Enterprise Architect Infrastructure and Engineering

Enterprise Architect Infrastructure and Engineering - Global Data Services

Data services such as RDMS, NoSQL, object storage, and file stores in both public and private cloud form the basis of ING’s data landscape. Do you want to be the strategic Enterprise Architect and ambassador of these platforms, do you know your way around various technologies like Oracle, SQL, Postgress, Cassandra and S3 and do you want to productize these technologies as managed services/platforms on a large scale in an internal infrastructure as code supplier/consumer setting? Then join the Enterprise Architecture team at ING.

You will have the opportunity to grow in a multinational organization and branch out to adjacent technology areas.

The team

The mission for our team is to provide architectural guidance for all the platforms that support ING’s engineers to plan, design, code, build, deploy, run, operate and monitor their applications.

As a team we internationally coordinate our ambitions with the C-level and we design, structure, and help our engineers to achieve these ambitions. The team consists of a group of architects that use their diverse technology backgrounds and corporate experiences to follow market developments and guide technology changes in a changing regulatory and competitive landscape for the mid to long term.   

Roles and responsibilities

• Collaborate in a global team of experienced architects setting architecture standards to be endorsed by the Infra Standards & Technology Standards Boards.
• Facilitate, research, ideate, prototype and test capabilities for the Software Company. We’re building the automation for global cloud native infrastructure delivery
• Effectively coordinate the communication, participation and cooperation with engineers to deliver a globally integrated everything as code engineering platform.
• Keeping a close relation with the different area leads, product owners, and engineers, influencing the development priorities and direction.
• Initiate and be involved in genesis developments so the architecture team can proactively steer on ‘fit for purpose’.

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.

The team relies on complementary skills listed below. We are looking for new colleagues that are willing to contribute their skills to the team and are willing to grow the remainder of the listed skills.  

• Working in a multinational company requires international travel whereby appreciation for multiple viewpoints, customs and diversity is a must.  Professional communications skills in English are required.
• Working as enterprise architects requires both formal and informal global coordination and communication skills amongst large groups of stakeholders, maintain alignment with vendors/suppliers and the ability to present to C level management.
• Working within the infrastructure domain for a bank requires broad understanding and affinity with general IT infrastructure such as compute, storage and connectivity. Ability to understand the way of working of the consumers and support solutions designers.
• Working within the data services domain requires a strong but respective mindset on change for guiding stakeholders during the transformation of classic data services towards automated platform services that adhere to the zero privilege concept and implement a wide range of nonfunctional requirements.
• Working in a regulated industry requires appreciation and tolerance for regulations. It is important to understand that regulations influence the architecture of our landscape.
• Working as a professional requires besides the standard skills like teamwork, self-steering, administrative, negotiation, etc. also a high level of self-awareness of (solution) biases. Understanding our own biases and their limits are key to be successful in negotiating broadly supported solutions.

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 tailored to your qualities and experience
• 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.