Head of Department

vor 1 Woche


Wien, Wien, Österreich ERSTE Immobilien KAG Vollzeit
  • Location: Vienna
  • Working hours: Full-time
  • Occupational Area: IT
  • Company: Erste Digital

We are part of Erste Group – the largest banking group in Central and Eastern Europe with more than 2,500 branches and over 45,000 employees. Our more than 2,000 IT experts and enthusiasts are the bank's Digital Muscle.

With top notch technology, we drive the realization offers the Group's vision: To provide human banking in digital times, and to build Financial Health for over 16 million customers in the CEE region.

Architecture is a strategic function for Erste Digital that governs the application architecture and the technology stack in Erste Digital. Group architecture plays a crucial role in designing and optimizing IT systems and business processes to increase efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance competitiveness. In this role you are directly reporting to the Managing Director of Erste Digital. Together with the team your mission is to ensure a unified implementation of the overall target architecture across divisions. Pushing strategic projects, you set future architecture standards such as cloud adoption and platform architecture.

Your Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Ensure state-of-the-art IT Solution portfolio: Together with your team you develop modern and sustainable IT architecture.
  • Development of Architecture Targets: Together with the architecture chapter you define the applied technologies and set architecture and software development standards to ensure efficiency and scalability of our systems.
  • Technical Leadership: You work closely with development and operations teams to solve technical challenges and define and promote best practices.
  • Risk Management: You identify potential risks in the architecture and develop strategies to minimize risks.
  • Communication and Stakeholder Management: You communicate clearly and effectively with internal and external stakeholders to convey the architectural vision and gain support.

You Check These Boxes

  • You have several years of experience within a large corporate organizational structure, also outside the Financial Services industry, and know how to navigate within a cross-border, lateral competency framework to achieve your goals.
  • You have at least 5 years of experience in a senior leading role as Architect, Senior Technology Lead or Senior Development Lead or a comparable role.
  • You bring profound leadership skills and several years of experience in leading and developing people with you.
  • You convince with a proven track record of understanding technological trends and defining company-wide standard architectures as well as software development standards.
  • You are experienced in understanding business and IT requirements and in translating those in concrete design and technology stacks, always balancing evolution of the tech stack and standardization.
  • You empower your team by promoting team responsibility and creating a framework where teams have autonomy and feel accountable for their results.
  • You foster high-performance and development within your team by enabling talents to grow.
  • You use your excellent communication, convincing and presentation skills to establish trusted relationships with board and executive management.
  • You believe in change: Your self-confidence is based on your profound knowledge and experience.
  • Your place of employment is Vienna, and you speak fluent English, and you are directly reporting to the CEO of ERSTE Digital.

Our Offer

  • You work for one of the most prestigious brands in the region at the internationally awarded Erste Campus in Vienna, with an ambitious multi-national team and cooperate with colleagues across borders.
  • You play a key role in developing the strategic agenda of Erste Digital and the digital future of Banking Services.
  • The opportunity to work in a progressive banking IT area and to develop your own areas of responsibility and to take on responsibility yourself.
  • Care, collegial working atmosphere characterized by mutual appreciation, team spirit and fun at work.
  • Possibility to benefit and learn from our international, talented and passionate community at Erste.
  • Interest groups and clubs: Take part in discussions and get involved in projects. Numerous interest groups invite you to engage with a topic.
  • Good food: Healthy nutrition and good food are important for our quality of life. With seven restaurants and cafeterias, there's something to suit every taste on the Erste Campus.
  • Health Centre – The Erste Campus operates a fully equipped health center that offers all employees a high standard of medical services during working hours.
  • Employee benefits – Benefit from special conditions for financial services and insurances, supermarkets, clothing stores and many more.
  • Work-Life-Balance – Home office, paternity leave, sabbatical, sports courses -– we support you in balancing work, family and leisure time.
  • The minimum wage for this full-time position in accordance with the collective agreement with complete fulfillment of the functional profile is EUR 70.000,- gross per year. But this is just a formality - we would be happy to talk about your actual salary in person

We consider the diversity of our employees as key to innovation and success. As employer we are proud to offer everyone equal chances, irrespective of age, skin colour, religious belief, gender, sexual orientation or origin.

The recruitment process is being managed by our partner, Mr. Andreas Hruschka, Managing Director of Boyden Global Executive Search GmbH in Vienna. Please direct applications via email to Kindly apply online with a cover letter and resume.


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