Solution Architect

Your role

As Solution Architect you play a pivotal role in the solution design of complex epics and features within and across Tribes. Your holistic view as well as your knowledge of both Business and IT are crucial in the translation of business & technical requirements in a sequence that delivers customer value as early as possible. Your success is not based on your hierarchical position, but based on your strong communication and collaboration skills, your results delivered, your extensive knowledge of current and future state and your added value for ING and for the teams you work with.

Role and responsibilities

• You drive complex design topics across the Risk domain and present detailed design options and best fitting application architecture.
• You prepare & support the decision making process with senior leads in the organization and challenge squads when making implementation choices.
• You are hands-on and participate in all aspects of the application lifecycle to safeguard the solution architecture
• You are able to use modern software libraries/methodology/protocols/patterns to improve performance, testability, CI/CD, sustainability and maintainability
• You are keen to take reliability, resilience and security aspects into your designs
• You will be touching large data sets and create designs to modernize data models and data flows
• You cater for portability in design proposals, considering private and public clouds

How to succeed

We are looking for a person who recognizes below skills/experience:

• Passion for IT and strong technical background
• Capable to bridge the space between Enterprise Architects and squads; experienced in aligning/coordinating across stakeholders groups
• Proven track record in reducing complexity and delivering complex IT initiatives across multiple teams
• To the point in communication, both verbally and in written documentation
• Robust understanding of software architecture and system design, with the ability to evaluate, design, and integrate IT systems that align with business objectives
• Background in hands-on engineering is a pre considering your designs touch the development ground
• People recognize you as analytical and entrepreneurial