Description

Be your best with Bechtle

With more than 16,000 employees, we are one of the most successful IT companies and market leaders in our sector.
The combination of direct sales of IT products and a comprehensive range of services offered by various IT service companies makes us a strong and future-proof IT partner ("zukunftsstark") for medium-sized businesses, large groups, and the public sector. We are at home throughout Europe and always close to you.

ICT Architect (m/f/d)

Be your best with bechtle

For one of our public sector clients in Geneva, we are looking for an ICT Architect (m/f/d) responsible for defining and evolving a modular and scalable architecture for bespoke development solutions, ensuring overall technical coherence and reusability of components.


Your mission

  • Drive the vision of a 3-tier, modular, and scalable application architecture, adapted to bespoke and multi-scope developments.
  • Define and frame service-oriented architectures (SOA) and microservices, including containerisation (OpenShift) and approaches such as DDD / Clean Architecture / hexagonal model.
  • Design and govern APIs and interoperability standards, integrating API Management solutions and exchange protocols (REST/SOAP, messaging as needed).
  • Ensure security and authentication/authorisation mechanisms (protocols and standards), as well as requirements for performance, high availability, scalability, and application security.
  • Support project teams and departments (facilitation, documentation, industrialisation of best practices, cross-functional repository), contribute to analyses, estimations, and investigation support, integrating resilience, observability, and distributed monitoring.

Your profile

  • University Master’s degree in computer science or EPF/HES engineering diploma (or equivalent); continuing education such as CAS is an advantage.
  • Minimum 3 to 5 years’ experience in cross-functional architecture / application architecture in complex environments (bespoke development, multi-team).
  • Proficiency in 3-tier architectures, SOA, API Management, microservices, OpenShift, and practices such as DDD / Clean Architecture / hexagonal.
  • Strong command of authentication/authorisation protocols and mechanisms (e.g. OAuth2/OIDC, SAMLv2, Kerberos) and application security issues, with a strong sensitivity to software quality and user experience.
  • Ability to structure cross-functional governance (departments, standards, documentation), manage risks and mitigation plans, with leadership, rigorous writing skills, initiative, and ease in an Agile environment.

Our offer

  • Attractive working conditions: 6 weeks’ holiday per year and an appealing pension plan
  • Development and enhancement of potential: wide range of professional and personal training offered by the Bechtle Academy
  • Diversity: interesting and varied tasks in a forward-looking sector

Job number: BYZYV332 

Oksana Dumont | +41 22 308 85 00 |

Bechtle Switzerland Ltd

Bechtle Switzerland Ltd has certified expertise in strategic areas: IT Infrastructure, Virtualisation, Information Management, Managed Services, Skills Management, Data & Analytics, Printing Solutions and E-Commerce. Thanks to these skills and strong, sustainable partnerships with key market players, we offer a modular and perfectly coherent range of products and services to cover all our clients’ needs. Our proximity, our global vision of infrastructure and project management make us a key market player. Our 1000 motivated employees are our best assets to ensure speed, flexibility and expertise.
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