Enterprise-level Architect Application Layer

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 6,475 and EUR 9,250 (scale 11).
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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You & your role

As an Enterprise-level Architect Application Layer, you will shape the enterprise-wide standards and principles that guide our application and integration landscape and you will monitor compliance. You take responsibility for achieving objectives across domains and have a strong focus on results. You will work closely with other architects and stakeholders to drive simplification and rationalization, making a tangible impact on the bank's digital transformation.

Achieve results

• Drive measurable simplification of the application landscape and improve architectural quality through identification of targeted rationalization and modernization initiatives
• Architecture guidance for applications and integration that is up to date with new developments in the market

Facts & figures

• 36 hours per week.
• Provide guidance to circa 130 business architects and 350 solution architects
• Serving 9.5 million customers worldwide.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Delivering enterprise-wide guidance for structuring, implementing and integrating applications to ensure alignment with business and technology strategy.
• Monitoring and governing compliance with architecture standards, leading the Integration Architecture Board and collaborating with key stakeholders.
• Advance the Application Value Analysis methodology, define enterprise-wide quality benchmarks, and propose rationalization initiatives to optimize the application portfolio.

Together we achieve more

We believe in the power of differences. By combining the unique perspectives of our people, we become an even better bank. We are eager to discover what you will add to our team of Enterprise Architects.

Collaboration is central to our approach.

The architects of the Enterprise Architecture team are responsible for setting the overall architecture direction by formulating enterprise-wide standards and guidelines and monitor compliance. These architects work closely with colleagues from the various Architecture Domain teams. The Domain teams apply the enterprise-wide standards and guidelines in their specific areas and help guide the actual implementation. You'll also work closely with fellow Enterprise Architects, the Integration Architecture Board, and the Architecture Support Office to ensure cohesive and future-proof architectural guidance.

Work on yourself & the world around you

At Rabobank, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That's why we invest in you and work together for a better world. In short: at Rabobank, you work on yourself & the world around you.

You'll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment and a healthy work-life balance. You can work on banking matters for our private and business clients, as well as on societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger by complementing each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in each other. We seek diversity in knowledge, skills and experience, as well as in gender, background and culture. Every department strives for variety and the space to be yourself – whoever you are. That's what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about.

You & your talent

• Leadership & Communication: Strong focus on results. Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical and business domains.
• Change Expertise: Proven experience in application architecture within large-scale enterprise environments; experience with application portfolio management and technical debt analysis.
• Technical Expertise: Strong understanding of integration patterns and technologies and DevOps practices, familiarity with application rationalization strategies

You & the application process

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