Technical Solutions Consultant
Zürich - Switzerland
Job Summary
Avaloq is seeking an experienced Technical Solution Consultant to join the Global Solutions Consulting organisation.
The role is responsible for endtoend solution design commercial support and RFP/RFI execution for complex banking opportunities across private banking wealth management and universal banking clients.
The successful candidate will act as a trusted technical and solution advisor to clients and internal stakeholders owning solution integrity across functional technical commercial and delivery dimensions.
Your key tasks
Sales & Client Engagement
- Act as a customerfacing solution authority supporting Avaloq sales opportunities primarily within Europe and North America. Involvement in other regions may be necessary when requried.
- Lead or contribute to client workshops solution presentations and duediligence sessions both remote and onsite.
- Translate client business regulatory and IT requirements into viable Avaloqbased solution architectures.
- Act as a trusted advisor for senior client stakeholders including CIO COO Head of Operations and Enterprise Architecture.
RFP RFI & Deal Support
- Manage and deliver RFP / RFI / Technical Questionnaire responses with high quality consistency and regulatory defensibility.
- Own solution positioning differentiators and assumptions ensuring clarity between standard configurable and custom capabilities.
- Prepare deal gate material (solution scope complexity risks assumptions cost drivers) in alignment with Sales and Delivery.
- Ensure all solution proposals comply with Avaloq commercial legal risk and governance frameworks.
Solution Architecture & Design
- Design endtoend solutions covering:
- Avaloq Core Platform (ACP)
- Digital Channels (Web / RM Workplace)
- Community API integration and messaging patterns
- Data analytics reporting and regulatory tooling
- Hosting models: SaaS BPaaS managed services onpremises / clienthosted
- Define nonfunctional requirements including:
- Security IAM data protection and regulatory compliance
- High availability DR performance and scalability
- Operational model support and change processes
- Partner closely with Delivery Product Management Hosting and Security teams to ensure solution feasibility and integrity.
Internal Stakeholder Management
- Act as primary solution Point-of-Contact for internal dealmaking teams coordinating input from Product Architecture Security Legal and Delivery.
- Manage internal alignments reviews and approvals ensuring auditability and traceability of decisions.
- Follow and enforce internal processes governance and handover disciplines to Delivery.
Qualifications :
Domain & Industry
- Strong experience in private banking wealth management or financial services IT.
- Solid understanding of banking operations regulatory environments (e.g. FINMA ECB MAS FCA) and IT controls.
Technology Expertise
The candidate must demonstrate handson experience with technologies commonly used within Avaloq solutions including:
- Core banking platforms (Avaloq or comparable tier1 systems)
- APIbased integration messaging and eventdriven architectures
- Digital banking channels and clientfacing platforms
- Cloud and hosting concepts (OCI AWS Azure hybrid models)
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes including:
- Container orchestration concepts networking and security
- High availability resilience and scaling patterns
- Operational concerns: monitoring logging upgrades and lifecycle management
- Experience positioning and designing solutions running on:
- Managed Kubernetes services (e.g. OpenShift EKS AKS or equivalent)
- Hybrid or onpremises Kubernetes environments
- Ability to articulate Kubernetes value propositions risks and operational implications clearly to clients and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Security architecture IAM data protection and compliance controls
- Infrastructure sizing performance and highavailability design
- Modern enterprise technologies (Kubernetes containerisation observability CI/CD)
Professional Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills suitable for Csuite regulators and client decisionmakers.
- Strong presentation and storytelling ability translating complexity into clear defensible narratives.
- Proven ability to manage multiple parallel engagements under time pressure.
- High level of autonomy accountability and professionalism.
- Ability to operate confidently in ambiguous highstakes deal environments.
Education & Experience
- Degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or equivalent experience.
- Typically 710 years experience in solution consulting presales or architecture roles.
- Prior experience working in international matrixorganised environments is strongly preferred.
Language & Cultural Capability
- Fluent English is mandatory; additional European languages are strongly preferred particularly:
- German (highly desirable for Swiss and DACH clients)
- French (Switzerland / France / Benelux)
- Italian or Spanish (southern Europe coverage)
- Ability to operate comfortably in multilingual multicultural client environments including adapting communication style for different regions.
- Experience working with regulated European financial institutions is a strong advantage.
Additional Information :
We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.
We hire compensate and promote regardless of origin age gender identity sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.
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Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
About Company
Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 12 countries, and more than 170 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial insti ... View more