About the role

  • Lead Software Engineer shaping technical direction for Avaloq ecosystem at LGT Wealth Management. Oversee design, integration, and operational maturity across various banking capabilities.

Responsibilities

  • 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.

Benefits

  • Ongoing development of employees
  • Diverse and inclusive work environment

Job title

Lead Software Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

Location requirements

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