Business Architect Data & Analytics

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Are you a brilliant strategic thinker with a deep love for data products and AI? Can you see yourself playing a key role in shaping the future of Rabobank's data and AI landscape? If so, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Your Role:

Data and AI are rapidly becoming the backbone of how we create value, deliver services, and make crucial decisions. To really accelerate this transformation, we're expanding our Data & Analytics architecture team. We're looking for talented Business Architects who can help us design and implement the next generation of our enterprise data and AI capabilities. We need architects who blend a strong business understanding with in-depth knowledge of data, AI, and analytics – and who genuinely enjoy making complex challenges clear and manageable.

Your Impact:

As a Business Architect in our Data & Analytics domain, you'll be instrumental in:

• Defining the target architectures for your area, working closely with domain and enterprise architects to ensure alignment.
• Guiding teams to adopt enterprise standards and modern technologies, establishing and applying standardized architecture patterns.
• Leading and steering as part of the area leadership team, providing a strong architectural vision and roadmap to support product delivery.
• Ensuring our data and AI products are scalable, compliant, and deliver tangible business value.

Choose Your Specialization:

We're looking to strengthen several key areas and will tailor the exact role to your unique expertise and career aspirations. You can make a significant impact in one or more of these specializations:

• AI-ready Data & Data Product Automation: Dive into automating data product creation, transforming unstructured data into AI-ready formats, and shifting from traditional dataset provisioning to modern API-based and streaming patterns.
• Data as a Product: Apply product thinking to our data offerings, simplifying and standardizing how we access, share, and manage data. Ensure data is trusted, discoverable, and easy to use, translating these principles into concrete enterprise-level implementation standards.
• Advanced Analytics Products: Focus on building reusable analytics solutions, including machine learning models and (generative) AI applications. This involves strong technological components like knowledge graphs for entity resolution and grounding AI agents, but also a deep understanding of how AI can revolutionize business processes and how to govern AI responsibly for scalable implementation.

Depending on your background and strengths, you'll step into the role of Area Architect within the most fitting specialization. You'll coach and mentor Solution Architects within your area, collectively shaping the area's vision, executing the architecture strategy and roadmaps, and contributing to our overall purpose. We encourage a mindset of courage – challenging the status quo and developing yourself even when mistakes happen. The key is learning and growing from every experience.

With your experience, insights, and skills, you'll make a substantial contribution to our business users, empowering them to unlock data-driven value faster and more effectively.

Practical Examples of Your Work:

• Craft and communicate a clear architecture vision for AI-ready data products, ensuring alignment with business stakeholders, architects, and the Global Data Management Chapter.
• Collaborate with Business Architects across the bank to shape a future-proof data and AI platform.
• Mentor and coach a team of Solution Architects within your designated area.

Key Details:

• 36 or 40 hours per week.
• Be part of a dynamic team of 300+ data & analytics professionals within Tribe D&A Products & Transformation.
• Join a global network of 43,822 Rabobank colleagues.

Together, We Achieve More:

We truly believe in the power of diversity. By embracing our differences, we become an even stronger bank. We're incredibly excited to discover what you'll bring to our team of D&A Business Architects. With you, the D&A architecture team will grow to approximately 10 members. Together, we'll set the direction for the capabilities of the Global Data & Analytics Platform and the Data & Analytics Products & Transformation Tribes. We collaborate closely with the Solution Architects from Tech4D&A. Our shared philosophy is that architecture should be owned by the teams, and we actively strive towards this goal. We foster an open, inclusive, and informal culture where everyone can be their authentic selves and is valued for who they are.

• Duration: April 1, 2026 - March 31, 2027, with an option for extension.
• Location: Utrecht.
• Languages: English and Dutch are mandatory.
• ZZP Allowed: No.
• Application Deadline: May 18, 2026, 13:00.

