Leiterin Engineering (w/m)

We are looking for a Director of Engineering to lead and support our software engineering teams. This role is key to strengthening and scaling alignment between engineering and product ensuring teams are empowered to deliver efficiently and effectively. Your leadership will focus on fostering a collaborative positive culture without micro-management enhancing both team satisfaction and product quality.

Why This Role Matters

To advance our product we need dedicated leadership that can unify engineering efforts with product goals. This role will provide essential visibility promote best practices and help teams maintain clear focus on the highest-impact priorities. Your work will directly improve the teams experience and contribute to the success of the Wealth Platform.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Management:

Supervise mentor and strategically align multiple engineering teams.

Foster innovation accountability continuous improvement (kaizen) and a dissatisfaction with the status quo.

Collaborate with stakeholders to clearly define priorities and direction.

Delivery Excellence:

Ensure efficient and high-quality delivery of the product roadmap.

Proactively identify and remove roadblocks optimizing team workflows and productivity.

Define and support team-owned KPIs that help teams inspect learn and continuously improve.

Operating Model Optimization:

Define refine and optimize the engineering operating model ensuring alignment across teams.

Apply reverse Conways law to proactively shape organizational structures for improved delivery and collaboration.

AI Advocacy and Practice:

Act as a knowledgeable AI practitioner promoting and advocating its responsible and effective usage within engineering processes.

Continuously evaluate opportunities for leveraging AI to enhance product and operational outcomes.

Hybrid Deployment Expertise:

Guide teams in building scalable high-quality and maintainable hybrid solutions (on-premises and cloud).

Maintain high operational standards ensuring compatibility and performance across deployments.

Release Lifecycle Management:

Own the end-to-end release process including planning execution and continuous improvement.

Coordinate cross-functional efforts to streamline deployment cycles and minimize friction.

Cross-Team Collaboration:

Serve as a key liaison between engineering and other departments ensuring effective communication and alignment.

Partner closely with the platform team to leverage shared services and integrations.

Technical Leadership:

Promote best practices in coding testing deployment and the use of AI.

Foster a culture that values innovation quality continuous learning and relentless improvement

Qualifications :

Proven experience managing several engineering teams.

Strong understanding and practical application of reverse Conways law.

Demonstrated expertise in defining and optimizing organizational operating models.

Practical experience with AI technologies and a willingness to advocate their proper use.

Strong commitment to continuous improvement (kaizen) and driving change beyond the status quo

Why us

We respect work-life balance we work autonomously on what we enjoy most we are innovative and we are proud to offer a very robust risk engine.

Work with a talented friendly and international teams.

Take on meaningful ownership and influence outcomes of our product outcomes.

Enjoy a hybrid work model with flexibility (3 days in-office).

Join a culture that values autonomy initiative and continuous improvement.

Participate in team-building activities and a supportive peer-driven environment.

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Additional Information :

Evooq is a global provider of technology-driven solutions for wealth managers. We are building an ecosystem that combines data technology and investment expertise to make personalised investment scalable.

Wealth managers use our solutions to deliver personalised advice to investors with high-quality content and the best investment products.

We are headquartered in Lausanne with additional offices in Zurich and Singapore. We operate as a group of highly autonomous teams that take responsibility for their projects and interact with each other based on mutual trust.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time