Tech Domain Manager Financing Journey

Overview of position

Are you ready to shape the future of technology for Wholesale & Rural Banking? As Tech Domain Manager within the Financing Journey Tribe, you will play a pivotal role in driving Rabobank’s global technology strategy for our lending business, ensuring alignment across regions and enabling scalable solutions worldwide. This newly created position reflects our ambition to strengthen technology leadership within Wholesale & Rural Tech and aligns with Rabobank’s global priorities for operational excellence, compliance, and innovation
You will lead a large domain of 600+ professionals, consisting of internal employees, external partners, and contractors spread across multiple locations globally. The Financing Journey Tribe is set up to optimally support client and employee journeys in the area of Lending with digital solutions. Our tribe is divided into: Two Journey Areas (Acquisition & Relationships and Origination & Assessments), two Product Areas (Core Lending & Project Finance and Value Chain & Trade Finance) and two Foundational Areas (Flexcube Foundation Services Area and Data Capabilities). You will manage a substantial multi-million-euro budget.
Reporting directly to the Head of Wholesale & Rural Tech, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy and influence at the highest levels of the organization, ensuring stability, security, and scalability while enabling innovation at speed.

You and your job

As Tech Domain Manager Financing Journey, you will:

• Translate enterprise ambitions into actionable technology outcomes through a multi-year roadmap that spans multiple geographies.
• Drive platform consolidation, data modernization, and compliance-by-design principles.
• Lead strategic vendor partnerships and optimize sourcing strategies across nearshore and offshore models and global delivery centres to maximize efficiency and innovation
• Foster a high-performance culture rooted in accountability, innovation, and continuous learning.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders across global business units, balancing regional priorities with enterprise-wide technology opportunities

Responsibilities

Your mandate will include the following:

• Shape and execute the IT vision and roadmap for the Financing Journey domain, while enabling regional flexibility. Ensure system stability, security, and compliance across platforms and processes.
• Oversee portfolio delivery, accelerating velocity and predictability through agile practices.
• Manage strategic resource planning and vendor governance to ensure scalability and cost-efficiency.
• Drive operational excellence and cost optimization by reducing redundancies and functional overlap.
• Champion innovation through automation, AI, and emerging technologies.
• Build internal capabilities and lead cultural transformation, embedding agile ways of working.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders across business, architecture, and IT.
• Drive cross-border initiatives to harmonize processes and accelerate global delivery.
• Ensure robust risk management and adherence to regulatory frameworks.
• Lead by example, cultivating an inclusive and high-performance environment.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of difference. Bringing together people's differences is what makes us an even better bank. So we are very curious about what you can bring to our team at Wholesale & Rural Tech.

You and your talent

• Academic degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field; MBA or equivalent preferred.
• 13–15 years’ relevant managerial experience within complex, global organizations.
• Broad and strategic understanding of technology landscapes, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation principles.
• Proven track record in shaping IT strategy and delivering transformation programs impacting multiple domains.
• Strong affinity for Financing products, ideally complemented by experience in lending-related processes, enabling you to translate business needs into impactful technology solutions. Experience managing large-scale organizations  and significant budgets .
• Strong influencing and communication skills at executive level, with ability to navigate conflicting interests.
• Deep knowledge of cloud-native architectures, API-driven integration, and automation at scale.
• Familiarity with regulatory frameworks, risk management, and compliance-by-design principles.
• Demonstrated success in vendor governance and sourcing strategy.
• Skilled in Agile and Scaled Agile (SAFe) methodologies.

This is what we offer you

• Salary Scale EKI: € 180.665,28 to € 239.083,92 (annual total fixed income)
• A mobility budget to be used for a lease car or other forms of transportation
• A pension scheme to which you contribute 5.5% (or 3,5% for own choice)
• Individual pension contribution of 23% of your 12 month salary
• A management allowance to cover expenses
• An Executive health programme to work on your vitality
• A development budget that you can spend on activities related to your personal development and career
• The location of the role is Utrecht.

You and the job application process

Please reply to the vacancy for Tech Domain Manager Financing Journey before 7th January 2026:

In your cover letter, please share your experience in safeguarding technology priorities during times of significant business change. We are particularly interested in how you have provided clarity and continuity, ensuring that IT agendas remain aligned with strategic ambitions even in dynamic environments.

If you have not encountered such situations directly, we would love to hear how you would approach this challenge. For example, how would you maintain focus on long-term technology goals while supporting the business through transformation?

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Contact Anne-Mieke Martyn, Executive Recruiter via [email protected]
• We will hold the interviews through a video call and/or at our office.
• A security check is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.

Diversity & Inclusion policy

Rabobank pursues an active diversity policy. This is done by striving for diversity in terms of gender, cultural background, age, etc. when composing teams. Also, by creating a corporate culture in which people are open to each other's background and no one is excluded. This is part of our social position, and as a result, our services will be more in line with the wishes of customers. So you can be who you are. More information about diversity and inclusion can be found at https://tinyurl.com/RaboDiversity.

We look forward to your application!