Manager - Enterprise Architect

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Your Team

This role contributes to shaping and evolving the firm's enterprise-wide architecture across business, data, application, integration, technology and security domains. The team connects strategy with execution by translating architectural direction into clear standards, reference architectures, patterns and roadmaps that delivery teams can apply in practice.
Close collaboration with product and delivery teams, as well as with digital compliance and information security stakeholders, is a core part of the role. The position also works with PwC stakeholders beyond Switzerland to ensure alignment with global strategies and standards while addressing local regulatory and business requirements.

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Your Impact

  • Contribute to the definition and evolution of the future-state enterprise architecture, translating business strategy and operating model needs into principles, standards and reference architectures
  • Maintain and evolve transparency of the IT landscape across applications, platforms, integrations and key data flows, including inventories, capability maps and dependency views
  • Ensure the IT landscape is accurately captured and usable in enterprise architecture repositories and tools, applying data quality practices and creating stakeholder-friendly views
  • Support architecture governance and compliance by helping teams align designs with agreed standards and guardrails, and by documenting exceptions and trade-offs clearly
  • Act as a trusted advisor to delivery teams and stakeholders, ensuring non-functional requirements such as security, resilience, performance, maintainability and cost are addressed early and consistently
  • Translate architectural direction into consumable assets, including minimum viable patterns, reusable building blocks, templates and reference implementations, to accelerate delivery and reduce rework
  • Evaluate technologies and standards, recommend fit-for-purpose solutions, and support standard configurations to improve resilience, scalability and cost-effectiveness
  • Provide hands-on architecture expertise across the Azure and Microsoft ecosystem, including identity, landing zones, integration patterns and security-by-design
  • Collaborate effectively in a global, multi-stakeholder environment, aligning local architecture decisions with PwC global platforms, reference architectures and policies

Your Skill Set

  • Experience in enterprise architecture and/or solution or domain architecture, with the ability to connect strategy, governance and delivery
  • Strong capability to lead architecture discussions, influence stakeholders and drive alignment across teams without direct authority
  • Practical experience with enterprise architecture repositories and tools such as Ardoq or comparable solutions
  • Solid modelling skills, for example using ArchiMate, and the ability to create clear, decision-ready architecture diagrams
  • Strong knowledge and proven experience with Azure and the Microsoft technology stack, ideally supported by advanced-level certifications such as Azure Solution Architect
  • Hands-on experience in technical areas including cloud, infrastructure, networking, identity, APIs and integration, and security patterns
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to structure complex topics and communicate them clearly
  • A university degree in business informatics, computer science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • Excellent communication skills with proficiency in English; German proficiency is an advantage

Your Benefits

Hybrid Flexible Working Model Our work model enables you to spend part of your time working in the office and part at home (provided this is your preference) – unless you’re at your clients’ premises, which is of course always the priority. This approach allows you to tailor your schedule to your personal working style.
Learn and Grow Our learning and development approach helps you gain valuable skills and knowledge to advance your career, not just at PwC. We offer a variety of internal and external courses for training and upskilling. Identify your strengths and areas for improvement and gain new skills to achieve your professional goals. You’ll build confidence, enhance your job performance, and take your career to the next level.
Sustainable Performance PwC is committed to creating an environment of sustainable performance. We therefore offer a range of resources such as sustainable performance workshops, self-leadership trainings, resilience and mindfulness sessions, nutrition webinars, and yoga courses.
Vacation and Leave From maternity, paternity, and adoption leave to vacation and paid leave, we know it’s essential to take time away from work. At PwC, you can enjoy a variety of leave options to recharge, relax, or achieve personal milestones.
Volunteering Are you passionate about doing good and making a difference? That’s great, because so are we at PwC. We encourage you to participate in volunteer work by offering paid time off for volunteering activities. Our Corporate Sustainability programmes help you find purpose and fulfilment while working with us.
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Your Contact

Gosia Wiendlocha-Lautliev

Recruitment Team

Your Contact

Gosia Wiendlocha-Lautliev
Recruitment Team
+41 58 792 21 57

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