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Principal Data Strategist (m/f/d)
thoughtworks
Location: Zurich
<p>Principal data strategists at Thoughtworks are experienced consultants who work with clients to create winning data solutions that meet business goals. They play a pivotal role in developing modern data architecture approaches that directly address our clients' key business objectives. Their responsibilities span in-depth reviews of current data and technology strategy, targeted data strategy, guiding clients to unlock the full potential of data, and providing high-level roadmaps.</p>
<p>This role entails a mix of advisory responsibilities in data strategy and governance, coupled with a solid delivery-lead role and a breadth of data and AI ecosystem expertise.</p>
<p>This is a client-facing, builder's leadership role. You will start with a small, senior team and grow it through technical depth, delivery excellence and thought leadership, rather than inheriting a large organisation to manage. The role is based in Germany and requires regular travel to client sites, up to approximately 50% of your time.</p>
<p><strong>Job responsibilities</strong></p>
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<li>You will collaborate closely with clients to understand their business ecosystem and goals, and co-create data and technology strategies aligned with their objectives.</li>
<li>You will help define a clear vision for the client enterprise to become data-driven and aligned with the overall business strategy.</li>
<li>You will consult on complex data programs, providing technical leadership and guidance as a data subject-matter expert.</li>
<li>You will lead and interact with clients across various domains, addressing challenging problems, and collaborate with sales to turn them into viable solutions and winning proposals.</li>
<li>You will act as a translator between business, data and IT, and communicate data strategy to senior client stakeholders, including C-level.</li>
<li>You will own the creation of end-to-end viable data solutions, keeping in mind long-term impacts and overseeing program inceptions for new product development.</li>
<li>You will be responsible for formulating data governance strategies addressing security, privacy and compliance requirements.</li>
<li>You will enable capability building in data strategy and governance, growing the next generation of data strategists.</li>
<li>You will create differentiated assets in data strategy and governance to take to market.</li>
<li>You lead through influence rather than headcount: growing capability and raising delivery standards inside the organisation, while building our presence in the market through thought leadership, ecosystem initiatives and client-facing points of view.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Job qualifications</strong></p>
<p><strong>Technical Skills</strong></p>
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<li>You have extensive experience as a consultant, with a proven track record of creating data strategy and solutions that drive business value.</li>
<li>You have solid experience with data platforms and technologies, and can provide advisory and consultative guidance for clients and cross-delivery teams.</li>
<li>You have experience engaging with C-level stakeholders to influence and enable the operationalization of an enterprise-wide data strategy.</li>
<li>You have demonstrated leadership abilities, with the capacity to lead technical teams and drive projects to successful completion.</li>
<li>You are flexible and adaptable across a variety of projects, leveraging technical expertise and leadership to maximise impact.</li>
<li>You have a track record of ensuring proper data governance policies, including data lineage, quality checks and classification.</li>
<li>You have experience with AI and ML use cases and landscapes and can influence the build of the right solutions to harness insights from data.</li>
<li>You have experience building high-level solution frameworks, leveraging paradigms such as data-as-a-product and federated governance where needed.</li>
<li>You have professional working proficiency in German (B2 minimum, C1 strongly preferred) and can build consensus with mostly technical stakeholders. Exceptional candidates with outstanding data and AI consulting credentials may be considered where German is not yet at this level.</li>
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<p><strong>Consulting and commercial track record</strong></p>
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<li>You have worked in a consultancy or professional-services environment within the last five years, driving data and AI engagements end to end (recent examples matter more than historical ones).</li>
<li>You can point to data and AI pursuits you helped win and shape within the last three to five years, including deals from around €3M upwards, and you can speak concretely to their commercial shape, trade-offs and delivery.</li>
<li>You have grown a practice, capability or go-to-market asset, for example a reusable accelerator taken to market, combining solutioning, sales and delivery with tangible business outcomes.</li>
<li>You stay conversant with the technology and hands-on enough in at least one relevant area to earn technical credibility with client and delivery teams, while leading primarily on strategy and advisory.</li>
<li>You bring significant hands-on and leadership experience in data and AI (typically 10+ years) and, above all, the appetite to keep building: growing accounts, teams and capability rather than only overseeing them.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Professional Skills</strong></p>
