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ING believes in a world where everyone has the right to grow and progress in their own way. We express this in our global tagline, “do your thing”. Perhaps more than in any other large company, we extend our belief in the power of autonomy to our own people. But there’s a catch. In return for great freedom, we expect people to do great things for our customers, our stakeholders, and ING at large.

To work here is to be surrounded by people who are energetic, ambitious, friendly and respectful: talented specialists who take the responsibility and autonomy to make great things happen. We stay curious, thrive on change, and seek new and better ways to make it happen. Active in Romania for more than 30 years, ING Bank pioneered and challenged the local banking industry. Technology and innovation are at the core of what we do, making our products relevant for our customers’ lives and businesses.

Currently, ING is the 5th bank in the local markets, based on the assets and is a universal bank with 2 million clients from three business segments: individual clients (Retail), SMEs and Mid-Corporate clients and Wholesale Banking.

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Mission

As a Private Individuals Domain Architect you will help to steer the strategy of the Private Individuals business domains from an IT perspective through secure, resilient and scalable solutions in ways that promote agility and allow rapid delivery and discovery of valuable working products.

Your day-to-day

• Design & document complex, secure and resilient systems which can cover business needs, consolidating multiple driving factors, using advanced knowledge of system design, analysis and development;

• Empowering teams to contribute to the discovery of the best requirements, designs and architectures;

• Maintain the current state architecture for the Retail Daily Banking and Investments business domain and Retail Lending and insurance business domain;

• Collaborate with global architecture team to best leverage the global services and contribute to reference architecture of the domains;

• Collaborate with Enterprise Architect for defining the target architectures and, together with the business domain leadership define the architectural roadmaps;

• Coordinate the designs, advise and present (target) architectures and roadmaps and provide the architecture guidance and validations. Define and align architecture standards;

• Facilitate simplicity, staying lean and helping remove and preventing waste;

• Coordinate architecture activities for incremental changes (maintaining and extending existing solutions) and innovative changes (conceiving new solutions for emerging opportunities) for Private Individuals business domains;

• Use different patterns and elaborate designs to cover the non-functional requirements especially on the resilience and performance areas;

• Assess and select appropriate technologies from the many open source, commercial on-premises, and cloud-based available offerings;

• Create flexible but robust designs that prepares the company for the future;

• Deep dive into both new, cutting edge and legacy technologies helping build POCs and advising on best strategies in order to achieve a digital STP flows for Private Individual customer segment;

• Align with the global architecture team to create designs that satisfy the local requirements;

• Work together with other domain architects and development teams on cross domain topics;

• Design the technical solutions in in your domain that are consumed by different parts of the organization;

• Help in simplifying and consolidating the IT landscape;

• Help prevent technical atrophy, technical debt and maintain technical currency through architectural governance.

What you bring to the team

• Empathy, integrity and a solid ethical sense;

• Vast retail banking knowledge;

• Engineering skills, content knowledge and architecture in multiple domains and/or platforms (technologies, applications, infrastructure, business processes);

• Passion and natural inclination towards understanding systems in their entirety and devising strategies to improve them;

• A natural talent for spotting patterns;

• Ability to grasp and master new concepts quickly;

• Vision and well backed up ideas about the future, with a strong understanding of the current state;

• Persuasiveness and ability to sell and argument own ideas;

• Ability to create clear and impactful presentations and diagrams;

• Strong communication and presentation skills;

• Strong stakeholder & vendor management skills;

• Exposure to the Software Development Lifecycle;

• Ability to understand requirements from various stakeholders;

• Ability to work within budget, schedules, technology availability constraints;

• Ability to understand and consider not only the functional requirements, but also the non-functional attributes of platform quality such as performance, resilience, scalability, security and usability;

• Familiar with DevOps best practices and automation of processes like build stage, configuration management, deployment, documentation, testing, and monitoring;

• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role;

• Previous experience working with cloud technologies is a plus.

What we offer

• Impactful work in a fun and collaborative environment;

• Open-concept offices designed for both team work and relaxation;

• Corporate events and social gatherings;

• Hybrid way of working with flexible working schedule and short week options;

• Monthly budget on Benefit platform;

• Extra annual leave days depending on the total length of working experience;

• Growth opportunities through upskilling/ reskilling programs and a variety of learning and development platforms: ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, as well as through trainings and certifications;

• Possibility to access Internal roles, International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments;

• Context to make an impact through Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility projects.