Arealead Frontend foundation

As Area Lead Frontend Foundation, you are responsible for the area that provides Rabobank’s frontend engineering foundation through the Rabo Online Platform (ROP). Your mission is to enable 160+ frontend squads to deliver better digital solutions by offering standardized frontend building blocks, our design system, and performance services. Doing so enables the growth ambitions of MT Retail and ensures consistent, high quality experiences for our customers. You lead an area of ~100 professionals with ten squads and five direct reports and serve as a key member of the Tribe Digital Platform leadership team.

You & Your role

Your leadership directly enables thousands of engineers and influences the digital experience of millions of customers. You empower the Area to deliver Rabobank’s frontend engineering foundation through the Rabo Online Platform (ROP) — a platform of reusable services and components that enables more than 160 frontend squads to build and deploy digital solutions quickly, consistently, and securely. The focus is on design systems, frontend & native development services, platform performance, accessibility, and enabling fast, controlled deployment. By reducing repetitive work and offering standardized building blocks, this area accelerates delivery for all front-end teams in CPO and ensures a high-quality customer experiences across all digital Rabobank channels. The past years have focused on building our current FE stack and community. For the coming years, we need someone who can confidently lead the CPO FE community to next-level usage and impact across CPO and enable agentic software development. This requires you have a solid understanding of our technical landscape and delivery process and can translate this to the needs of developers, designers and PO’s. You also bring strong organizational sensitivity and stakeholder management skills to effectively align and steer Area Triangles across different Tribes. 

Top responsibilities

• Translate the Tribe and Retail NL strategy into actionable roadmaps for the frontend area;
• Deliver on the expansion of frontend requirements from the Growth Accelerator and other strategic initiatives;
• Drive wide and deep adoption of frontend standards across tribes and domains;
• Improve and expand standardized frontend capabilities to enable the growth ambitions of the bank;
• Expand standardized frontend capabilities to reduce complexity and tech maintenance across all CPO squads;
• Ensure continuity, security, and reliability across all managed services;
• Ensure developer success by engaging with our creator community and providing reliable, controlled and secure building blocks;
• Develop high performing teams with a clear focus on outcomes and delivery;
• Managing GD-2/-3 stakeholder relationships across CPO, IT, Architecture and CRO.

Facts & Figures

• 40 hours per week;
• Impact millions of customers (internal and external);
• Lead an area of ~100 professionals, 10 squads and 5 direct reports (product managers);
• Oversee frontend capabilities used by 160+ frontend squads.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe strongly in the power of different perspectives. By combining people’s differences, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you’ll add to our team within Tribe Digital Platform. At Digital Platform we create excellent customer experiences across our sites, apps and even third-party service providers. Our broader purpose is to create hyper-personalised experiences at scale by delivering a flexible ecosystem powered by standardized solutions for our users and creators. Working together is how we operate; as one goal-oriented team at Rabobank, we drive innovation and excellence. Our team culture is open, inclusive, and focused on continuous improvement.

You and your talent

You bring:

• Ability to drive strategic change in a complex stakeholder field;
• Entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to execute with impact;
• Proven technical understanding of frontend engineering capabilities;
• Experience with Agile leadership and high‑performing teams;
• Strong communication skills and organizational sensitivity;
• Experience with compliance, risk, and security requirements;
• Data‑driven mindset and digital literacy;
• Academic education / Masters level.

You and the job application process

Are you the Area Lead Frontend foundation we’re looking for? Are you ready to help shape Rabobank’s digital backbone and empower hundreds of engineering teams across the bank? 

We look forward to receiving your application in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Good to know

• Applications are open until Sunday 8 November 2026.
• Apply via the Apply now button;
• For questions about the role, contact Sanne van der Neut, Tribe Lead Digital Platform Sanne.van.der.Neut@rabobank.nl.
• For questions about the process, contact HR recruiter Ellen Voolstra or Lisa Mulders, via ellen.voolstra@rabobank.nl or lisa.mulders@rabobank.nl.
• There will be three interview rounds as part of the process. The first interviews are scheduled for November 2, 3, and 4, followed by the second and third interview rounds between November 16 and 20.
• Assessments may be part of the selection process;
• You can find answers to frequently asked questions here: frequently asked questions about working at Rabobank.;
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• We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, identities, and perspectives

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