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<li>You understand the importance of stakeholder management and can easily liaise between clients and other key stakeholders, ensuring buy-in and gaining trust along the way.</li>
<li>You are resilient in ambiguous situations and can adapt your role to approach challenges from multiple perspectives.</li>
<li>You don't shy away from risks or conflicts, instead you take them on and skillfully manage them.</li>
<li>You coach, mentor and motivate others and aspire to influence teammates to take positive action and accountability for their work.</li>
<li>You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change when needed.</li>
<li>Cultivating strong partnerships comes naturally to you; you understand how relationship building brings new opportunities to our business.</li>
<li>You have professional working proficiency in German (B2 minimum, C1 strongly preferred) and can build consensus with mostly technical stakeholders. Exceptional candidates with outstanding data and AI consulting credentials may be considered where German is not yet at this level.</li>
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<p><strong>Other things to know</strong></p>
<p><strong>Learning & Development</strong></p>
<p>There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys.</p>
<p><strong>Responsible Use of AI in Recruitment</strong></p>
<p>At Thoughtworks, we use AI tools to support our recruitment team with administrative tasks such as drafting communications, scheduling interviews and writing job descriptions.</p>
<p>Crucially, our AI tools do not screen, assess, rank or make hiring decisions. Every application is reviewed by our team and all selection decisions are made exclusively by our interviewers and hiring managers.</p>
<p>We are committed to fairness and responsible AI. We actively manage our AI systems by testing, monitoring for biased outcomes and implementing mitigation measures. We hold our third-party vendors to these same high standards through a rigorous governance process. For additional information, please see our full Thoughtworks AI Policy for Recruitment.</p>
<p><strong>About Thoughtworks</strong></p>
<p>Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we're pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we've delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let's be extraordinary.</p>
<p><br><br></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/ai-policy-for-recruitment">See here our AI policy.</a></p></div>
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Published: September 28, 2026
Senior Consultant (Strategy & Data/AI Transformation)
Artefactlinkedin
Location: Zürich
<h2>Who is Artefact?</h2>
<p>Artefact is a next-generation strategy and data consulting firm dedicated to transforming organisations through data and AI. We combine the rigour of top-tier strategy consulting with deep expertise in data, digital and analytics to help clients achieve tangible business impact.</p>
<p>With 2,500+ consultants, data scientists and engineers, we work with global leaders such as Samsung, L’Oréal, Orange and Sanofi. Our Swiss offices are at the heart of Artefact’s growth, advising clients on their most pressing strategic challenges — from AI strategy and governance to digital transformation roadmaps and new business model design.</p>
<h2>Main Responsibilities</h2>
<p>As a Senior Consultant in our Zurich/Lausanne office, you will work at the intersection of strategy consulting and data and AI delivery. You will:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Strategy Development:</strong> Work with client leadership teams to address high-stakes questions. How can AI reshape our business model? How should we govern and organise for data? Which strategic programmes deliver the most impact?</li>
<li><strong>Structured Problem-Solving:</strong> Break complex challenges down into decisions a client can act on, combining consulting rigour with a working knowledge of what current AI can and cannot actually do.</li>
<li><strong>Solution Design:</strong> Turn a business question into a solution shape — what data it depends on, what kind of platform or product it should sit on, and what “good” looks like once it is built. You will do this alongside our data scientists and engineers.</li>
<li><strong>Project Delivery:</strong> Support engagements end to end, from hypothesis framing and market and competitor analysis through to data maturity assessments, client workshops, governance design and implementation roadmaps.</li>
<li><strong>Client Engagement:</strong> Work closely with C-level stakeholders and business unit leaders. You will build trusted relationships, communicate recommendations with clarity, and keep the work aligned to what the client is actually trying to decide.</li>
<li><strong>Knowledge & Practice Building:</strong> Contribute to the growth of Artefact's Zurich office by shaping new offerings, creating intellectual capital - frameworks, thought pieces, benchmarks - and taking part in business development.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Candidate Profile</h2>
<p>We are looking for someone who can hold a technical position and a commercial one at the same time. The strongest candidates meet most of the following.</p>
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<li><strong>Education:</strong> A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, Economics or a related field.</li>
<li><strong>Work Experience:</strong> Around three to five years in consulting, or in a technical/date-focussed role with client-facing responsibility. </li>
<li><strong>Business Acumen & AI Fluency:</strong> A genuine dual affinity for business and technology. You are comfortable with modern data and AI concepts - generative AI and LLMs, retrieval, predictive machine learning, cloud platforms - and with what they cost and where they fail, not only with what they are called.</li>
