Technical Lead / Cross-Domain Architect (m/w/d) – Winterthur Area

Description

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We are seeking an experienced Technical Lead / Cross-Domain Architect to provide senior technical leadership across the entire infrastructure landscape. Acting as the principal technical authority, this role governs cross-domain architecture, validates complex design decisions, mentors engineering teams, and supports critical escalations. The successful candidate will ensure that compute, network, storage, security, and cloud platform solutions remain integrated, resilient, scalable, and operationally supportable.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural governance across infrastructure, cloud, security, networking, storage, and compute domains.
• Define and maintain enterprise design patterns, architecture standards, and operational best practices.
• Review and validate cross-domain technical decisions, ensuring alignment with business, security, and operational requirements.
• Act as the senior escalation point for complex technical issues, major incidents, and strategic infrastructure initiatives.
• Mentor and guide L2 and L3 engineering teams, promoting knowledge sharing and technical excellence.
• Ensure infrastructure architectures are secure, resilient, scalable, and operationally sustainable.
• Collaborate with operational, engineering, and customer stakeholders to drive consistent technical direction.
• Support governance forums, service reviews, architecture boards, and technical strategy discussions.
• Maintain architecture documentation, standards, roadmaps, and technical governance frameworks.
• Required Qualifications:
• Extensive experience in enterprise infrastructure architecture and technical leadership roles.
• Broad expertise across multiple technology domains, including networking, security, compute, storage, virtualization, cloud, and container platforms.
• Strong understanding of architecture governance, service operations, resilience, high availability, and lifecycle management.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional technical teams and resolve complex infrastructure challenges.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and decision-making skills.
• Experience operating in large-scale, mission-critical enterprise environments.
• Preferred Certifications:
• TOGAF or equivalent Enterprise Architecture certification
• ITIL 4 Managing Professional and/or ITIL 4 Strategic Leader
• Expert-level domain certifications such as:
• Cisco CCIE (Enterprise Infrastructure or Data Center)
• CKS (Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist)
• Fortinet FCX / FCSS
• F5 Certified Solution Expert (F5-CSE)
• NetApp NCIE
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
• Additional Security, Network, Storage, or Compute infrastructure certifications are advantageous
• Language Requirement:
• German language proficiency at minimum B2 level is mandatory.
• The role requires the ability to participate in technical discussions, architecture reviews, incident coordination, governance forums, service reviews, change management activities, and day-to-day communication with German-speaking stakeholders, customer teams, operational contacts, and site personnel.
• Citizenship Requirement:
• Applicants must hold Swiss citizenship.

Conditions

Winterthur area, Switzerland

Candidates should be based in, or regularly available within the Winterthur region to support local operational alignment, customer engagement, coordination with onsite and remote-hands teams, and participation in governance, escalation, architecture, and service review meetings as required.

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About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune

Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through

responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with

unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and

application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move

confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more

than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as

established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each

year in R&D.