Chapter Lead Architect - Wholesale Banking @ING Hubs

About the Position

Chapter Lead Architect - Wholesale Banking @ING Hubs

• Location: Bucharest, Romania
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Standardized Occupation: IT Architecture

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Responsibilities

The Chapter Lead Architect sets the standards for the Architecture chapter area and takes responsibility for developing, innovating, and safeguarding knowledge in the field of expertise. Key responsibilities include:

• Documenting complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describing the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability.
• Defining and maintaining a roadmap to facilitate application software development and ensuring the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements.
• Supporting the delivery of the target architecture/solution, identifying and understanding constraints, and balancing quality decision-making.
• Analyzing information, drafting engineering standards and specifications, and evaluating the effectiveness of those standards within the own engineering discipline.
• Creating/managing architecture storyboards/viewpoints that articulate business requirements.
• Exploring and developing a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluating their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Communicating the actions needed to implement the function's strategy and business plan within the team.
• Motivating and supporting the growth of all members of a mid-sized team using equitable approaches to performance management and development.
• Acting as a subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team.
• Providing guidance to developers and build patterns by creating Cookbooks. Escalating deviations if necessary.

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Requirements

• Recognized expert to understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business.
• Coordinate the design, advise, and present (target) architectures and roadmaps and the architecture guidance and validations.
• Define and align (global) architecture standards and reference architectures.
• Understand the principles of cyber security and have advanced experience in the application of cyber security policies to the organization.
• Go-to person for Architects and Senior Management for architecture advice on complex issues relating to Change and in Run activities.
• Co-creation skills (workshops, guiding, constraining, selling, telling). Coaches and mentors more junior colleagues.
• Coordinate architecture designs for short term (2 - 6 months) as well as medium term (12 – 18 months).
• Engineering skills with thorough knowledge of content and architecture of multiple domains and/or platforms (technologies, applications, business processes).
• Apply expertise to act as the organizational authority on making sure the organization develops and maintains the culture, values, and design it needs to reach its objectives while managing structural change.
• Coordinate architecture activities for incremental changes (maintaining and extending existing solutions) and innovative changes (conceiving new solutions for emerging opportunities) for a platform or domain.
• Coordinate management of stakeholders up to senior management.

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We Offer

At ING Hubs Romania, we offer a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged. Our benefits include:

• Competitive salary
• Professional development opportunities
• A supportive and inclusive work culture

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About the Company

ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. We operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?