Lead Database Architect (80-100%)

At TWINT, we believe that innovation should simplify our lives and coexistence. It should help us focus on the things that truly matter: the experiences that move us, the people close to us, and everything that brings us together. That's why we ensure that our daily lives continually become easier – because payment and everything around it gets seamlessly integrated into our lives. So that each one of us can make more out of the moment. For ourselves, for others, and for all of Switzerland. 

Together, we guide the development and continuous improvement of a high-performance, scalable, and secure payment system. To ensure the satisfaction of our ever-growing user base, we've recently reorganized into Value Streams and are expanding our development teams.  

The Chapter Technology & Architecture vision is to provide an indispensable and seamless app experience that actively engages our users and enriches their daily lives. By continuously optimizing the entire customer lifecycle, perfecting core functionalities, and creating inspiring value-added services, we aim to achieve maximum customer retention and satisfaction.  

In pursuit of our vision, we are searching for Lead Database Architect (80-100%), based in Zurich or Bern.

Your role:

• You are a member of the "Technology & Architecture" team and define the target architecture of TWINT on Azure and OCI together with the other lead architects

• Your experience and knowledge of best practices in building resilient and scalable systems will help us make the right architectural decisions

• Establish and govern data management, data architecture, and lineage

• Responsible for the strategy and overall engineering of DBs across all TWINT systems

• Rearchitecting current systems, selection of optimal persistence layer types on a use-case basis

• Responsible for the lifecycle and demand/forecast management, as well as dynamic scaling for all used databases

• Functional Management over DB engineers and architects in the company

• Support engineering teams during feature implementation and lead our architects across teams via the DB chapter

Your Profile:

• Completed computer science degree (Bachelor or Master) with several years of hands-on and project experience, ideally in the payment environment

• Profound, multi-year practical and project experience in database engineering in a business and technically complex environment, software engineering skills advantageous

• Substantial experience in Oracle & OCI engineering (ExaData), as well as the Azure DB offerings

• Experience in setting up performance-optimized data models

• Hands-on attitude, taking responsibility and displaying personal initiative, independence and entrepreneurial spirit

• Strong leadership and technical leadership skills

• Analytical and structured way of working, practice-oriented solution finding and excellent communication skills

• Proficient level of English (German advantageous)

 What awaits you: 

• Career and development: Shape your professional future through exciting tasks and challenges, as well as comprehensive further education opportunities in an innovative technology company. 

• Work-life balance: Enjoy 6 weeks of vacation time and benefit from flexible working hours with the option to work from home. 

• Balancing work and family: Benefit from additional perks such as increased family allowances and more parental leave. 

• Team spirit and positive work atmosphere: Experience a collegial and healthy work culture, accompanied by regular events that strengthen collaboration. 

• Fair and competitive compensation: At TWINT, we focus on a fair wage culture & fair pay. We also offer attractive additional benefits. 

• Central locations: Our offices are located in the heart of Zurich and Bern and are easily accessible by public transport