Chief Architect Belgium

ING Belgium; Brussel; Sur place; EUR 120 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

ING Belgium, operating within Tech Strategy & Enterprise Architecture, seeks a Chief Architect for Tech Belgium. You will set architectural direction, evolve target architecture, and align with ING's global strategy while guiding governance, roadmaps, and decision making across business and technology domains.

You will lead Enterprise Architecture in Belgium, report to the CIO Belgium, and collaborate with the Global Head of Tech Strategy & Enterprise Architecture to ensure coherence and reuse

Qualifications

• Extensive experience (typically 5–10 years) as a lead or enterprise architect in complex environments.
• Proven people leadership experience in a complex matrix organisation.
• Strong experience with large scale universal banking IT landscapes.

Responsabilités

• Define, own and communicate the target architecture for ING Belgium in line with group standards.
• Translate business and technology strategy into clear architectural choices and roadmaps.
• Steer architectural decisions to support digital transformation and cost efficiency.
• Actively reduce technical debt and drive simplification of the IT landscape.
• Guide structural changes across tribes and domains to ensure coherence and reuse.
• Provide architectural input to quarterly business reviews highlighting priorities and risks.

Connaissances

Enterprise Architecture

Leadership

Strategic Planning

Stakeholder Management

Agile at scale

Formation

Master’s degree in IT or related field

TOGAF certified

Archimate certification

Outils

Archi / Sparx Enterprise Architect

Description du poste

Organization: ING Belgium / Tech Strategy & Enterprise Architecture (TS&EA)

Global Grade: 21

The opportunity

As Chief Architect for Tech Belgium, you are accountable for the architectural direction and outcomes of ING Belgium. You define and continuously evolve the target architecture, ensure alignment with ING’s global architecture strategy, and steer architectural decision‑making across all business and technology domains.

This role combines strategic leadership, people development, and architectural governance in a complex, regulated, and fast‑changing environment.

The team

You lead the Enterprise Architecture community in Belgium, including enterprise architects and chapter leads, and provide functional guidance to solution architects. You will report hierarchically to the CIO Belgium and have a strong functional reporting line to the Global Head of Tech Strategy & Enterprise Architecture, being part of both their management teams.

Roles And Responsibilities

Target Architecture Ownership

• Define, own and communicate the target architecture for ING Belgium, aligned with ING group standards and principles

Strategic Translation & Road mapping

• Translate business and technology strategy into clear architectural choices and multi‑horizon roadmaps

Architectural Decision‑Making

• Steer architectural decisions to support digital transformation, customer experience, resilience, and cost efficiency

Landscape Simplification & Technical Debt Reduction

• Actively reduce technical debt and drive simplification of the IT landscape

Structural Change Across Domains

• Guide and oversee structural changes across tribes and domains, ensuring coherence and reuse

Business & Portfolio Governance

• Provide architectural input to quarterly business reviews, highlighting priorities, dependencies, risks, and trade‑offs

Architecture Community Leadership

• Lead, develop and sustain a high‑performing architecture community through a strong chapter model

Group Alignment & Representation

• Represent Tech Belgium within Group Architecture, contributing to global alignment, learning, and reuse of best practices

Leadership Model

• You set the direction by translating strategy into clear architectural direction and making deliberate, transparent choices for ING
• You lead by lifting others through trust, coaching and constructive challenge, fostering collaboration and open dialogue
• You equip your team for win after win by setting clear outcomes, addressing root causes, and taking ownership of architectural decisions

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

• Extensive experience (typically 5–10 years) as a lead or enterprise architect in complex environments
• Proven people leadership experience, developing senior professionals in a complex matrix organisation
• Strong experience with large scale universal banking IT landscapes

Technical expertise

• Deep understanding of enterprise architecture and target‑state design in large, regulated environments
• Proven experience with complex banking IT landscapes, spanning applications, platforms, integration, data, and infrastructure
• Ability to assess and govern cloud, platform, and integration architectures at enterprise scale
• Strong grasp of security, resilience, and risk considerations as integral parts of architectural decision‑making
• Experience operating in Agile‑at‑scale organisations, balancing autonomy, alignment, and architectural coherence

Competencies & Skills

• Influence & communication: Explains complex architecture topics simply to executives and engineers; manages conflicting priorities.
• People leadership: Builds capability, coaches talent, and cultivates a culture of craftsmanship and excellence.
• Change leadership: Drives adoption of standards and behaviors across a matrixed, international organization.

Education & certifications

• Master’s degree in IT or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Relevant certifications are a plus: TOGAF, Archimate

Rewards And Benefits

A senior leadership role with country‑level and group‑level impact. High exposure to strategic decision‑making in Tech Belgium. A diverse, international, and pragmatic working environment. Opportunities for growth and mobility across ING.

Questions?

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