Business Architect CRO COO Retail Area

Rabobank; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 84,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thirteenth month

8% holiday allowance

10% Employee Benefit Budget

Development budget €1,400/year

Job summary

Rabobank is seeking a Business Architect to join the CRO COO Retail area. You will translate business challenges into practical architecture solutions and help shape the target architecture with area, solution, and tech leads.

With strong Credit Risk knowledge and coaching experience, you will drive standards, mentor architects, and identify patterns to improve efficiency across the department.

Qualifications

• Master’s level professional and intellectual ability identified.
• Strong experience in the financial services sector translating complex business challenges.
• Strong knowledge of Credit Risk, data and risk considerations shaping decisions.
• Proven coaching experience developing architects and professionals.
• Contributing to the architecture profession through leadership and knowledge sharing.
• Continuous improvement mindset: identify inefficiencies and drive changes beyond own backlog.

Responsibilities

• Together with the Area Lead and Tech Lead you manage and run the CRO COO Area Retail as area architect.
• Translate business challenges into clear architecture solutions that enable efficient ways of working.
• Mentor solution architects and drive architectural improvements across the department.

Skills

Masters level professional

Financial services experience

Credit Risk knowledge

Coaching experience

Architecture leadership

Continuous improvement mindset

Education

Master’s degree

Job description

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 7,556 and EUR 10,794 (scale 11)for a 36-hour work week.
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

Help the CRO Chief Operating Office (CRO COO) department work more efficiently by improving architecture, solving business challenges and strengthening the architecture community.

You & your role

As Business Architect, you know the secrets of translating business challenges into clear and practical architecture solutions. You look beyond the existing backlog and help the department improve how work is organised and delivered.

The department has successfully completed a major Return to Compliance programme. The focus is now shifting towards building for the future and increasing efficiency. Within the CRO COO department, the area Retail is responsible for the development and implementation of Credit Risk models for all Retail portfolio’s (Mortgages / Retail SME / Consumer Finance).

Examples from practice

• Design the target architecture of the Retail area together with the triangle and solution architects.
• Improve Credit Risk Modelling by guiding the Area to use standardized platforms and data models
• Identify successful architectural patterns in the Retail area and transform them into CRO COO architectural standards.

Facts & figures

• 36 hours per week.
• Over 48,000 Rabobank colleagues worldwide.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Together with the Area Lead and Tech Lead you are managing and running the CRO COO Area Retail. For this area you have the role of area architect
• Translate business challenges for all into clear architecture solutions that support sustainable and efficient ways of working.
• Improve the architecture function by mentoring solution architects, reviewing current practices and proposing practical changes to realize simplification within the department.

Beyond solving business challenges, you will help the architecture team improve its own methods and collaboration. You will have the opportunity to influence how the architecture function develops within the department.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people’s differences, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you will bring to our team at CRO COO.

‘We do not only solve business problems. We also seriously consider how we can work better and be more efficiently ourselves.’ Harry Coopmans,

From architecture we collaborate with business and tech to define and implement solutions for the challenges we are facing. The team values people who contribute beyond their own backlog and actively help improve the department and the architecture profession within it.

Work on yourself & the world around you

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That is why we want to invest in you and work together to create a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: “At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you simultaneously.”

This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment and a good work-life balance. You can also work on banking matters for our personal and business clients, as well as on social issues such as the food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we are working towards a culture where everyone feels welcome. We value our differences and use them to collaborate more effectively and make better decisions. We do this step by step, paying attention to what is going well and the areas where we can continue to improve. By being open to different perspectives, we are creating an environment where colleagues feel heard. That helps us build an organisation where people enjoy working and where we truly understand and serve our customers.

• Master’s-level professional and intellectual ability
• Strong experience in the financial services sector, translating complex business and regulatory challenges into practical architecture solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Credit Risk, including the processes, data and risk considerations that shape architecture decisions.
• Proven coaching experience, helping architects and other professionals develop their expertise, ownership and ability to make well-founded decisions.
• A demonstrable contribution to the architecture profession, for example by leading communities, organising knowledge sessions or improving architecture standards and ways of working.
• A continuous improvement mindset, demonstrated by identifying inefficiencies, aligning stakeholders and implementing changes beyond your own backlog.