Tech Lead - Tech4Dev AI Hub

This is what we offer you

• Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance

• 10% Employee Benefit Budget

• EUR 1,400 development budget per year

• Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)

• A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

View all our benefits.

Job Title

Job Description

Driving the next generation of engineering capabilities for Rabobank

• Within Tech4Dev, we build and operate the engineering capabilities that enable thousands of engineers to design, build, test and operate software in a secure, compliant and efficient way.

• The Agentic SDLC Hub extends this mission by introducing AI-driven capabilities and agentic workflows, enabling teams to fundamentally change how software is built across Rabobank.

• These capabilities represent the next step in Rabobank’s software development lifecycle—where AI supports engineers throughout the entire process, from idea to production.

• As a Tech Lead Tech4Dev AI Hub, you play a key role in shaping and delivering these capabilities, while building strong teams and driving adoption of AI-powered ways of working at scale.
   

You & your role

• As a Tech Lead Tech4Dev AI Hub, you are responsible for the delivery and evolution of AI-driven engineering capabilities that enable software development across Rabobank.

• Within the Hub, squads build standardized capabilities, reusable building blocks and adoption patterns that support AI-assisted software delivery—from development and testing to deployment and operations. Your mission is to ensure these capabilities are scalable, reliable and easy to adopt, so teams can turn AI potential into real impact.

• You lead multiple DevOps squads with a multidisciplinary composition (engineering, consulting and analysis) and are integrally responsible for IT delivery (24/7), ensuring continuity, performance and control of the capabilities you own.

• Within the organisation, you are part of the Area Triangle (Tech Lead, Senior Tech Lead, Area Lead, Business Architect) and contribute to the direction and priorities of the Tech4Dev area and the AI Hub.
   

Examples for practices

• Building capabilities for AI-assisted software development, such as code generation, testing and review

• Turning GenAI and agent-based prototypes into reusable, production-ready capabilities

• Embedding AI-driven capabilities into existing engineering tools, platforms and workflows

• Enabling teams to adopt AI capabilities in a scalable and practical way across the SDLC

• Defining standards for agent design, usage and integration within the engineering landscape

Facts & figures

• 36–40 hours per week

• Leadership of multiple DevOps squads

• Span of control: approximately 30–40 engineers and specialists

• Impact across a large part of the engineering organisation

• Focus on both innovation and scaling adoption

Top responsibilities

• IT Delivery & continuity

• End-to-end responsibility for stable and reliable delivery of AI-driven capabilities (24/7)

• People leadership & capability building

• Hiring, coaching and developing a multidisciplinary team

• Capability ownership

• Ensure AI capabilities are scalable, maintainable and widely adopted

• Engineering culture

• Enable autonomous, high-performing teams and continuous improvement

• Standardisation & simplification

• Turn experimentation into reusable and standardised capabilities

• Risk, security & compliance

• Ensure responsible, secure and compliant use of AI within engineering capabilities

• Stakeholder management

• Navigate a complex environment and align across Tech, Architecture, Data and Business

• Financial steering

• Manage budgets and sourcing, including external partners

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. It is precisely by combining people's differences that we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our team of Tech4Dev AI Hub.

Work on yourself and the world around you at the same time

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: ‘At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about

You & your talent

• Academic working and thinking level

• 5–10+ years experience in complex IT environments

• Experience with DevOps, Agile and large-scale engineering environments

• Strong leadership skills across people, process and technology

• Affinity with AI, GenAI or advanced automation in software development

• Understanding of risk, security and compliance in enterprise environments

• Strong stakeholder management skills

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to drive change

You & the application process

You can apply for the Tech Lead Tech4Dev AI Hub vacancy at Rabobank, until fulfilment.

• Questions about working at Rabobank and the process? Ashley Lumbantobing, IT Recruiter via [email protected]

• 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.jobs/en/faq

• A reliability check is part of the procedure

• We respect your privacy

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

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