Chief Architect Finance & Risk

It is Finance & Risk's purpose to take a leading role in shaping and delivering the CFO, CRO and Global Financial Crime & Fraud Prevention landscape, allowing a better focus and support from Tech on CFO and CRO agendas. The domain provides robust and reliable Tech solutions that enhance speed, scale, security, and efficiency, while it enables meeting regulatory demands and consistently increasing levels of automation. 

We are looking for an experienced and visionary Chief Architect to define and execute the global IT architecture and design strategy and roadmap for the Finance and Risk domain. In this role you will ensure the alignment with business goals, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards while driving innovation and operational excellence. This role is critical in shaping the future of financial reporting, risk management and regulatory compliance.  You manage a department of multi-disciplinary architects and Innovation Specialists.

The base location of this function is in Amsterdam, but some travel to ING countries will be required.

The team

As Chief Architect F&R you will lead a team of architects. You will report hierarchically to the CIO F&R and are part of the Management Team F&R. Together with all Chief Architects globally you are also part of the MT Enterprise Architects and have a function reporting line to the Global Head of TS&EA.

Roles & responsibilities

As the Chief Architect you are responsible for:

• Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy for ING with a focus on F&R.

• Defining roadmaps at different horizons (2 and 3) by making explicit what the key dependencies are and align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry trends

• Ensure scalability, security, and compliance in system implementations

• Coherently managing F&R domains with the respective domain architects and platform architects

• Stimulate global interaction and collaboration across the F&R architects in the different locations and countries

• Develop the craftmanship of your teams as part of the global architecture practice.

• Develop and maintain standards as part of our Technology Standard Board governance.

• Support definition of short-term activities and dependencies in the quarterly business review

• Guide and support the changes to the IT landscape

• Ensure that the strategic partner ecosystem is developed & leveraged smartly to deliver value for ING and our partners

• Lead the innovation initiatives within F&R

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.

Experience & Education:

• Extensive experience in enterprise architecture within a global financial organization

• Experienced IT leader with prior experience in IT management roles

• Education in Information Technology or similar (or equivalent professional examinations / experience)

• Proven track record of working in a diverse matrix international environment

Technical Expertise:

• Strong knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks

• Expertise in microservices and event-driven architecture for Finance and Risk applications

• Deep expertise in financial reporting, accounting systems and treasury management platforms

• Strong experience with risk modeling and analytics platforms

• Making impact by means of architecture methods and techniques

• Strong knowledge of technology developments and different software systems to advise the best IT systems for the organization to use

• Deeply understands negotiation methods and the stakes and manages opposing viewpoints and negotiated equitable designs to ensure successful and stable outcomes

Leadership & Strategy:

• A inspiring and  credible leader with both extensive practical hands engineering, and excellent architecture knowledge and experience

• An inspiring communicator who can explain the technology roadmap and translate them into practical strategies and ambitions for the organization and C-suite management

• A consistent manager, providing structure and planning to his surroundings and one who is able to work in a volatile, regulated and innovative environment

• A transformation technology leader who is recognized as inspiring, influencing, engaging and capable of explaining the complex, in an understandable way to c-level and engineers

• Act as the thought leader for the architects community and ensure the accomplishment of pre-defined outcomes

• Highly appreciated team player who collaborates and influences easily with multiple (sr.) business stakeholders and embraces the BizDevOps setup. Has a multicultural mind-set and a highly customer-focussed outlook

• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, as well as outstanding negotiation and change management skills

• Ability to simplify complexity and drive operational excellence

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 Benefits in the Netherlands

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

• 25-28 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.