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# Tech Lead Tech4Ops - IT Leader Driving AIOps Transformation

- **Company:** Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.
- **Location:** Utrecht, Netherlands
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** €5,994.0 - €8,563.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.nl/job/nl3a39b59d1168c84598b1187582e23ba4/eaa

## About the Role

As a Tech Lead, you are an experienced technology leader with a proven track record in complex IT environments and organizational change. You combine a strong technical foundation with the ability to provide vision, navigate complexity, and lead people through transformation., Specific expertise in observability stacks, monitoring platforms, and telemetry frameworks (metrics/logs/traces) is a plus but not required. Strong (DevOps) engineering foundation is however a must.
At least 3-5 years of experience in a technology leadership role, with a proven ability to lead DevOps /Agile multiple squads or teams through organizational and technology transformation.
Courage and ownership: you take initiative, challenge norms constructively, and help move the organization forward.
Strong coaching skills: you help teams grow in autonomy, engineering quality, and decision-making.
Academic working and thinking level, with at least 5 years of experience in a leadership role
Experience leading multiple squads or teams in a DevOps and Agile Way of Working environment.Conceptual clarity: you simplify complexity, recognize patterns, and act with contextual awareness.
You are comfortable working with ambiguity and can quickly build enough understanding to guide impediment resolution and create clarity, even in relatively new subject areas.
You use data to strengthen leadership decisions, define strategy, and support structured and systematic execution.
Passion for IT and engineering, with enough technical curiosity to understand new domains and challenge assumptions constructively.

## Description

To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a mandatory cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the role. Please pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers; together with your CV, these responses form the basis for our evaluation in this round. Submitting both a CV and answers to the three questions is the minimum requirement to be considered in the selection process. A cover letter is not mandatory but may be submitted optionally.
You may draw on your work experience, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions:
How would you describe yourself as an IT leader? And what specifically makes you want to be an IT leader?
What makes you suitable to become responsible for the IT delivery (improvement) and HR of 4-5 squads (around 30 people)? What experience and knowledge do you bring (please provide examples)? What are your development areas?
What vision and/or future outlook do you see for our IT4IT services in managing operations RUN for 1,250 IT squads within Rabobank?
Please submit these answers in the application section titled 'Add your cover letter (optional)' on the website portal.
You & the application process
If you are interested in a position, please submit your application directly through our careers site. Internal employees should follow the internal application process through the system; no separate coffee chats with the hiring manager are organized outside the standard process. We do not process individual application requests through other channels. To ensure a consistent and fair recruitment process, all candidate communication is coordinated through the recruiter and all applications must be submitted and managed through the appropriate system.
You can apply for the Tech Lead Tech4Ops - Monitoring & Observability (AIOps) vacancy at Rabobank, until fulfilment.
Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter via
If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule it.
Answers to frequently asked questions can be found at Rabobank


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