Principal Expert, AI Strategy & Orchestration

Atruvia AG

Leading Principal Expert for AI Strategy and Orchestration. Driving strategic initiatives in digital banking solutions with a focus on technological innovation and cross-functional collaboration.

Posted 6/15/2026full-timeAschheim • 🇩🇪 GermanyLead💰 €95,000 - €130,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You continuously sharpen our AI ambition, AI narrative and strategic AI roadmap in alignment with our corporate objectives, ensuring initiatives are evaluated by impact and implemented with focused execution.
You remove barriers. You optimize interfaces and processes and create ownership in the interplay between AI strategy, governance and technology so that the time-to-production for AI solutions is radically shortened.
You ensure our AI operating model delivers in practice as a hub-and-spoke approach and that decentralized units can seamlessly connect.
You act as a strategic sparring partner at all levels when assessing new technological leaps in the field (e.g., Agentic AI) and integrating them into our business and operating model.
You represent Atruvia’s AI interests with our partners and in the committees of the Cooperative Financial Group, ensuring the interoperability and integration capability of our solutions.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You hold a successfully completed (Master’s) degree in (business) computer science, mathematics, physics or a comparable qualification, plus many years of relevant experience in scaling technological innovations.
You can mediate between technical experts and top management, present complex concepts in a target-group-appropriate way and apply your skills effectively. You also bring extensive industry and market knowledge and a strong IT affinity.
You have business-fluent German (at least C1 level) and good English skills (B2 level).
Your analytical and conceptual thinking, entrepreneurial approach and persuasiveness, combined with a willingness to take on responsibility, distinguish you.
As a networker you are experimentation- and innovation-oriented, customer-focused and can contribute experience from agile organizational structures.
Due to collaboration across multiple locations, a high level of commitment and willingness to travel is required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible working: You arrange your working hours within our flextime framework on a self-determined basis.
Work–life balance: With 30 days of vacation, our individual working-time models such as part-time, the option to choose full-time between 30–40 hours and our lifetime working-time account (sabbatical and/or leave before retirement), you can find the right balance.
Reconciling private life and career: We offer a family allowance and support in special family situations, such as caring for relatives.
Individual benefits: You can choose between bike leasing, IT hardware leasing, capital-forming payments and/or an extra day off, as well as a company pension scheme and other options.
Onboarding: We welcome you at our #enter welcome event; in the first days your SGS lead (service-area/business-unit/staff lead) and ideally your mentor are available for all professional and organizational questions.
Health management – Health, Family and Life: We support you through offerings and cooperations such as with Familiengenossenschaft and voiio. Enjoy varied meals in our staff restaurants and connect through our sports programs.
Career model and training: In our development dialogues you discuss your professional, methodological and personal career goals and pursue them through our wide range of training opportunities.
Our company values: Respectful, open and honest, responsible, supportive and results-oriented – guided by team spirit and a desire for innovation and intensive knowledge exchange.
Future and job security: As a cooperative company with decades of experience, we are pioneers of digital transformation in the banking sector and a systemically important employer.
Kununu: We are a Top Company 2025 and proud of a Kununu score of 4.2 and a recommendation rate of ≥ 90%.

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Hard Skills & Tools

AI strategyAI roadmapAgentic AItechnological innovationsanalytical thinkingconceptual thinkingagile methodologiesinteroperabilityintegration capabilityscaling

Soft Skills

communicationpersuasivenessentrepreneurial approachnetworkingcustomer-focusedinnovation-orientedmediationpresentation skillsresponsibilitycollaboration

Certifications

Master’s degreebusiness computer sciencemathematicsphysics