Jobs at Avanda Solutions

Lead migration of an R framework and its dependencies, reconcile large datasets across applications, adapt systems to REST APIs and JSON structures, and optimize cloud development and deployment pipelines. Advise the Risk department on R development best practices, code quality, performance, CI/CD, and cloud adoption. The role requires strong R, Python, data science, database, cloud, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps experience.

Lead delivery coherence for a strategic investment platform across engineering, quantitative, infrastructure, IT, and business teams. Manage dependencies, testing strategies, environments, risks, integration challenges, delivery evidence, performance benchmarks, stakeholder communications, prioritization, and resourcing. The role requires experience in investment banking or quantitative finance, exposure to quantitative investment strategies and systematic platforms, collaboration with quant researchers and developers, and technical fluency across architecture, infrastructure, and integration.

Lead the global IT function for a rapidly growing international manufacturing company. Own IT strategy, infrastructure, enterprise applications, cloud workplace technology, cybersecurity, service delivery, governance, business continuity, vendors, and compliance. Build and manage the internal IT organization while supporting global operations and future ERP, MES, and industrial IoT integrations.

Lead delivery of a Databricks-based data platform using Agile methodologies. Oversee pipelines, cluster usage, cost optimization, governance, and platform reliability. Coordinate engineering, architecture, analytics, and business stakeholders across Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud environments. Translate requirements into delivery plans while managing risks, security, compliance, performance, and continuous improvement.

Lead strategic procurement and vendor management for market data services supporting energy and commodity trading. Responsibilities include negotiating provider contracts, managing commercial relationships, optimizing costs, overseeing market data budgets and P&L, and developing business cases for new subscriptions and platform investments. The role requires substantial market data management experience, procurement and negotiation expertise, familiarity with major data providers, and knowledge of energy markets.

Develop and enhance an in-house spread execution service using C# and .NET 6/8, enabling trading across multiple products. Responsibilities include extending the existing codebase, writing tests for core logic and edge cases, collaborating with developers, and implementing bug fixes and small service enhancements. The role requires strong asynchronous service development skills, test-driven development practices, basic Angular and message queueing experience, and the ability to work autonomously. Trading knowledge is advantageous.

Maintain, configure, and expand an ELK-based monitoring platform. Develop log ingestion pipelines and indexation scripts, configure Elasticsearch and Kibana dashboards, implement alerting and OpenTelemetry, and support platform onboarding. Contribute to monitoring studies, observability strategy, task estimation, and delivery planning. The role requires Linux operations expertise and experience with Azure, Terraform, Puppet, and Git-based deployments.

Serve as the internal IT architecture authority across networks, cloud, security, platforms, and applications. Define architectures aligned with IT strategy, translate business needs into solution proposals, advise projects, design application integrations, support Azure, Kubernetes, AI, and Microsoft 365 initiatives, maintain documentation and standards, conduct design reviews, and identify optimization opportunities.

Develop and support SAP S/4HANA systems, produce high-quality ABAP code, collaborate with internal developers, and contribute to an upcoming S/4HANA system upgrade. The role is fully remote with occasional travel to Madrid and requires mandatory English and Spanish fluency. Candidates need at least two years of S/4HANA project experience and knowledge of OData, ABAP OO, CDS, reports, and Adobe Forms. Flexible Workflow and RAP experience are advantageous.

Administer and optimize Jira and Jira Service Management instances, including workflows, permissions, SLAs, automation, integrations, and REST API processes. Collaborate with business and IT teams to improve processes, evaluate Marketplace apps, document technical solutions, train users, and provide troubleshooting support. The role requires extensive Jira experience, familiarity with Automation for Jira and ScriptRunner, integration expertise, and strong English communication skills.

Lead an SAP S/4HANA release upgrade project across multiple countries and business units. Own project planning, monitoring, documentation, risk management, dependency coordination, steering committee reporting, and stakeholder communication. Manage a cross-functional team and ensure delivery within scope, schedule, and budget. The role requires strong SAP upgrade expertise, familiarity with client concepts and freeze periods, and excellent English communication skills; German is advantageous.

Design, develop, test, and operate production-grade ETL/ELT pipelines using Databricks, PySpark, Python, and SQL. Trace data flows across enterprise systems, investigate interface and downstream issues, perform data validation and reconciliation, and maintain monitoring, documentation, lineage, and schema evolution. Collaborate in an agile environment while following Git-based version control, testing, CI/CD, and structured release processes.

Build and improve data products supporting a data mesh, including ingestion and transformation pipelines, data quality checks, data modeling, access management, documentation, and security reviews. Collaborate with data engineers, data stewards, product owners, and software engineers across Sweden and Amsterdam. Improve processes, advocate for data mesh practices, provide technical guidance, and optimize the existing technology stack.

Design and build Databricks ETL pipelines and CDC connectors integrating Salesforce and Microsoft Dynamics 365. Develop PySpark and SQL transformations using Delta Lake, implement data-quality frameworks, optimize data workloads, create KPI dashboards, and establish monitoring, alerting, orchestration, architecture documentation, and data lineage. The role requires Azure experience, Databricks administration, and collaboration with international stakeholders, with occasional travel to Zurich.

Own and administer SAP systems across on-premise and cloud landscapes, ensuring availability, performance, backup, and disaster recovery compliance. Manage system refreshes, SAP and database upgrades, patching, certificates, support package campaigns, release management, and Focused Build support. Monitor and tune performance, configure systems, apply SAP security principles, and coordinate Basis-related matters with IT technical leads.

Manage hands-on A-Z accounting activities, including bank reconciliations, vendor and customer accounting, invoice processing, payment runs, monthly closes, annual financial statements, and year-end closing support. The role also involves stabilizing the accounting department during a high-workload period and requires on-site work in Luxembourg, initially at 50% workload with planned expansion to 80–100%.

Support a multi-year trading market data and analytics platform migration by coordinating workstream planning, status tracking, meetings, documentation, risks, issues, dependencies, steering materials, onboarding, and project administration. The role partners with workstream leads and the Project Manager across multiple workstreams in an international IT environment.

Review Palo Alto NGFW infrastructure and configurations, including network architecture, filtering rules, security policies, performance settings, vulnerabilities, and compliance with best practices. Produce an audit report, prioritize risks, develop an improvement plan and timeline, support implementation, establish performance indicators, and provide training documentation. The consultant will collaborate with technical teams and present findings effectively.

Owns end-to-end design and continuous enhancement of global supply chain planning solutions centered on Kinaxis Maestro. Leads initiatives and implementation projects, partners with business process leads to optimize planning processes, manages change requests, oversees application support, and coordinates external consultants. The role is based onsite in Zurich and requires fluent English, with German advantageous.