Senior Application Engineer

Senior Application Engineer - Switzerland

This role is ideal for an experienced application engineer, developer or technical business analyst who brings a broad technical skillset combined with a strategic mindset.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Manage our critical software applications around scheduling and data management
• Cover a wide range of activities from day-to-day operations to shaping the application architecture, defining long-term strategy or leading team-overarching initiatives (e.g. Cloud adoption, Security improvements, DevOps enablement)
• Work closely with business stakeholders to get the end-to-end process understanding and propose robust, scalable technical solutions, collaborating with architecture, infrastructure, development teams and external partners
• Drive modernization of our software stack including transformation to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and cloud-native deployment
• Manage software vendors (offers, contracts, quality assurance)
• Show your sense of responsibility and your team player attitude
• Be part of the 24/7 support team rotation

WHAT YOU BRING & WHO YOU ARE:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, engineering, economics or equivalent
• 5-10 years of experience as application engineer, technical business analyst, solution engineer, developer or similar hybrid role
• Solid foundation in software development, system engineering and IT architecture
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to adapt to, manage and influence a variety of business & IT stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical skills and collaborative, agile team player
• Fluent in English and German is mandatory

ONE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING ARE A BIG PLUS

• Working experience in the energy sector and/or in trading
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Azure Services and Microsoft Intune
• Experience with Azure Cloud infrastructure, ideally with Terraform for deploying infrastructure as code
• Experience with software development, testing and scripting, preferably in Python or Java