Solution Architect Digital Platform

Solution Architect for Rabobank Digital Platform

As a Solution Architect for Rabobank Digital Platform, you have an opportunity to design the technology that provides the digital experience of 7 million customers through our online channels and help improve secure and seamless online access to our services.

Rabobank Online is a breeding ground for innovation in multiple ways: apart from delivering great customer experience we build, test and run our software using the latest technology. We seek to continuously improve the way we work and by doing that becoming the most customer-oriented bank in the Netherlands.

You and your job

Within Tribe Digital Platform, our squads work on a digital platform that provides the frameworks and tools for over 120 teams that build our modern digital experience, while ensuring the highest standards for quality, performance and security. As part of the Solution Architect team, you are responsible for the framework, standards and developer platform, together with other architects and developers.

• You will coach, guide and support several squads. In this role you work closely together with our product owners, engineering squads and other architects. You ensure a vision about the current and future solutions we provide. You leverage your engineering experience, understanding of the business drivers and knowledge of current and emerging technology and its practical application.
• You understand technology trends and the practical application of existing, new and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving architecture for the tribe.
• You provide oversight and foster built-in-quality to ensure teams create high quality and well-designed technical solutions.
• You leverage a strong engineering background to make the right choices in Solution Architecture.

Practical Examples

• Incorporate the latest architecture concepts into projects and initiatives
• Set and roadmap solution direction across the different squads
• Set and cascade solution direction across the different squads

Top 3 responsibilities

• Manage and lead the architecture effort
• Create and socialize end-to-end designs and solution architecture with squads, architecture colleagues, product owners and other business and IT representatives
• Mentor and coach the squads to implement the architecture and support the squads with challenges during all steps of the DevOps cycle

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of difference. Especially by combining the diversity of people we become a better bank. We are curious for your contributions to our team of Digital Platform.

‘At Rabobank, working in an environment with highly skilled engineers and dedicated stakeholders enables our team to accelerate in an ever-changing environment by using our team autonomy to set the desired trajectory.’

Maarten Boudewijn, Solution Architect Digital Platform

About Rabobank: We are a Dutch bank, active in 38 countries for over 9.5 million customers. We work closely together with these customers, our members and partners towards a world in which everyone has enough and healthy food to eat. Closer to home we work towards a country where happy people live, work and contribute.

You and your talent

Within Digital Platform we value integrity, an engineering focus, an ‘improvement and embracing change’ mind-set and openness. In addition, it is important that you are a team player, have leadership skills and recognise yourself in the checklist below:

• Experience in relevant IT DevOps roles with a preference for previous work as a Solution Architect in a complex environment
• Minimum 7 years working experience in relevant roles (in IT DevOps) with a preference for of those years 3 years of Solution Architecture experience in a complex environment
• Practical experience with architecture methods and techniques
• Proven experience in designing, realizing and maintaining architecture
• Experience with Azure DevOps practices, Git and Azure DevOps pipelines
• Developer or Architectural experience with Java/Kotlin, Spring Boot, JavaScript, Angular
• Experience with design processes and atomic design
• A real community builder
• You have a helicopter view: overseeing a wide domain and any consequences certain (design) decisions have
• You can remember or research previous decisions and experiences that lead us to where we are now
• On the other hand, you are not afraid to ‘get your hands dirty’ and become involved in complex analysis and implementation questions
• Good communication skills to collaborate with business users, colleague architects, and squad members
• Ability to communicate technical solutions in business terms, and can influence and persuade others with an open mindset