Domain Architect at Group Finance

As one of the Domain Architects for the Finance domain, you design, maintain, and guide the architecture for specific Finance capabilities, such as General Ledger, Financial Closing, Reporting, Treasury, Actuarial support, Financial Planning & Control, Budgeting & Forecasting, and Management Accounting. You translate the Finance strategy and Enterprise Architecture guidelines into clear and actionable domain-level architecture.

You ensure that solutions delivered within the Finance landscape are consistent, secure, compliant, and aligned with the target architecture defined by the Enterprise Architect.

You are an advisor to the leadership in Group Finance on specific domains.

You play a key role in enabling reliable financial processes, efficient operations, and regulatory compliance. Your architectural designs directly support improvements in data quality, reporting automation, and integration with the wider insurance value chain.

Your decisions reduce technical debt and help create a more maintainable and future-ready Finance IT landscape.

You support management, Product Owners and DevOps teams in ensuring that the Finance domain operates on a robust, compliant, secure, and scalable IT landscape that supports NN’s regulatory obligations including IFRS 17, IFRS 9, Solvency II, ESG reporting, and enabling fast-closing ambitions. You deliver tangible architecture results such as advice memos, implementation standards and guidelines, programme guidance on technical solutions, cost/benefit analysis, input for project and programme business cases and plans, and much more.

You guide stakeholders in decision making to reduce complexity, strengthen data quality, enable cost savings, deliver results according to strict timelines, comply with internal and external rules and regulations, and enable digital innovation. Your stakeholders are primarily in the Group Finance department, but also in Financial Risk leadership and Business Unit leadership.

Your role is advisory and you help management in making decisions concerning the IT landscape of Group Finance in NN, with a focus on one or more domains such as accounting, consolidation, reporting, and operations. You are a sparring partner for many stakeholders, including Product Owners, Lead Engineers, and senior leadership.

You have an engineering mindset, bringing hands-on engineering skills and a pragmatic approach to problem-solving. You have deep knowledge of emerging technologies, engineering patterns, and how to implement business processes in effective IT solutions.

Finally, you support NN’s long-term ambition to migrate the fragmented Finance-IT landscape to a highly standardized environment based on SAP S4/HANA, including solutions such as SAP S/4HANA Insurance, SAP Advanced Financial Closing, SAP S/4HANA Cloud for cash management, SAP Cloud ERP Private group reporting, SAP Financial Product Sub-Ledger, SAP Profitability & Performance Management, SAP BTP, SAP BDC, and more.

What you are going to do

Your responsibilities and tasks include:

• Develop and maintain domain-specific architecture blueprints, principles, and guidelines
• Refine target architecture into concrete solution directions for your Finance capability area
• Create and review solution designs in collaboration with Solution Architects and IT Delivery
• Provide architecture input for projects, releases, and Finance change initiatives
• Validate designs against domain architecture standards and enterprise-wide principles
• Support business analysts and product owners in shaping user stories and epics from an architectural viewpoint
• Work closely with Finance process owners, IT delivery teams, project managers, data specialists, and the Enterprise Architect
• Facilitate alignment between business needs and IT design decisions
• Translate complex architectural topics into clear, actionable recommendations
• Ensure coherent data flows, data definitions, and lineage for your domains
• Contribute to improvements in integration between Finance and other insurance domains such as Policy, Claims, and Risk
• Support assessments of new tools, systems, and vendor solutions impacting your domain
• Safeguard alignment with regulatory and Finance compliance requirements, including IFRS, Solvency II, and audit requirements
• Contribute to architecture risk assessments and improvement plans
• Promote simplicity, reliability, scalability, and security-by-design within your domain

Who you are

You bring the following skills and competencies:

• You understand complex Finance and IT processes and are able to provide structure and insight into them for yourself and others
• You collaborate effectively with many different co-workers, including Finance experts, IT engineers, product owners, project managers, data experts, business analysts, and architects
• You explain architecture choices clearly and convincingly and bring architecture decisions to the right people for decision making
• You balance short-term project needs with long-term architectural goals and can explain that balance to project managers and others
• You translate process challenges into robust, maintainable solutions in close collaboration with solution architects and product owners
• You have strong knowledge of TOGAF, ArchiMate, Agile/Scrum, SAFe, PRINCE2, ITIL, and COBIT, and can apply the best practices and concepts of these methodologies in your architecture advice
• You are capable of gaining knowledge and insight into Finance processes quickly, including financial accounting, management accounting, closing, regulatory reporting, consolidation, budgeting and forecasting, tax, and others
• You are familiar with data engineering, data management, and data governance concepts and practices such as data modelling, data lineage, data quality, data warehousing, dashboarding, data integration patterns, and data definitions
• You have experience working with ERP/Finance systems, preferably SAP S4/HANA, BI/reporting platforms, cloud services such as Azure or AWS, and data platforms
• Preferably, you have strong experience working on the architecture for the Finance domains Financial Management Reporting & Analytics, Financial Planning & Forecasting, and Cost & Profitability

You have the following experience:

• At least 7 years of experience working in large and complex IT environments with hundreds of IT solutions, thousands of connections, and 100+ IT teams, in leadership positions such as management, Product Owner, or advisory roles such as architect
• At least 3 years of experience in Enterprise or Domain Architecture, preferably in Insurance or Financial Services
• At least 3 years of experience shaping or modernizing Finance IT landscapes such as ERP, consolidation, and reporting
• At least 2 years of experience advising Board-2 level management
• At least 2 years of experience contributing to large change initiatives and portfolio guidance
• Experience working with regulatory-focused environments, including IFRS, Solvency II, and DNB requirements
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong learning skills to understand and apply new concepts and details quickly and effectively
• At least 3 years of experience working with TOGAF 9 and ArchiMate
• Certification in one or more Enterprise Architecture methodologies such as TOGAF 9
• Experience working according to multiple methodologies such as Agile/Scrum, DevOps, Kanban, PRINCE2, or IPMA
• Preferably experience with one or more Enterprise Architecture tools such as Sparx EA or Bizzdesign
• Preferably knowledge of Dutch and European financial reporting regulations such as IFRS9, IFRS17, and Solvency II
• Living in The Netherlands and willing to come to the office in The Hague at least 2 days per week
• Fluent in English, both verbal and in writing
• Academic working and thinking level

Who you will work with

You will work in a diverse environment with many professionals who have strong experience in Finance & Risk and IT. Your colleagues have many different nationalities and English is the default language for meetings and communication. You will collaborate with co-workers in various locations, including The Netherlands, Czechia, Hungary, Romania, and India, which requires flexibility in your communication. Coming to the office in The Hague two days per week will help you align face-to-face with colleagues.

Working at NN in the Finance & Risk domain can be demanding, with strict deadlines and hard requirements. At the same time, NN combines this with an Agile way of working in Agile and DevOps teams, with room for experimentation and ideas for improvement. Successes and results are celebrated, and the contribution of every individual in the team is appreciated.

You will be part of a small Architecture team in Group Finance, with two other architects next to you. At the same time, there are more than 100 architects in NN with whom you will regularly collaborate. NN also has an active Architecture Guild that facilitates learning and practice sharing between architects across the company.