Domain Architect GenAI

ING NL is looking for a passionate and inspiring Architect. The CoE Architects in Amsterdam is a vibrant place for anyone who is willing and capable of translating INGs vision into architecture designs and guides the strategy execution. In Architecture we have the ambition to design the capabilities that make up the digital platform bank of tomorrow influencing the business strategy towards an optimal execution path for delivery of a secure and reliable platform to ultimately deliver great services to our customers.

We have an open spot for an architect for the GenAI foundation closely collaborating with our technology foundation products and channel domain architects. Together you will deliver for GenAI architectural guidance and principles for the bank of the future according to our which we promised to improve our product offering to meet our customers financial needs and accelerate digitisation and personalised experience.

The team

You will be part of the CoE Architects and work together in a small team of architects led by one of our enterprise architects. You will work closely with ING colleagues from other (also global) areas to create architecture results and ensure alignment on GenAI. Working at ING means working in a dynamic and international setting.

Roles and responsibilities

You will define and maintain the end-to-end architecture design for your domain. In your designs you prioritize robustness resilience security and reliability. You will use and build upon already existing architectural principles standards and guidelines in your work. You will specify practical transition steps towards a target architecture in a complex landscape that is constantly changing. You strike the right balance between feasible to implement yet ambitious enough to move towards our strategic target architecture.

Documentation is an important part of your job; in this context you document agreements with stakeholders on solutions and deviations from architecture. Furthermore you verify whether the solutions implemented comply with the upfront agreed addition to the domain responsibility you also contribute to the continuous improvement of the team and CoE Architects so we get better every day than the day before.

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that youll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on return well back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

How to succeed

• To be an excellent GenAI architect you need a blend of technical expertise strategic thinking and domain awareness. Just to list a few:
  - Deep understanding of LLMs GANs VAEs and RAG systems
  - Strong grasp of data pipelines feature engineering and ML algorithms
  - Ability to design scalable resilient and fault-tolerant GenAI systems
  - Translate business needs into GenAI solutions
  - Identify high-impact use cases and create implementation roadmaps
  - Explain complex AI concepts to non-technical stakeholders
  - Facilitate cross-functional collaboration between data scientists engineers and business teams
  - Tackle architectural challenges and stay current with evolving technologies.
• Analytical you have great analytical skills which you use to get to the root of problems and find applicable architectural solutions. Sometimes the information at hand could be incomplete: here you show your logical and analytical skills to quickly find the missing information or to make reasonable assumptions to proceed.
• Getting things done you agree upon a definition of done see solutions through to completion visualize and document the results and get it aligned with stakeholders.
• See the big picture you are able to see how a particular system or design fits within the whole. You understand and explain trade-offs in design options keeping the big picture in mind.
• Quick learner you are able to quickly understand new concepts see patterns and apply them to your solutions and designs in a practical way.
• Initiative you can take initiative and can work independently to perform architecture activities for incremental changes in an agile software development environment.
• Team player you can listen well embrace diversity and proactively seek collaboration with others to co-create architecture (workshops guiding constraining selling telling).
• Impact you have strong communication skills both verbal and written in English. Your stakeholders have different backgrounds varying from business to technical to architectural. Your ability to get alignments by adapting your story to the audience is crucial for success in this role.

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that its possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS) 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of whats possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customers interests at heart Do you want to be surrounded by progressive inspiring diverse and supportive colleagues Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING CoE Architects. Join us. Apply today.