Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zuhlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We''re trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrows markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses. If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey. The role We are on the lookout for an experienced and motivated Lead Software Architect. In this role you will be responsible for the overall design and technical success of software projects from initial concept through to delivery, ensuring alignment with business goals and technical requirements. This includes defining the system architecture, guiding development teams on implementation, and making key decisions on tools, frameworks, and technologies. You will also play a crucial role in ensuring scalability, security, and performance, while collaborating with stakeholders, steering the projects technical direction, and ensuring overall client satisfaction and project success.. How youll make impact You will be responsible for the development of complex IT architectures in innovative software solutions and for providing strategic technological advice to our customers. You will manage teams from a technical perspective from kick off to roll out and will be in close contact with the project management team. With your leadership skills, you will win over, inspire and mobilize your project team and our customers for ideas. By coaching your team members in Software Engineering and Architecture and in the application of agile principles, you will make a decisive contribution to the success of a wide range of projects. With your skills and experience, you will further develop our Zuhlke network of experts and work on group wide initiatives for the continuous improvement of software development. Whats important to us You have a degree (FH, Uni, ETH or similar) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. You have a t least five years of experience as a Software Engineer and/or Architect You have k nowledge in the development of highly available and secure cloud solutions as well as expertise in software architectures and documentation (especially in microservices and domain driven design as well as with tools such as UML and Arc42) You are very experienced in the Backend (e.g. Java, Spring Boot, SQL/NoSQL databases and Apache Kafka) and ideally also i