• Location: Vienna
• Working hours: Full-time
• Occupational Area: IT
• Company: Erste Digital

We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

What to do:

• Build and maintain an inventory of architectural improvement measures and cast them into a feasible plan
• Be the first touchpoint for new initiatives within the Markets Solutions tribe, ensuring that architecture guidelines and standards are followed
• Advise colleagues and help them to create their software/solution architecture
• Support strategic decisions and contribute to target architecture design
• Evaluate new technologies, generate ideas and prove them through implementing PoCs
• Coordinate improvements in various areas, e.g. security, documentation, CI/CD processes, operational resilience, etc.
• Continuously align and collaborate between Markets Solutions tribe and architecture board/CTO

You check these boxes:

• Curious and empathetic, passion for teamwork and treating all people with respect
• Quick wit, analytical and structured thinker – best case you have worked in a consulting/advisory role before
• JAVA software engineering background (min. 5 years) and ready to walk the talk, i.e. write code snippets and review code
• Familiar with Cloud platforms (Google, AWS), integration technologies (Kafka, 3scale), security and architecture frameworks
• Strong interest in convincing others to learn something new and explore new technologies
• Beneficiary would be any experience within financial industry/banking or with mainframe (Cobol/Natural/DB2) migration projects
• Fluent in English; German or Slovak is an advantage

Why you will like us:

• Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste
• Interest groups and clubs: Take part in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic
• Health Centre – The Erste Campus operates a fully equipped health center that offers all employees a high standard of medical services during working hours.
• Employee benefits – Benefit from special conditions for financial services and insurances, supermarkets, clothing stores and many more.
• Employee Referral Program – Become a talent scout for career opportunities in IT. We are rewarding every successful referral for Erste Digital
• A competitive and performance-related salary dependent on your professional and personal qualifications is granted - the minimum wage for this position in accordance with the respective collective agreement is EUR 53.802,-- gross per year. But this is just a formality, we are more than happy to discuss your actual expectations.

The way we are:

Erste Group considers the diversity of its employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.