IT Consultant – Enterprise Solution Architect

About the role

Forty2, a consulting company with over a decade of experience in Financial Services and a global presence in Europe and APAC, is looking for an experienced IT Consultant – Enterprise Solution Architect. The role supports a strategic technology transformation programme for a leading client in the Swiss private banking sector, designing scalable, secure and sustainable IT solutions that align business objectives, technology strategy and enterprise architecture standards.

Key responsibilities

• Design scalable, reliable and secure IT solutions aligned with business requirements.
• Lead architecture modernisation and support the adoption of DevOps, private and public cloud technologies.
• Provide technical and functional guidance to development teams and project managers.
• Collaborate with Security, Data Governance, Compliance, Legal, Operational Resilience and IT Delivery teams.
• Ensure alignment between solution architecture, target functional architecture and enterprise technology strategy.
• Maintain architecture documentation and repositories using Confluence, My-Carto and related tools.
• Drive architecture governance, standardisation and simplification.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, IT or a related field.
• 5-10 years of experience in Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture or Technical Leadership.
• 5-10 years of experience in Swiss or international private banking, especially Wealth Management, Asset Management, Trading, Treasury and Back-Office operations.
• Relevant certifications such as TOGAF, AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Solution Architect.
• Fluent French and English are mandatory.

Required skills

• Programming: Java.NET, JavaScript, Vue.js and Python (all five mandatory).
• Enterprise architecture: SOA, APIs, ESB and system integration.
• Cloud and infrastructure: VMware ESX, vCenter, Kubernetes, OpenShift and Microsoft Cloud.
• Databases: Oracle, SQL Server, MongoDB and Elasticsearch.
• DevOps and methodologies: Azure DevOps, Git, GitHub Copilot, Agile and Waterfall.
• Security: Security by Design and Zero Trust principles.
• Leadership, stakeholder management and communication.