<li><strong>Technical Depth:</strong> You have built AI or data products, not only advised on them. You can explain why you chose which model you put on which part of the work, and what that choice did to both output quality and cost. You will not be writing production code in this role, but you should have the basic understanding.</li>
<li><strong>Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills:</strong> Strong quantitative and analytical skills, and the judgement to know which number actually decides the question. You are comfortable getting to a defensible estimate with your assumptions stated out loud.</li>
<li><strong>Communication & Interpersonal Skills:</strong> Excellent written and verbal communication. You enjoy working in teams and in front of clients.</li>
<li><strong>Languages:</strong> Fluency in German/French and English, written and spoken, is strongly preferred.. </li>
<li><strong>Work Eligibility:</strong> You must be eligible to work in Switzerland.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Why Join Us</h2>
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<li><strong>Strategy and the Build:</strong> Artefact is neither a traditional strategy consultancy nor a pure technology player. You will move between the boardroom and the build, and be expected to be credible in both.</li>
<li><strong>Engineers, not hand-offs:</strong> Our 2,500 people include the data scientists and engineers you will work beside on the same engagement - not a delivery organisation you hand a slide deck to.</li>
<li><strong>Zurich Office Impact:</strong> As part of a growing Swiss team you will have visibility and impact from the first day. You will help shape Artefact's footprint in the region and work directly with senior leadership.</li>
<li><strong>Learning & Growth:</strong> Regular training in both consulting method and AI and data capability, combined with international exposure.</li>
<li><strong>Culture of Doers:</strong> Innovation, action, collaboration. We are entrepreneurial and fast-moving, committed to delivering impact while supporting each other's growth.</li>
</ul>
<p>This position is based in <strong>Zürich or Lausanne</strong>.</p>
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Published: September 28, 2026
Senior AI Engineer / Technical Consultant
Artefactlinkedin
Location: Lausanne, Vaud
<h2 data-start="107" data-end="126">Who is Artefact?</h2>
<p data-start="127" data-end="406">Artefact is a next-generation strategy and data consulting firm dedicated to transforming organizations through data and AI. We combine the rigor of top-tier strategy consulting with deep expertise in data, digital, and analytics to help clients achieve tangible business impact.</p>
<p data-start="408" data-end="795">With 1,800+ consultants, data scientists, and engineers across 23 countries, we work with global leaders such as Samsung, L’Oréal, Orange, and Sanofi. Our Romandie office (Geneva/Lausanne) is at the heart of Artefact’s growth, advising clients on their most pressing strategic challenges — from AI strategy and governance to digital transformation roadmaps and new business model design.</p>
<h2 data-start="797" data-end="821">Main Responsibilities</h2>
<p data-start="822" data-end="1096">As a <strong data-start="827" data-end="879">Senior Technical Consultant / Senior AI Engineer</strong>, you will lead the design and delivery of impactful AI and data solutions. You’ll combine hands-on engineering with client advisory, guiding multi-disciplinary teams from opportunity framing to production deployment.</p>
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<p data-start="1100" data-end="1326"><strong data-start="1100" data-end="1141">Own solution architecture & delivery:</strong> Define end-to-end architectures (data, ML/LLM, APIs, security), make build/buy decisions, and drive projects from PoC to production with reliability, observability, and cost in mind.</p>
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<p data-start="1329" data-end="1512"><strong data-start="1329" data-end="1360">Lead complex PoCs & pilots:</strong> Scope, prototype, and validate AI/ML use cases (incl. LLMs/GenAI, RAG, fine-tuning, evaluation) and convert successful pilots into scalable products.</p>
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<p data-start="1515" data-end="1754"><strong data-start="1515" data-end="1551">Advanced programming & modeling:</strong> Build, adapt, and evaluate ML/DL/LLM models using Python (PyTorch, TensorFlow, HuggingFace, LangChain/LlamaIndex), including prompt engineering, fine-tuning/LoRA, vector search, and safety/guardrails.</p>
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<p data-start="1757" data-end="1927"><strong data-start="1757" data-end="1782">Cloud & MLOps/LLMOps:</strong> Design and operate solutions on Azure, GCP, or AWS (CI/CD, containers, model serving, feature stores, vector DBs, monitoring, eval pipelines).</p>
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<p data-start="1930" data-end="2127"><strong data-start="1930" data-end="1975">Client advisory & stakeholder management:</strong> Translate business goals into technical roadmaps, present to senior stakeholders, manage risks and trade-offs, and ensure measurable business impact.</p>
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<p data-start="2130" data-end="2265"><strong data-start="2130" data-end="2165">Quality, security & governance:</strong> Enforce best practices on data privacy, model risk management, responsible AI, and documentation.</p>
