You & your role

As Tech Lead Digital Platform, you will be at the heart of Rabobank’s digital transformation. You will guide multiple teams in delivering innovative features for our digital platform, ensuring quality, performance, and security. Your leadership will help shape the frameworks and tools that enable our squads to deliver exceptional digital experiences for our 8 million customers.

Tribe Digital Platform is divided in 5 areas one of which is Guide & Engage. Guide & Engage delivers generic features like search, products, help and settings for both mobile and desktop but also the content management platform and special features for our members and researchers.

Practical Examples

• Lead teams to deliver high-impact features for the Guide & Engage area of the Digital Platform.
• Guide engineers in their professional development and recruitment of new talent.
• Ensure compliance with policies on risk, security, performance, and resilience.
• Closely cooperating with other Tech Leads and colleagues from the chapters business, architecture and design

Facts & Figures

• 40 hours per week.
• Our app is ranked 8th among the best banking apps in the world.
• 9.5 million customers worldwide.

Top 3 Responsibilities

• Lead several teams in delivering features for the Digital Platform, focusing on continuous improvement and high-performance engineering.
• Guide engineers in their development, recruit new talent, and ensure compliance with risk, security, performance, and resilience policies.
• Collaborate closely with other Tech Leads and colleagues from business, architecture, and design chapters, ensuring alignment and innovation across the platform.

Within the CITO division Retail NL Tech, the domain Digital Platform is the main driver behind the digital experience of our 8 million customers and enabler of the most strategic objectives of Rabobank. Our squads work on a digital platform that provides the frameworks and tools for over 200 teams that build our modern digital experience, while ensuring the highest standards for quality, performance, and security. Our efforts are recognized as our app is ranked 8th of the best banking apps in the world. Come join us to keep this position or become even better!

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. By combining our unique perspectives, we become an even better bank.

The 20-30 colleagues of Guide & Engage are responsible for delivering generic features like search, products, help, and settings for both mobile and desktop, as well as the content management platform and special features for our members and researchers. Collaboration is our approach; as one decisive team within Rabobank.

Work on yourself & the world around you at the same time

At Rabobank, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That is why we invest in you and work together to create a better world. At Rabobank you work on yourself & the world around you at the same time.

This is reflected in your own development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a good work-life balance. You can work on banking matters for our private and business clients, but also on social issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe that we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in each other. We look for this diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience but also in gender, background, and culture. We strive for diversity and the space to be yourself in every department – whoever you are. That is what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about.

You & your talent

As Tech Lead you have a high-tech savviness in the field of software development, security and performance. You are experienced in the agile way of working, understand the risk & compliance needs of a bank, and possess a broad interest and opinion on IT trends. You are a self-starter who can take ownership and has the intrinsic motivation to make a positive impact. You are experienced in hiring the right engineers and work with squads directly to make a positive impact for our customers. 

Academic working and thinking level;

• At least 2 years of experience in similar roles;
• Accustomed and comfortable with a “span of control” of approximately 20-30 employees;
• Knowledge of and experience with DevOps teams and scaled Agile;
• Relevant experience in software development and management;
• Experience in guiding DevOps teams;
• You have achieved demonstrable results by guiding teams towards autonomy and a high level of performance;
• Demonstrable affinity and passion for digitization and Cloud technology;
• Mastery of the English language (business level, writing and speaking);
• You take on a pivotal role by weighing interests and risks together with the business.
• You keep your back straight in difficult discussions;
• You quickly create overview and insight for yourself, direct colleagues and stakeholders;
• You can deal well with unexpected setbacks, incidents or calamities;

Apply

To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a mandatory cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the role. Please pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers; together with your CV, these responses form the basis for our evaluation in this round. Submitting both a CV and answers to the three questions is the minimum requirement to be considered in the selection process. A cover letter is not mandatory but may be submitted optionally.

You may draw on your work experience, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions:

• How have you made DevOps teams more autonomous and faster? Share your approach and measurable results (e.g., DORA metrics).
• Describe a delivery you led under strict security and compliance requirements. How did you ensure this, and what was the outcome?
• How have you managed around 20–30 engineers, including hiring and coaching, and how did you balance priorities during tough decisions?

Please submit these answers in the application section titled 'Add your cover letter (optional)' on the website portal. 

You and the job application process

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter, ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl
• We will hold the interviews through a video call. If you are selected for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will reach out to you via SMS and email to schedule the interview.
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A screening is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

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