Lead Software Engineer

Role Overview

• Lead Avaloq engineering by setting technical direction, defining engineering standards and ensuring high levels of code quality, documentation, testing and release readiness.
• Provide leadership across the Avaloq codebase to maintain consistency, integrity and long‑term sustainability.
• Drive major technical decisions for platform enhancements, integrations, client‑facing capabilities and automation initiatives.
• Design and deliver complex solutions that meet business and regulatory requirements, including Avaloq Core Platform configuration, AvaloqScript / ACP parameterisation and integration design.
• Guide end‑to‑end architecture across Avaloq, ESB, APIs, IAM, reporting and downstream systems, assessing risks, trade‑offs and long‑term impacts.
• Act as the senior engineering owner for platform stability and operational excellence, partnering with support teams on incident triage, root‑cause analysis, release/change management and environment readiness.
• Improve monitoring, logging, alerting and operational runbooks, and proactively identify and communicate platform risks.
• Support audit, compliance and control activities across the engineering lifecycle.
• Champion engineering quality by driving automated testing, validation controls, regression protection and consistent quality gates.
• Mentor and uplift engineers, supporting capability development, recruitment, workforce planning and technical assessments.
• Foster a collaborative, accountable and improvement‑focused team culture.
• Lead agile delivery and stakeholder engagement by contributing to planning, prioritisation, retrospectives, demos and design workshops.
• Translate technical concepts into clear language for business stakeholders and build strong relationships across business, operations, architecture, security and external partners.
• Influence prioritisation by making technical complexity, dependencies and risks visible.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience in Avaloq development across multiple functional domains
• Deep expertise in Avaloq Core Platform, including platform configuration, codebase stewardship and production support
• Strong experience in AvaloqScript / ACP parameterisation and enterprise solution delivery in an Avaloq environment
• Strong technical knowledge of Oracle SQL and PL/SQL
• Proven experience leading engineering design and delivery for complex enterprise platforms
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a senior technical leader in financial services or a similarly regulated environment
• Strong understanding of SDLC, agile delivery practices, change control, release management and operational support
• Proven capability to lead engineers, influence stakeholders and drive consistent engineering standards
• Avaloq Certified Professional (ACP) certification is required.
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a closely related field.
• Agile certifications are highly desirable.

Tech Stack

• Oracle
• SDLC
• SQL

Benefits

• Ongoing development of employees
• Diverse and inclusive work environment