Solution Architect

As a Solution Architect for Rabobank Tribe Housing, Area Sales & Distribution Channels you have an opportunity to positively impact customers, employees, and intermediaries.

As Area Sales & Distribution Channels we are committed to turning housing dreams into reality by providing personalized insights, financial advice, and a superior service experience for Intermediaries & entrepreneurs that exceed expectations. We strive to deliver meaningful insights and ensure seamless digital customer journeys that empower clients and intermediaries at every stage.

As IT we enable this by creating a seamless digital journey. In this journey our applications and services are online (web/app) and offline. Some built inhouse and some vendor managed.

Do you want to challenge yourself and make an impact in the mortgage domain at Rabobank?

You and your job

• Understand the business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine appropriate solutions to drive the area targeted business outcomes 
• Manage and lead the architecture for the squads while working closely with the Area Leadership Team, the squads, and other stakeholders
• Governing architecture role and IT assurance (SOC2) with vendors
• Navigate standards and working group esp. HDN
• Linking pin for cross-area collaboration on project Paris (SDC/LSA specifically)
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving architecture for the area  
• Provide oversight and foster built-in-quality to ensure squads create high quality and well-designed technical solutions 
• Leverage a strong engineering and security background to make the right choices in Solution Architecture  
• Working together with the Tech Leads and squads to stay in control
• Responsible for Intermediary portal and support, and Income statement as a Service

Practical Examples 

• Provide architecture advisory to the area leadership team 
• Incorporate the latest architecture concepts into projects and initiatives 
• Set and cascade solution direction across the different squads 
• Guide, refine and work with a group of passionate component mentors

Top 3 responsibilities

• Manage and lead the architecture effort for the area
• Create and socialize an end-to-end solution architecture 
• Mentor and coach squads and component mentors to implement the associated architecture 

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 area within the tribe Housing

 ‘At the area SDC (Sales & Distribution Channels) of tribe Housing we have fun working together to create a smooth, future proof, mortgage journey for customer, employee and intermediary.’ 

Huibert Kreb, Business Architect Sales & Distribution Channels

The approximately 100 people in the area Sales & Distribution Channels collaborate to provide customers, employees, and intermediaries with high-end features both online and offline. Working together is the way we work; as 1 purposeful & problem-solving area at Rabobank. Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,5000,000 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. 

You and your talent

• 5+ years in an engineering background (ideally development) 
• Solution Architecture experience in a complex environment 
• Architecture training/knowledge on architectural practice 
• Excellent communication skills 
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve results 
• Flexibility and adaptability
• Having experience with IT assurance / vendors is a pre

Work on yourself & the world around you

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That is why we want to invest in you and work together to create a better world. We summarize this in one sentence: “At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you simultaneously.”

This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment and a healthy work-life balance. You can work on banking matters for our personal and business clients, as well as on social issues such as the food and energy transition

This is a selection of the terms of employment for a Solution Architect 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

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process?
• We prefer to have face2face interviews at our wonderful office at Leidseveer 
• 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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