Tech Lead Oracle Area

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,115 and EUR 7,308 (scale 10) for a 36 hour week
• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 11% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

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Imagine playing an essential role as Tech Lead within the Oracle Area at Rabobank, thus contributing to the bank's always on, secure and compliant IT-infrastructure

Make a difference by managing squads in the Oracle Area, maintaining relationships with your main stakeholders of the Oracle Managed Database Services and work well with our suppliers.

You and your job

The purpose of the Oracle Area is to provide continuity and run and change services to our consumers and customers for the Oracle Managed Database Services. The ambition of Oracle Area is providing a managed database platform with high availability and security for demanding applications for critical business chains of the Rabobank. The Oracle Area's main purpose and responsibilities are:

• Delivering, maintaining, and operating a high-performance database platform
• Ensuring the database and infrastructure platform meets performance, security, risk, and compliance requirements
• Enabling seamless integration within Rabobank’s ecosystem
• Providing smooth database provisioning and second day operations including lifecycle management (fully automated services)
• Specialist support and consultancy to consumers regarding use of Oracle DB & platform

The Oracle Area consists of six squads, each focused on different parts of the Oracle Managed Database Services.

You are part of the Squad triangles and Area Leadership team in which you are involved in technical, organisation and also human aspects.

You will lead the squads to successfully deliver on their purpose, empower them, and provide clear direction. You will effectively manage stakeholders and dependencies in the Tribes from Engineering & Enterprise Tech and contribute to Rabobank's wider regulatory, risk, and security objectives.

Top-of-mind responsibilities

• Leading the daily Tech delivery operations (run & change) with an exemplary role in leadership and agile mindset, creating a culture of excellence, engineering and continuous learning;
• Accountable for IT incidents, change, security, compliance, life cycle management, vulnerability, and Business Continuity Management of your Tech scope. You take the lead in case of emergency (COT/CMT procedures);
• HR responsible for your teams (approximately 20 members) regarding people and talent management and the engagement of all members;
• Manage the change from OPS and Dev to DevOps in an Agile environment (Simplified At Skill);
• Hiring, developing and retaining top talent in an overheated IT market;
• Facilitating a psychologically safe environment, in which learning and experimentation are central!
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration with the consuming areas; Management of internal suppliers and vendors.
• Stimulate the Simplify@Scale way of working with the Scrum Master(s) in your Squads.

You and your talent

• Experience: At least 3 years in various complex environments, holding different positions, with a minimum of 2 years leading multiple technical platform teams.
• Technical Expertise: Proficient in technical infrastructure, as well as shared platform management services, including cloud, life cycle management, release management, CI/CD pipelines, test automation, monitoring, and operational run activities.
• Leadership: Demonstrated success in leading change projects within complex organizations, managing multiple stakeholders, and overseeing technical dependencies across different areas and tribes.
• Regulatory Knowledge: An understanding of regulations and their impact on processes and systems, particularly in the finance and risk domains.
• Communication: Excellent oral, written, and presentation skills, capable of explaining complex technical issues to a broad audience and effectively connecting with internal customers and stakeholders.
• Ownership and Result-Oriented: Takes responsibility for the agreements and deliverables for the area, squads and personal and brings these to the desired result within the agreements.
• Stakeholder and Vendor Management: Strong execution power and stakeholder management skills, adept at navigating politically sensitive environments, and experienced in managing vendors and sourcing through various models and contracts.
• Organizationally Sensitive: Able to quickly gain a broad and in-depth insight into the coherence of highly complex and sometimes politically sensitive issues that have a group-wide impact;

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the EU and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team within the Oracle Area.

Talking of Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank that operates in 38 countries for over 9,500,000 customers. Together with these customers, our members and partners we stand side by side to create a world in which everyone has access to enough healthy food. In the Netherlands we work to create a country in which people are happy with how they live, work and do business.