Business Architect - Digital & Customer Interactions

This is what we offer you

• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% 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

We are looking for an experienced Business Architect to join the area of IT for OPS & Foundation, part of the tribe Digital & Customer Interactions (DCI). The tribe is a.o. owner of customer data, CRM, marketing, all customer interactions and much more.

The area of IT for OPS & Foundation is newly formed and requires an architect who is willing and capable of leading the architecture chapter in the area from scratch to a rock solid counterpart for Business and IT. This does not only mean designing a state of the art architecture for the area, but also creating a strong team of solutions architects which can stay in pace with a fast changing surrounding and manage a broad range of stakeholders.

You and your role

As Business Architect you will oversee a wide range of topics including, but not limited to:

• Implementation of SAP Ariba to streamline procurement and vendor management processes.
• Modernization of crucial applications to support the Operations department’s information & knowledge management and process management.
• Enabling top notch platforms such as Pega Cloud, Kofax and UIPath.
• Create shared services which enable further automation of operational processes, such as automatic content recognition from documents using technologies like NLP and (gen)AI.
• Help clean-up old legacy systems to ensure a futureproof IT landscape for the entire Rabobank.

You and your responsibilities

• Take part in the area leadership team and guide the area together with the senior IT lead and business area lead.
• Translate business requirements into functional designs that fit into the (enterprise) architecture and align the functional designs with technical solutions of the solution architects.
• Take ownership and responsibility for the quality of designs and realized solutions
• Align with many stakeholders, including other business architects, business leads and IT counterparts.
• Advocate the capabilities your area offers to other area or tribes within the Rabobank.
• Pro-actively monitor market developments and keep up to pace with the latest (technology) developments.

You and your talent

You are a person who likes a challenge and doesn’t mind to build something from scratch. Obviously you are customer-focused, independent, a conceptual thinker, self starter, analytical skilled, but also a team player and transparent in your communication. In addition, it's important that you recognize yourself in the following:

• Academic level thinking
• Practical experience with architecture methods and techniques (e.g. Archimate, TOGAF)
• Strong communication skills
• You are familiar with the rituals of Agile / Scrum
• Good command of English (business level)
• You are not afraid to voice your professional opinion and have an open view on the future
• You see what needs to be done and take initiative to make sure items get moving and issues resolved.

Everyone is different, and it is exactly those differences that help us become an even better bank. That's why we want to know who you really are!