Tech Lead Integration

This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between €5,381 and €7,687 (scale 10)
• 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 the Area Integration within the Tribe Tech4Engineering, we are responsible for the Integration Journey within Rabobank and have four platforms: API Management, Event Streaming, File Transfer, and MQ. Additionally, we have a squad that focuses on bridges. The area consists of around 70 colleagues (8 squads).

Every day we take a step towards our vision that our platforms are the silent fabric of all data exchange between applications at Rabobank, enabling engineers to innovate without the complexity of managing the integration solutions themselves—because it just works, effortlessly and reliably.

To achieve this, we work together with our engineering communities to

• Make integration pattern choices and usage clear and simple
• Deliver robust, self-service platforms
• Drive standards for integration excellence
• Enable seamless application integration

Your job

As a Tech Lead you are responsible for the delivery of Integration platform squads:

• Guarding the integral IT approach and link to other IT projects within and outside the tribe
• Leading in technology in run (including vendor management), change and innovation
• Managing budgets and actuals and increasing the efficiency of software development and maintenance
• Adhering to IT frameworks like security standards, life cycle management, and availability requirements
• Drive engineering excellence through strategic hiring, coaching, and implementing best practices to continuously improve squad capabilities and productivity
• Foster cross-squad learning and maturity by establishing engineering practices, documenting success patterns, and facilitating knowledge exchange forums to elevate the overall integration engineering capabilities across teams.
  Champion a modern engineering culture focused on:
• Developer experience and self-service adoption
• Infrastructure as code and automation-first mindset
• Outcome-driven innovation in integration patterns
• Building reliable, scalable, and secure integration solutions

As the environment is constantly in transition, you will be expected to identify, initiate and implement growth opportunities. And, in this challenging transition it is very important to keep our squads, and its environment engaged to ensure the right service is delivered.

Your talent

As Tech Lead you have a high-tech savviness in the field of software engineering, integration, security, and performance. You are experienced in the scaled agile way of working, understand the risk & compliance needs of a bank, and possess a broad interest and opinion on IT trends. You are a self-starter who takes ownership and has intrinsic motivation. You are experienced in hiring the right people and work with leadership and squads directly to make a positive impact for our customers.

It is important that you have the following characteristics:

• Academic working and thinking level;
• At least 3 years of experience in similar roles within complex IT environments;
• Accustomed and comfortable with a “span of control” of approximately 30-40 (offshore) employees;
• Knowledge of and experience with DevOps teams and scaled Agile;
• You have achieved demonstrable results by guiding DevOps teams towards autonomy and a high level of performance (High Performance Engineering);
• Demonstrable affinity and passion for digitization and innovation;
• Mastery of the English language (business level, writing and speaking);
• You take on a pivotal role by weighing interests and risks together with the business;
• You keep your back straight in difficult discussions.

Your additional competencies

• As a Tech Lead you know how varied and how challenging this role can be. That is why value is placed on having the following competences:
• 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 or calamities;
• 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

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.