Cloud Software Architect Squad Lead duties

Design and build scalable cloud platforms on Microsoft Azure, driving architecture, security, and cloud innovation for next-generation products in a fast-paced engineering environment.

• Act as the Cloud Architect within the Cloud & Infrastructure team and collaborate with architects across other domains to define the overall system architecture

• Lead the Cloud & Infrastructure squad until the permanent Team Lead joins, ensuring alignment with the product roadmap and successful sprint delivery

• Design and implement a secure, scalable multi-tenant cloud platform, including APIs and integration patterns connecting robots, edge devices, cloud services, and enterprise systems

• Stay hands‑on by contributing to code repositories, pull requests, prototyping, troubleshooting, and turning architectural decisions into production‑ready solutions

• Drive non‑functional requirements including availability, scalability, latency, security, reliability, and cost optimisation

• Establish security‑by‑design principles covering IAM, encryption, secrets management, and network segmentation while ensuring regulatory compliance

• Guide engineering teams through architecture reviews, code reviews, reference architectures, and technical mentoring

• Collaborate closely with Product Management, leadership, and solution architects to define roadmaps and customer integrations

• Balance rapid delivery with long‑term robustness, maintainability, and operational efficiency

• Support industrialisation and operations by implementing SRE practices, observability, incident readiness, and production troubleshooting

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field

• Proven experience designing and implementing cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, from architecture through production deployment

• Strong understanding of Azure networking, storage, compute, multi‑tenant environments, and cloud architecture best practices

• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform or similar), Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks

• Strong architectural and implementation skills with the ability to design, build, prototype, and troubleshoot cloud solutions

• Experience leading technical initiatives or sub‑projects within startup, scale‑up, or research‑driven environments

• Experience mentoring cloud engineers and supporting high‑quality technical delivery

• Ability to work in fast‑moving environments where requirements evolve continuously

• Strong understanding of cloud security, governance, availability, scalability, and cost optimisation

• Experience with cloud governance, landing zone design, monitoring, observability, or SRE practices is considered an advantage

• Familiarity with AWS, GCP, on‑premises infrastructure, IoT, industrial systems (ERP/MES/SCADA), robotics, or PKI is beneficial

• Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert are considered a plus

• Strong communication skills with the ability to act as the primary cloud expert for research and engineering teams

• Fluent English language skills

• Based in Switzerland and willing to work on-site