IT lead Sales and Services for Tech Domain Investments
Imagine stepping into the role of IT Lead, where you and your teams play a crucial part in delivering the finest investment solutions for our clients. We are dedicated to creating state-of-the-art investment solutions for all customer groups of our bank.
You and your job
The world of Investments is developing very quickly. The Area Investments Sales and Services focuses on the direct interaction with our customers. Whether it is buying an investment product (i.e. Beheerd Beleggen), changing our goals or placing a direct order to sell all bonds. The squads provide these solutions.
Areke Vermeer, Tech Domain Manager Investments: "Investments has one of the highest engagement scores within Rabobank. Recently we have won the IEX Award for being the best Private Bank of the Netherlands. With the comeback of segment Private Banking in Rabobank Retail organisation, we have a growing ambition for Investments. We offer the best proposition “Beheerd Beleggen” in the Netherlands”.
Our purpose is to be a financial partner for our clients, helping them achieve their dreams and providing financial security”. You can watch this video for more information: https://bit.ly/49FZuhB
In your role as an IT lead, you have the unique opportunity to make a significant difference by facilitating the Area Investments Sales and Services within the Tribe Investments. You are tech responsible for the continuity, development, improvement, and delivery of client journeys for the investments products. You are accountable for the IT of 5 squads, collaborating closely with product management to further shape the ambitions of Rabobank. Your IT devops teams are an integral part of the Area Investments Sales and Services squads, focussing on excellent journeys for our clients.
You’ll shape and maintain a strategic IT roadmap, cultivate high-performing teams, and uphold IT quality across the bank, with a dedicated focus on Tribe Investments. Your mission involves ensuring IT’s continuity and fostering innovation, adapting swiftly to evolving customer needs and regulatory requirements for an exceptional customer experience. By aligning with industry trends and legislation, you’ll provide flexible, reliable solutions. Your diverse responsibilities span quality software development, continuous improvement, resource management, and talent nurturing. Collaborating closely with the Area Lead and Business Architect, you’ll execute the roadmap. Additionally, you’ll foster an engineering culture, creating a secure and motivating environment, while effectively managing our IT systems, resources, suppliers, and budget.
Playing a critical part in optimizing team performance by removing obstacles and guiding them toward high-performance excellence. Cultivating an inspiring engineering culture and fostering a great workplace are essential. Our globally distributed engineers, working flexibly from home, office, onsite in Utrecht, and nearshore in India, form the foundation of our success. Ensuring they consistently deliver their best work is paramount.
As Rabobank, we want to be close to our customers and meet their needs, for example by developing and improving digital propositions for them. Digital and distinctive, we offer our services in the app. Investments is part of our critical systems. This entails ensuring 24/7 availability and top-tier cyber security is crucial for all our customers. Beyond maintaining continuity, we aim for substantial changes that benefit customers and significantly increase the bank's revenue. The investments field is constantly evolving and remains perpetually intriguing.
This is not just a job; it's an opportunity to lead in technology, innovate, and shape the future of banking.
Facts & Figures
- Tribe Investments is awarded as best private bank 2023
- It has huge growth ambitions
- Approximately 250 employees
- 43.822 Rabobank colleagues around the world
Top responsibilities
- Managing the IT delivery in a complex environment. Challenge the status quo, experiment and improve;
- Guarding the integral IT approach and connecting with other IT projects within and outside the tribe;
- Leading in technology in run (including vendor management), change, and innovation;
- Managing budgets and actuals, increasing software development and maintenance efficiency;
- Adhering to IT frameworks like security standards, life cycle management, and availability demands;
- Continuously improving the IT staff's practices in the team;
- Hiring, developing, and training the IT staff to enhance the squad's productivity and their own skills;
- Building capabilities and sharing knowledge among chapter members;
- Focusing on innovation and fostering an engineering culture.
You and your talent
- Complex Problem-Solving and Decision-Making: Demonstrated ability to navigate high-impact changes within a complex IT landscape, utilizing excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
- Leadership and Management Proficiency: Strong management, coaching, and negotiation abilities to lead and integrate people, processes, technology, and resources towards achieving unified goals across various domains.
- IT Experience: Between 5 - 10 years of experience in the IT sector, with a comprehensive understanding of diverse IT competencies.
- Agile and Team Development: Proven experience in Agile methodologies and coaching high-performing teams, emphasizing continuous improvement and agility.
- Innovation and Market Awareness: Keen awareness of customer and market trends, digitalization, robotics, and high-tech developments, with the ability to adapt and innovate.
- Technical Expertise: Solid knowledge and experience with front-end, services, back-end architectures, and cloud technologies, ensuring a well-rounded technical leadership.
- Offshore Management: Experience in managing offshore and nearshore development projects, showcasing global teamwork and collaboration skills.
- Initiative and Inspirational Leadership: A self-starter with a challenger mindset and the ability to inspire and develop high-performing teams, fostering an environment of mutual growth and achievement.
- Knowledge of Investments is a pre.
This is what we offer you
- A gross monthly salary between € 5.115 and € 8.793 (based on 36 hours per week (40 hours possible), scale 10 or 11 based on your knowledge and experience).
- 13th month and 8% holiday allowance: the holiday allowance and annual allowance will usually be paid out in 12 equal monthly instalments. Employees have the option once a year to opt for the holiday allowance to be paid out in May and the annual allowance in December.
- An Employee Benefit Budget (11% of your monthly salary). You decide how to spend this budget. This may include purchasing extra leave days, making extra pension contributions, or even receiving a monthly cash pay-out.
- An annual personal development/training budget of € 1.400,-
- 100% reimbursement of commuting costs if you travel by public transport! Do you still prefer to travel by car or motorbike? Then choose a commuting allowance.
- A monthly € 40,- net work from home allowance, based on working from home 5 days per week.
- A monthly € 40,- net internet allowance.
- Attractive pension fund with a personal contribution of only 5.5%. Rabobank will contribute 21.5%.
This is a selection of the terms of employment for a Tech Lead based on a 36-hour working week. You can find all terms of employment on rabobank.jobs/en/conditions-of-employment.
You and the job application process
- Any questions about the process? Dino Dzankovic, Recruiter, via dino.dzankovic@rabobank.nl
- We will hold the interviews through a video call
- A security check is part of the process.
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