It is Finance & Risk’s purpose to take a leading role in shaping and delivering the CFO, CRO and Global Financial Crime & Fraud Prevention landscape, allowing a better focus and support from Tech on CFO and CRO agendas. The domain provides robust and reliable Tech solutions that enhance speed, scale, security, and efficiency, while it enables meeting regulatory demands and consistently increasing levels of automation.
We are looking for an experienced and visionary Chief Architect to define and execute the global IT architecture and design strategy and roadmap for the Finance and Risk domain. In this role you will ensure the alignment with business goals, regulatory requirements, and enterprise architecture standards while driving innovation and operational excellence. This role is critical in shaping the future of financial reporting, risk management and regulatory compliance. You manage a department of multi-disciplinary architects and Innovation Specialists.
The base location of this function is in Amsterdam, but some travel to ING countries will be required.
The team
As Chief Architect F&R you will lead a team of architects. You will report hierarchically to the CIO F&R and are part of the Management Team F&R. Together with all Chief Architects globally you are also part of the MT Enterprise Architects and have a function reporting line to the Global Head of TS&EA.
Roles & responsibilities

EXPERIENCE & EDUCATION:

Extensive experience in enterprise architecture within a global financial organization
Experienced IT leader with prior experience in IT management roles
Education in Information Technology or similar (or equivalent professional examinations / experience)
Proven track record of working in a diverse matrix international environment

Develop and maintain the enterprise architecture strategy for ING with a focus on F&R.
Defining roadmaps at different horizons (2 and 3) by making explicit what the key dependencies are and align with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and industry trends
Ensure scalability, security, and compliance in system implementations
Coherently managing F&R domains with the respective domain architects and platform architects
Stimulate global interaction and collaboration across the F&R architects in the different locations and countries
Develop the craftmanship of your teams as part of the global architecture practice.
Develop and maintain standards as part of our Technology Standard Board governance.
Support definition of short-term activities and dependencies in the quarterly business review
Guide and support the changes to the IT landscape
Ensure that the strategic partner ecosystem is developed & leveraged smartly to deliver value for ING and our partners
Lead the innovation initiatives within F&R
How to succeed
We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.