L4 Technical Lead / Cross-Domain Architect (m/w/d) – Winterthur Area
$62,400–$62,400 year
On-siteWallisellen, Zurich, Switzerland
Job Summary
Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, storage, and compute domains. Define and maintain enterprise design patterns, architecture standards, and operational best practices. Review and validate cross-domain technical decisions, ensuring alignment with business, security, and operational requirements. Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues, major incidents, and strategic infrastructure initiatives. Mentor and guide L2 and L3 engineering teams, promoting knowledge sharing and technical excellence. Ensure infrastructure architectures are secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally sustainable. Collaborate with operational, engineering, and customer stakeholders to drive consistent technical direction. Support governance forums, service reviews, architecture boards, and technical strategy discussions. Maintain architecture documentation, standards, roadmaps, and technical governance frameworks.
Required Qualifications
- Extensive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture and technical leadership roles
- Broad expertise across multiple technology domains, including networking, security, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud, and container platforms
- Strong understanding of architecture governance, service operations, resilience, high availability, and lifecycle management
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and resolve complex infrastructure challenges
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills
- Experience operating in large-scale, mission-critical enterprise environments
- German language proficiency at minimum B2 level
- Swiss citizenship
- Based in, or regularly available within, the Winterthur region
Desired Qualifications
- TOGAF® or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification
- ITIL® 4 Managing Professional and/or ITIL® 4 Strategic Leader
- Expert-level domain certifications such as: Cisco CCIE (Enterprise Infrastructure or Data Center)
- CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist)
- Fortinet FCX / FCSS
- F5 Certified Solution Expert (F5-CSE)
- NetApp NCIE
- Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
- Additional Security, Network, Storage, or Compute infrastructure certifications
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