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The role

As a Lead Data Platform Architect, you are responsible for architecting data platforms laying the foundation for advanced applications including AI. You explain architectural choices in a way that resonates with stakeholders and inspire them with your vision. Your deep understanding of modern data platforms, security, and governance, coupled with a DevOps mindset, enables you to create sustainable, value-driven solutions. With a concept-driven approach and practical data engineering skills, you empower your team to succeed in high-impact projects. You operationalize machine learning prototypes into production-ready systems and implement principles such as transparency, reproducibility, and measurability. Whether on-premises or in the cloud, you design optimal solutions using platforms like AWS, Azure, and GCP. As a thought leader, you help shape Zühlke’s offerings, drive service development, engage in pre-sales, and stay on top of market trends. You actively contribute to the growth of internal talent and educate clients on data possibilities.

How you’ll make an impact

• Design and implement foundational architectures for sophisticated data-driven solutions.
• Bring deep methodological and conceptual expertise to create sustainable, client-oriented architectures.
• Apply strong data engineering skills to guide teams with optimal data structures, processing pipelines, and management strategies.
• Operationalize data and ML solutions by implementing traceability, transparency, reproducibility, and measurability.
• Architect and deploy solutions on both cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) and on-premise environments.
• Position data science and ML as enablers of digital transformation and communicate their value to clients.
• Actively shape Zühlke’s data platform services and market offerings, including pre-sales and proposal development.
• Monitor and anticipate data and platform trends to keep our capabilities at the cutting edge.
• Provide internal and external thought leadership in data platforms through training, mentorship, and community-building.

What’s important to us

• Passion for sustainable software architecture and experience leading technical mandates.
• In-depth knowledge in various aspects of data engineering and machine learning with a deep understanding both capabilities and limitations.
• Strong communication skills, confident presence with clients, and intrinsic motivation to lead.
• Architectural decisions guided by non-functional requirements like availability, flexibility, maintainability, and security—balanced with business value.
• Awareness of how architectural choices impact implementation at the code level.
• A completed university degree (ETH, university, FH) in Computer Science, Mathematics, or similar.
• Proficiency in technologies such as Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Docker, Python, SQL, Java, and a range of databases (relational, columnar, NoSQL), including experience with stream or batch processing.
• Fluency in both German and English is required.

What we offer

• Work-life blend: Flexible working hours and remote work options in a safe and healthy environment.
• Profit share scheme: Receive a share of the company’s profits in addition to your annual salary, depending on business performance.
• Global and diverse community: Collaborate across Zühlke’s 16 global offices, share knowledge, and enjoy team camps, year-end events, and local festivities.
• Commitment to development: We invest in your growth—supporting you in building skills to create impact for clients and yourself.
• Innovation-driven culture: Work in an environment that values thought leadership and future-oriented technology strategies.

To dive deeper into local benefits of working in Zühlke follow the link.

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.

Apply now here!

In Forschung und Entwicklung:

About Size & Fit

The Size and Fit team is tackling one of the most persistent challenges in the fashion industry: helping online customers confidently find and decide on the right size and fit. By doing so, we directly improve customer satisfaction, reduce returns, and drive sustainable, profitable growth. As an interdisciplinary team of applied scientists, software engineers, product managers, and design experts, we work holistically to deliver high-impact solutions with a focus on immediate, scalable results. While developing and maintaining proven, highly-adopted solutions such as ML-based size recommendations, we push the boundaries of what’s possible in online fashion by rapidly iterating our approaches with cutting-edge AI, including diffusion models, image and video generation, and 2D and 3D try-on experiences, to shape the future of Size & Fit.

As a Principal Applied Scientist (economics / experimentations) in the Size and Fit organization, you will design and implement state-of-the-art methods capable of accurately measuring the business and customer impact of the Size & Fit products in fashion. You will apply economic theories and principles to real-world business problems and have an amazing opportunity to work closely with exceptional scientists who are creating bold AI driven customer-facing products.. In addition to deep scientific expertise, a strong track record in research and publications, candidates for this role must possess exceptional collaboration and communication skills. You must be a reliable partner, adept at supporting complex AI-driven products that create high customer and business impact. Your ability to effectively interface with cross-functional teams and contribute to solving complex business impact measurement challenges in AI applications will be crucial in driving success.

