System Architect Wüest Dimensions 80-100 (w m d)

📋 Description

• • Architect the future of Switzerland’s leading real-estate data platform. You will own the end-to-end technical vision for Wüest Dimensions, a cloud-native SaaS solution that ingests, enriches, and visualizes millions of property records for banks, insurers, and public administrations. Your blueprints will directly influence how 400+ internal users and 1 200+ external clients experience market transparency.
• • Design, document, and continuously evolve a scalable, event-driven micro-service architecture on Microsoft Azure (AKS, Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB). You will balance green-field modules with legacy monoliths, introducing strangler-fig patterns, domain-driven design, and API-first contracts that allow parallel feature streams without downtime.
• • Champion containerization and Kubernetes orchestration. You will standardize base images, Helm charts, and GitOps workflows so every pull request results in a reproducible, security-scanned container that can be promoted from dev to prod in under 15 minutes. Expect to tune HPA, VPA, and cluster autoscaling to handle 10× traffic spikes during quarterly market releases.
• • Build bullet-proof CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions. You will codify build, test, security-scan, and deploy stages, integrate blue-green and canary strategies, and embed quality gates (SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Chaos Mesh) that prevent regressions from ever reaching customers.
• • Establish enterprise-grade observability. You will wire Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, and Application Insights into a single pane of glass that surfaces SLI/SLO violations before users notice. On-call rotation is lightweight because your runbooks and self-healing automation resolve 80 % of alerts autonomously.
• • Embed DevSecOps into the engineering DNA. You will define least-privilege IAM policies, enforce container image scanning, orchestrate secret management with Azure Key Vault, and deliver threat-model workshops so every developer thinks like an attacker.
• • Mentor and enable 10+ cross-functional squads. You will run architecture guilds, brown-bag sessions, and pair-programming clinics that upskill backend, frontend, and data engineers on cloud patterns, cost optimization, and performance tuning.
• • Drive continuous modernization. You will evaluate emerging tech (Dapr, KEDA, WebAssembly, eBPF) in quarterly spikes, run proof-of-concepts, and present business-cased recommendations to the CTO. Your decisions keep the platform three steps ahead of market demands.
• • Collaborate with product, security, and compliance teams to translate regulatory requirements (FINMA, GDPR, ISO 27001) into technical controls. You will design audit-ready logging and immutable evidence pipelines that satisfy both internal risk officers and external auditors.
• • Own cost governance. You will tag, budget, and right-size Azure resources, implement FinOps dashboards, and lead monthly reviews that cut cloud spend by 15 % while doubling transaction throughput.
• • Foster a culture of psychological safety and inclusive innovation. You will facilitate blameless post-mortems, encourage diverse viewpoints, and ensure every voice—from intern to principal—is heard in architectural decisions.