IT Solution Architect Application & IBM I (Mainframe)

As a IT Solution Architect within ABN Amro Clearing you play a crucial role in moving our business forward. You will have responsibility for design and governance of IT solutions with a focus on our core clearing services and products. You will focus on the optimal use of our IT landscape and steer our change in the direction of our defined future state architecture. Today, but also in the future ABN Amro Clearing wants to use modern technologies. The function of IT Solution Architect is best described as: 
1. Dealing with Complexity. ABN Amro Clearing is a bank in itself. As a Solution Architect you are able to balance short-term delivery of IT solutions against delivery of long-term solutions that fit within strategy and architecture.
2. Deliver. Our business lines are demanding. You are able to discuss the opportunities as well as the constraints related to business requests. Business requirements are key, but fit within the application of the IT architecture strategy is your responsibility and is governed by you.
3. Technology. Our IT environment provides lots of opportunities to work on tactical and strategic level related to the impact of IT-events as AI, Cloud and Streaming.
  
With the following results (SMART)         
It is your job to oversee our landscape. But also, to inspire, involve and activate the development teams with each and every change. You investigate, tune, and verify standards and strategic views with internal and external global stakeholders (e.g. product owners, business managers, IT managers, external authorities). You support decision making by creating, providing, and communicating clear deliverables.
You develop and maintain solutions architectures in line with global target architecture, global policies, security standards and best practices covering all aspects from business service down to related information technology (the full stack) in order to contribute to and increase the reliability, security, flexibility, quality, and cost efficiency of the global organization. 
As our clearing services are of strategic importance and growing, we want to reshape our clearing landscape into globalized, harmonized and future-proof clearing services. The transformation program we run is of strategic importance and highly visible in the organization. The program focuses on business service globalization and technology consolidation and modernization. You will play a vital role in shaping and executing the strategic vision for clearing.