Senior Business Architect Risk & Finance

You and your job
As the business architect Credit Core CRAM you make an impact in designing the structural yet pragmatic architecture to support the credit risk cycle for Rabobank group. This architecture aligns to Rabobank architecture principles and is therefore decoupled and simple and balances business line applications and group wide solutions.

The area where you will be working in consists of several teams focusing on group wide solution which help to assess the risks for our customers of running into financial difficulties and how to best mitigate those risks. In your role you will be looking for the best possible solutions for our customers and customer servicing colleagues while also having compliancy by design on regulations on top of mind. You will do so in close cooperation with the teams for whole Rabobank group implying that you will interact with a large stakeholder field ranging from our Wholesale, Rural, Retail NL business lines as well as with our subsidiaries e.g. DLL, Vista and Obvion for which we service group wide solutions.

Facts & Figures

• 36 hours per week
• 43,822 Rabobank colleagues around the world

Key responsibilities

• Together with the Area Lead and Tech Lead you are managing and running the area CRAM. For this area you have the role of Area Architect.
• Developing the architecture and roadmap for the area CRAM.
• Mentoring and coaching solution architects within the functional line of the area CRAM within the tribe Credit Core.
• Keeping up to date with technical developments and maintaining a strong network in the market (vendors, competitors, fintechs, big techs, research and consultancy firms).

Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at the architecture department.

The more than 90 people in the architecture department are responsible for the development, maintenance and enforcement of the IT strategy and architecture of Rabobank, in order to realize an effective long-term direction for IT in support of the bank’s strategy – in commercial, efficiency and risk perspective. Working together is the way we work; as 1 effective team at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 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.

The architecture team Risk & Finance shapes the architecture for CLR and CFO. The Tribe Credit Core is one of the 8 Tribes that will be supported by business architects from Architecture Risk & Finance.

The architects working for the tribe Credit Core will work together in a functional team guided by the Tribe Architect Credit Core and are hierarchically reporting to the Lead Business Architect R&F. The Credit Core architecture team is heavily relying on the knowledge and capacity of a group of solution architects that act as part of the virtual team. In your role as Area Architect you will coach and guide approximately 2 of these solution architects.

You and your talent

• 3-7 years architectural experience in a large and complex (data) environment
• Master’s degree in a relevant field
• Complex problem solving
• Comprehend Financial Recovery & Restructuring concepts such as: Forbearance & Write Off
• Intimate knowledge of common credit risk concepts such as: Obligor & Trigger Framework
• Judgement and decision-making
• Story telling – strong communicator
• Negotiating 
• Collaborating
• Coaching and functional leadership
• Networking - organization sensitivity

This is what we offer you

• Gross yearly salary up to 89.000,00 euros (scale 11). Will be indexed in 2024 accordingly to new CLA.
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• An extra budget of 11% of your gross salary to be used at your discretion. Buy extra holiday hours, add more to your pension savings or ask for part of the extra budget to be paid out.
• A personal development budget of € 1,400
• A combination of working from home and at the office, Rabo@Anywhere
• A pension scheme to which you contribute 3.5% or 5.5%. Money for now or for later: you decide.

This is a selection of the terms of employment for Business Architect Risk & Finance 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

Reply to the vacancy for Business Architect Credit Core Financial Administration & Special Asset Management Support at Rabobank.

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