Inclusive by design

If you think you have what it takes, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single requirement. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!
At Zalando, our vision is to be the leading pan-European ecosystem for fashion and lifestyle e-commerce – one that thrives on diversity and is truly inclusive by design. We believe that diverse teams fuel innovation and creativity, and we actively seek out talent from all backgrounds.
We actively seek to reduce bias in our hiring and employment processes, focusing on your qualifications, skills, and contributions. To support this, we kindly ask that you refrain from including personal details such as your photo, age, or marital status in your CV, ensuring a fair and equitable evaluation based solely on your abilities and potential.

We are committed to providing an exceptional and accessible candidate experience for everyone. If you require any accommodations to support you throughout the hiring process, please let us know – we are here to assist you.

Discover more about our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace: http://jobs.zalando.com/en/our-culture/diversity-and-inclusion

What we’d love you to do (and love doing)

• Bring in your strong economics, experimentations, and scientific experience to develop and deploy advanced experimentation methods at scale.

• Support high stakes experiments and problem solving focused on customer/business impact and ensure decisions are made from robust insights.

• Set and own the processes to improve the quality of experimentation across Zalando experimentation domains.

• Design and implement state-of-the-art work needed for accurately measuring the business impact of AI-driven customer-facing products across various markets, customer segments, and fashion assortment. 

• Work closely with applied science leaders, product managers and other business stakeholders to leverage state-of-the-art experimentations and data driven economics / experimentation approaches for the challenging domain of Size&Fit in online fashion.

• Mentor senior and junior applied scientists on best experimentation practices.

We’d love to meet you if

• You have a PhD in Econometrics, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Operations Research or related field with at least 4 years of industry experience in Applied Experimentation or Statistics.

• Strong fundamentals of Statistical Analysis.

• Deep understanding of the theory behind the state-of-the-art methods in your domain as well as a broad overview of data science best practices in your field.

• Proven industry experience in designing, executing, and analyzing A/B tests, including expertise in defining relevant metrics and a deep understanding of statistical power calculations.

• Experience in driving business / customer impact analysis and decision making in AI-driven customer-facing products.

• Data intuition: extensive experience of working with large online datasets, ability to identify appropriate statistical modeling assumptions and approaches.

• Strong coding skills in Python and/or R as well as experience with common big data processing and manipulation tools such as Spark and SQL.

• Nice to have: experience with Cloud Computing frameworks (e.g., AWS), other programming languages such as Scala.

 About Size & Fit

At Zalando, we deeply understand that Size Matters. We are excited to use our unique and large article and customer datasets to tackle this challenge using Deep Learning and Computer Vision techniques. How about you; would you like to bring in your skills to shape a great experience for your family and friends when buying clothes and shoes online?

You will join our multidisciplinary Zurich & Berlin-based Size and Fit Team, composed of applied scientists, software engineers, product managers, fashion and design experts from 20+ different nationalities. We help customers find the right fit the first time around and conduct focused experiments using emerging technologies to solve the sizing problem for customers, brand partners and the online fashion industry.

You will take on this complex and important topic working side by side with our product managers, applied scientists, software engineers, and product designers. We have great problems to solve, a huge customer base to impact and are a team that loves to have fun. Size and Fit is a human topic. We use machines to help solve our customers’ challenges. But we never forget – size and fit success is defined by how customers feel when they wear fashion. 

Our offer

Zalando provides a range of benefits, here’s an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.

• Employee shares program 

• 40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando, 30% off Lounge by Zalando, discounts from external partners 

• 2 paid volunteering days a year 

• Hybrid working model with up to 60% remote per week, actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration 

• Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year 

• 25 days of vacation a year for full-time employees 

• Health and wellbeing options (SportAbo in Zurich) 

• Swiss SBB Halbtax (half-fare card) 

• Mental health support and coaching available 

• Drive your development through our training platform and biannual peer-to-peer review 

Learn all about Zalando and our values here: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us 

Please note that all applications must be completed using the online form – we do not accept applications via email.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

Apply today!

Stellenbeschrieb

Dürfen wir uns bei dir vorstellen? 

Wir l(i)eben Apple! Als Apple Premium Partner und Apple Authorised Education Specialist leben wir täglich und mit viel Leidenschaft den Apple Spirit der Innovationskraft und der Kundenzentrierung. Wir beraten und begeistern sowohl Unternehmen wie auch Schulen mit zukunftsweisenden Dienstleistungen und innovativen Software-Lösungen, die etwas bewegen. Ob in der Beratung, im Vertrieb, als Systemintegrator oder Software-Entwickler: Wir sorgen für die perfekte Apple Integration am Arbeitsplatz, in Schulen, an Hochschulen und in Organisationen aller Grössen.  

