Enterprise Architect

at  ING

Enterprise Architect
ING Luxembourg’s, a financial institution providing retail and wholesale banking services, is seeking to recruit for its Centre of Expertise Architecture, at its headquarters in Luxembourg, an Enterprise Architect.
This is a full-time position for which ING offers a permanent contract.
Your role & work environment
As an Enterprise Architect, you will play a key role in developing a holistic
understanding of the Bank. You will partner with the business and IT, provide architecture guidance, contribute to the bank transformation and co-design solutions aligned with the bank strategy, effectively bridging the gap between business and technology.
You will be part of the Center of Expertise Architecture, a team of about ten architects, led by the ING Luxembourg Chief Architect, and directly reporting to the CIO. You will be involved in strategic initiatives and have the ability to influence the direction the Information System shall take and contribute to its steering.
You will be assigned to one or more domains of the bank (KYC / AML / CFT, Wholesale Banking, Lending, Investments, etc) where you will have the ability to contribute to the domains transformation as well as modernization, and teamwork with heads of Departments and their teams (team leaders, business analysts, Developers and Ops), effectively working on several architecture dimensions: business, process, data, application, flows, technical, organizational.
The work is carried out in an Agile way of working with a significant international collaboration with ING teams present on other countries.
Your key responsibilities

Within the scope of the domains you are assigned to:

• Defining the Target State Architecture, co-designing with stakeholders
• Maintaining the Current State Architecture
• Defining multi-years architecture roadmap
• Creating and maintaining business and technical capabilities maps
• Defining the architecture the projects shall implement, co-designing with stakeholders having in mind scalability, sustainability, resilience and reliability
• Ensuring the solutions are aligned with the bank and IT strategies, as well as technological standards and market best practices
• Verifying the implementation is aligned on the architecture designed
• Performing trend watch (business and technical)
• Assessing architecture debt
• Managing architecture standards
• Maintaining the inventory of technologies used and promote consolidation

We are looking for
A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You are proactive, love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

Competences:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in Enterprise Architecture
• Holistic understanding of the inner working of a bank
• Good knowledge of some banking domains: preferably KYC / AML / CFT, Wholesale Banking (Fund industry, Depositary and Custody, Transaction, Financing, Lending, Trading) but other banking business domains will be considered
• Good technical background and technical architecture knowledge : API, micro-services, BPM, Messaging, Middleware, Application servers, Databases systems, Operating Systems, Virtualization, Cloud (private, public, hybrid)
• Good security knowledge: IT Risk, Security Best practices, IAM, IG, Fraud detection
• Ability to build business cases, compute ROI and break-even point
• Fluent in English and French

Behaviour:

• Ability to lead architecture content workshops with diverse stakeholders (management, business analysts, engineers, etc.)
• Strong business acumen and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to influence, federate, negotiate and compromise
• Clear communication skills : written and oral
• Good presentation skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment
• Multi-cultural awareness and effective ability to work in international projects

What will you gain joining ING as an architect?
A position in a bank empowering people to develop their skills and an exciting challenge for people with an entrepreneurial attitude. The possibility to develop your skills thanks to the expertise of our international teams, and our knowledge sharing culture.
Your working environment
With over 1000 employees in the Grand Duchy and thanks to the combination of our local presence and the strength of a robust multinational like ING, we offer our personal and business customers a wide range of solutions through the channel of their choice.
ING is a global bank with a strong European base. 53,000 employees serve around 38.4 million customers, corporate clients and financial institutions in over 40 countries. Operating in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg since 1960 as a universal and accessible bank, our products include savings, payments, investments, loans and mortgages for retail and private banking customers, whom we sever serve online and through our network of branches. For our Wholesale Banking clients, we provide lending, sustainable finance, payment & cash management and fund services

Please refer the Job description for details