Job Description:
As a Tech lead in the Base Workplace and Applications department, you will coach, lead and support squads to deliver standardised, future proof and user-friendly solutions that will shape the future digital workplace services of Rabobank.

You and your position:
You understand that the Tech Lead Base Workplace and Applications role has many aspects, including HR management, capability building, financial steering and ensuring compliance with policies and standards. You strive to enhance your work every day to create great teams that deliver the best workplace solutions for our customers. You also have a passion for people and technology and are a leader of DevOps culture, encouraging learning and adoption of DevOps techniques within the team.

The Tech Lead Base Workplace and Applications will operate in one or more steering triangles, together with a Product Owner and Solution Architect, to set direction for squads. You will also work in a management team with other Tech leads to achieve the strategic priorities of the department:
• Empower future fit squads to work as autonomous, high performing teams equipped with skills and knowledge required to meet future requirements;
• Positively impact society and sustainability, acting as a role model and inspiring those around you to help grow a better world together;
• Simplify and standardise our services by de-duplicating solutions and addressing special cases to reduce complexity;
• Future proof the technology stack, driving modernisation and decommissioning legacy products and techniques;
• Proactively embed security and compliance, ensuring that products are secure by design and that squads feel ownership of risk and security activities.

Together we achieve more than alone:
In Base Workplace and Applications, we believe in the power of diversity. By combining the differences of every person in our team, we become a better organization. In every way, we are curious to learn what you can bring to the team.

Base Workplace and Applications is a chapter within CITO responsible to build, deliver and support the devices and workplace applications required by global colleagues to work securely and efficiently. The 125 professionals in the department populate and facilitate DevOps squads in the ‘Work and Health’ tribe of CHRO, where squads work together to make Rabobank a ‘great place to be’ for all employees.

As a Tech Lead, you will join the Base Workplace and Applications management team along with a Senior Tech Lead and other Tech Leads to ensure uniform working methods across the department and to promote knowledge exchange and learning among squads. You will participate in the steering triangle of several squads where, together with a Product owner and Solution Architect, you will offer the leadership and direction that members of DevOps squads will need to achieve the area and department goals.

• Management/HR responsible for approximately 40 FTEs;
• Resource management of IT capabilities within squads – recruitment, sourcing;
• Capability building of team members – continuous upskilling and reskilling of employees;
• Manage internal and external suppliers and (IT) vendors;
• Steer finance for team within budget;
• Drive continuous improvement and engineering culture;
• Ensure that systems comply with InControl/Security requirements and standards;
• Address IT impediments of squads.

As Tech Lead you aim for balanced leadership, to guide both people and results. You have experience in the agile way of working, comprehend the risk & compliance requirements of a bank, and have a wide interest and view on IT trends. You are proactive and can take responsibility and have the inner drive to make a positive difference.

The Tech Lead we are looking for is a people-oriented team player who can attract and retain the best talent. In addition, it is important that you have the following characteristics:
• Experience with managing end user compute or IT infrastructure teams/services;
• Proven leadership and HR responsible experience;
• Accustomed and comfortable with a “span of control” of approximately 40 employees;
• Financial acumen – experience managing finance, cost models and budgets up to €10M;
• Cooperative mindset – lead by example and inspire colleagues to think sustainably and help others;
• Creates, facilitates, and inspires high performing teams and focused on the development of the team to achieve results together;
• Experienced networking and stakeholder management;
• Knowledge of DevOps teams, scaled Agile, IT automation, Operational Excellence, IT4IT ;
• Excellent communication skills, spoken and written (English);
• Coaching (Practitioner);
• Judgement & Decision making (Practitioner);
• Agility (Master);
• Complex problem solving (Master);
• Collaborating with others (Master).
• We would like to receive the personal motivation of the candidate and CV in English;
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Startdatum: Z.S.M.
Einddatum: 31-05-2025
Optie tot verlengen: Nee
Aantal uur per week: 36-40 uur
All departments are working hybrid;