Chapter Lead Architect - Wholesale Banking

About the role

ING Hubs Romania, which supports 24 ING units worldwide with software development, data management, risk and compliance, audit and retail operations, is hiring a Chapter Lead Architect for Wholesale Banking in Bucharest. The role sets the standards for the Architecture chapter, develops and safeguards knowledge in the field, and leads a mid-sized team.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain a roadmap for application software development aligned with business requirements, and document current and future states of processes.
• Support delivery of the target architecture, identify constraints, balance quality decisions and escalate complex issues to management.
• Draft engineering standards and specifications, create and manage architecture storyboards and viewpoints, and evaluate their effectiveness.
• Analyze external trends and emerging issues, and communicate the actions needed to implement the function's strategy within the team.
• Monitor compliance with policies and regulatory codes, and manage performance of a substantial, diverse team, setting objectives and taking corrective action.
• Coach and mentor junior colleagues, use the formal development framework, and provide training and coaching.
• Act as subject matter expert on technology, policy, regulation or operational management, maintain external accreditations and stay up to date with regulations and best practices.
• Build patterns and cookbooks for developers, and coordinate architecture designs for short-term (2-6 months) and medium-term (12-18 months) projects, as well as incremental and innovative changes.
• Manage stakeholders up to senior management and advise architects and senior management on complex change and run issues.

Required profile

• Recognized expert who understands business context, rules, architecture, organizational structure, culture and processes.
• Advanced experience applying cybersecurity policies and technical standards and procedures to the organization.
• Ability to envision and document the future state of processes and products, and to coordinate architecture designs for short and medium term.
• Co-creation skills (workshops, workshops, guiding, constraining, selling, telling) and ability to coach and mentor junior colleagues.
• Thorough knowledge of the content and architecture of multiple domains and/or platforms, and enough expertise to coach and mentor other architects.
• Ability to coordinate architecture activities for incremental and innovative changes, and to manage stakeholders up to senior management.