Chief Architect

Chief Architect - Centre of Expertise Architecture Lead

Location: ING Luxembourg

We are looking for a seasoned professional to lead our technology transformation efforts in the capacity of Chief Architect. This strategic leadership role will translate our business vision into target architectures and roadmaps, ensuring our technology meets customer needs, both now and in the future.

Chief Architect reports hierarchically to the CIO and functionally to the Global Retail Chief Architect.

You manage a team of 12 Enterprise, Domain, Data, Infrastructure and Security Architects. In addition, as Senior Manager, you are a member of the TECH Management Team and the Delivery Management Team.

The Chief Architect has the business, technical and leadership skills to create the designs for solutions and/or references, in response to the strategic business needs of the entire enterprise.

Finally, The Chief Architect is the trusted advisor for executive management.

**Responsibilities**:

- Shape the strategic direction of ING in Enterprise and IT architecture, working with global stakeholders to define a comprehensive architectural and technology vision.
- Oversee the implementation of architectural plans, ensuring they align with time, budget, and quality constraints while minimizing technical debt.
- Guide the execution of future state tech architectures and roadmaps, setting global standard architectures and cooperating with other domains.
- Manage and mentor a team of Architects, acting as a strategic advisor to CIO, IT Lead, and other Architects.
- Develop annual business plans for the architecture department, ensuring alignment with overarching business strategy.
- Act as a thought leader in architecture, initiating and leading architectural projects, market studies, vendor evaluations, and product studies.
- Ensure operational compliance with all relevant regulations and internal policies to protect the organization's reputation and minimize risk.
- Foster innovation and continuous improvement, leading the Architecture practice and the adoption of EAgile methodologies.
- Develop strategic partnerships within ING, steering the development of suppliers and ensuring requirements for future standard package solutions are met.
- Promote the Architecture Community (ACOM) in its mission to expand the architecture and engineering practices.

Behavioral Competencies
- Effective Team Building: Form strong, diverse teams that work towards common objectives.
- Innovation: Encourage and reward innovative thinking and creative problem-solving.
- Quality Decision Making: Make timely and effective decisions to advance the organization.
- Accountability: Hold self and others responsible for meeting commitments.
- Global Perspective: Approach issues and decisions with a broad, global perspective.
- Trust: Foster an environment of trust, honesty, and transparency.
- Strategic Mindset: Possess the ability to envision future possibilities and translate them into breakthrough strategies.

Technical Skills

As a leader, you demonstrate technical proficiency in the following areas:

- Mastery of an Architecture frameworks: TOGAF, Zachman, IASA, UML, C4, BPM
- Good understanding of Architecture styles: Domain Driven Design, Microservices, Event Driven Architecture, Hexagonal Architecture,
- Practice of an Agile method (SCRUM, SAFE, DaD, Kanban)
- Good understanding of APIs
- Relational and NoSQL databases
- Virtualized infrastructure environments
- Cloud Computing (PaaS and SaaS)
- IT Security

**Requirements**:

- Master's degree in computer science or a related field.
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience at the management level in an Enterprise/IT architecture, preferably in banking environment.
- Extensive knowledge of continuous delivery, IT banking systems in an integrated context.
- Proven experience with Agile methodologies in a diverse, international environment.
- Ability to develop strategic roadmaps and convey technical ideas in an engaging and understandable manner.
- Experience driving and leading multidisciplinary teams, managing stakeholders, and working on strategic projects with high impact.
- Proficient in English and French.

What will you gain joining ING?
- Exciting challenges defined in a multi-year digital roadmap is waiting for you. such as the new Customer App, differentiating financial products, Cloud Migration, End-to-End Automation, ING Global Services integration, technology research, tech debt management decommissioning, etc.
- You will work in one of the leading companies in Agile Delivery at Scale
- You will be trained in EAgile, the ING Agile Enterprise Architecture framework, in addition to acquiring advanced IT Risk Management skills in a regulated industry.
- You will have up to 10% of personal "Expertise Time", to sharpen your skills and develop new ones
- Access to wellbeing services to really invest in your work/life balance.
- The opportunity to further develop your career througho