Defining, creating and providing oversight and governance of engineering and design solutions with a focus on end-to-end automation, simplification, resilience, security, performance, scalability and reusability
Working within a platform or feature team along with software engineers to design and engineer complex software, scripts and tools to enable the delivery of bank platforms, applications and services, acting as a point of contact for solution design considerations
Defining and developing architecture models and roadmaps of application and software components to meet business and technical requirements, driving common usability across products and domains, working together with business stakeholders to articulate needs and shape excellent outcomes
Designing, producing, testing and implementing the working code, along with applying Agile methods to the development of software with the use of DevOps techniques
Providing coaching and guidance for engineers
The skills you'll need
You'll come with significant experience in software engineering, software or database design and architecture, as well as experience of developing software within a DevOps and Agile framework.
Along with an expert understanding of the latest market trends, technologies and tools, you'll bring significant and demonstrable experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance.
You'll also need:
Extensive technical experience in Avaloq Transactional Metatypes including STEX, FX, Money Market and PFM, as well as Advisory
Experience with FIX and SWIFT interfaces
A strong background in leading software development teams in a matrix structure, introducing and executing technical strategies
Strong communication skills in an English-speaking and written environment
Significant and demonstrable experience of test-driven development and using automated test frameworks, mocking and stubbing and unit testing tools
The ability to rapidly and effectively understand and translate product and business requirements into technical solutions
A background of working with code repositories, bug tracking tools and wikis
Hours
41
Job Posting Closing Date:
05/06/2026
Additional Information
Join us as a Senior Avaloq Engineer
This is a challenging role that will see you design and engineer software with the customer or user experience as the primary objective
You'll actively contribute to our architecture, design and engineering centre of excellence, collaborating to improve the bank's overall software engineering capability
You'll gain valuable stakeholder exposure as you build and leverage relationships, as well as the opportunity to hone your technical talents
Royal Bank Of Scotland · Zurich, Switzerland