Technical Lead (Data Applications and BI)

Salary: CHF 135'000 - 155'000 per year

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience in data or BI engineering, with 2+ years as a senior technical lead in production support environments

• Demonstrated expertise in managing application and BI systems in Run/production contexts

• Strong experience with Microsoft Power BI, including dashboard and reporting operations

• Proven leadership in incident command and root cause analysis (RCA)

• Hands-on knowledge of monitoring and observability tools for application and BI stacks

• Experience in technical mentoring of engineers across multiple disciplines

• English language fluency at B2 level or above

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the senior technical escalation point for incidents across Data Applications, BI and visualization domains

• Lead P1/P2 incident resolution, own root cause analysis and coordinate fixes among cross-functional teams

• Define and maintain Run technical standards including monitoring, alert thresholds, runbooks and on-call processes

• Review and approve technical changes entering production, including application releases and dashboard/report updates

• Identify systemic reliability gaps, prioritize remediation and build an automation backlog for Run operations

• Mentor Data Engineers and BI Engineers, setting a high technical standard and advancing best practices

• Report on production health, RCA trends and reliability metrics to the Data Program Manager

• Drive adoption of observability and incident management best practices across teams

Technologies:

• AI

• Cloud

• Incident Management

• Support

• Power BI

• Snowflake

More:

Were looking for a Technical Lead to join our team in broader Zurich area, Switzerland in a hybrid working mode. You will work as part of an international delivery team operating in a complex enterprise IT environment. In this role, you will act as the senior technical authority for production health, reliability and incident resolution across application-layer data services and BI solutions. You will collaborate closely with Data Architects, BI Engineers, Data Reliability Engineers and other stakeholders to ensure resilience, performance and compliance for business-critical data systems and reporting platforms.

We offer/Benefits

- 5 weeks of vacation

- EPAM Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

- Enhanced parental leave

- Extended pension plan

- Daily sickness allowance insurance

- Employee assistance program

- Global business travel medical and accident insurance

- Learning and development opportunities including in-house training and coaching, professional certifications, and courses

*All benefits and perks are subject to certain eligibility requirements

- Please note that any offers will be subject to appropriate background checks

- We do not accept CVs from recruiting or staffing agencies

- For this position, we are able to consider applications from the following:

- Swiss nationals

- EU/EFTA nationals

- Third-country nationals based in Switzerland with an appropriate work permit

- Displaced people from Ukraine who are currently in Switzerland and hold, or have already applied for, S permits

last updated 43 week of 2026