This is what we offer you
Gross monthly salary between € 5.994 and € 8.563 (scale 10).

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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Job Title

Data Architect Financing, Area Data Capabilities

Job Description

As a Data Architect in the Financing Journey tribe, you make a difference by shaping and future-proofing our data landscape. You design data architectures while working closely with business stakeholders, business architects, solution architects, squads, and other stakeholders within the Wholesale & Rural domain. Together, you contribute to a dynamic, international environment where data is a strategic asset for delivering value to our clients and colleagues.

You & Your Role

As a Data Architect, you are primarily responsible for ensuring that data solutions align with the enterprise architecture, data strategy, and regulatory requirements. You support teams in designing scalable, secure, and reliable data solutions that enable trusted and actionable insights.

You actively track developments in data management, analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud technologies, and industry best practices, translating these into future-ready data capabilities. You guide colleagues and management on data architecture principles, standards, governance, and data-driven transformation initiatives. You participate in proof-of-concepts, align designs with peers and engineering teams, drive architectural decision-making, and ensure guidelines are understood and adopted across squads.

The Area Data Capabilities is responsible for implementing the foundational IT data capabilities that support the W&R domain. As the central expertise hub for Client and Party Data, Document Management, Management Information, Data Access, Data Availability, Data Analytics, and Cognitive Capture, the Area ensures that W&R can rely on a robust and future-ready data landscape.

Deliver Results

Take ownership and responsibility for the quality of the domain data architecture and the realization of data solutions.
Define and promote data standards, governance frameworks, and architectural principles across squads.
Proactively monitor market developments in data management, analytics, AI, and cloud technologies and translate them into practical solutions.
Guide teams in transitioning from the current state toward target data architectures and strategic data platforms.
Ensure data solutions comply with security, privacy, governance, and regulatory requirements.

Facts & Figures

36 or 40 hours per week.
Work in a dynamic environment with cloud technologies such as Azure and AWS.
Shape the data foundations supporting 9.5 million customers worldwide.

Top 3 Responsibilities

Partner with Solution Architects and engineering teams to design and govern scalable, secure, and future-proof data architectures that align with enterprise standards and support end-to-end solution architectures.
Actively contribute to and help shape the Financing Journey Data Improvements initiative, driving the evolution of data as a product by defining standards (or align with Enterprise Data Standards), promoting domain ownership, and enabling the development of reusable, trusted, and business-value-driven data products.
Work closely with Data Modellers and Data Management to ensure data products, information models, governance practices are aligned and consistently applied across the Financing Journey landscape.

You will work within the Financing Journey tribe, specifically in the Data Capabilities domain. Here, you collaborate closely with business architects, solution architects, data engineers, analytics specialists, product owners, and other stakeholders to deliver data-driven solutions that create value for our customers and colleagues.

Together we achieve more

We believe in the power of diversity. By combining our differences, we become a better bank. We're curious to see what you can bring to our Data Capabilities team.

The people in Data Capabilities are dedicated to optimizing the employee experience by ensuring that colleagues across W&R can make fast, confident, data-driven decisions based on accurate and reliable information. We focus on providing high-quality data, intuitive access, and clear insights that support our teams in their daily work.

As a Data Architect, you play a key role in establishing the foundations that enable trusted data, advanced analytics, operational excellence, and innovation throughout the organization.

Grow yourself & the world around you

At Rabobank, your personal development goes hand in hand with societal progress. That's why we invest in you and work together toward a better world. This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment, and a healthy work-life balance. You'll work on banking services for both private and business clients, as well as contribute to societal challenges like food and energy transitions.

Why everyone Is welcome at Rabobank

We believe we are stronger when we complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in knowledge, skills, and experience, as well as in gender, background, and culture. Every department strives for inclusivity and the freedom to be yourself, whoever you are. That's what diversity and inclusion mean at Rabobank.

You & Your Talent

Customer focus, collaboration, leadership, conceptual thinking, analytical skills, and fact-based decision-making are essential for the role of Data Architect. In addition, you recognize yourself in the following:

BSc or MSc in Computer Science, Data Science, Information Management, or a related field.
Proven experience (5+ years) in Agile and Scrum methodologies, coupled with a DevOps mindset.
Strong knowledge and experience of data modelling techniques, including Kimball dimensional modelling, Inmon enterprise data warehousing principles, Data Vault modelling, and star schema design.
Understanding of and experience with Data Mesh principles, including domain-oriented ownership, federated governance, self-serve data platforms, and treating Data as a Product.
Knowledge of:
- Data governance disciplines including metadata management, master data management, data lineage, data quality, and data cataloguing, and;
- Data integration patterns, event-driven architectures, streaming technologies, and API-based data access.
Practical experience with architecture methodologies and frameworks such as ArchiMate, DYA, TOGAF, and DAMA-DMBOK.
Experience designing and implementing modern cloud-based data platforms, preferably on Azure and Databricks.
Experience with medallion architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) and designing scalable data pipelines that support data quality, lineage, and reusability.
A practical, proactive, solution-oriented attitude, strong networking capabilities and the ability to collaborate effectively across the bank.
Good command of English (business level) and strong writing skills.

You & the application process

You can apply for the Data Architect Financing position at least until August 6th (the closing date may be extended until we find the right candidate).

Applications can only be submitted via the vacancy and not via e-mail.
Acquisition from (recruitment) agencies is not appreciated.
For questions about the role: madelie.holland@rabobank.com.
For questions about working at Rabobank or the application process: Corporate Recruiter via Lisa.Boschma@Rabobank.nl #LI-LB
Once you've submitted your CV and motivation letter, you'll receive a response as soon as possible. If there's an initial match, the selection process includes two interviews in person. An assessment will also be part of the procedure.
If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.
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rabobank.jobs/en/faq.
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