Offre d'emploi Senior IT PMO (Trading / Data & Analytics / Risk) – Market Data Migration – Zurich – Contract

Avanda is an IT Services Consultancy. We are looking for a Senior IT PMO to join our international team at a global client in the Zurich area (remote-friendly) on a strategic, multi-year Market Data to Data & Analytics (DnA) Platform Migration programme in the Trading sector.
Excellent Rates are on offer for the right person. 


THE ROLE
Role
Senior IT PMO (Project Management Officer)
Domain
Trading (Commodities, Energy, Financial Markets, Investment Banking)
Project
Market Data → Data & Analytics (DnA) Platform Migration
Start date
June 2026
Duration
Until March 2028 (phased extensions)
Workload
4-5 days/week (80%-100%)
Location
Hybrid – Zurich area / Remote (90-100% remote, flexible)
Languages
English (must) – German (strong plus)

THE PROJECT

Our client is undertaking a strategic migration from a legacy market data infrastructure to a modern, federated Data & Analytics (DnA) platform. The programme involves:

• Multiple federated technical teams working in parallel (data mesh / domain-driven delivery model)
  


• Reconciliation and sign-off of risk and market data products with business stakeholders
  


• Full migration cutover including regulatory, risk, and trading data flows
  


• A long-term roadmap running through Q1 2028
  

You'll be joining an international, multi-disciplinary team of project managers, workstream leads, business analysts, data engineers, and architects.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

As the Senior IT PMO, you will be the operational backbone of the programme:

• Support workstream leads with planning, status tracking, and cross-workstream coordination
  


• Run project meetings end-to-end: agendas, minutes, action logs, decision logs, follow-ups
  


• Maintain project documentation, status reports, and management updates
  


• Track open points, RAID items (Risks, Actions, Issues, Dependencies) across workstreams and escalate to the PM as required
  


• Prepare materials for Steering Committee (SteerCo) and senior governance bodies
  


• Support the onboarding of new project members and general project administration
  


• Drive the unglamorous but critical follow-up work that keeps a complex programme on track
  

Requirements
YOU NEED

We are looking for a seasoned PMO contractor with:

• 8-15 years' PMO / Project Management Office experience in IT delivery environments
  


• Delivery track record on at least one large data platform, cloud migration, or platform modernization programme
  


• Comfortable with federated delivery models, Agile-at-scale (SAFe, Scrum-of-Scrums), or hybrid delivery
  


• Fluent in core PMO tooling: JIRA, Confluence, MS Project, MS Teams, SharePoint, Power BI
  


• Polished and articulate enough to brief a Steering Committee and senior stakeholders
  


• Strong organisational skills – structured, reliable, detail-oriented, self-starter
  


• Confident stakeholder communication at all levels
  


• Fluent English (mandatory), German is a plus
  

These will be a plus:

• Domain experience in Investment Banking, Energy Trading, Commodities Trading, Power & Gas, Risk Management, or Financial Markets
  


• Exposure to market data platforms, regulatory data programmes (MiFID II, FRTB, EMIR, REMIT), or ETRM/CTRM systems (Mesap, Endur, Allegro, RightAngle, OpenLink)
  


• Experience with market data feeds: Refinitiv/LSEG, Bloomberg, ICE, EEX, EPEX
  


• Experience with Data Mesh, Data Lakehouse, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Data Platform
  


• German language skills (B2+ / fluent) – strong advantage for stakeholder interactions
  


• Swiss market experience or based in Switzerland (Zurich, Aarau, Zug, Basel)