Solution Architect Azure DevOps

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,516 and EUR 6,449 (scale 09) 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

Do you have a vision on how to enhance the development experience for our engineers, enabling them to efficiently create features for our customers?

At Rabobank we want to deliver the best services possible for our engineers, and you as Solution Architect can play a central role in providing them!

As a Solution Architect you will have the opportunity to design the technology that delivers the digital experience for 7 million customers through our channels and provide a developer platform for over 8,000 developers within Rabobank. You will work together with other Solution Architects, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and over 60 engineers and business analysts that together shape a diverse and engaging working environment. While we put our service consumer front and center, we also actively collaborate with one another through nourishing a culture that embraces openness and growth.

The product that you will work on will be determined during the application process based on your experience and our demand, matching your ambition, skills and experience.

About Tech4Dev

Our area Tech4Dev has the vision to enable a frictionless software development journey for all Rabobank engineers. Throughout the software development life cycle, we ensure all Rabobank engineers can deliver high-quality software that is robust, secure and adhering to the Rabobank standards.

Tech4Dev is one of the six areas within the tribe Tech4Engineering. Our main drive within Tech4Engineering is: “Happy engineers”. Through our service delivery to over 8000 engineers across the enterprise globally, we aim to unlock precious engineering capacity through providing simplified and standardized services.

Our services contain strategic planning to squad day-to-day work item management, development stack initiation, artifact management and code scanning capabilities, CI/CD orchestration, performance testing and contract testing, as well as leveraging GenAI capabilities to accelerate developer experience.

Within Tribe Tech4Engineering, area Tech4Dev, our squads work on tools and supporting processes that assist over 400 teams in building our modern digital experience, while ensuring the highest standards for quality, performance, and security.

Responsibilities:

• You set and roadmap solution direction across different squads.
• You create and socialize end-to-end designs and solution architecture with squads, architecture colleagues, product owners, and other business and IT representatives.
• You mentor and coach squads to implement the architecture and support them with challenges throughout the DevOps cycle.

You and your talent:

Within Tech4Engineering, we value integrity, an engineering focus, an ‘improvement and embracing change’ mindset, and openness. Additionally, it is important that you are a team player, have leadership skills, and recognize yourself in the checklist below:

• Minimum 7 years of working experience in relevant roles (in IT DevOps), including at least 3 years of Solution Architecture experience in a complex environment.
• Knowledge about Azure DevOps as a platform is preferred
• Practical experience with architecture methods and techniques.
• Ability to oversee a wide domain and understand the consequences of certain design decisions.
• Capability to recall or research previous decisions and experiences that have led us to where we are now.
• Willingness to ‘get your hands dirty’ and engage 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 influence and persuade others with an open mindset.
• Engineering background to judge engineers and challenge their choices and work.
• Knowledge of platform engineering is a plus.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands or elsewhere in the EU and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.