We are looking for an IT infrastructure architect that will help us define and execute our multi and hybrid cloud strategy. As a member of the team, you incorporate current and future global infrastructure demand from our businesses and translate them via vision, strategy and architectural capability maps into the required products and services.

You are a confident speaker who can also explain, defend and sell the work of the team to stakeholders.

You have the opportunity to work (and grow) with a large group of international stakeholders to address the functional and non-functional requirements stemming from application teams, risk, finance, ransomware protection, regulations and geo-politics.

Strong affinity with infrastructure in general is expected, yet as a team player, we can tailor your role to your relative strengths and ambitions in the team and thereby support your growth in the direction of preference.

The team

ING’s Global Infrastructure delivers the services which are used to run all applications supporting our customers worldwide. This includes private & public cloud with all the infrastructure components that form these cloud, such as VM’s, bare metal servers, container hosting, databases, network, various integration services and the operating model.

The infrastructure architecture team is responsible for the design and roadmap of these services, ensuring that all the various products and services are delivered in a coherent manner and are fit for purpose.

As a team we internationally coordinate our ambitions with the C-level and we design, structure, and help our engineers to achieve these ambitions. The team consists of a group of architects that use their diverse technological backgrounds and corporate experiences to follow market developments and guide technology changes in a changing regulatory and competitive landscape for the mid to long term.

Roles and responsibilities

The team relies on you to have the roles and responsibilities listed below. We are looking for new colleagues that are willing to contribute their skills to the team and are willing to grow the remainder of the listed skills.

Translate corporate strategy into infrastructure strategy and standards with the participation of colleagues and global stakeholders,

Drive the formalization of these strategies and standards that follow the Infrastructure as Code framework,

Converging many opinions into a broadly accepted solution,

Effectively communicate the direction with well-maintained architectural artifacts such as roadmaps, capability maps and standards,

Keeping a close relation with the different area leads, product owners, and engineers, influencing the development priorities and direction,

Balance short-, mid- and long-term priorities that require activities ranging from researching, ideating, prototyping to the support of creating Solution Architectures,

Please note for this role we are looking for individual contributors that can take on the responsibility of (co-)creating the structured artifacts.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

Working in a multinational company requires international travel whereby appreciation for multiple viewpoints, customs and diversity is a must. Professional communications skills in English are required.

Working as enterprise architects requires both formal and informal global coordination and communication skills amongst large groups of stakeholders, maintain alignment with vendors/suppliers, the ability to present to C level management and keep documentation up to date.

Working within the infrastructure domain for a bank requires broad understanding and affinity with general IT infrastructure such as compute, storage, connectivity, analytics, etc.

Working as internal platform/digital products provider requires an understanding of multi-tenancy models and the ability to harmonize requirements from multiple internal consumers. (In contrast to Solution Architectures for a single consumer.)

Working in a regulated industry requires appreciation and tolerance for regulations. It is important to understand that regulations influence the architecture of our landscape.

Working as a professional requires besides the standard skills like teamwork, self-steering, administrative, negotiation, etc. also a high level of self-awareness of (solution) biases. Understanding our own biases and their limits are key to be successful in negotiating broadly supported solutions.

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at Benefits in the Netherlands

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

A base salary in scale 12 (€ 6.176 - € 9.871 gross per month based on 36 hours)
A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

24-27 vacation days depending on contract

Pension scheme

13th month salary

Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

8% Holiday payment

Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60,000 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.