Lead Business Architect E&E Tech

This is what we offer you

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 10,855 and EUR 15,507 (senior kader B).
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• A mobility budget: with this, you can tailor your transportation according to your own needs. For example, by leasing a car or receiving the full amount and arranging your own transportation.
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

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Lead Business Architecture E&E Tech

The department delivers a long-term IT strategy and architecture that empowers Rabobank to achieve its ambitions for customer focus, cooperative value, robust banking, and empowered employees.

You & your role

As Lead Business Architect E&E Tech, you will shape the future of Rabobank’s IT landscape. You are responsible for developing, maintaining, and enforcing the IT strategy and architecture for your domains, ensuring alignment with the bank’s strategic priorities.

The domains in scope are CFECO, CHRO and the CITO domains (e.g. IAM, Tech4Engineering, Foundation4Tech and Global Data & Analytics Platform).

Imagine influencing decisions at the highest level, collaborating with business and IT leaders, and guiding transformation roadmaps that impact thousands of colleagues and millions of customers.

Achieve results

• Develop transformation roadmaps that simplify and modernise the application landscape.
• Guide the implementation of target architectures, ensuring they are inspiring, feasible, and sustainable.
• Influence IT vendor strategies to align with Rabobank’s long-term vision.

Facts & figures

• 40 FTE in direct line, 120 FTE in functional line, 3,300 IT FTE domains.
• 40 hours per week.
• Rabobank serves 9.5 million customers worldwide.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Develop and steer the long-term IT strategy, architecture, and roadmap for your domain, making balanced decisions between business needs and technical possibilities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop business and solution architects, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
• Collaborate with senior management and stakeholders to ensure the realisation of the vision and target architecture, escalating issues when necessary.

Within the organisation, you report to the Chief Architecture & Engineering Officer and are a member of the MT CAEO. You work closely with other Lead Business Architects, Enterprise Architects, Enterprise Engineering and business executives, presenting proposals at Managing Board level and interacting with CEOs and CTOs of key IT vendors.

Together we achieve more

We believe in the power of differences. By combining our diverse perspectives, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you will add to our team of Architecture department. Collaboration is our way of working; as one determined team within Rabobank.

Work on yourself & the world around you

At Rabobank, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we invest in you and work together for a better world. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy work-life balance. You’ll contribute to banking for private and business clients, as well as societal challenges such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we are stronger through complementary people. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in each other. We seek diversity in knowledge, skills, and experience, as well as gender, background, and culture. We strive for variety and the space to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about.

You & your talent

• Master’s degree in IT or Business (mandatory).
• At least 10 years of proven experience in senior business or enterprise architecture, or another form of senior content leadership, including demonstrable experience in both engineering and architecture.
• Strong experience in management and/or coaching, with a track record of leading teams (120fte) and developing talent.
• Exceptional conceptual thinking skills, combined with the ability to explain complex issues clearly and understandably.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and negotiation skills at a strategic level.
• Proven ability to translate technical and architectural concepts into business impact.
• Must be based in the Netherlands

You & the application process

Apply for the Lead Business Architect E&E Tech position at Rabobank

• Questions about working at Rabobank and the procedure? Niels Diks, Recruiter via niels.diks@rabobank.nl
• Answers to frequently asked questions can be found at rabobank.jobs/nl/veelgestelde-vragen.
• A reliability assessment is part of the procedure.
• We respect your privacy.

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