Hybrid Solution Architect – 80–100%

at Vaudoise Assurances

• Job title: Solution Architect – 80–100%
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Tech skills: Angular, Azure, Cloud, ERP, Guidewire, React
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Lausanne, Switzerland

About the role

• Solution Architect designing and implementing enterprise architecture in a digital transformation context at Vaudoise in Switzerland. Collaborating across teams and technologies for strategic architecture alignment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to evaluate and select solutions and technologies
• Design and lead the implementation of application, technology and data integration architectures across a group of applications or specific enterprise technologies in line with company strategy
• Provide architectural guidance to project teams
• Advise technical and infrastructure architects to ensure solution implementations align with the enterprise-wide architecture
• Understand, advocate for and reinforce IT strategy principles
• Analyze the IT landscape (manage, develop and transform the organization) to identify critical failures and recommend improvement measures
• Provide hands-on expertise and contribute to maintaining the architecture repository (standards, best practices, catalogs, etc.)

Requirements

• Advanced degree in computer science or related field (University of Applied Sciences / HES, Bachelor's/Master's, EPFL)
• 10+ years of IT experience, including at least 5 years in a technical/solutions architect role
• Experience on large-scale transformation projects
• Strong knowledge of inter-application data integration
• Cloud experience (Microsoft Azure and SaaS solutions) and experience in API design and implementation
• Front-end knowledge (Microfrontends, React, Angular)
• Experience with ERP systems (ideally Guidewire) and CRM systems (ideally Microsoft Dynamics)
• Experience managing an enterprise architecture repository, preferably using a product (Sparx, IRIS, LeanIX, BiZZdesign, etc.)
• Excellent analytical, planning and organizational skills
• Ability to understand both short- and long-term perspectives for architectures to be implemented
• Comfortable in written and verbal communication; recognized for strong interpersonal communication skills

Benefits

• A healthy working environment in a mutual insurance company certified as a "Top Employer"
• Multiple social benefits, including flexibility in work organization
• Work within a dynamic and passionate team
• Human-centered values focused on employee well-being