JavaScript Job: Junior Architect

Junior Architect

To be based in Zurich

Salary dependant on experience

We love what we do, you can too

At Equatex we’re global citizens, collaborators, experts, and innovators. Our culture is based on an ethos of partnership, and with us you’ll be challenged to work hard, but also be supported to reach your full potential.

Want to make a difference and influence your own work? Then get in touch with us!
Working at Equatex, you’ll find a workplace where trust and mutual understanding are highly valued, and you’ll see that we’re an employer that’s committed to doing the best for employees, clients, business partners, shareholders, and our community. Our focus on customer needs drives our innovation mind-set and underlines the quality of our services. We love what we do, and at Equatex, you can too.

Why Equatex?
Equatex works with the world’s leading companies to provide cutting edge technologies, service, and expertise to simplify their international compensation plans. With the latest cloud technologies and market leading financial reporting capabilities, we enable companies to deliver engaging compensation schemes across borders, languages and currencies.

Equatex is now part of the Computershare group, enabling us to continue to deliver and develop our in-depth expertise and service on a truly global scale.

What will I be doing?

As one of our Junior Architects, you will work within the technology department as part of the architecture team, which is responsible for solution design and architecture delivery.

Working alongside your team, you will play a pivotal role in producing and delivering architectural solutions to the business.

Stakeholder engagement will be a key area for you, as you will be working with a variety of technical and non-technical audiences to share knowledge and complex ideas, provide updates and influence and challenge when necessary.

Other key responsibilities:

• Provide solution design and development services in support of prioritised business demand
• Work with teams to design high-quality solutions that are innovative, stable and resilient; and conform to security and architectural standards and the software development lifecycle
• Act as a representative in dealings with global architecture group and facilitates communication across global and regional teams
• Maintain a good awareness of business strategy, new products, platforms, tools and technologies and keep abreast of the technical strategy of our suppliers

What are we looking for?

As this position sits within a architecture function, you will need to have a solid background in software development. So, if you are a Developer who is looking to step into architecture this may be for you.

You will be a collaborative person who enjoys working as part of a team and is able to work through challenges to provide the best solution to the business. Stakeholder engagement will be key as you will be dealing with stakeholders from all the business.

Some other key skills that you’ll have:

• Significant experience of application development within a complex enterprise context and with architectures spanning multiple technologies (Java, Javascript with focus on UI technologies such as Angular JS, SQL & PL/SQL, RESTFul technologies, Relation DBs like Oracle, Linux (RHEL, Solaris)
• Experience as an architect or a Senior Developer, in a role that requires significant architecture interaction
• Experience in using and implementing agile methodologies
• Excellent analytical and research skills with the ability to collect and analyse complex material and data and present it in accessible formats
• Collaborates and communicates well, builds great working relationships, influences others, challenges effectively and responds well to challenge from others, shares information and ideas with others, has good listening skills

If this role sounds like what you’re looking for, and you want to be part of an organisation that focuses on our employees’ career progression, while working on interesting and high-profile projects, please apply today!

What’s in it for you?

We pride ourselves on offering continuous training & development along with career progression opportunities for all employees.

We also offer a competitive pension scheme and shareholder incentive plan.

A Truly Diverse Place to Work

Equatex celebrates the diversity of our people and we welcome applications from everyone. Our team brings together individuals from around the world. We are multilingual and we value different cultures.

We believe that having a culture of inclusion is essential in delivering good results. Attracting, retaining and developing a diverse workforce where employees feel valued, respected and empowered allows people to reach their full potential. As a business this diversity helps us to better reflect and understand our customers’ needs to allow us to drive better outcomes.