Chapter Lead - Architects
ING Nederland
Chapter Lead - Architects
The Chapter Lead Architecture – Finance & Financial Risk is responsible for building and leading a high-performing architecture chapter that delivers architectural excellence across the Finance & Financial Risk landscape. The role combines people leadership with architectural content leadership, fostering a strong architecture community while ensuring consistent application of enterprise standards, governance, modelling standards and best practices. The base location is Amsterdam, and the role requires extensive experience in architecture leadership within large, complex organisations.
Chapter Lead - Architects
The Chapter Lead Architecture – Finance & Financial Risk is responsible for building and leading a high-performing architecture chapter that delivers architectural excellence across the Finance & Financial Risk landscape. The role combines people leadership with architectural content leadership, fostering a strong architecture community while ensuring consistent application of enterprise standards, governance, modelling standards and best practices. The base location is Amsterdam, and the role requires extensive experience in architecture leadership within large, complex organisations.
Salary
Core Qualifications
Technical (Must-have)
Soft Skills
Preferred Qualifications
Technical (Nice-to-have)
Key Responsibilities
- Leading, coaching and developing a team of architects while creating a strong architecture community and culture.
- Developing architectural craftsmanship, professional standards and learning pathways as part of the global architecture practice.
- Ensuring the chapter has the right skills, capacity and expertise to support strategic priorities and transformation initiatives.
- Driving architecture excellence through the development, review and continuous improvement of architecture deliverables, standards and practices.
- Ensuring architecture outputs are aligned with enterprise architecture principles, regulatory requirements and business objectives.
- Facilitating architectural decision-making and governance processes, including Architecture Content Meetings, Architecture Review Meetings and Design Approval Boards.
- Ensuring compliance with ING's EA3.0 architectural governance process and related architecture policies.
- Promoting modelling quality, architecture traceability, documentation standards, repository integrity and the use of approved modelling standards.
- Supporting the creation of target-state architectures, transformation roadmaps and implementation-ready designs.
- Ensuring architecture decisions are translated into successful implementation and delivery outcomes.
- Managing architecture risks, technical debt, exceptions and deviations from agreed standards and principles.
- Building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders across Finance, Risk, Technology and Architecture.
- Driving continuous improvement of the architecture operating model, governance processes, tooling and ways of working.
- Stimulating collaboration, knowledge sharing and consistency across architects, domains and locations.
- Supporting architecture innovation initiatives and the adoption of emerging technologies, methods and practices.
- Driving architecture discipline across the chapter, ensuring architects can formulate architectural models and solution architecture artefacts.