It solution architect with bank mendes gans (bmg)

BMG organisation

Bank Mendes Gans (BMG) is a niche bank for liquidity and information management services, providing customized global liquidity management solutions for multinational corporate companies around the globe. BMG serves its multinational client base with an integrated range of liquidity and information management services supported by a high level of professionalism and personal service. BMG is a full subsidiary of ING and is part of ING Wholesale Banking.

BMG Company culture

• A customer centric and result driven mentality with professional, high-quality standards.
• An organization that values initiative and entrepreneurship.
• A true hands-on mentality.
• An informal working environment.

Job description

BMG is looking for an ambitious IT Solution Architect. As a IT Solution Architect, you assure that in the architectural direction the IT capabilities are aligned with the changing business needs. You will contribute to BMG becoming the bank which provides top notch services and products for our customers in Cash Pool and Netting.

Cash Pool is in the core of the BMG service offering. Cash Pool concentrates company's available cash and borrowing needs, to centralize all credit and debit balances of the subsidiaries whenever a large corporate client needs better cash visibility, better FX conditions and committed customer service to help with his broader liquidity management challenges. Netting is a BMG solution to boost cash flow efficiency; it reduces transaction and Foreign Exchange (FX) costs by centralizing the (intercompany) payables and receivables for corporate clients. Payments are essential for both Cash Pool and Netting. Channels ensures clients can access their data in whatever way works best for them, be it via our Megabank system, our mobile app or our connectivity solutions.

What are you going to do

• Formulate a vision on IT architecture patterns that fit in the BMG context using ING architecture components. All in close alignment with our business architects, IT leads, squads and second line representatives
• Focus on the translation of business and strategic requirements into IT solutions
• Identify the state of IT capabilities (from strong to non-existence) to help the BMG management making the strategic decisions on prioritization of change initiatives in light of what is possible from both a Business and IT perspective
• Analyse, visualize and discuss the overlap, dependencies, impact and risk (business and technical) across business change initiatives on all relevant stakeholders in both Business and IT
• Your work spans the full information management lifecycle from information acquisition through analysis, cleanse, transform, classify and storage to presentation, distribution, security, privacy
• Provide guidance to IT Leads, squads by describing IT architecture models
• Coordinate the overarching decisions regarding Security, Infrastructure, database management and IT solutions. Therefore your skills to cooperate must be excellent
• Execute reviews on the deliverables to guarantee that these are in line with the IT roadmap and architecture guidelines
• Co-operate with business architects and senior IT staff to create the best fit of IT solutions for BMG

Who are you?

An enthusiastic and proactive professional who gets energy from working on concrete and tangible results. You find it important that everyone has their own responsibility and that you can apply your own expertise to the end result. Customer centricity is your primary driver.

In short, you take the initiative and operate independently, but you also attach equal importance to cooperation and the joint achievement of the objectives. You are driven to continually develop and / or broaden your own expertise. You are an example and stimulator of the new culture (Orange Code) and the One Agile Way of Working.

• Current residency in the Netherlands and fluent in Dutch and English (C2)
• 10+ years of professional experience as a IT architect
• 5+ year experience of working in an international Banking environment
• Master degree preferably Business Economics, Information Technology or Mathematics
• Knowledge of databases, meta-models, knowledge and content management, business intelligence and storage management
• You have integral, cross domain knowledge and experience and significant knowledge of multiple environments (domains, platforms, products, architectures, technologies)

Rewards & benefits  

We want to make sure that it's possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.  

The benefits of working with us at BMG/ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)
• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.

About us 

With 60,000 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 what's possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer's 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. Join us and apply today!