Tech Lead Global Sanctions FEC TECH

Join Rabobank as Tech Lead in Global Sanctions FEC 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

You & your role

The FEC Global Sanctions department plays a critical role in Rabobank’s financial crime prevention strategy. The Global Sanctions area within FEC Tech is responsible for Transaction Filtering, Name Screening, Model Development, and Real Time Detection. The scope of this role is Transaction Filtering.

Transaction Filtering: Screening financial transactions against global sanctions lists to prevent dealings with sanctioned individuals, entities, or countries. To support this, Rabobank operates a transaction filtering platform that continuously evaluates transactional behaviour, enabling timely identification and escalation of unusual activity.

As a Tech Lead within the Global Sanctions area of FEC Tech, you will play a key role in leading squads that develop and maintain transaction filtering solutions. Your focus will be on ensuring operational stability, compliance, and continuous improvement of our detection capabilities. You will help shape a secure and resilient banking environment by guiding teams that work with critical filtering systems. Generative AI (AI system that can generate content) is currently being embedded in the applications of Global Sanctions. Moreover, we are currently exploring the usage of Agentic AI.

Achieve results

• Strengthen IT stability and compliance within the Sanctions area.
• Collaborate with IT partners to improve delivery processes and operational efficiency.
• Inspire and coach engineering talent within Rabobank.
• Contribute to strategic goals of CFECO and CITO.

Facts & figures

• You will lead 3 squads, each responsible for Transaction Filtering
• Global scope and a prerequisite to execute payments

You & your responsibilities

• Represent the Tech domain within the Global Sanctions area.
• Vendor and Tooling Management: Overseeing the tech stack and vendor relationships that support sanctions detection.
• Ensure IT stability, security, and compliance in line with Simplify@Scale governance.
• Lead multiple squads, with responsibility for team growth and performance.
• Collaborate with teams working with technologies such as RiskShield, Databricks, Azure DevOps.
• Manage dependencies across FEC Tech and other domains.
• Foster a culture of psychological safety, curiosity, and collaboration.
• Promote engineering excellence through strategic hiring, coaching, and best practice implementation.
• Facilitate cross-squad learning and maturity by encouraging knowledge sharing and documenting success patterns.
• Identify and implement growth opportunities in a continuously evolving environment.

Work on yourself & the world around you

At Rabobank, your development goes hand in hand with contributing to society. We invest in your growth and offer a hybrid working environment, a healthy work-life balance, and a personal development budget. You’ll work on banking matters for private and business customers, as well as societal challenges such as food and energy transitions.

You & your talent

• Academic working and thinking level.
• 3–5 years of experience in a leadership or coordinating IT role in complex environments.
• Experience with DevOps teams and Simplify@Scale (S@S).
• Affinity with transaction filtering and software lifecycle management.
• Experience with implementing third-party software platforms.
• Being passionate about managing people and experience on working close with different people.
• Passion for digitalization and cloud technologies.
• Strong proficiency in English, both verbal and written.
• Able to carefully balance interests and risks in collaboration with the business.
• Experience in managing IT incidents.

You & your additional competences

• The Tech Lead role is both varied and challenging, which is why the following competencies are considered essential for success in this position.
• You are a team player, customer oriented and inspiring.
• You are visible within the organization and create positive impact.
• You quickly create overviews and insights for yourself, direct colleagues and stakeholders.
• You can deal well with unexpected setbacks, incidents, problems and crisis situations.
• You are used to breaking down complicated issues in complex environments and making them manageable.
• You can think conceptually and then concretise.
• You organize the right knowledge and skills to determine measures.
• You are strong in coaching; you also know how to convey this to others (coach the coach).
• You are a continuous learner and can take on a steep learning curve.