Tech Lead - Tech4Dev

Rabobank Gruppe; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Rabobank hires a Tech Lead Tech4Dev to shape and deliver engineering capabilities that support the full software lifecycle—from planning to deployment and compliance. You will lead multiple DevOps squads and be integrally responsible for 24/7 IT delivery, ensuring continuity, performance, and control of the capabilities you own.

Within Tech4Dev, you drive scalable, secure-by-design capabilities and mentor engineers while collaborating with area leaders to set direction and priorities for the

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years experience in complex IT environments.
• Experience with DevOps, Agile and large-scale engineering environments.
• Strong leadership across people, process and technology.
• Affinity with software development and platform engineering.
• Understanding of risk, security and compliance.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• IT Delivery & continuity
• End-to-end responsibility for stable and reliable capability delivery (24/7)
• People leadership & capability building
• Hiring, coaching and developing engineers and leaders
• Capability ownership
• Ensure capabilities are scalable, maintainable and widely adopted
• Engineering culture
• Enable autonomous, high-performing teams and continuous improvement
• Standardisation & simplification
• Reduce fragmentation and improve reusability across the landscape
• Risk, security & compliance
• Ensure capabilities are secure-by-design and compliant
• Stakeholder management
• Navigate a complex environment and align across Tech, Architecture and Business
• Financial steering
• Manage budgets and sourcing, including external partners

Skills

DevOps

Agile methodologies

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Software development

Platform engineering

Risk & compliance awareness

Entrepreneurial mindset

Change management

Hiring & coaching

Job description

Driving the engineering capabilities for Rabobank

Within Tech4Dev, we build and operate the engineering capabilities that enable thousands of engineers to design, build, test and operate software in a secure, compliant and efficient way.

These capabilities are at the heart of Rabobank’s software development lifecycle and are essential for delivering reliable, scalable and compliant solutions across the bank.

As a Tech Lead Tech4Dev, you play a key role in shaping and delivering these capabilities, while building strong teams and driving engineering excellence at scale.

You & your role

As a Tech Lead Tech4Dev, you are responsible for the delivery and evolution of the engineering capabilities that enable software development across Rabobank.

Within Tech4Dev, squads build standardized capabilities that support the full software development lifecycle—from planning and development to testing, deployment and compliance. Your mission is to ensure these capabilities are reliable, scalable and easy to adopt, so engineers can focus on delivering value.

You lead multiple DevOps squads and are integrally responsible for IT delivery (24/7), ensuring continuity, performance and control of the capabilities you own.

Within the organisation, you are part of the Area Triangle (Tech Lead, Senior Tech Lead, Area Lead, Business Architect) and contribute to the direction and priorities of the Tech4Dev area.

Examples for practices

• Improving CI/CD, testing and compliance capabilities used across the bank
• Simplifying the engineering landscape by reducing duplication and complexity
• Enabling self-service adoption of capabilities by development teams
• Modernising capabilities and phasing out legacy solutions
• Embedding security and compliance into capabilities by design

Facts & figures

• 36–40 hours per week
• Leadership of multiple DevOps squads
• Span of control: approximately 30–40 engineers
• Impact across a large part of the engineering organisation

Top responsibilities

• IT Delivery & & continuity
• End-to-end responsibility for stable and reliable capability delivery (24/7)
• People leadership & capability building
• Hiring, coaching and developing engineers and leaders
• Capability ownership
• Ensure capabilities are scalable, maintainable and widely adopted
• Engineering culture
• Enable autonomous, high-performing teams and continuous improvement
• Standardisation & simplification
• Reduce fragmentation and improve reusability across the landscape
• Risk, security & compliance
• Ensure capabilities are secure-by-design and compliant
• Stakeholder management
• Navigate a complex environment and align across Tech, Architecture and Business
• Financial steering
• Manage budgets and sourcing, including external partners

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. It is precisely by combining people's differences that we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our team of Tech4Dev.

Work on yourself and the world around you at the same time

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: ‘At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about

You & your talent

• Academic working and thinking level
• 5–10+ years experience in complex IT environments
• Experience with DevOps, Agile and large-scale engineering environments
• Strong leadership skills across people, process and technology
• Affinity with software development and platform engineering
• Understanding of risk, security and compliance
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to drive change

We respect your privacy.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

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