IT Platform Engineer Innovation

As an IT Platform Engineer within the Innovation department, you operate at the highest level of engineering maturity. Are you a senior technical expert who wants to design, build, and govern highly complex, bank-wide solutions? Do you want to play a decisive role in shaping technical direction, enabling experimentation, and translating innovation into scalable, secure, and compliant production systems? The ABN AMRO Innovation Platform Engineering team is responsible for maintaining and evolving applications, ensuring it meets bank standards while deploying and managing infrastructure in line with those standards to explore the use of emerging technologies. Do you like to work in a multidisciplinary environment alongside Innovation Managers, other senior engineers, architects, and business stakeholders, and act as a technical authority within your domain? Then please continue reading.

Your job

As IT Platform Engineer IV – you:

• Design, build, and maintain highly complex, bank-wide platforms and services - You build it, you run it
• Define and own the technical roadmap for platform engineering, ensuring alignment across teams and initiatives
• Act as the technical lead and authority for complex engineering challenges
• Set engineering standards and best practices
• Proactively identify and mitigate architectural, operational, and security risks
• Coordinate activities across multiple teams and domains, ensuring cross-team alignment and reuse of capabilities

Stack description

• Cloud: Azure
• Container Orchestrators: AKS, Container Apps or App Service
• DevOps tooling: Azure DevOps
• Observability: Azure Monitoring, Log Analytics Workspaces. Basic knowledge required.
• Identity and Access management: Microsoft Entra ID – nice to have

Working environment

The Innovation department within Innovation & Technology (I&T) plays a central role in delivering ABN AMROs innovation agenda, in close collaboration with the Client Units and Functions. It consists of four teams: Innovation Tech and Support, AI, Digital Assets and Embedded Banking. Within Innovation we take ownership, stay ahead of the curve on business and technology developments, challenge the status quo and fail fast. Initiatives are delivered based on impact to enable, in order of priority, cost savings, revenue increase, capital relief and net promotor score (client satisfaction). The Innovation Tech and Support team is a shared services support team that includes the additional capabilities required to enable delivery of innovation initiatives led by the AI, Embedded Banking and Digital Assets teams. This team also facilitates the overall operations of the innovation department. Members of this team will contribute directly to innovation initiatives based on their expertise.

Your profile

You are a senior platform engineering professional with deep technical expertise and a strong affinity for emerging technologies. You combine strategic thinking with hands-on technical authority and are comfortable operating at bank-wide scale. You are able to create and maintain good relationships with developers and help them reduce friction and avoid frustration using your automation skills. You are seen as an expert and trusted technical authority by peers and stakeholders. You take ownership end-to-end and operate with a strong sense of responsibility towards the bank. You can translate complex technical topics into clear narratives for both technical and non-technical stakeholders. You actively challenge assumptions and the status quo, while working constructively within formal and informal structures. You coach others and stimulate knowledge sharing across teams and communities.

To be successful in this role you need to recognize yourself in the following technical skills:

• Proven knowledge and experience with Azure cloud running containerized workloads in production in corporate environments (8 years or more)
• Solid IAM and networking concepts
• Infrastructure as Code: Proficient writing Bicep and Terraform
• Proven knowledge automating Dev, Sec and Ops using CI/CD solutions (preference Azure DevOps)
• Passion to automate repeated tasks using scripting languages and/or Infrastructure as Code
• Understand the importance of security in the public cloud and in containerized workloads
• Strong programming expertise (e.g. Python, Java, TypeScript or equivalent) and experience designing backend-heavy systems

We are offering

• An attractive gross monthly salary based on a 36-hour work week, including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget
• An excellent pension scheme, ensuring that you are well prepared for the future
• Flexibility in working: working from home is possible in consultation with your team and depending on your role. We will provide an ergonomic home office setup for you
• Plenty of room for relaxation with five weeks of vacation per year, supplemented by two mandatory days off. You can also purchase up to four additional weeks of vacation annually
• Five “Banking for better days”: extra days off that you can use for personal development or volunteer work
• Personal development is key: you receive a development budget of €1,000 per year, which can accumulate up to €3,000
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands for both business and private use