Wholesale Banking Design & Architecture Lead

ING; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

ING is seeking a Business Design Lead to steer Wholesale Banking's end-to-end architecture, data, solution, and AI-enabled design. You will align business and data strategy with regulatory requirements, translating them into executable roadmaps while guiding a high-performing design organization.

The role drives standardization, governance, and coherence across domains, regions, and platforms, ensuring compliance by design and architectural integrity for the WB CDO.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in business, data, solution, or enterprise architecture within complex and regulated environments.
• Deep expertise in target-state architecture, data products, platform design, integration patterns, and AI-enabled capabilities.
• Strong systems thinking across business processes, data flows, products, platforms, controls, and technology ecosystems.
• Proven ability to translate strategy and regulatory requirements into actionable roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern WB’s target-state business, data, solution, and AI-enabled architecture, including principles, standards, design guardrails, and decision rights.
• Lead the Business and Information Design Unit, aligning data product, information architecture, data analysis, enterprise architecture, and AI architecture capabilities.
• Translate WB CDO strategy and regulatory commitments into executable architecture roadmaps and delivery sequencing.
• Drive architectural coherence across domains, regions, business lines, products, platforms, and services through standardization, reuse, simplification, and controlled integration.
• Own portfolio-wide architecture oversight, including management of design dependencies, trade-offs, sequencing risks, and implementation integrity.
• Embed Global CDO standards, data framework requirements, regulatory controls, and audit expectations by design.
• Act as the senior architecture authority for WB CDO, providing expert challenge, design assurance, and decision support to stakeholders.
• Guide strategic decision-making by balancing business outcomes, technology choices, regulatory obligations, and data management requirements.
• Build and lead a high-performing design organization, strengthening architecture capability, governance discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Advance data maturity across Wholesale Banking through disciplined design and continuous evolution of the target-state data landscape.

Skills

Target-state architecture

Data products

AI architecture

Leadership

Stakeholder influence

Education

Master’s degree in Business/Info Systems/CS/Engineering

Job description

ING is seeking a Business Design Lead to steer Wholesale Banking's end-to-end architecture, data, solution, and AI-enabled design. You will align business and data strategy with regulatory requirements, translating them into executable roadmaps while guiding a high-performing design organization.

The role drives standardization, governance, and coherence across domains, regions, and platforms, ensuring compliance by design and architectural integrity for the WB CDO.