The Head of Platform & Technology role is responsible for leading Xelon’s entire technical organization and ensuring strategic clarity, operational excellence, and strong cross-functional alignment across platform, product, architecture, and technical leadership.
Lead, develop, and grow the technical team of 10 (3 direct reports).
Overall ownership of the Xelon Platform
consisting of the Xelon Public Cloud and Private Clouds as well as ancillary services and the proprietary cloud management platform Xelon HQ.
Be the primary point of contact for the CEO in all technical matters.
Design cloud and hybrid infrastructures tailored to customer needs (VMware, Kubernetes), ensuring scalability, high availability, and cost-effectiveness.
Produce and maintain architecture documentation, including blueprints, data flow diagrams, and system integration overviews.
Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps to ensure solutions are implemented consistently and align with Xelon’s technology strategy.
Own the product roadmap from insight to delivery.
Act as strategic counterpart to the Cloud Infrastructure Lead
owning infrastructure direction, incident escalation governance, and the roadmap toward a converged platform operations model.
Lead customer-facing cloud and Kubernetes engagements.

At least 10 years of experience in the area of cloud, IT infrastructure, datacenter services, hosting, networking and/or virtualization.
Proven track record leading a technical team of 5+ people
trust and accountability, not just authority.
Experience leading technology organizations through platform transitions, structural change or scaling phases.
Hands-on Kubernetes expertise
you design and validate K8s architectures yourself.
Hands-on Cloud experience
public, hybrid, private clouds; hyperscaler solutions; IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
Product ownership experience
you have defined and driven a product roadmap, not just contributed.
You take initiative, close gaps, and do not wait to be told.
(Swiss) German & English: You speak both German and English fluently and you are able to communicate confidently and flawlessly in both.

Rewarding compensation: Competitive salary with performance-based incentives tied to the company's growth and success.
A senior leadership role with real authority over technical direction and meaningful influence on company strategy.
Young, dynamic & capable team: You take over a capable team that wants strong, clear leadership.
Creative freedom: The opportunity to make own and guide technical roadmap of a well-established tech scale-up.
Flexible working hours & remote options: Work when and where you are most productive.

Head of Platform & Technology

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