Solution Architect

Job Overview

As a Solution Architect, you will design and guide end-to-end solutions that support ING’s banking products, customer processes, and regulatory capabilities within the Reference and Target Architectures provided by Enterprise and Domain Architects. Working closely with business and engineering stakeholders, you will translate requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions while ensuring alignment with ING’s architectural standards and long-term technology direction.

You will contribute to the evolution of banking capabilities across multiple domains and help drive modernization, transformation, and simplification initiatives.

What You'll Do

• Design end-to-end solutions across multiple business domains, systems, and platforms, aligned with business, operational, regulatory, and technology objectives.
• Collaborate with business and engineering stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Conduct architecture assessments, solution evaluations, and option analyses to support decision-making.
• Contribute to architecture roadmaps, transformation initiatives, and technical debt reduction.
• Produce and maintain architecture artifacts, standards, and supporting documentation.
• Provide architecture governance and implementation guidance to ensure successful delivery.
• Contribute to architecture communities and best practices across ING.

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience as a Solution Architect delivering end-to-end solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of modern architecture principles and patterns, including microservices, APIs, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), distributed systems, and integration architectures.
• Experience working across multiple domains, systems, and stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.
• Experience conducting architecture assessments, solution evaluations, technology option analyses, and architecture transformation initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and decision-making skills, with the ability to balance business, operational, regulatory, and technology considerations.
• Experience designing solutions that support financial products, customer journeys, and business capabilities.
• Experience with customer data management, information architecture, Master Data Management (MDM), or data integration patterns.
• Experience designing solutions within financial services domains such as Payments, Lending, Deposits, Investments, AML/KYC, Collections, Customer Data, or Digital Channels.

Minimum Qualifications

Must Have

• Minimum of 5 years of software engineering experience, including experience as a Solution Architect, Technical Lead, or similar solution design role.
• Strong engineering background and understanding of modern software architecture principles.
• Experience designing end-to-end solutions in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience working in Agile, incremental, or hybrid delivery environments.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work effectively across business and technology teams in a global and cross-cultural environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and internally developed solutions.
• Familiarity with architecture modeling approaches such as ArchiMate, UML, BPMN, C4, or similar frameworks.
• Experience working with regulatory, compliance, or policy-driven solution design.

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About ING

With 65,000 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. Join us. Apply today.