Technical Architect

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Pictet Tech designs, builds, and operates the technology that underpins the Group’s core activities, from portfolio management and trading to banking services. Within Data Platforms, our ambition is to build a modern, resilient, and scalable data foundation across the Group. We are transforming our technology landscape by combining cloud and on-premise strengths, modernizing how data is stored, processed, integrated, and distributed, and raising engineering standards across all domains. You will join a team at the centre of this transformation, helping turn complex challenges into secure, reliable, and high-performing capabilities that enable teams to deliver faster and with greater confidence.

As a Technical Architect, you will drive the cloud transformation of the Group’s data platforms. You will define hybrid target architectures and lead the migration of data, processing workloads, and data flows from on-premise environments to the cloud, balancing innovation with security, resilience, and operational continuity. Working closely with domain leads, you will turn strategy into clear technology choices and pragmatic roadmaps, accelerating the shift from legacy platforms to modern cloud-native services.

You will also act as a senior engineering leader across data domains, solving complex challenges, guiding critical technical decisions, and raising engineering standards. Your role is to strengthen teams and ensure the delivery of scalable, maintainable, and operationally robust solutions.

Your role

• Shape ambitious hybrid and cloud architectures with domain leads, while keeping clear ownership of decisions and delivery.
• Guide migration strategies for on-premise databases, processing workloads, and data flows to the cloud, with strong standards for security, resilience, performance, operability, and cost efficiency.
• Define reusable patterns for data integration and processing across APIs, batch, CDC, streaming, and messaging.
• Provide hands-on support to solve complex issues, validate architecture choices, and build reference implementations teams can own.
• Lead by example through coding, design reviews, automation, and troubleshooting to raise standards and strengthen team capability.
• Ensure solutions meet high architectural and operational standards for automation, observability, reliability, performance, and maintainability.

Your profile

• Strong experience in software, platform, cloud or reliability engineering, or technical architecture, delivering complex production systems.
• Hands-on skills in software design, coding, automation, testing, CI/CD, observability, and troubleshooting.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-native architecture, infrastructure, networking, security, reliability, and performance.
• Proven ability to solve complex problems, turn ambiguity into pragmatic solutions, and build proofs of concept when needed.
• Strong public cloud experience; hands-on AWS is a clear advantage.
• Recognised technical leadership, with the ability to set standards, challenge constructively, lead by example, and support senior engineers and domain leads.
• Strong architectural judgement and communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers and senior stakeholders.
• Curious, pragmatic, and improvement-driven, with a focus on simple, scalable, maintainable, and robust solutions.
• Fluent in French and English, written and spoken.
• Swiss resident or willing and able to relocate.

Note

We will not accept any CVs via agencies

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Diversity & Inclusion

Pictet is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse environment. We respect all individuals and seek their inclusion in the workplace.