Domain Architect for Assisted Toolkit for CoE Architects Domestic Bank Netherlands in Amsterdam

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ING Domestic Bank Netherlands is looking for a Domain Architect for the toolkit to support our employees in customer facing contacts.

You will be member of a small team of architects, led by one of our enterprise architects. In creating architecture deliverables, you will work closely with business colleagues, Enterprise Architects, Feature Engineers, IT managers and Dev/Ops teams.

This is what you’ll be doing

You take responsibility to define and maintain the end-to-end architecture design for the domain. You apply the architecture principles, -standards and -guidelines in describing architectures and implementation roadmaps for the upcoming quarters that are feasible to implement, but ambitious enough to move towards our strategic target architecture.  Of course, you take important quality criteria, like security and reliability, into account.

Architecture governance is an important part of your job. In this context you document agreements with stakeholders on certain solutions, and deviations from architecture. Furthermore, you verify whether the solutions implemented comply with the upfront agreed architecture and report your findings to the enterprise architect.

In addition to the domain responsibility, you also contribute to the continuous improvement of your team and CoE Architects, so we get better every day than the day before.

Who are you?

• You have basic knowledge and understanding of content and architecture of multiple domains (technologies, applications, business processes). You define and align (global) architecture standards.
• You work independently and act as a self-starter to perform architecture activities for incremental changes (the design, advise and presentation of (target) architectures and roadmaps, and the architecture guidance and validations). At the same time, you avoid silos’ thinking by proactively seek collaboration with others to co-create. Therefore, you have co-creation skills (workshops, guiding, constraining, selling, telling) and you have the level of architecture expertise to coach and mentor other architects.
• You take decisions on the basis of limited information and use indirect influence. You have a long-term perseverance, without becoming dogmatic or rigid.
• You manage stakeholders up to senior management level within a domain for the scope of multiple tribes or programs.
• Master level or equivalent by experience and good written and spoken knowledge of English.
• You use pattern recognition to assess what to do and rules to determine how to do it. You make complex analyses and connections between current events and the corporate strategy or the longer-term vision.
• You anticipate Risk, Security & Reliability requirements for your domain and you coordinate the embedding of mitigations in the architecture designs and principles for your scope.
• Having experience with the principles of agile development is highly preferred.
• You have the ability to travel.

What do we offer?

You’ll be working in a small team of architects and with all relevant stakeholders of the domain. On a larger scale you are member of the Center of Expertise Architects in ING Domestic Bank Netherlands. When applicable you will work with ING colleagues from other areas to ensure alignment. Working at ING means working in a dynamic and international setting. Individual development of our employees is very important and that is why ING offers excellent courses and programs. We only hire people with exceptional talents and capabilities!

In addition we offer:

• Working with highly skilled and ambitious people.
• A salary based on experience and expertise, 27 holiday days and excellent benefits like a 13th month, pension scheme, personal allowance, laptop, mobile phone, etc.
• Working in an area which is of great importance to the strategy of ING
• A full-time position (36 or 40-hour week, depending on what you prefer)
• Great career perspective
• Strong support for personal growth & professional development