TL;DR
IT Architect (Fintech): Designing and managing IT/OT integration architectures for international currency management projects with an accent on high availability, security standards, and cross-system reliability. Focus on requirements engineering, stakeholder coordination, and overseeing the full project lifecycle from offer preparation to implementation and support.
Company
Giesecke+Devrient is an international technology group and traditional family business providing integrated security technologies for digital security, financial platforms, and currency technology for over 170 years.
What you will do
- Manage technical IT/OT aspects for integration solutions in international projects.
- Support project lifecycle phases from offer preparation to hypercare and support.
- Design IT/OT architectures focusing on high availability, redundancy, and security.
- Coordinate internal and external stakeholders and perform requirements engineering.
- Steer suppliers and measure project progress against defined metrics.
- Present and adapt solution proposals to international customer IT departments.
Requirements
- Technical university degree or comparable training in the ICT area.
- Several years of experience in planning medium to large IT/OT integration projects in plant engineering or production systems.
- Strong background in requirements analysis for IT/OT automation and infrastructure (physical/virtual servers, network, security).
- Familiarity with SLAs and design of highly available environments according to ITIL v4.
- Fluent in English; French is highly preferred.
- Willingness to travel internationally.
Culture & Benefits
- Work within a dynamic, international, and motivated team.
- Opportunities to work on high-impact projects for central banks and the currency industry.
- Exposure to global, virtual, and multicultural project teams.
- Emphasis on trust and collaboration in a long-standing family business environment.