Expertise Lead - Enterprise Architecture (EA) Office

The Opportunity

Are you a seasoned technologist eager to shape the future of one ING? This role offers you the chance to lead design efforts, influence business strategy, and drive the delivery of a secure and reliable digital platform. Join us to thrive and grow in a globally diverse environment, where your expertise will be pivotal in our journey towards excellence.

The Team

This  position will lead the  Enterprise Architecture (EA) office, providing team members the opportunity to share, mature, and continuously optimize the EA practice. You will lead a team of experts, set standards, and ensure the development and safeguarding of knowledge. You'll orchestrate practice optimizations, facilitating the bank's smooth evolution and strategic ambitions, while fostering collaboration across engineering, portfolio, and other areas. You will be reporting into the Head of Tech Strategy.

We are seeking an open-minded, forward-looking leader with a proven track record in driving and coordinating architectural transformations. This role requires an inspirational thought leader who can foster a collaborative, high-performance culture, lead by example, and effectively steer teams towards achieving strategic goals.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a team of architects/experts, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Develop, support, and communicate processes, guidelines, and best practices for architecture, ensuring a consistent, high-quality methodology for bank-wide services.
• Act as a strategic advisor to senior leadership, providing insights and recommendations on architectural best practices and emerging trends.
• Drive the development and implementation of the architectural vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Champion the adoption of new technologies and methodologies, promoting a forward-thinking approach to architecture.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration, ensuring effective communication and coordination between teams and stakeholders.
• Mentor and coach the team, providing guidance and support to help them achieve their professional goals and enhance their skills.
• Ensure delivery outcomes are met by tracking progress, managing dependencies, and addressing any issues that arise.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself. To be successful in this role, you will need :

• Excellent communication, collaboration, and facilitation skills to drive new strategies, carry out training, and manage change initiatives.
• Strong governance knowledge and experience in agile methodologies. Expertise in developing and governing an architecture repository using knowledge management, meta-modelling, and data-driven techniques.
• Strong portfolio and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in coaching, mentoring, and performance management.
• Familiarity with industry frameworks (e.g., TOGAF, Zachman, IPQC, TM Forum, COBIT, IT4IT) and the ability to adapt them to ING's architectural frameworks.
• Proficiency in developing maturity models and assessments to enhance the EA practice, with a preference for business and process architecture.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Computer Science, Business Administration)
• Advanced degree (Master’s) preferred

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

•  A salary between 7.125,24 - 11.331,02 euro's
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.