Principal Software Engineering Consultant

Founded in Switzerland in 1968, Zühlke is owned by its partners and located across Europe and Asia. We are a global transformation partner, with engineering and innovation in our DNA. We're trusted to help clients envision and build their businesses for the future – to run smarter today while adapting for tomorrow's markets, customers, and communities. Our multidisciplinary teams specialise in tech strategy and business innovation, digital solutions and applications, and device and systems engineering. We excel in complex, regulated spaces including health and finance, connecting strategy, tech implementation, and operational services to help clients become more effective, resilient businesses.

If you share our values and want to do the best work, for the right reasons, we can offer you the chance to do it on a global scale and play a real role in shaping our exciting journey.

Important: To ensure a smooth review process, please submit all application documents (CV, cover letter) in English only.

The role

As part of Zühlke, you are surrounded by innovation. We rely on teamwork, agile collaboration and leading technologies to shape the future and challenge the status quo. We love breaking boundaries and entering new territory. It's how we drive innovation.

Our creativity, skills and energy enable us to turn smart ideas into valuable solutions. Solutions that help our customers bring innovative, effective and sustainable products, solutions and processes to market. This is what our heart beats for: "empowering ideas".

How You'll Make an Impact

• You engage with client stakeholders to understand their needs and translate them into actionable technical strategies

• You lead the design and implementation of complex software architectures in banking projects, acting as a technical authority and hands-on contributor.

• You collaborate with software engineers, product owners, and client teams to ensure alignment between business goals and technical execution.

• You drive architectural decisions, code quality, and engineering best practices across the full delivery lifecycle.

• You act as a mentor and coach to engineering teams, fostering technical excellence and continuous improvement.

• You contribute to the evolution of Zühlke's financial services capabilities by sharing insights, lessons learned, and technical innovations, while actively supporting bid teams and sales initiatives through your technical expertise.

What's Important to Us

• You hold a degree in Computer Science or a related field and bring extensive experience as a software engineer and architect in enterprise banking environments.

• You have a proven track record of hands-on technical leadership in complex software delivery projects.

• You understand banking systems, regulatory constraints, and integration patterns in depth.

• You are proficient in modern software engineering practices, cloud-native architecture, and emerging technologies such as AI, Blockchain, and Cloud Computing and have experience on how to make them effective in corporate environments.

• You thrive in collaborative environments, work effectively in hybrid teams – on-site and remote – and enjoy being close to your clients and team members.

• You communicate fluently in English, and German language skills are a plus.

What we offer

• Work life blend: we offer a safe & healthy workplace, with flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home
• Profit share scheme: In addition to your annual salary, you may receive a profit share defined by the company's success in the previous year
• Global and Diverse Zühlke community: witness how colleagues from all our 16 offices across the globe come together to create a unique, positive and inclusive work culture, learning from one another at annual team camps, and celebrating year-end parties and other local festivities
• Committed to development: we are committed to the growth of our people and are investing in your development. We're empowering you to build the skills you need to make a positive impact, both personally and for our clients, today and in the future.

How to Apply

Please remember all applications must be submitted in English only to be considered.

If you feel you don't meet all the requirements, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas and look forward to receiving your application

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status, disability or veteran status.