Chapter Lead Architect Domains

ING Netherlands is looking for a passionate and inspiring Chapter Lead Architect, your background is not necessarily important, in the end it is what you are and how you operate. The CoE Architects in Amsterdam is a vibrant place for anyone who wants to translate ING's vision into practical architecture designs, and guides strategy and execution.

As a chapter lead you will lead a team of Domain and Solution Architects and
contribute to the continuous improvement of your CoE, so that we become better every day than the day before. In your domain, you act as the trusted advisor to all your stakeholders.
 

Roles and responsibilities
You will be part of the management team of the CoE Architects. As a Chapter Lead Architect, you will be responsible for both architecture delivery at Enterprise Architecture level as well as looking after the chapter members and ensuring their growth.

As a Chapter Lead you are responsible for mentoring and coaching, performance management, ensuring ongoing development of hard and soft skills, and motivating the architects in your chapter, which will consist of 7 architects on average.

As an Architect you will define and maintain the end-to-end architecture design for your domain. Work together in a small team of architects, led by one of our
enterprise architects. For your domain you collaborate with the architects, business colleagues, and IT managers to create and communicate the architecture results. You will apply the architectural principles and architectural governance in your designs.

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. So:
• Be a people manager – you have strong social and leading skills capable of
maturing the chapter members.
• Be an architect – you are good at many of the skills needed for creating
architectural solutions.
• Be analytical – you have great analytical skills, which you use to get to the root of problems and find applicable architectural solutions.
• Get things done – you agree upon a definition of done, see solutions through to completion, visualize and document the results, and get it aligned with
stakeholders.
• See the big picture – you are able to see how a particular system or design fits
within the whole. You understand and explain trade-offs in design options,
keeping the big picture in mind.
• Be a quick learner – you are able to quickly understand new concepts, see
patterns, and apply them to your solutions and designs in a practical way.
• Take initiative – you can take initiative and can work independently to perform
architecture activities for incremental changes in an agile software development environment.

• Be a team player – you can listen well, embrace diversity, and proactively seek
collaboration with others to co-create architecture (workshops, guiding,
constraining, selling, telling).
• Communicate – You have strong communication skills both verbal and written, in English.
 

Rewards And Benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

• The benefits of working with us at ING include:
• • A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• • 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
• • Pension scheme
• • 13th month salary
• • Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• • 8% Holiday payment
• • Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for
• collaboration and co-creation
• • Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• • An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING CoE Architects. Join us. Apply today.