Do you want to run the asynchronous integration backbone of a modern private bank — and still write code? For our Data & AI Platforms department in Zürich, we are looking for a hands-on Head Data Integration Platform: a player-coach who leads a compact senior team operating the bank's event streaming, messaging and file-transfer rails, turns them into a self-service platform other teams love to build on, and enables the retirement of our legacy integration layer. What would your role be? Lead a compact, senior engineering team that owns three integration lanes for the entire bank: event streaming (Kafka), transactional messaging (JMS/AMQ), and file transfer — internally through our self-built, event-driven delivery platform, externally through managed file transfer with banks, custodians and market infrastructure. Stay hands-on: you design, review and regularly contribute code alongside your engineers — this is a player-coach role in a team where everyone builds. Productize our in-house event-driven delivery platform: documentation, SLOs, shared ownership, observability and a roadmap that keeps it the front door for internal asynchronous integration. Turn the rails into paved roads: self-service topic and queue provisioning, onboarding templates, partner file-exchange workflows and golden paths that let delivery teams integrate without waiting on tickets. Evolve the platform deliberately: harden what runs today, reduce single-person dependencies, and shape the path of our streaming estate towards managed cloud services when capacity and regulation allow. Own the integration guardrails and decision framework: workloads are routed by pattern — volume, latency, delivery guarantees, transactional behavior — not by habit or escalation, in close collaboration with architecture, security and compliance. Build a resilient, T-shaped team: paired ownership per lane, a shared engineering substrate (OpenShift, GitOps, CI/CD, observability) and a service mindset towards the teams who build on your platform.
At Vontobel, you are building better futures for our clients and society , as well as for yourself. As a family-owned and publicly listed company with over 2,000 professionals based in 28 locations globally and headquartered in Zurich , we’re committed to long -term thinking and sustainability . Our diverse team values unique perspectives , and we hire individuals determined to deliver in a dynamic and changing world . Even if you don’t meet all the criteria , we encourage you to apply if you’re enthusiastic about the role .
