Job profile: Solution Architect Proficient
Job title
Solution Architect – Trade Finance Services
At ING we are in a dynamic and intensive journey to further digitalize the bank. Here, solution architects play a crucial role by bridging wishes and high-quality solutions within a hybrid ecosystem of IT applications and customer journeys. This includes addressing a variety of activities around systems’ architecture changes and feature engineering, from conceptualization all the way to their tests. The role is central to making and communicating design decisions, being them regarding enhancing in the existing platforms, introducing the next generation technologies or improving the reliability of our end-to-end solutions.
You will be working in the Trade IT area, responsible for the design, modification and maintenance of the software solutions used to process bank guarantees, trade loans, letters of credit and documentary collections. The business is active globally and has a very solid market presence. This vacancy is based in Amsterdam, involving cross-country collaborations. We are part of the ING’s Wholesale Banking Transaction Services - Trade organization.
Main Duties and Responsibilities of Role:
As solution architect, you are a key player in the cooperation between product owners, engineers, business analysts, customer journey experts and other stakeholders. Your knowledge of both business and IT are crucial in the translation of Epics and features into technical solution designs. You define and align the IT roadmaps between squads (from same or from different Tribes) and from vendors, in order to have end-to-end delivery, tests and releases well-orchestrated. You help managing dependencies and impediments in an efficient way. You are recognized as an IT architecture expert in the domain you work, by both IT and business stakeholders.
Your responsibilities:
- From a strategic business & IT context point of view, you define and deliver solution designs for epics and features.
- You identify and manage technical dependencies across different tribes and business units, often dealing with complex environments having their own roadmaps.
- You demonstrate thorough understanding of IT concepts and have significant knowledge of the IT landscape and (new) technologies. You guide and challenge the development engineers when making implementation choices.
- You are able to translate new product / services needs into required IT solutions and are able to grasp business opportunities from new technology solutions. You think and act globally.
- You make sure that the adoption of ING’s standard technologies will be part of the designs and deliveries that you are responsible for.
- You demonstrate the ability to operate independently, proactively and diligently on the assigned tasks to complete them on-time and first-time-right.
- You demonstrate a history of continuous improvement, personal development, and outstanding team contribution.
Your profile:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering with strong IT background.
- 8+ years of experience in a (technical) IT role , with proven track of international and complex projects.
- Hands-on experience with software system’s specification, design and integration, either as business analyst, solution architect or software engineer.
- Extensive knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and API design. Knowledge of ING’s touchpoint components and strategy is a plus.
- Experience with adopting software architecture design best practices, together with efficient usage of software verification & validation techniques.
- Excellent communication skills (in English): strong presentation skills (telling – selling); mastery in writing skills (at different levels of abstraction/detail); and ability to challenge, influence or convince others through fact-based arguments.
- Extremely results-oriented, always striving for maximal consumer value as early as possible.
Your background also shows most of the following skills:
- Problem solving skills to find efficient ways of driving progress and removing impediments.
- Self-disciplined, proactive and organized, with ability to identify what needs to be done.
- A team player with a 'make it happen' mentality, eager to learn and able to steer others towards delivering with excellence.
- Knowhow in the domain of Trade products and/or relevant experience within the banking domain.
- Experience working in a complex and challenging IT environment.
- Experience with agile ways of working.
Rewards & 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 here.
The benefits of working with us at ING include:
- A salary tailored to your qualities and experience.
- 24-27 vacation days depending on the contract.
- Pension scheme.
- 13th month salary.
- Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary.
- 8% Holiday payment.
- Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities.
- An informal working environment with innovative colleagues.
- Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster.
- Hybrid work from home/office.
- International remote work with a 30-work day limit per year
If you're interested in this opportunity, please submit your resume and cover letter for consideration. We look forward to hearing from you!
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