Senior Platform Architect — Remote, API‑First & Automation

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.; Amstelveen; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Home-working flexibility

Generous vacation (5 weeks) + extra 2

Development budget €1,000/year

Public transport pass

Job summary

ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is seeking a Senior System Architect in Platform Engineering to shape how platform engineering is implemented across Platform Engineering & Operations.

Your architectural decisions will help hundreds of engineers and application teams deliver secure, reliable, and compliant solutions faster. You will design API-based interactions, drive automation strategies, and build reusable patterns that enable teams to onboard and consume our platforms efficiently while balancing

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a System, Solution, or Platform Architect, driving architecture across multiple teams, platforms, or domains (+5 years experience).
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of enterprise-scale environments, including governance, security, compliance, and operational excellence. (+5 years experience).
• Expertise in cloud and infrastructure architectures, including Azure, VMware, and hybrid cloud environments. (+10 years experience).
• Experience with platform engineering and automation, including Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, orchestration, and self-service platform capabilities. (+5 years experience).
• Broad technical background in software architecture, distributed systems, APIs, reliability, scalability, observability, and resilience patterns. (+10 years experience).
• Passion for emerging technologies such as cloud-native solutions, AI, and digital sovereignty.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable, secure, and resilient platform solutions for enterprise-wide adoption.
• Create golden paths and reusable patterns for onboarding to platforms.
• Drive architectural consistency across public- and private-cloud environments.
• Balance long-term vision with pragmatic implementation approaches.
• Contribute to standards for automation, self-service capabilities, APIs, and platform consumption.
• Drive API-first platform design with consistent interface principles.
• Align enterprise architects, platform engineers, developers, security, and management.

Skills

Senior System Architect

Platform Architecture

API-first design

Automation & IaC

Cloud & hybrid cloud

Distributed systems

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Azure

VMware

Job description

ABN AMRO Bank N.V. is seeking a Senior System Architect in Platform Engineering to shape how platform engineering is implemented across Platform Engineering & Operations.

Your architectural decisions will help hundreds of engineers and application teams deliver secure, reliable, and compliant solutions faster. You will design API-based interactions, drive automation strategies, and build reusable patterns that enable teams to onboard and consume our platforms efficiently while balancing