Chain IQ Group AG

Solutions Engineer

• Design end-to-end system flows for complex, multi-step workflows
• Define orchestration patterns for automation and agent-driven processes
• Establish standards for synchronous and asynchronous interactions
• Shape service boundaries, APIs and event models
• Design lifecycle management for long-running workflows and delegated actions
• Define retry, error-handling, compensation and escalation patterns
• Ensure automation behaves predictably under failure and load
• Collaborate with Security on guardrails and with Data on data access patterns
• Review and evolve designs as the platform grows and new capabilities are introduced
• Act as a technical sounding board for engineering teams building platform features

Solution Architect – Platform & Automation

Procurement

• Establishing and maintaining strong relationships with clients
• Understanding the client’s business practices and requirements and shaping deals to meet those requirements.
• Conducting information and commercial tenders and managing the evaluation with the clients’ stakeholders to determine optimal supplier selection.
• Leading assigned MDS initiatives (including demand and savings challenges) which will vary in terms of client, scope and scale.
• Providing advice on best practices for ongoing contract management and licensing issues.

Sourcing MDS

Cloud Engineer

• Build and maintain cloud environments using infrastructure as code and reusable modules
• Develop CI/CD pipelines with automated validation, safety controls and progressive rollout patterns
• Implement observability across logs, metrics and traces, with actionable signal for teams
• Define and maintain reliability standards including SLOs, error budgets and incident processes
• Establish secure defaults for environments, services and deployments
• Optimize runtime performance and cost through data-driven analysis
• Remove manual operations by automating environment, deployment and maintenance workflows
• Collaborate closely with engineering, data and security teams to ensure platform readiness

CloudOps Engineer

Data Engineer

• Build and maintain ingestion pipelines from operational systems, files, APIs and events
• Design batch and streaming data pipelines that are resilient, observable and testable
• Normalize, enrich and transform raw data into reusable, well-structured datasets
• Enforce schemas, validate inputs and manage schema evolution
• Implement data quality checks and surface issues early
• Ensure data pipelines respect tenant and line-of-business isolation
• Collaborate closely with the Data Architect to implement modelling and governance standards

Data Engineer – Platform, Pipelines

Security Engineer

• Design security models that support multi-tenant platforms, diverse user groups and automated system behaviors
• Create a clear, scalable identity and access strategy across users, services, workflows and agents
• Define policy-based controls for environments, services, data-access layers and workflow execution
• Shape data protection standards covering classification, retention, minimization, lineage and usage transparency
• Establish runtime controls for safe automation including guardrails, permissible actions, validation steps and human-in-the-loop points
• Guide the adoption of secure delivery patterns in engineering and CloudOps including build, deploy and operate practices
• Design monitoring and audit structures that make system behavior observable and explainable
• Evaluate emerging risks related to automation, agent delegation, external integrations and cross-tenant data flows

Security Architect

Consultant

• Responsible for the planning, coordination, and the execution of strategies, resourcing, and delivery of our client’s Strategic Sourcing and Procurement strategic and operational programs
• Collaborating with client stakeholders to ensure all services are delivered according to schedule and exceptional service is provided throughout the engagement
• Engage with all levels of client stakeholders to identify key areas of opportunity and lead resources, including global sourcing teams, on-site and off-site delivery teams, to swift and measurable results for the client
• Develop required solutions and providing guidance, expertise and coaching when required
• Accountable for delivering Chain IQ’s full suite of services, including developing and implementing new Strategic Sourcing and Operational Procurement processes, governance and spend management controls, preparing appropriate levels of operational reporting, as well as, quality measurement reporting through KPI’s and meeting defined SLA’s

Senior Consultant, Client Engagement Management

• Work on client site, ensuring high-quality delivery against agreed targets while fostering a culture of accountability, performance, and positivity.
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor and understanding their business drivers and sourcing requirements.
• Shape and execute complex sourcing strategies, negotiating optimal commercial terms tailored to the client's evolving needs.
• Own and drive MDS initiatives across diverse scopes, ensuring alignment with client objectives and delivering tangible business value.
• Build and present tailored sourcing solutions that demonstrate commercial insight and strategic alignment.
• Review, negotiate, and manage contracts with vendors, ensuring beneficial terms and ongoing compliance with licensing and usage rights.
• Provide expert guidance on best practices in contract management, vendor engagement, and regulatory considerations.
• Monitor market developments and vendor capabilities to identify innovation opportunities and potential displacements.
• Implement demand management strategies to optimize spend, improve operational efficiency, and reduce cost.
• Deliver accurate reporting and analysis to support financial planning, decision-making, and performance tracking.
• Ensure consistent use of corporate standards, sourcing tools, and governance frameworks in all sourcing initiatives.

