Domain Architect

Your challenge as a domain architect at NN Bank in The Hague? You will be driving the technology transformation of our Savings, Investments and Bankassurance (SI&BA) department with architectures in which customer experiences take centre stage. That’s how you will help millions of customers manage their finances anytime, anywhere, from any device. Steer your career at the Netherlands’ fifth largest bank. And contribute to our growth ambitions, built on reliability, accessibility, and truly personalised digital banking services.

This job offers you a monthly salary between €5,330 and €7,615 depending on your experience. This is based on a 36-hour work week, excluding a 13th month and holiday allowance.

What you’re going to do

To optimise usability across devices and enable data-driven customer interaction, you will devise an entirely new architecture for the SI&BA department. For this purpose, you will develop your vision on our IT landscape and how it supports our business’ and clients’ needs. And to realise your vision, you will inspire internal stakeholders, from management to the DevOps teams who will build your architectures.

Your main responsibilities:

• Working closely with the business enterprise architect to ensure alignment with the bank’s strategy, assess the impact of new architectures and help optimise the overarching architecture.

• Developing multi-year roadmaps to translate your vision into future-proof solutions.

• Collaborating with the bank’s and group’s IT departments to establish technical architectural guidelines at group level and translating these guidelines into best practices.

• Contributing to the strategy and technological transition of SI&BA from an architectural perspective.

• Playing an active role in the bank’s architecture community, sharing knowledge to create the best possible solutions for the bank and our customers.

• Providing DevOps teams with guardrails and supporting them during the implementation of the architecture. You will also encourage engineers to share their knowledge and insights for the benefit of the architecture community as a whole.

• Engaging with internal and external suppliers, and assessing their technologies and solutions based on your requirements.

Who you’ll work with

You will join the sixty-strong IT department of SI&BA. We are an international team of expert engineers, team leads, a product owner and department manager. Fostering a friendly, open and informal atmosphere, we are approachable, caring and supportive. Our shared ambition is to deliver the best possible services for NN Bank customers. Working at one of the largest banks in the Netherlands means you’ll have a lot of freedom and opportunity for expanding your horizon and developing your career.

What we offer

NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer you:

• Salary between €5,330 and €7,615 depending on your knowledge and experience.
• 13th month and holiday allowance are paid with your monthly salary.
• 27 vacation days for a 5-day working week and one Diversity Day.
• A modern pension administered by BeFrank.
• Plenty of training and learning opportunities.
• NS Business Card 2nd class, which gives you unlimited travel, also privately. Do you prefer to travel with your own transport? Then you can declare the kilometres travelled.
• Allowances for setting up your home office and for internet use.

We work hybrid at NN. Together with your team, you decide where, how and when you work. The official location of this job is The Hague.

Who you are

You thrive on developing UX-driven architectures and are challenged by complex, highly regulated environments, never losing sight of the bigger picture. Harnessing your communication skills, you know how to convey your vision. You challenge, convince and inspire colleagues at all levels, from the group CIO and managers to fellow architects and DevOps engineers, and are keen to collaborate to achieve our goals.

In addition you have:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in information technology, computer science or another relevant subject.
• Demonstrable experience of working as an IT, domain or enterprise architect, or in a similar role.
• Knowledge of Archimate, TOGAF certification, or other enterprise architecture frameworks.
• The motivation to coach and support more junior colleagues.
• An excellent command of spoken and written English, as you’ll be working in an international team. Some command of Dutch would stand you in good stead when communicating with your Dutch colleagues.

Will you be our new colleague?

If you are enthusiastic about this vacancy and think that you would be a good fit for the team at NN, we would like to invite you to apply. We are very keen to find out who you are, what motivates you and what you can contribute to this role at NN.

Any questions?

Any questions about the process can be directed to Wouter Lipsius, Principal Recruiter IT via +31(0) 6 57 48 78 38.

This is a permanent position. A candidate will receive a contract from NN and we are not open to interim/freelance assignments and/or candidates or recruitment agencies. Thank you very much for your understanding.