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<p data-start="2268" data-end="2425"><strong data-start="2268" data-end="2300">Team leadership & mentoring:</strong> Coach engineers/consultants, perform code and design reviews, and help shape delivery standards and reusable accelerators.</p>
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<p data-start="2428" data-end="2600"><strong data-start="2428" data-end="2463">Pre-sales & thought leadership:</strong> Support proposals, estimates, and statements of work; contribute to assets, talks, and publications that advance Artefact’s AI offering.</p>
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<h2 data-start="2602" data-end="2622">Candidate Profile</h2>
<p data-start="2623" data-end="2715">Engineer first, consultant second — with a builder’s mindset and a track record of shipping.</p>
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<p data-start="2719" data-end="2874"><strong data-start="2719" data-end="2734">Experience:</strong> 5–8+ years in data/ML/AI engineering or adjacent roles, including <strong data-start="2801" data-end="2849">end-to-end delivery of production AI systems</strong> (not just prototypes).</p>
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<p data-start="2877" data-end="3010"><strong data-start="2877" data-end="2893">Programming:</strong> Expert Python; solid software engineering (testing, packaging, CI/CD). SQL required; Java/Scala/TypeScript a plus.</p>
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<p data-start="3013" data-end="3145"><strong data-start="3013" data-end="3023">AI/ML:</strong> Hands-on with ML/DL and <strong data-start="3048" data-end="3056">LLMs</strong> (prompting, fine-tuning/LoRA, embeddings/RAG, evaluation & observability, guardrails).</p>
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<p data-start="3148" data-end="3266"><strong data-start="3148" data-end="3158">Cloud:</strong> Deep experience on <strong data-start="3178" data-end="3194">at least one</strong> major cloud (Azure, GCP, or AWS) deploying secure, scalable services.</p>
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<p data-start="3269" data-end="3504"><strong data-start="3269" data-end="3286">MLOps/LLMOps:</strong> Containers (Docker/Kubernetes), Git, pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions/Cloud-native), model serving (FastAPI/TorchServe/Triton), experiment tracking, model registry, vector DBs (FAISS, Pinecone, pgvector, OpenSearch).</p>
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<p data-start="3507" data-end="3640"><strong data-start="3507" data-end="3531">Architecture & data:</strong> Designing data/ML platforms, APIs, microservices; familiarity with data pipelines and streaming is valued.</p>
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<p data-start="3643" data-end="3761"><strong data-start="3643" data-end="3665">Consulting skills:</strong> Requirements gathering, storytelling, senior stakeholder management, and clear documentation.</p>
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<p data-start="3764" data-end="3876"><strong data-start="3764" data-end="3778">Languages:</strong> <strong data-start="3779" data-end="3812">Fluency in French and English</strong> (written & spoken).</p>
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<p data-start="3879" data-end="3945"><strong data-start="3879" data-end="3900">Work eligibility:</strong> You must be eligible to work in Switzerland.</p>
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<p data-start="3947" data-end="3963"><strong data-start="3947" data-end="3963">Nice to have</strong></p>
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<p data-start="3966" data-end="4062">Experience with responsible AI/governance frameworks, security reviews, and cost optimization.</p>
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<p data-start="4065" data-end="4158">Domain experience in one or more industries (e.g., retail, pharma, manufacturing, finance).</p>
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<p data-start="4161" data-end="4225">Contributions to open-source, publications, or conference talks.</p>
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<h2 data-start="4227" data-end="4241">Why Join Us</h2>
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<p data-start="4244" data-end="4359"><strong data-start="4244" data-end="4274">Strategy with a Data Edge:</strong> Operate at the intersection of boardroom strategy and cutting-edge AI engineering.</p>
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<p data-start="4362" data-end="4494"><strong data-start="4362" data-end="4389">Romandie Office Impact:</strong> High visibility from day one; help shape our Swiss footprint and work directly with senior leadership.</p>
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<p data-start="4497" data-end="4630"><strong data-start="4497" data-end="4519">Learning & Growth:</strong> Advanced training across strategy, AI/ML/LLM, and cloud; international missions and communities of practice.</p>
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<p data-start="4633" data-end="4752"><strong data-start="4633" data-end="4654">Culture of Doers:</strong> Innovation, action, collaboration. We move fast, deliver impact, and support each other’s growth.</p>
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<p data-start="4754" data-end="4796"><strong data-start="4754" data-end="4767">Location:</strong> Lausanne / Geneva (Romandie)</p>
<p data-start="4798" data-end="4942" data-is-last-node="" data-is-only-node="">If you don’t meet 100% of the criteria, we still want to hear from you. Passion, curiosity, and impact orientation matter — tell us about yours.</p>
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Published: September 28, 2026
Engagement Manager (Strategy & Data/AI Transformation)
