Platform Architect

Job description

The role will cooperate with high level of independence in the definition and evolution of the infrastructure architecture of the bank's information system taking into account IT policy. Key responsibilities: ▪ Evangelize application architecture guiding principles, policies, best practices, reference architecture and standards. ▪ Implement the reference infrastructure architecture, considering strategic architecture direction defined by the Enterprise Infrastructure Architect. ▪ Liaise with Head Office and IT architecture community within the ING Group in relation to common technology infrastructure systems used and the requirements of those systems. ▪ Design infrastructure architectures to meet business and IT requirements and proactively collaborate with development teams during Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) when architecture review is required. ▪ Ensures that the architecture is implemented according to plan, minimizing technical/tactical debt. Escalates to management if required. ▪ Reduces complexity and steers towards preventing or reducing technical debt. Improves the quality and consistency and reduces time-to-market for the platform. Shortens the cycle time from i...