Domain Architect at Group Finance

As one of the Domain Architects for the Finance domain, you design, maintain, and guide the architecture for specific Finance capabilities, such as General Ledger, Financial Closing, Reporting, Treasury, Actuarial support, Financial Planning & Control, Budgeting & Forecasting, and Management Accounting. You translate the Finance strategy and Enterprise Architecture guidelines into clear and actionable domain-level architecture. You ensure that solutions delivered within the Finance landscape are consistent, secure, compliant, and aligned with the target architecture defined by the Enterprise Architect.

You are an advisor to the leadership in Group Finance on specific domains. You play a key role in enabling reliable financial processes, efficient operations, and regulatory compliance. Your architectural designs directly support improvements in data quality, reporting automation, and integration with the wider insurance value chain. Your decisions reduce technical debt and help create a more maintainable and future‑ready Finance IT landscape.

You support management, Product Owners and Dev Ops teams in ensuring that the Finance domain operates on a robust, compliant, secure, and scalable IT landscape that supports NN’s regulatory obligations including IFRS 17, IFRS 9, Solvency II, ESG reporting, and enabling fast‑closing ambitions. You deliver tangible architecture results such as advice memos, implementation standards and guidelines, programme guidance on technical solutions, cost/benefit analysis, input for project and programme business cases and plans, and much more.

You guide stakeholders in decision making to reduce complexity, strengthen data quality, enable cost savings, deliver results according to strict timelines, comply with internal and external rules and regulations, and enable digital innovation. Your stakeholders are primarily in the Group Finance department, but secondary also in Financial Risk leadership and Business Unit leadership.

Your role is advisory and you help management in making decisions concerning the IT landscape of Group Finance in NN, and your focus will be on one or more domains (accounting, consolidation, reporting, operations, etc.) in the Finance environment. You are a sparring partner for many stakeholders, including Product Owners and Lead Engineers. You have an engineering mindset, where you bring hands‑on engineering skills and a pragmatic approach to problem‑solving.

You have deep knowledge of emerging technologies, engineering patterns, and knowledge how to implement business processes in effective IT solutions. Finally, you support our long‑term ambition to migrate the fragmented Finance‑IT landscape in NN to a highly standardized environment based on SAP S4/HANA, including solutions such as SAP S/4

HANA Insurance, SAP Advanced Financial Closing, SAP S/4

HANA Cloud for cash management, SAP Cloud ERP Private group reporting, SAP Financial Product Sub‑Ledger, SAP Profitability & Performance Management, SAP BTP, SAP BDC, and many more.

Your responsibilities and tasks include:

• Develop and maintain domain‑specific architecture blueprints, principles, and guidelines
• Refine target architecture into concrete solution directions for your Finance capability area
• Create and review solution designs in collaboration with Solution Architects and IT Delivery
• Provide architecture input for projects, releases, and Finance change initiatives
• Validate designs against domain architecture standards and enterprise‑wide principles
• Support business analysts and product owners in shaping user stories and epics from an architectural viewpoint
• Work closely with Finance process owners, IT delivery teams, project managers, data specialists, and the Enterprise Architect
• Facilitate alignment between business needs and IT design decisions
• Translate complex architectural topics into clear, actionable recommendations
• Ensure coherent data flows, data definitions, and lineage for your domains
• Contribute to improvements in integration between Finance and other insurance domains (e.g., Policy, Claims, Risk)
• Support assessments of new tools, systems, and vendor solutions…