Artefactlinkedin
Location: Lausanne, Vaud; Zürich
<h2>Who is Artefact?</h2>
<p>Artefact is a next-generation strategy and data consulting firm dedicated to transforming organisations through data and AI. We combine the rigour of top-tier strategy consulting with deep expertise in data, digital and analytics to help clients achieve tangible business impact.</p>
<p>With 2,500+ consultants, data scientists and engineers, we work with global leaders such as Samsung, L’Oréal, Orange and Sanofi. Our Zurich office is at the heart of Artefact’s growth, advising clients on their most pressing strategic challenges — from AI strategy and governance to digital transformation roadmaps and new business model design.</p>
<h2>Main Responsibilities</h2>
<p>As an Engagement Manager in our Zurich or Lausanne office, you will work at the intersection of strategy consulting and data and AI delivery. You will:</p>
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<li><strong>Strategy Development:</strong> Work with client leadership teams to address high-stakes questions. How can AI reshape our business model? How should we govern and organise for data? Which strategic programmes deliver the most impact?</li>
<li><strong>Structured Problem-Solving:</strong> Break complex challenges down into decisions a client can act on, combining consulting rigour with a working knowledge of what current AI can and cannot actually do.</li>
<li><strong>Solution Design:</strong> Turn a business question into a solution shape — what data it depends on, what kind of platform or product it should sit on, and what “good” looks like once it is built. You will do this alongside our data scientists and engineers, and you will be accountable for whether the design survives contact with production.</li>
<li><strong>Project Delivery:</strong> Run engagements end to end, from hypothesis framing and market and competitor analysis through to data maturity assessments, client workshops, governance design and implementation roadmaps.</li>
<li><strong>Feasibility & Economics:</strong> Own the answer to "will this work, and what will it cost". The evaluation approach, the unit economics per query or per case, and the point at which the business case stops closing.</li>
<li><strong>Client Engagement:</strong> Work closely with C-level stakeholders and business unit leaders. You will build trusted relationships, communicate recommendations with clarity, and keep the work aligned to what the client is actually trying to decide.</li>
<li><strong>Team Leadership:</strong> Lead mixed teams of consultants, data scientists and engineers. You are the person who can tell whether the technical plan is realistic, and the person the client believes when you say that it is.</li>
<li><strong>Knowledge & Practice Building:</strong> Contribute to the growth of Artefact's Zurich and Lausanne offices by shaping new offerings, creating intellectual capital - frameworks, thought pieces, benchmarks - and taking part in business development.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Candidate Profile</h2>
<p>We are looking for someone who can hold a technical position and a commercial one at the same time, and lead a team through both. The strongest candidates meet most of the following.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Education:</strong> A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Business, Economics or a related field. A strong technical foundation counts for more with us than where you studied.</li>
<li><strong>Work Experience:</strong> Five to eight years across consulting and technology delivery, including at least one dedicated AI or data project.</li>
<li><strong>Business Acumen & AI Fluency:</strong> A strong dual affinity for business and technology. You have a deep working understanding of modern data and AI concepts — generative AI and LLMs, retrieval, predictive machine learning, cloud architectures — and of their practical business applications. You are capable of scoping AI use cases and of discussing technical constraints and opportunities confidently with C-level stakeholders.</li>
<li><strong>Technical Depth:</strong> You have owned the technical shape of AI work, not only its business case. You think in terms of enterprise architecture — how a solution fits the existing landscape, what it needs from data and governance, and how it scales from pilot to full rollout — and can defend those choices to technical and commercial stakeholders alike. You will not be writing production code, but you should have been close enough to it to be credible with the engineers with which you will collaborate.</li>
<li><strong>Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills:</strong> Strong quantitative and analytical skills, and the judgement to know which number actually decides the question. You are comfortable getting to a defensible estimate with your assumptions stated out loud.</li>
<li><strong>Communication & Interpersonal Skills:</strong> Excellent written and verbal communication. You can take a technical trade-off to a non-technical sponsor without flattening it, and be challenged by an engineer without retreating into abstraction. You enjoy working in teams and in front of clients.</li>
<li><strong>Languages:</strong> Fluency in German/French and English, written and spoken, is strongly preferred. </li>
<li><strong>Work Eligibility:</strong> You must be eligible to work in Switzerland.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Why Join Us</h2>
<ul>
<li><strong>Strategy and the Build:</strong> Artefact is neither a traditional strategy consultancy nor a pure technology player. You will move between the boardroom and the build, and be expected to be credible in both.</li>
