Tech Lead Insurance & Pensions

Taking the lead in one of Rabobank’s most important growth domains: Insurance & Pensions. You help position Rabobank as the most trusted insurance partner in the Netherlands by enabling modern, scalable and secure technology solutions that empower colleagues and delight customers.

You & your role

With over 500 professionals, Tribe Customer Journeys, Insurance & Pensions (CJIP) is positioned at the heart of Rabobank’s customer experience strategy. We bring together technology, data, and customer insight to deliver smooth, consistent, and human-center journeys across:

• Daily Business Banking
• Daily Banking Private Customers
• Insurance & Pensions

The Insurance & Pensions Area is one of Rabobank’s most important growth domains. With well‑known propositions such as Alles‑in‑één Polis and Zeker van je Zaak, we enable private and business customers to protect what matters. More than 30 - 50 colleagues across the Netherlands, India and Portugal work together to deliver stable, secure and future‑ready technology driven by our ambition to remain the leading insurance intermediary in the country.

As Tech Lead, you guide multiple DevOps teams and shape the technology foundation for the coming years ahead. With 2026 as a pivotal transformation year, you translate our target architecture into a clear and actionable delivery roadmap. You modernize platforms, phase out legacy systems and build a future‑ready technology landscape. At the same time, you define the standards, tooling, engineering culture and ways of working that enable your teams to thrive.

Examples from practice

• Driving a multi‑year modernization roadmap towards 2026, replacing legacy systems with future‑ready platforms.
• Aligning delivery across multiple DevOps teams while balancing run and change in a regulated environment.
• Building strong collaboration with internal stakeholders and external vendors across nearshore and offshore locations.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Translate target architecture into an executable delivery roadmap, balancing modernization, risk reduction and regulatory compliance across multiple technology platforms.
• Strengthen engineering excellence by coaching DevOps teams, improving craftsmanship, and embedding standards for reliability, security and lifecycle management.
• Safeguard operational stability by overseeing incidents, vulnerabilities, change processes and business continuity within a complex insurance technology landscape.

You define standards, tooling and ways of working, while steering technology decisions that enable stable operations and long‑term scalability.

Together we achieve more than alone

The teams works on delivering stable, secure and future‑ready insurance technology. Collaboration is our way of working; as one result‑oriented team within Rabobank.

You & your talent

• Academic working and thinking level (HBO or WO).
• 10+ years of experience in tech leadership or IT delivery within large, complex organisations.
• Broad technical and architectural expertise (Cloud, Data, Security, Infrastructure, DevOps, IT in Control).
• Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder‑management skills (Dutch & English).
• Experience with onshore/nearshore/offshore sourcing models and vendor management.
• Agile leadership experience across multiple DevOps teams.
• Strategic leadership.
• Coaching leadership style.