Enterprise Architect - Investment Management

Your role

As an enterprise architect in the asset management domain, you translate strategy into clear IT solutions and architectural frameworks. You will work on developing a robust, future-ready architecture for asset management processes and systems. You act as a sparring partner for both business and IT, guide DevOps teams and projects, and contribute to innovation and the optimisation of our services.

This is what you love to do:

• Develop and safeguard the domain architecture, along with associated frameworks, policies, and guidelines.
• Translate strategic objectives into concrete IT solutions for asset management.
• Provide guidance to projects and offer advice to DevOps teams, project teams, information and portfolio managers.
• Contribute to enterprise architectures and policy development.
• Identify technological developments and translate these into opportunities for the organisation.
• Encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration within the architecture team and with other departments.

Your department

As an enterprise architect you will be working closely together with Investment management IT. IM IT consists of 90 colleagues, bringing a diversity of backgrounds, expertise, and experience. We mainly work with integrated software platforms such as SimCorp Dimension, Bloomberg, and Aladdin.

Your profile

These are the skills you bring with you:

• A minimum of a higher professional (HBO) degree in Computer Science, Business IT & Management or a similar – preferably technical – field.
• At least 5 years’ experience as an architect in complex IT environments.
• Excellent advisory skills and the ability to connect people.
• In-depth technical knowledge is essential.
• Experience with or knowledge of architecture frameworks and tools is an advantage.
• Familiarity with asset management processes and systems (or the willingness to quickly acquire this knowledge) is a plus.
• Experience with Azure, Snowflake, and SimCorp Dimension is an advantage.

We offer

At PGGM we are proud of our core values: trust, teamwork and innovation. These values arose from the best stories of our colleagues, moments when they were at their best. We believe those moments occur when you can be 100% yourself. At PGGM, we value the unique combination of your personal and professional attributes. Because what really counts at PGGM are people, one hundred percent! At PGGM, you can count on:

• A pleasant workplace at our office in Zeist/Den Haag and, from the middle of 2028, in the center of Utrecht.
• A gross monthly salary in scale between €5.620,- and €8.028,- based on 36 hours, depending on your knowledge and experience.
• A thirteenth month.
• A good pension scheme as a member of the PFZW pension fund (71% paid by PGGM, 29% by the employee).
• An annual Fit for the Future budget of €300 net, which you can use to improve your mental, physical, or financial fitness.
• A generous training budget for internal and external training courses or education.
• More than 26 vacation days (employees can choose to swap up to two national Christian holidays for a day that is important to them).
• Flexibility in working hours and working from home options.
• A net internet allowance of €45 per month (€540 per year).
• Group discount on supplementary health insurance (21% in 2024) and dental insurance (15% in 2024).
• A work-from-home arrangement with a maximum allowance of €900 to set up a health and safety-compliant home office.

You can find more information about our terms of employment and salary scales in our collective labor agreement: read more

Want to know more?

Is this your new role at PGGM?
Would you like to join us and share the responsibility of ensuring a good pension for more than 5.6 million pension participants? Then apply for this vacancy.
Do you have any questions? Please Vincent Uitendaal at vincent.uitendaal@pggm.nl
More information about the application process can be found on our website: Our application procedure | PGGM.

PGGM and Hybrid Working

At PGGM, we have created a hybrid working environment that enables us to combine flexibility with collaboration. Our employees have the opportunity to work both in the office and remotely, depending on their personal preferences and the nature of their work. By offering hybrid working, we aim to give our employees the freedom to shape their own working style, while at the same time retaining the benefits of a shared workplace.

Application Process

Upon receiving your application, we will follow a number of steps to see if we are a good match for each other. During the recruitment and selection process for new employees, PGGM collects and processes personal data, which may also include reviewing social media profiles. PGGM believes it is highly important that this is done carefully, confidentially, transparently, and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and related laws and regulations. Please read this document to understand what happens to your personal data.

Note to Agencies and Intermediaries
We are aware that many external parties would like to assist in our search or offer their services for this vacancy; however, at PGGM, we recruit our new colleagues directly. Acquisition regarding recruitment and selection assignments or unsolicited CV submissions are therefore not appreciated and will not be processed. Should we require external support, we will contact you directly.

We always communicate via official PGGM email addresses (@pggm.nl). Have you been approached by a third party and/or do you doubt whether the contact is genuinely on behalf of PGGM? Please feel free to verify if there is indeed a legitimate partnership with third parties by sending us an email or giving us a call.