Solution Architect Sustainability, Products and Portfolio for Housing Tech

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

As a Solution Architect for Rabobank Tribe Housing, Area Sustainability, Products and Portfolio you have an opportunity to make a sustainable impact on customers and employees.

The purpose of Area SPP to provide clear, simple, and sustainable solutions for our customers, with fair pricing and characteristics, to become the most sustainable housing bank, with a market-leading and profitable mortgage portfolio.

One of the products we work on is Cooperative Insulation Budget where we help our mortgage clients to improve the energy label of their houses by offering home energy efficiency advise and funding to improve their house. By doing so, we help to reach the Paris climate agreement.

Per 1st of March the area SPP will be incorporated with the Area Mortgage Criteria and Management (MC&M) as cluster sustainability. In this way the sustainability will be better integrated in processes to service our existing customers. We will revisit the tasks and responsibility for you as an solution architect.

As IT we enable this by creating a seamless digital journey. In this journey our applications and services are online (web/app) and offline. Some built inhouse and some vendor managed. Do you want to challenge yourself and make an impact in the mortgage domain at Rabobank?

You and your job:

• You are proactive and understand the business drivers and business capabilities (future and current state) and determine appropriate solutions to drive the area targeted business outcomes.
• You know your stakeholders and are capable to use storytelling to explain the architecture need for certain changes.
• Manage and lead the architecture for the squads while working closely with the Area Leadership Team, the squads, and other stakeholders.
• Understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving architecture for the area
• Provide oversight and foster built-in-quality to ensure squads create high quality and well-designed technical solutions.
• Leverage a strong engineering background to make the right choices in Solution Architecture.
• Familiarity with the software development process, including CI/CD principles, package development, unit testing, quality assurance, and monitoring.
• Working together with the Tech Leads and squads to stay in control.
• Can-do mindset while striving for futureproof architectures.

Practical Examples:

• Provide architecture advisory to the area leadership team.
• Incorporate the latest architecture concepts into projects and initiatives.
• Set and cascade solution direction across the different squads.

Top 3 responsibilities:

• Manage and lead the architecture effort for the area together with the business architect and the other solution architects.
• Create and socialize an end-to-end solution architecture.
• Mentor and coach squads to implement the associated architecture.

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 area within the tribe Housing.

"At the area SPP within tribe housing, we create sustainable, innovative and future proof architectures to take our products and portfolio management to a higher level and help our customers make their houses more sustainable."

Alex Krouwel, Business Architect Sustainability, Portfolio and Products

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.

You and your talent

• 3+ years in an engineering background (ideally development).
• Solution Architecture experience in a complex environment.
• Architecture training/knowledge on architectural practice.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Collaborates effectively with others to achieve results.
• Flexibility and adaptability.
• Knowledge of architectural concepts such as microservices, event-driven architectures and domain-driven design.
• Azure certification, Azure Kubernetes Service and/or Java background is a pré.
• Experience with Azure services (Security, Networking, Azure AI services, ADF, Databricks, AzureML, Synapse, PowerBI) is a pré.
• Knowledge of the ArchiMate modelling standard is a pré.