<li><strong>Engineers, not hand-offs:</strong> Our 2,500 people include the data scientists and engineers you will work beside on the same engagement - not a delivery organisation you hand a slide deck to.</li>
<li><strong>Zurich Office Impact:</strong> As part of a growing Swiss team you will have visibility and impact from the first day. You will help shape Artefact's footprint in the region and work directly with senior leadership.</li>
<li><strong>Learning & Growth:</strong> Regular training in both consulting method and AI and data capability, combined with international exposure.</li>
<li><strong>Culture of Doers:</strong> Innovation, action, collaboration. We are entrepreneurial and fast-moving, committed to delivering impact while supporting each other's growth.</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<p>This position is based in <strong>Zürich or Lausanne</strong>.</p>
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Senior Software Engineer - REDAPL Graph Engine
Datadog
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<p>We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to help us take REDAPL, our Referential Data Platform, to the next level. REDAPL is Datadog's main platform for tracking our customers' infrastructure resources and relationships. The platform enables products where customers can understand, keep track of, and gain insights into their infrastructure related to performance, cost, security, and more.</p>
<p>Many Datadog products use REDAPL today such Cloud Security Posture Management, Resource Catalog, Cloud Cost Management, and Service Catalog and others - REDAPL ingests more than 4.5mil updates/second.</p>
<p>As a Senior Engineer, you will drive, lead and collaborate on projects both inside and outside the platform. You can expect to contribute to key technical decisions relating to our data ingestion, processing, and query pipelines.</p>
<p><em>At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.</em></p>
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<li>Build a query engine that supports efficient relationship traversals for our most demanding workloads.</li>
<li>Contribute to design and drive high-priority, high-visibility projects to increase the platform's value, resilience, and scalability across multiple teams.</li>
<li>Lead and guide other engineers through architectural platform decisions</li>
<li>Identify potential system risks and trends in reliability and design solutions to address them</li>
<li>Provide input on prioritizing engineering-led initiatives in short- and long-term planning and roadmaps</li>
<li>Collaborate with internal product teams to understand their requirements and how we plan for their product growth as they integrate and depend on REDAPL</li>
</ul>
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<p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You have a BS/MS/PhD in a Computer Science, Engineering or related scientific field or equivalent experience</li>
<li>You have worked extensively with multiple types of data stores. </li>
<li>You have contributed to initiatives in a platform or infrastructure-focused environment for several years</li>
<li>You have led impactful technical initiatives in an environment where performance, cost efficiency, ease of use, and resilience/operability are first-order concerns</li>
<li>You have significant back-end engineering experience and have built, and operated distributed systems to solve problems at a high scale</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Bonus points:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You have experience working with Graph Databases such as Neo4j, Memgraph, JanusGraph, ArangoDB, Amazon Neptune or PuppyGraph.</li>
<li>You have production-grade experience with Apache Iceberg</li>
<li>You have a solid grasp of query planning or better yet - contributed to a production-grade query engines or related projects (e.g. Trino, Calcite, Substrait, DataFusion, etc) ideally demonstrated through open-source contributions or PMC membership on projects.</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Benefits and Growth:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Get to build tools for software engineers, just like yourself. And use the tools we build to accelerate our development.</li>
<li>Have a lot of influence on product direction and impact on the business .</li>
<li>Work with skilled, knowledgeable, and kind teammates who are happy to teach and learn</li>
<li>Competitive global benefits</li>
<li>Continuous professional development</li>
</ul>
<p><em>Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.</em></p>
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<p><strong>About Datadog: </strong></p>
<p>Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/datadoghq/?hl=en" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/datadog" target="_blank">LinkedIn,</a> and <a href="https://learn.datadoghq.com/" target="_blank">Datadog Learning Center. </a></p>
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<p data-renderer-start-pos="662">Any information you submit to Datadog as part of your application will be processed in accordance with Datadog’s <a class="c-link" href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/applicant-candidate-privacy/" target="_blank" data-stringify-link="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/applicant-candidate-privacy/" data-sk="tooltip_parent">Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice</a>. For information on our AI policy, please visit <a href="https://www.datadoghq.com/legal/interviewing-at-datadog-ai-guidelines/" target="_blank">Interviewing at Datadog AI Guidelines</a>.</p></div>
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Published: September 28, 2026
