Tech Lead - Tech4Dev

Within Tech4Dev, Rabobank builds and operates engineering capabilities that enable thousands of engineers to design, build, test and operate software in a secure, compliant and efficient way. These capabilities are at the heart of Rabobank’s software development lifecycle and are essential for delivering reliable, scalable and compliant solutions across the bank.

As a Tech Lead Tech4Dev, you play a key role in shaping and delivering these capabilities, while building strong teams and driving engineering excellence at scale.

Driving the engineering capabilities for Rabobank

You & your role

• As a Tech Lead Tech4Dev, you are responsible for the delivery and evolution of the engineering capabilities that enable software development across Rabobank.
• Within Tech4Dev, squads build standardized capabilities that support the full software development lifecycle—from planning and development to testing, deployment and compliance. Your mission is to ensure these capabilities are reliable, scalable and easy to adopt, so engineers can focus on delivering value.
• You lead multiple DevOps squads and are integrally responsible for IT delivery (24/7), ensuring continuity, performance and control of the capabilities you own.
• Within the organisation, you are part of the Area Triangle (Tech Lead, Senior Tech Lead, Area Lead, Business Architect) and contribute to the direction and priorities of the Tech4Dev area.

Examples for practices

• Improving CI/CD, testing and compliance capabilities used across the bank
• Simplifying the engineering landscape by reducing duplication and complexity
• Enabling self-service adoption of capabilities by development teams
• Modernising capabilities and phasing out legacy solutions
• Embedding security and compliance into capabilities by design

Top responsibilities

IT Delivery & continuity

• End-to-end responsibility for stable and reliable capability delivery (24/7)

People leadership & capability building

• Hiring, coaching and developing engineers and leaders

Capability ownership

• Ensure capabilities are scalable, maintainable and widely adopted

Engineering culture

• Enable autonomous, high-performing teams and continuous improvement

Standardisation & simplification

• Reduce fragmentation and improve reusability across the landscape

Risk, security & compliance

• Ensure capabilities are secure-by-design and compliant

Stakeholder management

• Navigate a complex environment and align across Tech, Architecture and Business

Financial steering

• Manage budgets and sourcing, including external partners

You & your talent

• Academic working and thinking level
• 5–10+ years experience in complex IT environments
• Experience with DevOps, Agile and large-scale engineering environments
• Strong leadership skills across people, process and technology
• Affinity with software development and platform engineering
• Understanding of risk, security and compliance
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to drive change

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. Candidates requiring relocation from another country cannot be considered.