Solution Architect Tech4Engineering

Do you have a vision on how to improve the development experience for our engineers? Do you have a vision how you can help our engineers run their services secure and continuous?

As a Solution Architect for Rabobank Tech4Engineering, you have an opportunity to design the technology that provides the digital experience of 7 million customers through our channels and provide a developer platform for over 3.000 developers within the Rabobank.

Within Tribe Tech4Engineering, area Tech4Ops, our squads work on tools and supporting processes that help over 400 teams to build our modern digital experience, while ensuring the highest standards for quality, performance, and security.

You will coach, guide, and support several squads. In this role you work closely together with our product owners, scrum masters, engineering squads and other architects. You ensure a vision about the current and future solutions we provide. You leverage your engineering experience, understanding of the business drivers and knowledge of current and emerging technology and its practical application.

Responsibilities

• Incorporate the latest architecture concepts into projects and initiatives
• Set and roadmap solution direction across the different squads
• Create and socialize end-to-end designs and solution architecture with squads, architecture colleagues, product owners and other business and IT representatives
• Mentor and coach the squads to implement the architecture and support the squads with challenges during all steps of the DevOps cycle

You and your talent

Within Tech4Engineering we value integrity, an engineering focus, an ‘improvement and embracing change’ mind-set and openness. In addition, it is important that you are a team player, have leadership skills and recognise yourself in the checklist below:

• Minimum 5 years working experience in relevant roles (in Ai-Sec-Ops/ IT DevOps) of which a minimum of 2 years of Solution Architecture experience in a complex environment
• Practical experience with architecture methods and techniques
• Knowledge of / Experience with (Security) Monitoring architectures and solutions   
• You have a helicopter view: overseeing a wide domain and any consequences certain (design) decisions have
• You can remember or research previous decisions and experiences that lead us to where we are now
• You are not afraid to ‘get your hands dirty’ and become involved in complex analysis and implementation questions
• Good communication skills to collaborate with business users, colleague architects, and squad members
• Ability to communicate technical solutions in business terms, and can influence and persuade others with an open mindset

This is what we offer you

• Are you a Solution Architect who is passionate about building high quality software and machine learning solutions on top of the riches data source of the bank? Good. Then read on...
   

  You and your job

  We need your help to inspire and coach teams that design, build and run ground-breaking solutions that are as valuable to our 7 million customers to use as they are fun for us to create. As a Solution Architect you will empower multi-disciplinary teams on architecture, technical and risk & compliance topics so that they can take end-to-end responsibility for our solutions. We expect you to enable, coach and inspire others with your craftmanship and passion for high-quality software solutions.

  Practical examples

• Design solutions for internal customers with the focus on battling financial economic crimes.
• Validate solution designs that have been created by and with your teams.
• Share your passion and knowledge about best software design practices.
   

• Facts & figures

• 36-40 hours a week.
• The epic centre of applied innovation.
• 43,822 Rabobank colleagues around the world.
   

• Top responsibilities

• Design, build, test, deploy and run high quality backend software solutions.
• Coach teams on architecture, technical and risk & compliance topics.
• Give and receive help from peers, experts and stakeholders so we can improve together.
   

• Together we achieve more than alone

  We believe that bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,5000,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

  Within Rabobank, Data Science is an ambitious department that aims to mix in a healthy dose of experience, innovation and creativity in order to develop innovative products and services. Although we’ve grown up to be a mature department with 15 strong end-to-end teams, we keep focussing on fast learning, delivering value quickly and being more effective. As a team, you work on clear goals and continuously see the results of your (team) efforts.

  Being part of an end-to-end team in Data Science means that you, together with engineers, data scientists, a scrum master and a product owner, are responsible and empowered to design, build and run solutions with a strong machine learning component.
   

  You and your talent

• You are a nice, friendly and approachable person.
• You have at least 5 years of experience with software engineering.
• You have at least 1 year of experience with Python solutions.
• You have at least 1 year of experience with Databricks solutions.
• You have at least 3 years of experience deploying solutions to Azure.
• You have at least 3 years of experience designing CI/CD environments.
• You have a passion for designing clean, well-structured and testable solutions.
• You can communicate well in the English language.
• Experience in a regulated / banking environment is a big plus.
• Experience as a Solution Architect is also a plus, but not absolutely required.
   

• This is what we offer you

• Salary scale 9 up to € 5.565,- salary per month based on 36 hours or € 6.283,- salary per month based on 40 hours . (this means a yearly salary of max € 95.000,- based on 40 hours including all benefits) Depending on experience.
• A thirteenth month and 8% holiday pay.
• An Employee Benefit Budget (10% of your monthly income). You decide how to spend this budget. This may include purchasing extra leave days, making extra pension contributions or even receiving a monthly cash payout.
• 100 % reimbursement of the costs of home/work travel if you travel by public transport! Do you still prefer to travel by car or motorbike? Then choose a home/work travel allowance.
• A pension scheme where you contribute only 3,5%
   

• You and the job application process

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Lois Hageman, Senior IT Recruiter via marie-louise.hageman@rabobank.nl.
• We will hold the interviews through a video call.
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/nl/veelgestelde-vragen.
• A security check is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.
• yearly salary of max 95.000 including all benefit
• A thirteenth month and 8% holiday pay.
• An Employee Benefit Budget (10% of your monthly income). You decide how to spend this budget. This may include purchasing extra leave days, making extra pension contributions or even receiving a monthly cash payout.
• 100 % reimbursement of the costs of home/work travel if you travel by public transport! Do you still prefer to travel by car or motorbike? Then choose a home/work travel allowance.
• A pension scheme where you contribute only 5,5%
   

You and the job application process

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Lois Hageman, Senior IT Recruiter via marie-louise.hageman@rabobank.nl.
• We will hold the interviews through a video call.
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/nl/veelgestelde-vragen.
• A security check is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.