Department: WB Tech | Enterprise Architecture | Solution Architects C&C and Lending Position: Chapter Lead Solution Architect II Global Job Grade: 18
Background
The Chapter Lead Solution Architect strengthens the design and implementation quality of IT Systems, optimizing technology infrastructure, operational efficiency, scalability, reliability and security, ensuring seamless alignment between design and implementation and business and enterprise architecture. From a people leader point of view your role will be to coach or mentor your colleagues.
The Chapter Lead Solution Architect will work closely with other WB Tech IT tribes, such as Financial Markets, Transaction Services, Lending and Customers & Channels, to ensure that the architecture practice inside the tribes is clearly understood and is up to the expectations.
Key Responsibilities
Areas where you make impact:
- Develop and maintain relevant architectural artifacts, including application architectures, data models and other relevant documentation
- Foster reuse across the enterprise and ensure the developed solution will be exposed for future potential reuse
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to design software solutions that meet their needs and align with ING’s strategic goals
- Ensure the individual development and craftmanship of your team members, so that they can successfully fulfil the new roles and the new process;
- You help your team develop through coaching, mentoring and constant feedback;
- Together with your IT Area Lead and EA colleagues you set targets for each team member;
- You are responsible for HR related activities: 1 to 1 meetings with your team members, performance management, etc;
- You work with the recruitment team to attract, onboard and retain top talent;
- Stimulate the chapter members towards continuous improvement of their skills and the area of expertise as a whole;
- Propagates a culture that fits with the agile way of working and is a role model;
- Determines, together with the Chapter members, the way of working in his/her chapter and sets standards for the area of expertise
Requirements
- Domain knowledge, good understanding of WB Tech
- Strong in system design and integration. Focusing on implementation details, following the architectural plan and release objectives.
- Up to date with the latest technology trends, frameworks, patterns, concepts and languages.
- Good understanding of ING‘s technology standards and solutions.
- Excellent analytical skills and a clear way of translating abstract concepts into implementable solutions
- Experience in producing and presenting solution architecture
- Proven leadership abilities, with a track record of guiding and mentoring project teams to achieve project objectives and ensuring people development
- Ability to take ownership and responsibility
- Able to build strong relationships with key stakeholders to design software solutions that meet their needs and align with ING’s strategic goals
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