Architecture Practice Lead Platform

Are you a seasoned technologist eager to shape the future of one of the world's fastest transforming digital banks? This role offers you the chance to influence business strategy and drive the delivery of a secure and reliable digital platform. Join us to thrive and grow in a globally diverse environment, where your expertise will be pivotal in our journey towards excellence.

The Team This role fits within the Architecture function under the EA office, providing team members the opportunity to share, mature, and continuously optimize the EA practice. You will work with a team of experts, set standards, and ensure the development and safeguarding of knowledge. You'll orchestrate practice optimizations, facilitating the bank's smooth evolution and strategic ambitions, while fostering collaboration across engineering, portfolio, and other areas.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Oversee application and technology architecture layers for the practice, ensuring alignment with the overall architectural vision and strategy.

• Manage platform integrations in accordance with processes and data, enabling architects in their design practices within the EA platform, while ensuring the smooth operation, high performance, and reliability of the EAM platform and related integrations and optimizations.

• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring effective communication and coordination between application and technical stakeholders.

• Develop and embed road mapping practices to ensure consistency in architecture practices 

• Train architects in the use of EA services and frameworks, ensuring these frameworks are maintained and their understanding is socialized and spread.

• Champion the adoption of new technologies and methodologies, and select the right tools to ensure architecture modeling and insights are available.

• Plan, organize, and orchestrate best practice guidelines, facilitating and coordinating efforts to define, optimize, and harmonize our architectural practice globally, leveraging your architecture knowledge to lead and coach others.

• Orchestrate the architecture portfolio, ensuring that all initiatives are aligned with strategic goals and that resources are effectively allocated to maximize impact and efficiency.

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://careers.ing.com/en/benefits-NL.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience between: € 6.176 - €9.871
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.