Sr. Java Developer in Amsterdam

What we look for

ING/Group Services is looking for a DEV engineer to strengthen its operations team in the Credit Risk domain. If you want to work at a place where we believe that you can live by the agile manifesto without jeopardizing the necessary continuity, compliance and QA measures, where we are committed to deliver stable and secure services to end users, and where we have a 'no nonsense' getting-things done mentality, please read on.

Your main focus

• Adapting the Credit Risk Datawarehouse applications to deliver Regulatory, Compliance & Architectural Changes.
• Improving stability, performance and reliability of the Credit Risk Datawarehouse applications.
• Provide 2nd line support to ensure stability and continuity of Credit Risk Reporting Services. 
• Comply with the IT security Standards.
• Build scalable deployment pipelines, to support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Create and maintain the development environment and tools used to code solutions.
• Automate test and make it part of the design, code, build and release process.

In addition to developing software solutions, you will contribute to:

• Streamlining the end to end IT operation process of Credit Risk Datawarehouse team.
• Optimization of the service stability and continuity.
• Help Credit Risk to make big steps to the future. Enhance the CI/CD maturity, move to a containerized environment, prepare for the move to the public cloud etc.

Your work environment

You will work in the IT organization of COO Risk and Finance. You will be part of the Vortex team delivering IT solutions and services for the Credit Risk Tribe. The Vortex teams operate according to the Scrum Agile development process. The focus is on high-quality secure-critical software delivered in time. The key development technology used are Java, Sybase IQ (SQL), Oracle 19, Linux, and Perl. The Azure DevOps is the single solution used for version control, build, release etc.

Profile (skills & competences)

We are looking for a person who:

• Has a relevant higher education or university degree.
• Has at least 10 years of software engineering experience.
• Is a excellent team player, great challenger, customer centric and eager to learn.
• Loves technology and naturally stays up-to-date on relevant innovations.
• Has great English communication skills, verbal as well as written. 
• Has experience and understand the benefits of the agile scrum methodology.
• Holds knowledge and experience on most of the following technical skills and competences:
  • Java 8+ (including multi-threading)
  • Spring (boot, core, mvc, data, JDBC, cloud, security)
  • Hibernate (or any other ORM)
  • Java Unit testing             
  • REST APIs (webservices)
  • Clear concepts of microservices
  • Maven
  • Git
  • Clear concepts of CI-CD
  • Docker
  • Basic Linux (including some admin, networking, scripting, etc.)
  • Security: Web (OWASP), other best practices, Transport layer security, encryption, various authentication schemes viz. bearer tokens, JWT, etc., code scans and code quality checks
  • Database : Relational database DDL and DML (procedures knowledge - nice to have)
  • Web & App servers viz. WebSphere, tomcat or any other app server & apache, nginx or any other web server.
  • Performance tuning of Java\Spring\Web applications. Able to do profiling, memory analysis etc. 

What we offer

• A salary package in the range of grade 10
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities 
• An informal and professional working environment with innovative colleagues 
• Public transport pass (NS Business Card – free travel in NL)
• A full-time position (36- 40 hours a week)
• Pension scheme 
• 13th-month salary 
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS)
• A variety of extra benefits