An unseren Innovations-Hubs in Dietikon und Wallisellen warten inspirierte Teams, spannende Projekte und tolle Karrierechancen auf dich. Wir freuen uns darauf, dir deine künftigen Kolleg:innen und dein neues Reich zum Wachsen und Wirken vorzustellen!

Werde per sofort oder nach Vereinbarung Teil von etwas Grossem! 

Aufgaben

Dein Impact: 

• Ich übersetze Anforderungen aus den Fachbereichen in Microsoft Dynamics-Lösungen, die spürbaren Mehrwert schaffen und Prozesse vereinfachen.
• Mit der Weiterentwicklung und dem Betrieb von Microsoft Dynamics- und angrenzenden Business-Applikationen sichere ich eine robuste, zukunftsfähige Business Plattform.
• Durch Low-/No-Code-Entwicklung in der Microsoft Power Plattform (Power Apps, Dataverse, Power Automate) beschleunige ich Innovationen und reduziere Time-to-Market interner Services.
• Als Berater und Sparringspartner unterstütze ich Fachbereiche bei der Prozessgestaltung und steigere so deren Effizienz und Eigenständigkeit.
• Über Schnittstellen, Integrationen und Datenharmonisierung vernetze ich Dynamics mit ERP- und Drittsystemen und erhöhe dadurch Transparenz und Datenqualität.
• Mit Erweiterungen in Azure Functions, Plugins und Cloud Services hebe ich Dynamics-Lösungen auf ein höheres Funktionsniveau.
• Durch strukturierte Dokumentation, Testing und Qualitätssicherung gewährleiste ich eine verlässliche und nachhaltige Nutzung der Systeme. 

Anforderungen

 Darum wirst du erfolgreich sein (dein Profil): 

• Dein Background in Wirtschaftsinformatik, Informatik oder einer vergleichbaren Ausbildung gibt dir die solide Basis, um Technik und Business zusammenzubringen.
• Mit deiner Erfahrung in der Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate, Dataverse) treibst du digitale Lösungen effizient voran.
• Dein Wissen in Dynamics 365 (z. B. Sales, Customer Service) und im Customizing macht dich zum Gestalter von CRM-Prozessen mit echtem Business-Impact.
• Durch dein Verständnis von Schnittstellen und IT-Architekturen (REST APIs, Azure Services, Event Bus, Data Fabric) verbindest du Systeme zu einer leistungsstarken Gesamtlandschaft.
• Erste Kenntnisse in C#, TypeScript oder ähnlichen Technologien verschaffen dir zusätzliche Flexibilität in der Lösungsentwicklung.
• Dein Gespür für Unternehmensprozesse in verschiedenen Abteilungen ermöglicht dir, fachliche Anforderungen in nachhaltige IT-Lösungen zu übersetzen.
• Analytisches Denken, eine strukturierte Arbeitsweise und Freude an Prozessoptimierung machen dich zum Motor für kontinuierliche Verbesserung.
• Mit sehr guten Deutsch- und Englischkenntnissen bewegst du dich sicher in einem vielfältigen Umfeld.
• Dank deiner Kommunikationsstärke schaffst du Vertrauen im Austausch mit Stakeholdern und treibst Projekte erfolgreich voran. 

Darauf kannst du dich freuen: 

• Vielseitige Aufgaben im Bereich Business Applications & Microsoft Plattformen.
• Mitgestaltung bei Integrationen und Prozessoptimierungen der DQ Solutions.
• Zusammenarbeit mit erfahrenen Entwicklern, IT-Spezialisten und Business Stakeholdern.
• Ein modernes Arbeitsumfeld mit kurzen Entscheidungswegen.
• Attraktive Anstellungsbedingungen und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten innerhalb eines wachsenden Unternehmens.

Bei DQ Solutions erwarten dich spannende Aufgaben in einem innovativen Umfeld und ein motiviertes, aufgestelltes und hilfsbereites Team. Wir bieten dir viel Eigenverantwortung, Weiterbildungsmöglichkeiten und – das ist besonders beliebt – attraktive Mitarbeiterrabatte auf unser Apple Sortiment. Unsere Unternehmenskultur ist neugierig und offen, mit flachen Hierarchien und kurzen Entscheidungswegen – der perfekte Ort, um eigene Ideen einzubringen und etwas zu bewegen!

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