Chief Architect People & Hubs

ING People & Hubs is a global domain delivering solutions ranging from Corporate Technology, Enterprise Content & Automation, Workplace Services to ING Hubs IT4IT. We aim to create a superior customer experience by delivering superior employee experience and digitizing customer journeys from a content delivery perspective. By providing personal, easy, relevant, and instant services, we engage and enable our employees to make a difference for our customers.

To guide architecture vision, People & Hubs Tech (P&H Tech) is seeking a highly skilled Chief Architect. The Chief Architect will play a crucial role in translating the business vision and direction into actionable target architectures and roadmaps to meet our customer’s needs in the present and the future.

The team

Chief Architect is a global role that reports hierarchically to the CIO of P&H Tech and functionally to the Global Head of Tech Strategy & Enterprise Architecture. The Chief Architect manages a team of Enterprise and Domain Architects. The Chief Architect has the business, technical, and leadership skills to create the designs for solutions and/or references, in response to the strategic business needs of the entire enterprise. The Chief Architect is the trusted advisor for executive management.

Role and responsibilities

Candidates must be passionate about IT and related business processes, the team, and ING. You will bring in the broad global perspective when it comes to problem-solving and building solutions and will be able to make convincing, evidence-based decisions. You will be translating important factors of the organization and the future possibilities into concrete strategic plans. As a manager, you exude vitality, strength, energy, and enthusiasm. You’ll be able to inspire the team, raising the bar by continually building their craftsmanship and skills and introducing them to new and emerging technologies as they become relevant. You’ll have a passion for quality and be uncompromising when it comes to delivering the highest quality solutions. You have excellent communication skills and the ability to successfully manage the stakeholder landscape.

Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Set the architecture strategic direction of People & Hubs by working with the Management team consisted of IT Leads and the CIO.
• Driving the execution of future state P&H Tech architectures and Roadmaps.
• Setting global standard architectures and cooperates with other domains.
• Managing the team of domain architects and acts as a sparring partner to the CIO and the Enterprise Architects.
• Initiates and leads architectural Epics/Features at own initiative.
• Provides subject-matter expert assistance when the architectural vision goes to execution mode, to ensure adherence to that architectural vision.
• Provides architecture guidance to Senior level management (including COO and CIO) of P&H Tech and interacts with Senior management of related domains.
• Represents ING towards relevant external parties (peers in other banks, regulators, IT industry peers, and academic researchers) for architectural topics.
• Initiates and leads market, vendor challenges. Knows the latest global scale developments on technology.
• Drives the architecture guild and continuous improvement of the Agile Way of Working.
• Is the ING authority for multiple strategic partners within ING. Develops in cooperation with the supplier, requirements for future standard package solutions. Steers the strategic development of the supplier.

About you

• M.Sc. education in computer science or a related area.
• 10+ years’ professional experience at management level in an IT architecture / banking environment is a must.
• You have extensive knowledge of continuous delivery, IT banking systems in an overall integrated context
• Ability to convey your technical and complex ideas in an engaging and understandable way.
• Proven track record of developing and operating strategic infrastructure services in a large enterprise.
• Proven experience with the Agile Way of Working in a diverse matrix international environment.
• Ability to build strategic roadmaps.
• Innovative thinker with a passion for problem-solving.
• Stakeholder management experience.
• Expertise in driving and steering multidisciplinary teams.
• Proven experience in strategic projects with high impact.
• Excellent level of English.

What do we offer?

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 http://careers.ing.com/en/benefits-NL

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored between: €8.387 - €13.272
• 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.
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities.
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues.
• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster.

Questions?

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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.