Business Architect Cloud Services

Shape the Future of Cloud at Rabobank

Design and lead innovative, secure, and scalable cloud solutions that drive our digital transformation.

Our Cloud Services area, part of the tribe Tech4Engineering, provides robust, scalable, and secure poly-cloud solutions to support the bank’s digital transformation. Our primary platforms are AWS and Microsoft Azure, with a smaller footprint on Google Cloud.

Make an impact as Business Architect – Cloud Services.

You & your role

Design the architectural blueprint for Rabobank’s poly-cloud platforms, ensuring alignment with business strategy and regulatory requirements. As Business Architect – Cloud Services, you collaborate with the Area Lead and Tech Lead, translating strategic goals into robust cloud solutions. You’ll work with a team of business architects and guide solution architects, balancing innovation, compliance, and operational excellence.

Facts & figures

• You will work alongside 10 business architects within the Engineering business architecture team.
• 43,822 Rabobank colleagues worldwide

Key responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership
  • Define and evolve the architecture of the services offered on the AWS, Azure and Google Cloud platforms for Rabobank.
  • Align poly-cloud architecture with enterprise standards, business strategy and cloud-native best practices.
  • Drive innovation and standardization in cloud adoption, ensuring cost efficiency and resilience.
  • You are part of the Engineering business architecture team, consisting of 10 business architects working in this domain. The team is led by the managing business architect for Engineering, who is also acting as tribe architect for Tech4Engineering. You will report to him.
• Team Leadership
  • Co-lead the Cloud Services sub-area together with the Area Lead and Tech Lead.
  • Collaborate with the Area Lead and Tech Lead to manage the Cloud Services area, balancing business priorities, technical feasibility, and operational excellence.
  • Functionally lead the 5 Solution Architects for Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. Each architect is linked to one or more squads in the area to guide and oversee the work in these squads in line with the target architecture and area purpose.
  • Foster an open culture of continuous improvement and DevOps maturity.
• Stakeholder Engagement
  • Collaborate with security, on-premises, networking, services and application counterparts to ensure alignment with organizational needs.
  • Communicate architectural vision and roadmap to stakeholders and leadership.
• Innovation & Strategy
  • Stay ahead of industry trends in cloud services, cloud-native technologies, and platform engineering.
  • Drive adoption of automation, GitOps, and self-service capabilities.

Together we achieve more

The members of the Engineering business architecture team safeguard and develop the architecture for all technical domains within Rabobank. Collaboration is our way of working; as one expert and solution-oriented team within Rabobank. We share knowledge, encourage initiative, and work in a hybrid way for optimal balance and results.

Work on yourself & the world around you

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. At Rabobank, you work on yourself & the world around you at the same time. This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a good balance between work and home. You can work on banking matters for our private and business clients, but also on social issues such as the food and energy transitions.

You & your talent

• Master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent experience
• At least 10 years of work experience, including 4 years in (business/enterprise) architecture
• Strong understanding of AWS and Azure; knowledge of Google Cloud is an advantage
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills and fully proficient in English; Dutch also preferred
• Strong leadership qualities with the ability to influence and guide stakeholders across various teams.
• A strong conceptual thinker, capable of translating high-level strategies into practical solutions.
• Collaboration: Skilled in stakeholder management and cross-functional teamwork.
• Familiarity with cloud governance, security, and compliance frameworks.

Application Questions

To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a mandatory cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the role. Please pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers; together with your CV, these responses form the basis for our evaluation in this round. Submitting both a CV and answers to the three questions is the minimum requirement to be considered in the selection process. A cover letter is not mandatory but may be submitted optionally.

You may draw on your work experience, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions:

• How have you translated strategic goals into enterprise cloud architecture patterns that are both innovative and compliant in your previous roles?
• Describe a situation where you had to involve multiple stakeholders (e.g., security, networking, application teams) in a complex architectural decision. How did you create buy-in?
• How do you keep your knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, and possibly GCP) up to date, and how do you apply this knowledge to help an organization move forward?

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

For questions about the role, contact Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter, at ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl