Consultant IT Strategy and Transformation - German speaking (f|m|x)

zeb is one of the leading strategy, management and IT consultancies specializing in financial services in Europe. We support banks, insurance companies and (tech) service providers in dealing with all the challenges and opportunities arising from transformation in the industry.

Your tasks:

• You create added value for the customer through craftsmanship and innovation - always at the interface between technical requirements and technologies, for instance through:
• driving digital change in challenging transformation and implementation projects at large and banks by implementing technology innovations such as RPA, cloud or AI in terms of design and management,
• designing strategic architectures for financial service companies, including planning of their implementation and their respective data provision,
• managing the development of crypto securities custody systems at FinTechs, core banking systems, compliance systems, or information security requirements,
• developing the application landscapes of national and international financial service providers,
• craft IT Target Operating Models as part of the bank´s IT strategy and development initiatives,
• or develop efficient target operations processes to ensure a sound bank IT.
• You analyze client requirements and conceptualize IT systems and their operations. You prepare the results in a management-oriented way.  
• You contribute to our market studies (e.g. Agile Readiness Study), publish own articles and white papers on topics driving the market. You also support recruiting and our university marketing.
• With increasing experience, you will take on more responsibility, present work results to our customers, manage project streams, lead projects and become increasingly involved in business development activities.

Your skills:

• Master’s degree in business administration or comparable academic background.
• University degree in computer sciences, business informatics (Master’s or PhD) or comparable academic background in the MINT area. Alternatively, as an Analyst, you hold a B.Sc and target the Master in parallel to your professional career.
• You already have some first experience with IT architecture in financial services, or have worked in an IT consultancy.
• You do not need to google terms CBS, BDM, PowerBI, Data Lineage or Azure.
• You have knowledge in respective development environments / languages like Java, Python, Power BI, or similar; as well as of IT concepts like Cloud Computing, data science or IT Architecture.
• In addition to your mother tongue, you speak fluently English and German (at least C1).

Your Benefits

• Training: Develop your strengths with us – and benefit from our comprehensive training program and language courses. In addition, individual seminars with external providers are possible if certain training programs are necessary yet unavailable in the general training catalog. Executive coaching: Regarding specific issues for executives, we offer training sessions in how to position oneself in the company, communication, leadership and negotiation management.
• Events: An important part of our culture is the exchange of thoughts and networking among colleagues. You have the opportunity to do so at numerous events, such as the Christmas Party, zeb.Uni, partner dinner or the "Beer & Pizza" format.
• Agile Working: In our agile workspaces there are no limits to your creativity. Whether SCRUM, Kanban or Design Thinking—this is where we transforms agile thoughts into action. You can find more about our offices here.
• Flexibility: To offer you the best possible flexibility, you don’t have to live in one of our locations to work with us: in addition to appointments with clients, you can choose to travel to the office or prefer to work from home. For this reason, you can choose your location as well as your Practice Group - project groups for specific topics - and easily change them over time, if needed. Individual coaching is very important to us. For this purpose, you will be assigned a mentor, in our case a CDC – Career Development Counselor. If you wish, you can easily change your CDC.

Equal opportunities for all: we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, religion, sexual identity or social background. As an employer, we rely on people who like to try new things, take responsibility and inspire others through their actions.