Business Architect Tribe Operational Risk & Integrity Services

Are you a strategic thinker who thrives for simplification of processes and applications? Do you want to play a pivotal role in enabling Rabobank to manage and oversee the non-financial risk and to safeguard its integrity? Then this is the opportunity for you!

You and your job

We are seeking a highly motivated Business Architect Operational Risk & Integrity Services (ORIS). You will take up the combined role of Tribe Architect for the Tribe ORIS and Area Architect for the Area Operational Risk Platforms within that same Tribe. You will be responsible for the target and transition architecture at Tribe and Area level that supports the move to standardized and scalable solutions to manage our operational risks and ensure integrity.

You will be working in a challenging international environment with the mission to develop simplified, shared, and integrated IT and data platforms that enable Rabobank to manage and oversee its non-financial risks and to safeguard its integrity.

Your architecture will, where applicable, be based on standard (COTS) solutions and shared Rabobank platforms and only deviates where material requirements cannot be implemented in a standardized way. The enterprise-wide scope will make this challenge even bigger.

In your role as Tribe Architect, you manage the tribe together with the Tribe Lead and Tech Domain Lead. You will work closely together with the area architect, with who you align the tribe vision, realize the architecture strategy & roadmaps, and contribute to the tribe purpose.

And in your role as Area Architect, you manage the area together with the Area Lead and Tech Lead. Here you will work closely together with the solution architects within the area, with whom you align the area vision, realize the architecture strategy & roadmaps, and contribute to the area purpose. 

You guide both teams towards the best results in a future-proof architecture, keep each other on their toes, and help each other where possible. You need to have the courage to challenge and develop yourself and your team. And because you don’t have hierarchical (HR) responsibility for the other architects in the team it’s all about your leadership and your collaborative and persuasive skills.

With your experience, insights, and skills, you will provide a great contribution to our business users; enabling them to manage and oversee the non-financial risk and to safeguard the integrity of our bank.

Practical examples

• Manage completeness and consistency of the target architecture ORIS by aligning the Area target architectures.
• Maintain the target platform architecture for Operational Risks with your team, business and IT stakeholders and suppliers.
• Run the yearly Application Value Analysis to measure the business and IT health of the application portfolio of Tribe ORIS.

Facts & Figures

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

Key responsibilities

• Together with the Tribe Lead and Tech Domain Lead you are managing and running the Tribe ORIS. You act in the role of Tribe Architect.
• Together with the Area Lead and Tech Lead you are managing and running the Area Operational Risk Platforms. For this area you have the role of Area Architect
• Developing the architecture and roadmap for the Tribe ORIS and the Area Operational Risk Platforms and steering the realization
• Mentoring and coaching the area architect that is responsible for the Area’s Integrity Services and Information Factories & Products in the tribe ORIS as well as the solution architects within the functional line of the area Operational Risk Platforms within the tribe ORIS.
• Keeping up to date with technical developments and maintaining a strong network in the market (vendors, competitors, fintech’s, biotech’s, 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 100 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 Tribe ORIS is one of the 8 Tribes that will be supported by business architects from Architecture Risk & Finance. This team of business architects shapes the architecture for Risk & Finance. The architects working for the tribe ORIS will work together in a functional team guided by you, the Tribe Architect ORIS, and are hierarchically reporting to the Managing Business Architect ALM & ORIS. The ORIS architecture team relies on the knowledge and capacity of a group of solution architects, part of the Tech department, that act as part of your virtual team. In your role as Area Architect, you will coach and guide the solution architects in the area Operational Risk Platforms.

You and your talent 

We value integrity, a growth mindset, and openness. In addition, it is important that you are a team player, have leadership skills and recognise yourself in the items below: 

• Minimum 8 years of working experience in relevant roles of which a minimum of 5 years of architecture experience in complex (international) environments; 
• Common knowledge of operational risk in a banking environment
• Ability to communicate technical solutions in business terms, and can influence and persuade others with an open mindset; 
• Practical experience with architecture methods and techniques; 
• You have a helicopter view: overseeing a wide domain and any consequences certain (design) decisions have; 
• Excellent communication skills to collaborate with business & IT leaders and colleague architects;  
• You are comfortable in a leading role and can provide coaching and guidance to a team of Solution Architects

This is what we offer you

• A gross salary of up to around € 100.000 per year, based on experience (scale 11)  
• 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 
• A pension scheme to which you contribute 3.5% or 5,5%. Rabobank contributes 21,5% to the pension base. 
• A combination of working from home and at the office: Rabo@Anywhere.
• One cooperation-day – spend one work day giving back to society or a good cause, together with colleagues or by yourself. 

This is a selection of the terms of employment based on a 36-hour working week. You can find all terms of employment on Employee benefits at Rabobank - Rabobank.

You and the job application process
Reply to the vacancy for Business Architect ORIS at Rabobank.  

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Charlotte Bos, IT Recruiter, via charlotte.bos@rabobank.nl.
• We will hold the interviews through a video call and/or on site. 
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on Frequently asked questions - Careers at Rabobank.
• A security check is part of the process. 
• We respect your privacy.  

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