Senior Solution Architect Virtual Machine platform

We Offer You

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,876 and EUR 8,395 (scale 10).
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide the amount of your personal contribution.

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Design and Grow Rabobank’s Virtual Machine Platform for the Future

Are you someone who creates clarity where others see chaos? Can you distill technical complexity into a clear, scalable architecture? Then we’re looking for you.

We are seeking a highly skilled and collaborative Solution Architect to lead the design and evolution of our Virtual Machine (VM) platform.

You & Your Role

As a Solution Architect, you will be part of the leadership triangle — together with the Product Owner and Tech Lead — guiding the squad responsible for shaping the Virtual Machine platform service, driving architectural decisions, platform strategy, and technical excellence.

Key Responsibilities

Architectural Leadership

• Define and evolve the architecture of the Virtual Machine platform.
• Ensure scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability of the platform.
• Align platform architecture with enterprise standards and cloud best practices.

Cross-Platform Collaboration

• Co-develop common guardrails, standards, and integration patterns with other compute and infrastructure architects.
• Promote interoperability and consistency across VM environments (Azure, AWS, on-premises).
• Share learnings and innovations across platform teams.

Team Leadership

• Co-lead the VM platform team with the Product Owner and Tech Lead.
• Guide engineers in implementing architectural decisions and platform capabilities.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with security, compute, storage, networking, and application teams to ensure platform alignment with organizational needs.
• Communicate architectural vision and roadmap to stakeholders and leadership.

Innovation & Strategy

• Stay ahead of industry trends in virtualization, cloud compute, and platform engineering.
• Drive adoption of automation, Infrastructure-as-Code, and self-service capabilities.

You & Your Talent

• Deep knowledge of Virtual Machines in public cloud (Azure, AWS) and on-premises environments.
• The ability to think conceptually and execute practically.
• The ability to translate the big picture into actionable steps and vice versa.
• Energy and joy in aligning with squads and engineers.
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong communication skills (in English) and a natural sense of collaboration.
• A structured mindset and the confidence to provide direction.
• Knowledge of security and compliance in regulated environments.
• Experience working in agile product teams.

Application & Process

You can apply with your CV AND motivation letter for the Solution Architect Virtual Machines platform vacancy at Rabobank.

• Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter via ashley.lumbantobing@rabobank.nl
• If you are invited for an interview, Bo will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.
• Answers to frequently asked questions can be found at Rabobank rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A reliability check is part of the procedure.
• 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.