Business Architect Business Lending

Are you our business architect who can support the transition to the new corporate lending architecture with several ongoing decommission tracks and regulatory demands?

As a Business Architect for the Tribe Business Lending, you co-design the journeys, functions and applications that help our clients with the best financing options possible now and in the future.

You will be part of the area architecture team for Corporate Origination which is responsible for origination of financial products to existing and potential corporate clients of Rabobank. A key challenge in this role is to enable the decommissioning of several core legacy applications within the area by co-designing future journeys.

As a member of the area team you manage the Journey, Capability and Admin sub-areas together with the Area Business Lead and Tech Lead(s). You are paired with your colleague Area Architecture Leads as a mutual sparring partner and several solution architects within your own area. The latter will focus with you more on the architectural challenges on the platform and application level and with whom you will discuss, design and document the architecture decisions for the relevant stakeholders. 

Key Responsibilities

• You co-design the current- and future architecture for the corporate Journey, Admin & Capabilities sub-areas and solve related cross-area and cross-tribe architectural challenges
• You strengthen the online and off-line client and employee journeys for business financing with your knowledge of digital processes
• You strengthen the process and  data management capabilities related to digital client and employee processes
• You document the architecture decisions in clear and readable formats and models
• You coach solution architects and business analysts in controlling architecture principles and methods
• You leverage your experience, strong market network, understanding of the business drivers and knowledge of current and emerging technology and its practical application
• You are the expert in the sub-area discussion that Tech and Business rely on for making well-founded decision and setting priorities
• You support the Area Architecture Lead with the Refinement topics related to the relevant sub-areas.

Together we achieve more than alone

Rabobank is 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 can achieve long term financial sustainability. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.

We at the Rabobank believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. We already do so with more than 48.000 colleagues. We are however very curious about what you can bring to the Rabobank and our team at the architecture department specific.

The more than 80 people in the architecture department are responsible for the development, maintenance and enforcement of the IT strategy and architecture of Rabobank, 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. 

The architecture team of Tribe Business Lending operates within the technology domain of Retail. The architecture team of Tribe Business Lending consists out of you, a Tribe architect, four colleague business architects and several IT solution architects (20+). The architecture team of Retail consists of 30 business architects under the governance of two lead business architects.

You and your talent 

Within Tribe Business Lending we value integrity, an engineering focus, an ‘improvement and embracing change’ mindset and openness. In addition, it is important that you are a team player, have leadership skills and recognize yourself in the checklist below:

• Minimum 7 years working experience in relevant roles of which a minimum of 3 years of Architecture experience in a complex environment
• Practical experience with architecture methods and techniques (Togaf, Tapscott, Archimate)
• You have a helicopter view: overseeing a wide domain and any consequences certain (design) decisions have on both business and IT
• You can retrieve and research previous decisions and experiences that lead us to where we are now
• Good communication skills to collaborate with business leaders, IT leaders and colleague architects 
• Ability to communicate technical solutions in business terms, and can influence and persuade others with an open mindset
• Ability to coach and delegate to a team of Solution Architects

This is what we offer you

• Gross yearly salary up to approximately € 100.000 (scale 11) for a 36-hour work week, based on your skills and experience
• 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% and a contribution from Rabobank of 21,5% of your pension base
• 24 holidays + a cooperation day: you get the chance to contribute to our society during working hours, individually or with your team (e.g. volunteering activity)

You and the job application process

• Responses will be handled in accordance with vacancy management.
• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Charlotte Bos, Corporate IT Recruiter via Charlotte.Bos@Rabobank.nl
• We will hold the interviews through a video call.
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq.
• A security check is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.

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