Business Architect Data & Analytics

Are you a strategic architect with a passion for data products and AI? Do you want to shape the enterprise data foundation that powers scalable AI at Rabobank? This is your opportunity.

You and your job

We are looking for a Business Architect Data & Analytics who will take on the role of Area Architect for Enterprise Data Products within Tribe D&A Products & Transformation. You define and drive the target architecture for the area, ensuring alignment with product vision and business needs.

The Area Enterprise Data Products focuses on simplifying and standardizing the data landscape and strengthening the foundation required for scalable (Agentic) AI. We:

• Build enterprise-wide data products
  Develop and maintain a strategically aligned portfolio of domain-agnostic data products and a shared enterprise data ontology, enabling consistency, reuse, and scalability across the bank.
• Enable AI at scale
  Partner with business domains to create AI-ready data products that deliver relevant, contextualized data for advanced AI use cases (including Agentic AI), leveraging technologies such as knowledge graphs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Automate and standardize data product delivery
  Work with platform teams to industrialize data product creation using automation, computational governance, and enterprise data product implementation standards.

As Area Architect you lead the area together with the Area Lead and Tech Lead. You will work closely together with the solution architects within the area, with whom you align the area vision, realize the architecture strategy & roadmaps, and contribute to our purpose. You guide the teams towards the best results in a future-proof architecture, keep each other on our toes and help each other where possible.

Your impact

• Define and communicate the strategic direction for data products and AI-ready data, enabling faster delivery of high-quality, reusable data assets across the bank.
• Lead and coach a team of solution architects, ensuring alignment on vision, architecture standards, and delivery of future-proof solutions.
• Lead and steer as part of the area leadership team and support product delivery with a strong architecture vision and roadmap.
• Ensure our data and AI products are scalable, compliant, and delivering real business value.
• Translate emerging market developments and innovations into strategic architecture direction and tangible business value for Rabobank.

Practical examples:

• Create and communicate an architecture vision on data products for AI-ready data, aligning with business stakeholders, architects and the Chapter Global Data Management.
• Collaborate with business architects across the bank to shape a shared enterprise data ontology.
• Mentor and coach a team of solution architects within your area.

• 7+ years in relevant roles, including 3+ years in enterprise or business architecture in a complex D&A environment
• Experience in global, multi-business line environments
• Strong architecture vision on data products, AI-ready data, and data ontology
• Deep understanding of strategy, capabilities, and value streams - ensuring the business what and why precedes the technical how
• Ability to translate business needs into scalable architectural solutions

Competenties

• Resultaten leveren in een leiderschapspositie, waarbij het domein wordt aangestuurd samen met de business lead en tech lead.
• Aangetoond vermogen om senior stakeholders binnen business en IT te beïnvloeden.
• Sterke coaching- en mentoringvaardigheden richting solution architecten.
• Uitstekende communicatievaardigheden, van C-level tot engineering teams.

Facts & Figures

• 36 or 40 hours per week
• Being part of a team of 300+ data & analytics professionals within Tribe D&A Products & Transformation
• 43,822 Rabobank colleagues worldwide

Together we achieve more than alone
We believe in the power of differences. By combining the differences between people, we become an even better bank. We are curious to know what you will add to our team of D&A business architects.

With you, the D&A architecture team will consist of approximately 10 people. Together, we define the architecture direction for the Global Data & Analytics Platform and D&A Products & Transformation. We believe architecture should be owned by teams, and we actively enable this through coaching, setting principles and standards, and collaboration.

Optie tot verlenging: Niets over bekend.

Hybride: Geen verdere informatie

Fee: De administratieve partner rekent een aanvullende fee van € 2,50 boven op het tarief.

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Language : English and Dutch mandatory