Business Architect Core Experience Platform

Business Architect Core Experience Platform

Do you connect business and technology to shape simpler, more consistent digital banking experiences?

Summary

As a Business Architect at Rabobank, you will work within Core Experience Platform on the architectural direction of digital customer experiences. You will connect customer needs, business capabilities and technical choices to help teams make well-informed decisions.

At a glance:

• Connect customer journeys, business capabilities, processes, data and applications.
• Work with area leadership, solution architects and colleagues across business, technology, design and delivery.
• Translate strategic ambitions into architectural priorities and a realistic transformation roadmap.

What will you do as a Business Architect?

• Maintain an overview of customer journeys, capabilities, processes, data and applications, making dependencies and wider consequences visible.
• Bring colleagues with different perspectives together, help them evaluate trade-offs and build support for architectural decisions.
• Shape architectural direction with the Area Lead and Tech Lead by translating ambitions into priorities and a realistic transformation roadmap.
• Review architectural options with solution architects, moving into technical detail when necessary while keeping the overall direction in view.
• Support teams during delivery, revisit assumptions and use practical insights to improve the architecture and future decisions.

Skills, tools and areas of expertise

• Business or enterprise architecture, applied within a complex organisation to connect strategic direction with practical decisions.
• Architecture modelling methods such as ArchiMate and TOGAF, used to explain relationships, dependencies and possible architectural choices.
• Business capability and customer journey analysis, used to connect customer needs, processes, data, applications and platform capabilities.
• Stakeholder alignment across business and technology, particularly when colleagues need to assess trade-offs or make difficult decisions.
• Clear communication that makes complex architectural topics understandable without losing accuracy or relevant detail.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people's differences, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you will bring to our team Business Architecture.

You will join the Business Architecture team in Digital Platform and work closely with colleagues in Core Experience Platform across business, technology, design and delivery.

Core Experience Platform brings together work across public websites, prospect experiences, online banking for private and business customers, secure knowledge and an intermediary portal. The area aims to make these experiences more coherent through shared platform capabilities while supporting the needs of different users.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we are working towards a culture where everyone feels welcome. We value our differences and use them to collaborate more effectively and make better decisions. By being open to different perspectives, we create an environment where colleagues feel heard.

What do you bring?

Must-haves:

• Experience in business architecture or enterprise architecture within a complex organisation.
• The ability to connect strategy, customer needs and business capabilities with choices at solution level.
• Sufficient technical understanding to be a constructive and credible sparring partner for solution architects.
• Experience bringing business and technology stakeholders together to make complex decisions.
• Clear communication skills and the ability to adjust your explanation to different audiences without losing precision.

Nice-to-haves:

• Practical experience with architecture modelling and methods such as ArchiMate and TOGAF.
• Experience developing architectural priorities or transformation roadmaps.
• Experience working with shared digital platform capabilities or complex digital customer journeys.
• A collaborative approach, intellectual curiosity and the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively.

You and the application process

• Contact Bas van de Ven, Managing Business Architect Digital Platform, at bas.van.de.ven@rabobank.nl for questions about the position.
• Contact Niels Diks, recruiter, at niels.diks@rabobank.nl for questions about the application process.
• Candidates must already hold a valid visa that allows them to work in the Netherlands to be eligible for this vacancy.
• If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you by SMS and email to schedule the interview.
• A reliability assessment is part of the procedure.
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Frequently asked questions

Is this role suitable for my experience level?

This position is intended for someone with experience in business or enterprise architecture within a complex organisation. You should be comfortable connecting strategic questions with architectural choices and discussing these choices with both business and technology colleagues.

What will I do each day as a Business Architect?

You will analyse dependencies, discuss architectural options and help colleagues make decisions that support the wider direction of Core Experience Platform. Your work will range from strategic roadmap discussions to detailed conversations with solution architects.

Which skills, tools or technologies will I use?

You will use business and enterprise architecture skills, architectural modelling and methods such as ArchiMate and TOGAF. You will also work with customer journeys, business capabilities, processes, data and applications to make dependencies and options clear.

Which team will I join and who will I work with?

You will join the Business Architecture team in Digital Platform. You will work closely with the Area Lead, Tech Lead, solution architects and Core Experience Platform colleagues across business, technology, design and delivery.