RabobankTech Domain Manager Digital Platform (Executive Vice President)
Jun. 2022 - Aug. 2024Utrecht, NederlandLed all software engineering concerning the Rabobank App and web propositions for consumer and business banking. I am a frontrunner in the bank's digital transformation, using agile, DevOps, and SRE approaches. I am part of the Tribe Leadership Team and MT Retail NL Tech. Special attention to:
● Develop a Digital Vision and Strategy for 2022 - 2025, focusing on platform engineering, data management and AI;
● Boost digital operational resilience, achieving a 50% reduction in downtime and heightening NPS score and App Store rating. This included the development of data stores for more resilience and better performance;
● Deploy GenAI tech, enhancing engineering efficiency by 10% & increasing engineer engagement by 20%. Start up of other data driven initiatives to enhance engineering productivity (own LLM based on Llama);
● Supervise the delivery by a tribe of over 550 FTEs and manage partnerships with Cognizant, TCS, CGI, and AWS to provide state-of-the-art digital solutions via a global distributed team model.
● Direct the shift across tribes from legacy platforms to open-source, yielding structural annual savings of 10M in 2023;
● Stakeholder management with Managing Board Rabobank and Executive Level of suppliers/ partners;
● Championed the standardisation of platform strategy architecture (on AWS and Azure) across tribes (more than 150 squads);
● Strategic Supplier/ Procurement Executive for global professional service CGI and Schuberg Philis;
● Coaching and developing a team of twelve IT Leads. Volume: 550+ FTE, 70 mln Partners: Cognizant, CGI, Schuberg Philis