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Lead SW Consultant, Senior SW Consultant

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Software Development Specialist with Consultant DNA

How you can benefit from talking to us:

  • Salary comparison, current salary to market salary
  • Understanding your career options
  • Identification of development and promotion potential
  • 65% of candidates will be making a career move within the next 12 to 24 months

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Positioning of our client in the Swiss market

  • Our client is one of the leading boutique consultancies in Switzerland, specialising in digitalisation and transformation management.
  • Clear positioning with focus on technology/business alignment
  • Examples of client projects: software due diligence, consolidation of various enterprise applications and analysis of legacy software applications 
  • Attractive target markets: cutting-edge custom software development projects with top clients in Switzerland

 

Why is this position interesting for you?

  • Every customer with individual software projects faces the same challenges: code quality, scalability of the solution, future-proofing, scalability and maintainability. Demonstrating the cost of maintaining the software
  • Here you can make the most of all your experience in software development and software architecture
  • You will be working in a collegial and family environment, collaborating with the BEST
  • Our client has been present on the Swiss software market for 20 years, without any corporate environment
  • Interdisciplinary, from code to strategy and back again 

 

Why are they recruiting

  • Succession planning, one of the current members of the management team has held this role until now
  • Now a dedicated senior professional is being recruited to fill the role

 

What is our client like as a company?

  • Our client is a Swiss company with a top brand in the customer market
  • Financially independent, not a private equity firm or with an Anglo-Saxon/USA parent company
  • Swiss values, the company is in the hands of the operational management and Swiss values are lived

USP against the market

  • Institutionalised career path allowing merit-based development to senior level 
  • Unique entrepreneurial culture where employees can develop in a federal environment 
  • Working in Switzerland, involved in international projects, dealing with cutting-edge technology issues

 

Main responsibilities and focus

  • Advising clients on quality management in custom software development
  • Providing the client with a basis for decision-making when evaluating software suppliers 
  • Advising the client on greenfield or evolutionary development of legacy solutions
  • Reviewing and assessing the quality of the existing software landscape in M&A situations 
  • Build and expand the client portfolio
  • Development of the software consulting portfolio
  • Hands-on involvement in project definition, execution, technical, content, administrative and quality management

 

Requirements Profile

 

Role/Task:

  • Extensive experience as a software developer with a passion for innovation and an interest in legacy technologies
  • Winning follow-up projects and identifying and winning new projects based on qualified leads
  • Project management experience of software development projects
  • Interest in software tools such as: CQSE, SIG, CAST, SonarSource

 

Soft skills 

  • Innovative, entrepreneurial mindset
  • Go-getter, enjoys working and interacting with people
  • Motivational, willing and able to carry the torch 
  • Customer focused mindset
  • Say what you do and do what you say
  • Challenging and encouraging   

 

Supervisor

  • Area Manager

 

Conditions 

  • Location: ideally in Zurich or Bern
  • Modern offices
  • Package according to requirements, including fringe benefits
  • Participative and federalist corporate culture with modern, flat management structure
  • No international travel required

Application & Contact

Erik Wirz
Erik Wirz
Managing Partner
wirz phone +41 44 515 02 60 wirz email erik.wirz@w-gruppe.com

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Recruitment Process

In an initial conversation, we will give you a detailed insight into the role, the company, the culture and your development opportunities.

After an initial conversation with the partner (headhunter), you will receive further information about the role and our client's expectations. If you are interested, please send us your documents. Wirz & Partners will draw up a longlist which will be discussed with the client. From this longlist, 4-6 candidates are selected for the shortlist.

 

Time until feedback: 2-3 weeks

If you make it to the shortlist, you will move on to the next round. During the interview with Wirz & Partners, we will get to know you professionally and personally. You will receive additional information about the client, the offering, the services, the team and the KPIs. Based on all interviews and documents, we prepare a complete dossier on you for the client, including an executive summary. These documents form the basis of the structured interview process with the client. We prepare you for the interview.

 

Duration until the interview with the client: Up to 2 weeks

The first meeting with the client is about getting to know each other on an equal footing, getting to know the people and the culture. This takes place in person at the client's location and usually lasts around an hour.

The second interview focuses on professional competencies and leadership issues. You will get to know the team, the strategy and the operational goals.

You will then receive a salary proposal and an overview of the overall offer.

 

Duration until feedback: 1-2 weeks

A de-briefing with you and the client takes place after the final meeting.

We help you negotiate the contract and clarify further details. The contract is drafted and we support the onboarding process with the client.

 

Duration until feedback: Up to 1 week

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