Tech lead

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,162 and EUR 7,374 (scale 10) for a 36 hour week
• 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 tech lead in the digital and customer interactions domain, you are part of the heart of Rabobank. You shape an efficient and coherent area together with the other tech leads for IT4ops and foundation. You are the system owner of multiple applications and platform systems that shape the future of Rabobank.

IT4ops & Foundation

The area spans 17 squads across 7 technologies. A number of high impact foundational platforms like Pega and Robotics. It also is the home of procurement applications, content recognition and delivering support and automation to our entire tribe.

Within IT4ops and foundation our main goal is to add value wherever we can while assuring continuity and being in control of our platforms.

You and your position

The tech lead role is all about making a difference in HR management, capability building, financial steering, and compliance. You improve daily, create great squads that deliver the best solutions using the most modern tools available to you. You operate in steering triangles with a Product Owner and Solution Architect, to set the direction for the squads. You also collaborate with other Tech Leads to achieve strategic priorities.

Priorities

• Empower autonomous, high-performing squads
• Reducing complexity
• Modernize the technology stack, decommission legacy products and techniques
• Embed security and compliance, ensuring products are secure by design and that squads feel ownership of risk and security activities.
• Positively impact society and sustainability

You aim for balanced leadership, to guide both people and results. You have experience in an agile way of working, comprehend the risk & compliance requirements of a bank, and have a wide interest and view on IT trends. You are proactive and can take responsibility and have the inner drive to make a positive difference.

Key responsibilities

• Management/HR responsible for approximately 35 FTEs.
• Part of S@S triangles, on squad and area level
• Resource management of IT capabilities within squads – recruitment, strategic sourcing
• Capability building of team members – continuous coaching, upskilling, and reskilling of employees
• Manage internal and external suppliers and (IT) vendors
• Steer finance for team within budget
• Drive continuous improvement and engineering culture
• Address IT impediments of squads

Together we achieve more than alone

In collaboration & productivity, we believe in the power of diversity. By combining the differences of every person in our team, we become a better organization. In every way, we are curious to learn what you can bring to the team.

Collaboration & Productivity is a chapter within CITO responsible to build, deliver and support the digital workplace required by global colleagues to work securely and efficiently. The 120+ professionals in the department populate and facilitate DevOps squads in the ‘Work and Health’ tribe of CHRO, where squads work together to make Rabobank a ‘great place to be’ for all employees.

You and your talent

• You are a people-oriented team player and can attract and retain the best talent. This includes:
• Experience with managing digital workplace or IT infrastructure teams/services
• 2 to 5 years of proven leadership and HR responsible experience (ca 35 employees span of control)
• Financial acumen – experience managing finance, cost models and budgets up to €6M.
• Cooperative mindset – lead by example and inspire colleagues to think sustainably and help others.
• Knowledge of DevOps teams, scaled Agile, IT automation, Operational Excellence.
• Excellent communication skills, spoken and written (English and ideally also Dutch)
• Judgement & Decision making, Agility, and Complex problem solving skills