Lead Business Architect E&E Tech

Rabobank; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 141,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thirteenth month

8% holiday allowance

10% Employee Benefit Budget

EUR 1,400 development budget per year

Hybrid working

Mobility budget

Pension: customizable

Job summary

Rabobank is seeking a Lead Business Architect for Engineering & Enterprise Tech in the Netherlands to shape the long-term IT strategy and architecture, aligning business goals with technology roadmaps.

You will unite business, IT, engineering, and executives around a shared vision and roadmap, driving collaboration across boundaries and setting transformation roadmaps affecting thousands of colleagues and millions of customers.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in IT or Business.
• 15 years of experience in senior business or enterprise architecture or another form of senior content leadership.
• Extensive experience in IT platform architecture, including the design, implementation, and governance of complex enterprise-scale platforms and technology landscapes.
• Demonstrated success in building, influencing, and maintaining strategic relationships with executive-level stakeholders across both business and technology domains.
• Proven leadership experience, with a strong track record in managing, coaching, and developing high-performing teams and senior professionals.
• Exceptional conceptual and strategic thinking capabilities, with the ability to translate highly complex technical and organisational challenges into clear, actionable insights.
• Outstanding communication, influencing, and negotiation skills, with the ability to drive alignment and decision-making in complex stakeholder environments.
• Candidates must currently be based in the Netherlands and be legally authorised to work in the Netherlands.

Responsibilities

• Develop and steer the long-term IT strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Engineering and Enterprise domain, making balanced decisions between business needs and technical possibilities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop business architects, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
• Lead stakeholder alignment across business, technology, and executive leadership to realise the target architecture and strategic roadmap. Build commitment, manage competing priorities, and support decision making processes, while ensuring timely escalation where necessary.

Education

Master’s degree in IT or Business

Job description

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 12,666 and EUR 18,094 (senior kader B)for a 40-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).
• A mobility budget: with this, you can tailor your transportation according to your own needs. For example, by leasing a car or receiving the full amount and arranging your own transportation.
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

Lead Business Architect Engineering & Enterprise Tech

As a member of the CAEO department you deliver a long-term IT strategy and architecture that empowers Rabobank to achieve its ambitions for customer focus, cooperative value, robust banking, and empowered employees.

You & your role

As Lead Business Architect Engineering and Enterprise Tech, you play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Rabobank’s technology landscape. You bring together business, IT, engineering, and executive stakeholders around a shared vision and roadmap. By fostering collaboration across organisational boundaries and building trusted relationships at all levels, you ensure that strategic ambitions are translated into IT strategy and architectures for the domain.

Engineering & Enterprise Tech supports the engineering and data & analytics platforms of Rabobank. Next to that you lead the architecture development of the Enterpise-wide domains of CFECO and CHRO Imagine creating world-class development platforms for all of Rabobank.

Connecting with snr management on vision and strategy collaborating with business and IT leaders, and guiding transformation roadmaps that impact thousands of colleagues and millions of customers.

Achieve results

• Define a future-proof vision for development platforms and steer the architecture development and solutioning for the agentic SDLC hub.
• Act as a trusted advisor for senior leadership, helping them navigate complex trade-offs between business value, delivery speed, risk and long-term sustainability.
• Develop transformation roadmaps that simplify and modernise the application landscape.
• Guide the implementation of the domain target vision, ensuring they are inspiring, feasible, and sustainable.
• Influence IT vendor and sourcing strategies to align with Rabobank’s long-term vision.

Facts & figures

• 40 hours per week.
• Rabobank serves 9.5 million customers worldwide.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Develop and steer the long-term IT strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Engineering and Enterprise domain, making balanced decisions between business needs and technical possibilities.
• Coach, mentor, and develop business architects, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and high performance.
• Lead stakeholder alignment across business, technology, and executive leadership to realise the target architecture and strategic roadmap. Build commitment, manage competing priorities, and support decision making processes, while ensuring timely escalation where necessary.

Within the organisation, you report to the Chief Architecture & Engineering Officer and are a member of the MT CAEO. You work closely with other Lead Business Architects, Enterprise Architects, Enterprise Engineering and business executives, presenting proposals at Managing Board level and interacting with CEOs and CTOs of key IT vendors.

Together we achieve more

We believe in the power of differences. By combining our diverse perspectives, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you will add to our team of CAEO. Collaboration is our way of working; as one determined team within Rabobank.

Work on yourself & the world around you

At Rabobank, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we invest in you and work together for a better world. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy work-life balance. You’ll contribute to banking for private and business clients, as well as societal challenges such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we are stronger through complementary people. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in each other. We seek diversity in knowledge, skills, and experience, as well as gender, background, and culture. We strive for variety and the space to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about.

• Master’s degree in IT or Business.
• 15 years of experience in senior business or enterprise architecture or another form of senior content leadership.
• Extensive experience in IT platform architecture, including the design, implementation, and governance of complex enterprise-scale platforms and technology landscapes.
• Demonstrated success in building, influencing, and maintaining strategic relationships with executive-level stakeholders across both business and technology domains.
• Proven leadership experience, with a strong track record in managing, coaching, and developing high-performing teams and senior professionals.
• Exceptional conceptual and strategic thinking capabilities, with the ability to translate highly complex technical and organisational challenges into clear, actionable insights.
• Outstanding communication, influencing, and negotiation skills, with the ability to drive alignment and decision-making in complex stakeholder environments.
• Candidates must currently be based in the Netherlands and be legally authorised to work in the Netherlands. Applications from candidates residing outside the Netherlands or outside the European Union will not be considered.