IT Development Engineer III in Amsterdam

At ABN AMRO Clearing we aspire to lead the way to safe and transparent markets. In banking, Clearing denotes all activities from the time a commitment (buy or sell) is made for a transaction until it is settled. Clearing acts as an intermediary between clients and the exchanges they trade on. We become the buyer to the seller and the seller to the buyer, taking over the risk to reconcile orderd between the parties in the transaction. We do so for professional traders, investment managers and corporates. We understand them and strive to deliver reliable high-quality service across the globe. Working at ABN AMRO Clearing means thriving in an international, professional yet informal, fast-paced, IT-driven environment.

Our IT Development Engineers work on large technical projects, help set the direction for our clearing and risk management application landscape and serve as role models within the organization. As IT Development Engineer, you establish vision and technical direction for major initiatives, through building large proportions of high quality and architecturally sound systems. You develop a deep understanding of trading, clearing, risk management and what the 'machine' is doing. You're not attached to tools and technologies, but you focus on solving problems. You lead the most complex projects while questioning every assumption, involving fellow Engineers and Business partners. This also means hands-on programming, testing and putting the new solutions into production. You bring clarity to complexity and demonstrate smart ways to simplify our ecosystem. Together with your team you deliver value to the business partners, aiming for stakeholder satisfaction.

You'll have a lot of freedom, but also responsibility. The scope of our systems is large and you will work on one of our most important assets. Your decisions have substantial impact on the trust in the financial market space and the flow of millions of Euros. Your actions will result in meeting obligations towards clients and regulators and extending our reputation of a trusted clearing partner.

Our organisation is flat and our culture is open. Our systems play an essential role in everything we do in the clearing and risk management domain. That is why our application development teams collaborate closely to explore ideas and set the new direction. Together we build and maintain an outstanding suite of reliable, high performing systems and applications.

The Market Risk development team consists of 17 team members, using the scrum principles for their daily discipline. Current core technology stack: Linux, Postgres, Kafka, Docker, Openshift, Atlassian Stack, C++, Python ao. Investigating cloud technology AWS. 

•    Strong engineering instinct and a deep understanding of computer science fundamentals and mathmatical models
•    A demonstrated record of achievement as key member in large technical projects working with C++
•    Innovative, big-picture thinking grounded in real-world pragmatism 
•    Desire to continuously improve in a rapidly evolving environment 
•    Great interpersonal skills and ability to clearly express your thoughts 
•    Readiness to drive technical improvement, promote engineering principles and do the right thing 
•    Affinity with financial services and risk management 
 

• The opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally
• The opportunity to pro-actively work on your vitality and fitness
• A competitive salary 
• A supplementary benefit budget of 11%, which you can spend on additional fringe benefits
• A personal development budget of EUR 1.000 per year
• An annual public transportation pass or travel budget, depending on the function
• A solid pension plan