Zurich, Switzerland
Internship Explorer
Internship Explorer
At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together. Be Empowered with our 10-week Summer Internship Programme Join us for a 10-week internship from 1 July to 4 September 2026 and spend your summer discovering the opportunities and challenges of the wealth management industry. As a student, this internship is a chance to explore your interests, develop new skills, and gain hands-on experience working alongside experienced professionals on real projects. Our programme includes various learning sessions as well as networking opportunities, allowing you to connect with colleagues and our graduates. Whether you are passionate about finance, technology, or innovative problem-solving, our programme provides the ideal environment to learn, grow, and thrive. Apply now and join our dynamic team for a summer of learning, innovation, and excitement! Your team You will join the Software Quality & Operational Resilience initiative, embedded closely with ART Order Management - one of the core Agile Release Trains (ART) powering Julius Baer’s Trading flows. Our mission is to strengthen the reliability, robustness, and quality of software releases through proactive risk identification, improved testing practices, mature monitoring, and stronger operational discipline. While existing teams focus on delivery, your role will cut across silos to coordinate, measure, and accelerate targeted quality initiatives - acting almost like an internal programme manager for resilience. You’ll collaborate directly with: -ART Leadership (Release Train Engineer RTE and Journey Lead) -Domain Test Manager and Quality Ambassadors -Tester, IT Service Owners, DevOps, L3 Support, and ART Teams This is not a backend task role - you’ll be front-row in sprint reviews, retrospectives, working groups, and design discussions, helping convert insights into actions. YOUR CHALLENGE What to work on You will own the momentum behind multiple high-impact software quality initiatives aimed at increasing system resilience and release confidence. Working autonomously yet collaboratively, you’ll help turn brainstormed ideas into tracked, measurable outcomes. Key responsibilities include: Coordination & Follow-up: Act as point person for emerging working groups tackling challenges in monitoring, testing, deployment quality, and incident response. Ensure decisions translate into action items Measure Definition & Tracking: Partner with quality roles and RTE to define meaningful KPIs Gap Analysis Support: Gather input from team surveys and workshops to map current pain points against target practices in areas like Configuration Drift, Testing Strategy, or Operational Readiness Checks Hands-On Implementation: Don’t just report - roll up your sleeves. Help update checklists, improve Confluence pages, set up Jira boards for tracking, automate simple reports, or refine incident templates Cross-Team Facilitation: Build trust and cooperation across busy engineering squads. Schedule syncs, prepare agendas, capture minutes, and keep energy alive around continuous improvement. Example: One week you might facilitate a session on “Why Smoke Tests Fail”; the next, you're analysing incident timelines to suggest alerting improvements — always moving things forward. What to learn By the end of the internship, you will have gained rare exposure to enterprise-scale software delivery in banking. Specifically, you’ll: Understand what it takes to run stable, secure financial systems under strict regulatory expectations Learn modern Agile (SAFe), DevOps, and ITIL-influenced ways of working in a real-world setting Develop coordination, facilitation, and influence-without-authority skills essential for future leaders Gain fluency in software quality levers: testing strategy, observability, change control, and release governance Walk away with tangible examples of initiatives you drove - perfect for case studies or interviews.
