Solution Architect

Your new company

We are New10, a financial service scale-up initiated by ABN AMRO Bank. At New10 we believe that business financing should be easy and accessible. Our purpose is to empower businesses to access the funding they need. Though our mission is simple, our ambition is bold: become the #1 engine powering North-West European SMEs.

We are on a quest to transform the financing ecosystem by using the speed and innovative strength of a fintech with the expertise and funding of a bank to deliver a fast, simple, and clear financing experience to SMEs. To support our growth towards this ambition, we’re looking for a Solution Architect.

Your new role

Within New10, our Tech Platform is our biggest asset in digitalizing and automating the customer-journeys of Entrepreneurs. We have a modern technology stack of microservices on a serverless architecture on AWS, combined with Salesforce as our CRM. We continue to strive to level-up our technology, architectural guidelines, software development lifecycle, and automation.

Therefore, we are looking for a skilled Solution Architect that will join our team of Architects and Engineering Managers and lead the management and maintenance of our organisations cloud architecture. You will be directly reporting to the CTO.

Requirements

We’re looking for someone who...

can help us scale our business! We have big technological ambitions for the upcoming years. We are growing under our own label, are integrating more with our shareholder ABN AMRO Bank, and investigating new propositions through partnerships and Embedded Finance opportunities.

Your role will be a hybrid mix between multiple disciplines of architecture. For example: you will help define the future-state architecture, doing stakeholder management with our shareholder, writing our API-first framework, assisting with automating our KPI’s, and running a PoC on making our solutions more secure.

We are looking for a multi-disciplinary individual that loves:

• Creating and executing a well-informed cloud strategy
• To understand how technology can help our business growing faster
• Developing and organizing cloud systems
• Evaluating building things ourselves vs. integrating off-the-shelf solutions
• Bringing our technology to even further levels of innovation while keeping things simple
• Improving our Software Development Lifecycle and DevOps in terms of automation and maturity
• Bring your ideas to life explaining and evangelising towards our tech community, management, and other stakeholders

Requirements

Are you our ideal candidate and interested to take this role and join the team? Then you should have:

• 5+ years experience in a Cloud Architect/Solution Architect or similar role in FinTech
• Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies and current computing trends
• A base knowledge on IT-security best-practices
• Effective communication skills (written and verbal in English) to properly articulate complicated problems and initiatives to management and other IT development partners
• Salesforce experience is preferred
• Solid experience with AWS offerings, especially serverless
• Experience with Domain Driven Design and designing and integrating APIs (networking/VPC, API Gateways, etc)

Benefits

At New10 we put our people first. We offer an open, collaborative and supportive working environment and guarantee every New10er that they’ll have a tremendous opportunity for long-term growth and learning. Between the 130 of us, from 25+ different nationalities, we are:

• Entrepreneurs ourselves, thinking on our feet and making sure the right things happen
• Genuinely interested and curious, looking to deeply understand our customers and their context
• Driven by data, embracing creativity and exciting technologies
• Open-minded, bringing fresh perspectives and jumping at the opportunity to build an effective team together

We offer

• The unique opportunity to grow with a fast-growing fintech scale-up backed by one of the largest banks in the Netherlands
• Gross yearly salary from €114.000,- to €144.000,- based on 40 hours, including 8% Holiday Allowance and 11% benefits budget
• Working-From-Home-AllowanceGreat pensions scheme
• €1000,- Annual Development Budget
• Private and Business use of the NS (Dutch Railway) Business Card and Phone Subscription
• 5 weeks of paid holiday and the possibility to buy more holidays using your Benefit Budget
• Hybrid way of working, balanced with office life and in-person events at our fantastic offices near Amstel Station with nerf guns, hoverboards and table football & events like summer parties, wine tastings, hackathons, winter sports, weekly animal-friendly office day and much more
• Apple Gear for work

Interested?

Please submit your C.V. and Cover Letter via the Application button. If your profile looks like a match, we’ll invite you for a first informal conversation with one of our team.

Here’s what you can expect about our hiring process:

• Step 1: 20 min introduction call with a member of the hiring team
• Step 2: One interview with New10 colleagues focusing on the Experience and Culture match
• Step 3: Case and Presentation
• Step 4: Final job offer
• Step 5: Awesome onboarding

For more information, please contact Jacob Goudsmit (jacob.goudsmit@new10.com).

Last updated on Jul 5, 2024