ensure that they have the skills and knowledge necessary to deliver high-quality solutions.
Key skills
- Master degree in Computer Science or related field
- Certification or in the process of obtaining a certifcate in TOGAF, ZACHMANN, BIAN, Archimate or equivalent
- Business fluent language skills in German and English, Spanish is welcomed but not mandatory
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
- Ability to lead and mentor a team of architects
- Customer centric and solution-oriented aptitude with demonstrated experience in providing solution based on customer needs
- Ability to work effectively with senior management and stakeholders across multiple departments
- Passion for IT & Technology with a broad understanding of the market trends and open to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Good negotiation skills
- Travel activity of 20-30%
What we offer
- A dynamic work environment with room for ideas and creativity
- Open-minded and solution-oriented working culture with flat hierarchies and highly skilled colleagues with various backgrounds to learn from
- Development opportunities and training
- Different employee benefits and discounts on Valora formats
- Fair employment conditions
- Flex model in our offices in Muttenz and/or Zurich
Each and every day, around 15,000 employees in the Valora network work to brighten up their customers' journey with a comprehensive foodvenience offering – nearby, quick, convenient and fresh. The small-scale points of sale of Valora are located at highly frequented locations in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. The company includes, among others, k kiosk, Brezelkönig, BackWerk, Ditsch, Press & Books, avec, Caffè Spettacolo, Frittenwerk and the popular own brand ok.– as well as a continuously growing range of digital services. Valora is also one of the world’s leading producers of pretzels and benefits from a well-integrated value chain in the area of baked goods. The Valora Group with its registered office in Muttenz in Switzerland is the European retail unit of Fomento Económico Mexicano, S.A.B. de C.V. (FEMSA).
Shape the future with us and brighten up someone’s journey.