Solution Architect

Job Overview

As a Solutions Architect, you will be responsible for designing and implementing high-quality technical solutions that align with the business objectives of the bank. You will work closely with stakeholders, including product managers, development teams, and analysts, to understand requirements and translate them into technical architectural specifications. In this role, you will also serve as a technical leader, providing guidance to development teams and the architecture board, ensuring that architectural decisions align with internal, regulatory, and business standards. You will evaluate solutions based off their reliability, performance, and usability, and use modern application software development technologies such as container orchestration, microservice architecture patterns, and API and event-based integration patterns.

Strong communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and a deep understanding of modern software architecture are essential for success. Whether designing cloud-native applications, optimizing system performance, or ensuring security compliance, you will play a key role in shaping the technology strategy of the organization. As a team, we internationally coordinate our ambitions with the C-level and we design, structure, and help our engineers to achieve these ambitions. The team consists of a group of solution architects that use their diverse technologies, backgrounds and corporate experiences to follow market developments and guide technology changes in a changing regulatory and competitive landscape for the mid to long term.

Key Responsibilities

• Your primary responsibility is to architect and design solutions by developing end-to-end technical solutions that align with business needs, industry best practices, and technology standards
• Analyze business use cases, read technical documentation and standards, and understand the financial and technical processes of the bank
• Effectively coordinate the communication, participation, and cooperation with engineers to deliver well-architected solutions to the business lines
• Work with Domain and Enterprise Architects to align design and solutions with architectural group standards and strategic direction
• Participate in the architectural board of the bank to review and govern the architectural practices of the group
• Keeping a close relation with the different leads and product owners influencing the development priorities and direction.
• Lead in the creation of the documentation of features, solutions, technical initiatives, and product designs on a physical, logical, functional, and network level
• Be knowledgeable and keep up to date as a subject matter expert on the existing systems, system integrations, network, products, and services running within the ING ecosystem
• Be in collaboration with teams for the implementation and development of your architectural designs, including the feedback loop of changes over the lifecycle of the development effort
• Adhere to all ING policies and complete all mandatory training requirements.

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