Domain Architect Financial Markets & Group Treasury

ING Wholesale Banking is looking for a Domain Architect Financial Markets & Group Treasury with experience in enterprise architecture in a large and international oriented company, showing us how to improve and to keep offering the best services to our clients.

If you want to work at a place where we believe that an agile way of working, with a 'no nonsense' getting-things done mentality, can be combined with necessary continuity, compliance and QA measures, please read on!

The team 

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the capital markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients and other ING business lines with products, services, and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.
Group Treasury’s (GT) overarching objective is to facilitate business development for our commercial businesses and for our Financial Markets trading.
As domain architect you will contribute to the architecture function supporting the FM&GT Tech Tribe.

Roles and responsibilities 

As a Domain Architect you will be part of the Wholesale Banking Centre of Excellence (COE) Architecture. You translate business vision and strategy into effective enterprise architecture by creating, communicating, and improving the key principles and models that describe the current and future state. You execute the global Business & IT Roadmap process, with centralised designs and (logical) global decompositions, analyses market- and IT-trends and, based on this information, contributes to the strategy of the organization.

Your key responsibilities

• Facilitate efficient architecture delivery, and support the FMGT Tribe and the business by providing impactful architecture on cross domain and end-to-end complex environments;
• Work with Tech and business representatives to come to a (logical) target architecture taking requirements, ING standards and standard solutions into account.
• Work with Solution Architects to translate the logical architecture into the technical/solution architecture.
• Develop and maintain relevant architectural artifacts, including application architectures, road maps, data models and other relevant documentation.
• Perform Architecture Management; support delivery of target architecture/solutions by quality decision making.
• Contribute to the COE Architecture organisation to improve way of working, tooling, etc…
• Trusted advisor for business, IT, and fellow architects within your expertise.

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. 

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field/ equivalent work experience.
• You have at least 5 years of experience as an IT architect or similar (IT) function.
• Domain knowledge: excellent understanding of Financial Markets products and its business processes.
• Experience in working in a highly regulated environment (e.g., financial institutions)
• Curious mindset: you are up to date with the architecture trends and market development (vendors, other financial institutions).
• Good understanding of architecture standards and frameworks.
• T-shape knowledge profile, you have experience “front to back” but can zoom in where necessary.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills;
• Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex architecture topics to various audiences.
• Ability to develop strong and collaborative partnerships with organizational leaders.
• You improve yourself constantly; and you challenge, improve and train others continuously.
• Knowledge of and experience with IT architecture methodologies, processes (e.g. TOGAF), service management processes and an agile work environment.

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. 

Questions? 

Contact the recruiter attached to the advertisement for more information. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the “Apply” button. 

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