Vacancy Description: Business Architect Data & Analytics

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We're looking for individuals who embody integrity, possess a growth mindset, and embrace openness. Beyond that, being a true team player with strong leadership skills is crucial. If the following resonates with you, we want to hear from you:

• You bring at least 7 years of relevant work experience, with a solid 3+ years focused on enterprise/business architecture within intricate data & analytics settings.
• You have a powerful architectural vision and hands-on experience in at least one specialization area.
• Your strategic thinking prioritizes capabilities and value streams, ensuring the 'what' and 'why' of the business always come before the technical 'how.'
• You can articulate technical solutions with clarity, effectively connecting technology drivers to tangible business goals.
• You're adept at influencing and persuading others, approaching every interaction with an open and collaborative mindset.
• You possess a remarkable helicopter view, capable of overseeing broad domains and understanding the ripple effects of architectural decisions across both business and IT.
• You have a demonstrated talent for engaging and influencing both business and IT leadership, skillfully adapting your communication style and the level of detail for everyone from C-suite executives to product teams and fellow architects.
• You're comfortable taking the lead, ready to provide direction, coaching, and guidance to a team of solution architects.
• Bonus points if you have experience in complex, global, multi-business line environments!

Bedrijfsprofiel

Sharing would be appricatied! Paylaşırsanız sevinirim! Do you want to work for our client in The Netherlands? Hollandada ICT alaninda calismak?

Let’s meet! Are you the person we’re looking for?

If you are, we are happy to receive your application including your motivation.

Growing a better world together: You'll already be aware that our client is a financial services provider for 7.1 million customers in 40 countries. But did you know that we aim to contribute to real change with our 'Growing a better world together' mission? We do so in countless ways, such as:

A third of all the food we purchase is thrown away. Together with Nature & Environment, we’re working to increase awareness among consumers of how to reduce food waste. As part of a project with Humanitas, we are helping people who are experiencing financial difficulties to get their household finances in order. Together with ‘Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland’ (the Dutch Council for Refugees), we are helping 1,500 refugees find a suitable job. Interested? Do you want to become the ideal version of yourself? We would love to help you fuel and invest in your career and ambitions in an environment where you keep learning every day. We give you the space to innovate and initiate. In this way, we offer you numerous opportunities to grow and help you exceed your expectations, to do the right thing exceptionally well, and to therefore grow as a professional.

Our client is a financial service provider for 7.1 million customers in 40 countries, you know already. Our Red Team works for all the locations of our client in all these countries. Do you also know that we are working together on a better world? We do this in 101 ways like for example our knowledge and experience of Ethical Hacking and Red Teaming sharing with other organizations and "hackers". That belongs to us at ' growing a better world together '

Arbeidsvoorwaarden

Working conditions: This job role offers a balanced split between operational (run) and project (build) work, with a distribution of 75% operational and 25% project-related tasks. To minimize the impact on business operations, some changes may be scheduled outside of regular business hours. 

Do you want this too? Do you aspire to be the best version of yourself? We are delighted to support your development and invest in an environment where continuous learning is encouraged. We provide you with the freedom to innovate and take initiative. By offering numerous growth opportunities, we help you exceed your own expectations and excel in your work, enabling you to grow both personally and professionally.

Moreover, you can expect the following benefits based on a 36 or 40-hour working week:

• An Employee Benefit Budget equivalent to 10% of your monthly income, which you can use according to your preferences. This budget allows you to purchase additional holiday days or make additional contributions to your pension.
• Flexible working hours and the possibility of location-independent work, depending on the team's planning.
• 100% reimbursement of commuting costs if you travel using public transportation. If you commute by car or motorcycle, you can opt for a commuting allowance.
• A pension scheme with a contribution rate of only 5% from your side.

Let's get to know each other.

Are you the person we are looking for? The new colleague who wants to strengthen our client's team and make a difference for yourself, our customers, and society? We would love to receive your application for this vacancy.

Please note: Even if you don't meet all the criteria mentioned in the profile, but you believe you can fulfill the role effectively, we encourage you to apply. We invest in your growth and development.

Responses to applications are handled in accordance with our vacancy management process.

If you have any questions about the application process, ww will be happy to assist you via email (info@if-solutions.nl) office +31 10 210 87 90 or through the provided application link.

Screening is a standard part of the application process. We assess candidates based on the screening procedures followed by our client to ensure that new employees are reliable and suitable for their roles.

For this vacancy, an individual assessment and skills testing may be included as part of the application process.

We believe that everyone is unique, and it is precisely these differences that help us become an even better bank. That's why we are curious to know more about you.