Sourcing Market Data Services

Platform Engineer

• Own and evolve shared platform components used across products and teams
• Build and maintain common frameworks for workflow orchestration, automation and agent execution
• Define and implement standard service templates, libraries and internal APIs
• Establish consistent patterns for messaging, caching, state management and background processing
• Ensure platform capabilities are easy to adopt and hard to misuse
• Partner closely with Solution, Data and Security Architects to turn designs into working systems
• Work with Product Engineers to reduce duplication and improve developer experience
• Drive coherence across services by enforcing shared abstractions and patterns
• Balance platform stability with rapid iteration as product needs evolve
• Make explicit trade-offs between flexibility, simplicity and long-term maintainability
• Continuously identify opportunities to reduce complexity and improve leverage across teams

Platform Engineering Lead

• Deliver value-add sourcing services to clients in a structured, professional and consistent manner
• Collaborate with Head of Sourcing, Sourcing Operations and Tactical Buying and Team Leads to ensure optimal use of Sourcing, Sourcing Operations and Tactical Buying capabilities
• Establish and maintain strong relationships with internal, client and supplier stakeholders
• Organize and manage market tenders
• Evaluate suppliers proposals and perform bid analysis – provide input and recommendations for supplier selection
• Negotiate deals to achieve optimal commercial, specification, compliance and contractual outcomes
• Draft and negotiate contracts with vendors based on standard terms and conditions
• Identify opportunities to drive improvements and contribute to their implementation
• Adhere to the client’s corporate standards, including using the defined sourcing tools and processes in the delivery of sourcing initiatives according to the client requirements
• Ensure the functional KPIs, SLAs and other performance objectives are met including savings targets
• Ensure accuracy of data and compliance with the given sourcing requirements (based on client methodology and requirements)
• Perform spend analysis to proactively identify savings opportunities
• Support and run RFx, eAuction – create and manage event in e-sourcing tool
• Ensure proactive and timely engagement with clients
• Ensure proactivity for additional support/extra activities/projects
• Support coaching and development of more junior colleagues
• Seen as a role model by colleagues in Chain IQ and clients
• Act as category champion for the managed category

Sourcing Professional Services

Full-stack Engineer

• Design, build and own backend services and workflows that automate complex, multi-step processes
• Implement reliable orchestration for long-running workflows, including state management, retries and recovery
• Integrate unstructured data assessment into automation flows, including document analysis and external system interaction
• Build and maintain headless and API-driven interactions with third-party tools where direct integration is limited
• Design retrieval and context assembly flows that balance accuracy, performance and cost
• Define and enforce clear boundaries for automated actions, validation and human intervention
• Own application-layer integration with automation, including status, progress, confidence and recovery surfaces
• Implement user-facing flows for initiating, monitoring, validating and overriding automated behavior
• Ensure failures, retries and partial execution are visible and understandable to users
• Design explainability and audit views that reflect real system behavior
• Ensure automated workflows are observable, testable and auditable end to end
• Optimize services for performance and cost as usage scales, with explicit focus on reducing cost to serve
• Contribute to shared platform patterns for automation, messaging, caching, memory and state management
• Work closely with Product, Data, Design and Security teams to ensure automation aligns with business outcomes and trust requirements
• Continuously identify opportunities to replace manual operational work with safe, scalable automation

Product Engineer – Agentic Automation, Application

• Define and maintain canonical domain entities such as suppliers, contracts, risks and obligations
• Build semantic datasets that reflect real workflows and business logic
• Model relationships, hierarchies and time-based changes explicitly
• Ensure consistent definitions across products, analytics and automation
• Design patterns for linking documents to structured entities
• Support gradual evolution toward graph-based and retrieval-driven use cases
• Collaborate with Product, AI and Engineering teams to align data with system behavior
• Help remove duplicated and inconsistent logic from dashboards and downstream tools

Data Engineer – Semantics, Domain Models

• Deliver high-impact, value-added sourcing services to our clients in a structured, professional, and consistent manner.
• Build and nurture trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Act as a strategic advisor, translating business needs into actionable sourcing strategies.
• Lead complex, multi-region sourcing projects across IT categories including cybersecurity, software, SaaS, hosted platforms, networks, data centers, hardware, and telecom.
• Manage RFPs/RFIs, supplier evaluations, and selection processes with precision.
• Ensure alignment with client priorities, compliance standards, and risk frameworks.

Sourcing Technology Services – Expert

Engineering Manager

• Lead and support engineering teams delivering product and platform capabilities
• Own team health, delivery cadence and execution quality
• Ensure work is well-scoped, prioritized and sequenced in collaboration with Product and Platform leads
• Remove blockers and reduce organizational friction that slows delivery
• Establish clear expectations around ownership, accountability and outcomes
• Coach engineers through technical and professional growth
• Support hiring, onboarding and team scaling
• Foster a culture of high standards, pragmatism and continuous improvement
• Ensure teams follow agreed engineering and platform practices without heavy process
• Provide visibility into progress, risks and trade-offs without creating bureaucracy

Product Engineering Manager

• Proactively foster effective collaboration and ensure strong communication with key client stakeholders
• Perform spend and contract analysis to identify sourcing and cost reduction opportunities
• Lead and execute IT sourcing projects from end-to-end in line with agreed timelines
• Ensure a high-level of ethics in supplier and/or client engagements

Sourcing Technology Services, Consultant

Product Manager

• Own problem definition across complex procurement and operational workflows
• Identify opportunities to simplify, automate or eliminate manual processes
• Decide where and how automated agents are applied within workflows
• Define clear product outcomes tied to efficiency, accuracy, risk reduction and user trust
• Build and maintain product roadmaps aligned with platform and data capabilities
• Work closely with Product Designers to validate usability and interaction models
• Partner with engineering to translate intent into feasible, scalable solutions
• Sequence delivery across dependencies in platform, data, security and AI layers
• Use feedback, usage data and operational insight to guide iteration
• Communicate product direction clearly to internal teams and stakeholders