Solution Architect

IT Solution Architect

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ING is a frontrunner in the transformation of banking and a company that puts technology at its heart.

At ING, we believe all sustainable progress is driven by people with the imagination and determination to improve their future and the futures of those around them. We empower people and organisations to realise their own vision for a better future. Join us! Together we can build the next generation of digital banking!

Mission

As a Solution Architect you will help create secure, reliable 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
• Help define and implement standards
• Facilitate simplicity, staying lean and helping remove/preventing waste
• Deep dive into both new, cutting edge and legacy technologies helping build POCs and advising on best strategies
• Help prevent technical atrophy, technical debt and maintain technical currency

What you bring to the team

• Empathy, integrity and a solid ethical sense
• 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 past
• Persuasiveness and ability to sell and argument own ideas
• Ability to create clear and impactful presentations and diagrams
• Courage to relentlessly point out potential areas of improvement, creativity to offer solutions for improvement, sensitivity to know when and how to point them out so that they can be resolved
• Mastery of at least one domain of the Software Development Lifecycle
• Exposure to multiple domains of the Software Development Lifecycle

Nice to haves

• Open Source or Online Community contributions or previous public talks are a plus
• Understanding of Lean, Agile or TPS principles
• Understanding of Continuous Deployment practices
• Understanding of both OOP and Functional programming paradigms
• Experience architecting and/or building real time applications
• Understanding/experience with Lean UX
• Solid understanding of at least one programming language and one backend or frontend platform such as Scala, Python, J2EE, JEE, C#, JavaScript, Ruby and/or frameworks such as Node.js, .NET, Ruby on Rails
• Experience with Linux or other Unix clones
• Exposure to multiple technologies used for achieving the same goal