Business Architect (Enterprise Architect)

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Are you a strategic architect with a passion for data products and AI? Do you want to shape the enterprise data foundation that powers scalable AI at Rabobank? This is your opportunity.

You and your job

We're on the lookout for a Business Architect Data & Analytics to step into the role of Area Architect for Enterprise Data Products within Tribe D&A Products & Transformation. Your mission? To define and drive the target architecture for this area, making sure it perfectly aligns with our product vision and business needs.

The Area Enterprise Data Products is all about simplifying and standardizing our data landscape. We're strengthening the foundation needed for scalable (Agentic) AI. Here's what we do:

• Build enterprise-wide data products: We develop and maintain a strategically aligned portfolio of domain-agnostic data products and a shared enterprise data ontology. This ensures consistency, promotes reuse, and drives scalability across the entire bank.
• Enable AI at scale: We partner with business domains to create AI-ready data products. These products deliver relevant, contextualized data for advanced AI use cases (including Agentic AI), utilizing technologies like knowledge graphs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Automate and standardize data product delivery: Working closely with platform teams, we industrialize data product creation through automation, computational governance, and enterprise data product implementation standards.

As the Area Architect, you'll lead this area alongside the Area Lead and Tech Lead. You'll be collaborating closely with the solution architects within the area, aligning on the area vision, realizing the architecture strategy & roadmaps, and contributing to our purpose. Your role is to guide the teams toward achieving the best results within a future-proof architecture, keeping each other sharp and supporting each other along the way.

Your impact

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

• Define and communicate the strategic direction for data products and AI-ready data, leading to faster delivery of high-quality, reusable data assets across the bank.
• Lead and coach a team of solution architects, ensuring they're aligned on vision, architecture standards, and delivering future-proof solutions.
• Take a leadership role within the area leadership team, supporting product delivery with a strong architecture vision and roadmap.
• Ensure our data and AI products are scalable, compliant, and genuinely delivering business value.
• Translate emerging market developments and innovations into strategic architecture direction and tangible business value for Rabobank.

Practical examples:

• Create and communicate an architecture vision for data products supporting AI-ready data, ensuring alignment with business stakeholders, architects, and the Chapter Global Data Management.
• Collaborate with business architects across the bank to shape a shared enterprise data ontology.
• Mentor and coach a team of solution architects within your area.

Facts & Figures

• 36 or 40 hours per week.
• You'll be part of a vibrant team of over 300 data & analytics professionals within Tribe D&A Products & Transformation.
• Join a global network of 43,822 Rabobank colleagues.

Together we achieve more than alone

We truly believe in the power of diversity. By embracing our differences, we become an even stronger bank. We're really curious to know what you'll bring to our team of D&A business architects!

With you on board, the D&A architecture team will grow to about 10 people. Together, we'll define the architecture direction for the Global Data & Analytics Platform and D&A Products & Transformation. Our philosophy is that architecture should be owned by the teams, and we actively enable this through coaching, setting principles and standards, and fostering collaboration.

You and your talent

We highly value integrity, a growth mindset, and openness. Additionally, being a team player with strong leadership skills is essential. We also recognize yourself in the following:

• Duur: 23-07-2026 - 19 July 2027 with an option for extension.
• Standplaats: Utrecht.
• Language: English and Dutch are mandatory.
• ZZP Allowed: No.
• Aanbieden kan tot: 21-07-2026 13:00.

Functie Eisen

• AI
• Business architecture
• D&A environment

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.