Solution Architect

You will define and build the backbone of our automation strategy, shaping a platform that accelerates business processes across a complex enterprise. Your leadership will influence technical direction, guide engineers, and deliver a product that sets new standards for process orchestration within ING. You will be pivotal in scaling the team towards a high performing and autonomous team.

• Strategic Influence: Play a key role in defining the technical direction for a mission-critical platform used across the enterprise.
• Cutting-Edge Tech: Work with Camunda, Java, modern front-end frameworks, and platform engineering practices.
• Collaborative Culture: Join a team that values technical excellence, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement.
• Professional Growth: Opportunities to lead architectural decisions, mentor teams, and shape enterprise-wide standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect and implement a scalable process orchestration platform using Camunda.
• Provide technical leadership to engineers, ensuring best practices in design, coding, and deployment.
• Define platform standards, integration patterns, and governance for internal consumers.
• Collaborate with consumers, product owners and other stakeholders to align technical decisions with business goals.
• Drive innovation in platform engineering, including performance, resilience, and automation.

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

• Extensive Java engineering experience (design, development, performance tuning).
• Proven expertise with Camunda or similar BPM/workflow engines.
• Strong background in platform engineering for large-scale enterprise environments.
• Modern front-end development experience (React, Angular, or similar frameworks).
• Experience with Oracle databases, including schema design and optimization.
• Ability to lead technical direction, mentor engineers, and influence architecture decisions.
• Solid understanding of integration patterns, APIs, and distributed systems.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven systems.
• Experience with cloud-native deployments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Management experience and experience in scaling high performing teams.
• Experience with LLMs and agentic AI (designing, integrating, or leveraging AI-driven workflows).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and DevOps practices.

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

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

Who we are

ING is a global bank with a strong European base. Our more than 60,000 employees offer retail and wholesale banking services in more than 100 countries. Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business.

Our products include savings, payments, investments, loans and mortgages in most of our retail markets. For our Wholesale Banking clients we provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments and cash management and trade and treasury services.

We aim to bring our customers value by making banking frictionless, removing barriers to progress and giving them confidence in their ability to make decisions and to move forward.