Solution Architect Digital Platform

As a Solution Architect for Rabobank Digital Platform, you have an opportunity to design the technology that provides the digital experience of 7 million customers through our channels and provide a developer platform for over 1200 developers within the Rabobank. 

Do you have a vision on how to improve the development experience for our engineers, so that they can efficiently develop features for our customers? Are you our architect that is able to unify our design and is able to build a community? 

You and your job

Within Tribe Digital Platform, our squads work on a digital platform that provides the frameworks and tools for over 140 teams that build our modern digital experience, while ensuring the highest standards for quality, performance and security. As part of the Foundation team, you are responsible for the framework, standards and developer platform, together with other architects and around 70 developers. 

You will be the solution architect that increases the unified application of our atomic design and brings 1200+ developers together in a community. You will focus on the usage of the design components and extending the developer portal. Furthermore, you will pick up other architectural actions to increase the usage of the Rabobank Online Platform products and services.

You will coach, guide and support several squads. In this role you work closely together with our product owners, engineering squads and other architects. You ensure a vision about the current and future solutions we provide. You leverage your engineering experience, understanding of the business drivers and knowledge of current and emerging technology and its practical application. 

Practical Examples 

• Incorporate the latest architecture concepts into projects and initiatives
• Set and roadmap solution direction across the different squads
• Determine how to improve the application of the atomic design through data driven insights 

Top 3 responsibilities

• Create and socialize end-to-end designs and solution architecture with squads, architecture colleagues, product owners and other business and IT representatives
• Mentor and coach the squads to implement the architecture and support the squads with challenges during all steps of the DevOps cycle
• Be in close contact with the design and developer community and translate their needs to improvements on the developer portal and atomic design components

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of difference. Especially by combining the diversity of people we become a better bank. We are curious for your contributions to our team of Digital Platform Foundation.

‘With the growing ambition of Rabobank and the importance of the online channels it is key that we facilitate the Engineer as much as possible and make his journey as smooth as possible. Rabobank Online Platform brings speed!’ Randalf de Vries, IT lead

The 70+ colleagues of Digital Platform Foundation create a great engineering experience for our digital channels, allowing our users to focus on customer value, improve efficiency and rely on high standards of quality. Collaboration is the way we work; as 1 venturous team within Rabobank.

About Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank, active in 38 countries for over 9,5 million customers. We work closely together with these customers, our members and partners towards a world in which everyone has enough and healthy food to eat. Closer to home we work towards a country where happy people live, work and contribute.

You and your talent 

Within Digital Platform we value integrity, an engineering focus, an ‘improvement and embracing change’ mind-set and openness. In addition, it is important that you are a team player, have leadership skills and recognise yourself in the checklist below:

• Minimum 7 years working experience in relevant roles (in IT DevOps) of which a minimum of 3 years of Solution Architecture experience in a complex environment
• Practical experience with architecture methods and techniques
• Proven experience in designing, realizing and maintaining front-end architecture
• Experience with design processes, design systems and atomic design
• Substantive knowledge of Web components, Lit, Javascript, CSS, Storybook and Chromatic
• Experience with Azure DevOps practices, Git and Azure DevOps pipelines 
• A real community builder
• You have a helicopter view: overseeing a wide domain and any consequences certain (design) decisions have
• You can remember or research previous decisions and experiences that lead us to where we are now
• On the other hand, you are not afraid to ‘get your hands dirty’ and become involved in complex analysis and implementation questions
• Good communication skills to collaborate with business users, colleague architects, and squad members 
• Ability to communicate technical solutions in business terms, and can influence and persuade others with an open mindset

Terms of employment

Rabobank wants to help you become the best version of yourself. Your development is crucial and investments are made in an environment in which you continue to learn. You get room to innovate and do business. Plenty of growth opportunities are provided and you are helped to exceed your expectations and do the right thing extraordinarily well so that you can grow as a professional. On top of that you can also count on:  

• A 36 or 40 hour working week;
• A yearly salary incl. all benefits up to € 120.000,00 (based on 40 hours, in scale 9 or 10), depending on your knowledge and experience;
• A 13th month and holiday pay;
• An Employee Benefit Budget (10% of your monthly income) that you can spend on, for example, buying extra vacation days or making an extra contribution to your pension;
• Flexibility in working hours and location-independent working;
• A collective pension scheme to which you only contribute 5%;
• 100% reimbursement of commuter traffic if you travel by public transport! Still with a car or motorcycle? Then opt for a commuting allowance
• 151.2 hours holiday per year including 1 Diversity Day per year

Applying and Planning

Are you the believing candidate? And do you have the knowledge, skills and personal leadership to make this happen in practice? Then we look forward to receiving your application.  

We would like to receive applications (a job-oriented motivation letter plus CV) as soon as possible via www.rabobank.nl .  

We look forward to your response and/or application!

You and the job application process

Reply to the vacancy for Senior Solution Architect

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Lois Hageman ( marie-louise.hageman@rabobank.nl )  
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/nl/veelgestelde-vragen.
• A security check is part of the process.  
• We respect your privacy.   

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