Workload: 80-100%
Our team supports Axpo’s energy trading business with mission-critical IT solutions around scheduling and data management. We are in the midst of a fascinating transformation process driven by global trends, market shifts and current energy challenges. Our IT solutions must evolve to manage increasing complexity, speed and data volume. Be part of that journey and bring our systems to the next level to support our demanding business!
This role is ideal for an experienced application engineer, developer or technical business analyst who brings a broad technical skill set combined with a strategic mindset, is keen to learn and will have a direct business impact.
What you will do:
1. Manage our critical software applications around scheduling and data management.
2. Cover a wide range of activities from day-to-day operations to shaping the application architecture, defining long-term strategy or leading team-overarching initiatives (e.g., Cloud adoption, Security improvements, DevOps enablement).
3. Work closely with business stakeholders to get the end-to-end process understanding and propose robust, scalable technical solutions, collaborating with architecture, infrastructure, development teams and external partners.
4. Drive modernization of our software stack including transformation to CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and cloud-native deployment.
5. Manage software vendors (offers, contracts, quality assurance).
6. Show your sense of responsibility and your team player attitude.
7. Be part of the 24/7 support team rotation.
What you bring & who you are:
1. Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, engineering, economics or equivalent.
2. 5-10 years of experience as application engineer, technical business analyst, solution engineer, developer or similar hybrid role.
3. Solid foundation in software development, system engineering and IT architecture.
4. Strong communication and interpersonal skills, ability to adapt to, manage and influence a variety of business & IT stakeholders.
5. Excellent analytical skills and collaborative, agile team player.
6. Fluent in English and German is mandatory.
7. One or more of the following are a big plus:
8. Working experience in the energy sector and/or in trading.
9. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Azure Services and Microsoft Intune.
10. Experience with Azure Cloud infrastructure, ideally with Terraform for deploying infrastructure as code.
11. Experience with software development, testing and scripting, preferably in Python or Java.
About the team:
You will be part of a very dedicated team which takes responsibility for critical IT applications short-term (operations) and long-term (projects). We collaborate very closely with business stakeholders, IT architects, developers, on-premises and Azure infrastructure system engineers and application vendors to get the most business value out of our IT applications.
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