This is what we offer you

• Gross monthly salary between EUR 4,331 and EUR 6,186 (scale 09) for a 36 hour week
• Thirteenth month’s salary and 8% holiday allowance
• 10% Employee Benefit Budget
• EUR 1,400 development budget per year
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)
• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

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As a Solution Architect you can make a difference
Within the Tribe Global Data & Analytics Platform, you will work in the centre of the data-driven enterprise.
One tribe, 4 areas, over 20 squads define and execute the Data & Analytics strategy of Rabobank.

The tribe contains these four areas:

• Global Data Platform
• Analytics Platform
• Onboarding & Support
• Governance Platform

Over 20 squads are distributed over these areas, and naturally all squads are guided by a Solution Architect. Within the Analytics Platform area we need your help to design, build and run ground-breaking solutions that are valuable to our 9,5 million customers globally.

Skills

• Translating business needs into architectural frameworks, principles, and implementable solutions
• Strong and precise communication skills in English, both spoken and written
• Understanding the complexity and needs of large organizations while maintaining architectural principles
• Team player with strong coaching skills, able to mentor and guide colleagues
• Motivation to work and present across squad and tribe boundaries
• Practicing Scrum, especially for architectural work
• Desire to continuously learn new technologies and develop personally and architecturall

As a Solution Architect, you will design and oversee the architecture of our analytics platforms to meet the company’s evolving needs. Your responsibilities will include:

• Assessing Current Systems: Evaluate the existing systems architecture and identify areas for improvement.
• Defining Future Direction: Collaborate with technical staff on new projects, ensuring innovative and effective solutions.
• Solution Recommendations: Propose enhancements to improve service quality and security.
• Strategic Collaboration: Work with a Business Architect on strategic topics, vision, and roadmap development.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with a passionate team dedicated to building and maintaining high-quality systems.

Experience
Above all, we are looking for new colleagues who are intrinsically driven to learn more about technology and to self-advance their skills. We don’t look for a 5-legged sheep. We believe that if you are a good solution architect, then you are capable to work as a specialist and generalist. Take a look at the below-mentioned topics and if you see yourself proficient in various - but certainly not all - topics, then please apply.

Technologies

• Mandatory: Azure and Azure DevOps
• Azure AI services, ADF, Databricks, AzureML, Synapse, PowerBI
• Architectural modeling skills preferably archimate
• Apache Airflow, Spark

Concepts

• Best-practice patterns on provisioning Azure resources (subscription models, key vault)
• Network topology and security (private endpoints, Vnets, (quantum-proof) encryption, defense in depth)
• Interfacing systems, API management
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Full understanding of CI/CD processes, pipelines-as-code, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Azure DevOps
• Understanding the lifecycle of data-science models and integrating them with software development processes
• Experience with scalable ML solutions for large user bases
• Managing the entire lifecycle of ML models from experimentation to production and maintenance
• Defining architectures with microservices, event-driven services, and domain-driven design
• Model Interpretability and Explainability: Implementing techniques to make ML models interpretable and explainable to stakeholders
• Familiarity with the software development process, package development, unit testing, quality assurance, and monitoring

Skills

• Translating business needs into architectural frameworks, principles, and implementable solutions
• Strong and precise communication skills in English, both spoken and written
• Understanding the complexity and needs of large organizations while maintaining architectural principles
• Team player with strong coaching skills, able to mentor and guide colleagues
• Motivation to work and present across squad and tribe boundaries
• Practicing Scrum, especially for architectural work
• Desire to continuously learn new technologies and develop personally and architecturally