Business Architect (Digital Banking)

Location: Hybrid, Utrecht, Netherlands. Candidates must already hold a valid visa allowing them to work in the Netherlands.

Gross monthly salary: €7,556–€10,794 for a 36-hour work week.

Company

hirify.global is a bank developing coherent digital customer experiences through shared platform capabilities across public websites, prospect experiences, online banking, secure knowledge, and intermediary services.

What you will do

• Maintain an overview of customer journeys, business capabilities, processes, data, and applications, making dependencies and wider consequences visible.
• Bring business, technology, design, and delivery stakeholders together to evaluate trade-offs and support architectural decisions.
• Shape architectural direction with the Area Lead and Tech Lead by translating strategic ambitions into priorities and transformation roadmaps.
• Review architectural options with solution architects, moving into technical detail when needed while maintaining the overall direction.
• Support delivery teams, revisit assumptions, and use practical insights to improve the architecture and future decisions.

Requirements

• Experience in business or enterprise architecture within a complex organisation.
• Ability to connect strategy, customer needs, and business capabilities with solution-level choices.
• Sufficient technical understanding to act as a constructive and credible sparring partner for solution architects.
• Experience bringing business and technology stakeholders together to make complex decisions.
• Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain complex architectural topics to different audiences without losing precision.

Nice to have

• Practical experience with architecture modelling and methods such as ArchiMate and TOGAF.
• Experience developing architectural priorities or transformation roadmaps.
• Experience with shared digital platform capabilities or complex digital customer journeys.
• Collaborative approach, intellectual curiosity, and confidence to challenge assumptions constructively.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid balance between home and office work.
• Thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, 10% Employee Benefit Budget, and pension benefits.
• €1,400 annual development budget.
• Inclusive culture that values differences, open perspectives, and collaboration.
• Full-time schedule of 36 hours per week.

Hiring process

• Submit an application; shortlisted candidates may have one or more interviews, including online interviews.
• A reliability assessment and, potentially, an additional assessment form part of the procedure.
• Successful candidates undergo legal screening before starting.