IT Manager Finance and Risk in Amsterdam

ING is transforming and moving fast towards being an IT company offering the best possible solutions and services in the financial sector to millions of appreciated clients all over the globe.

We are growing our own unique Top Engineering culture with the energy and innovation power of a FinTech start-up, we are building an ecosystem for our clients like WeChat and are ahead in re-inventing our market’s perspective like Tesla. We are working hard to stay ahead in being a financial innovator. Therefore, we are looking for a Chapter Lead Feature Engineer telling us what we should do better and how to keep offering the best services to both our business and private customers. Get an impression here:

1 What’s a Feature Engineer Finance within ING Group Services?

ING Group Services is looking for a Chapter Lead Feature Engineer in the change domain of COO Risk and Finance organization. COO Risk and Finance providing reporting, analysis and data quality assurance & governance services to internal and external stakeholders. As feature engineer you contribute to bringing Risk and Finance to the next level by driving innovation and standardization across the global function. The Chapter Lead also raises the craftsmanship level of the Feature Engineers by hiring, retaining and training the Feature Engineer. To help us realize our goals and ambitions we are looking for an excellent Chapter Lead Feature Engineer in this field. Hiring Manager is Peter Penning.

A Chapter Lead Feature Engineer does the following:

• Hierarchical line-management of a group of approx. 12 Feature engineers

• Hiring of highly specialized Feature Engineers for Risk and Finance

• Developing craftsmanship of the function and the Risk and Finance domain

• Refines technical solution directions and technical dependencies drafted in the Epic in coordination with the Business Analyst, the Domain Architect and relevant Squad members, using his/her in-depth IT/application knowledge.  

• He/she verifies the extent to which the realized Feature works as designed. He/she facilitates Feature planning, cooperation between Squads and the Tribe Team (if any) and Feature delivery; herewith maintaining close relationship with (business) counterpart(s)

• Analyse information at different abstraction levels to translate high level architecture into manageable solution building blocks for squads

• Understand and process different viewpoints of business and IT stakeholders to support building shared vision and strategy for implementing IT projects

• Help shape the feature roadmap in periodical planning sessions towards Vision, Themes and Epics

Your “backpack” should contain:

• Bachelor or Master Degree in IT (Engineering)

• Minimum of 5 experience as linemanager or projectmanager

• An almost congenital disposition for excellence

• Experience in refining and designing features, challenge and advise Product Owners on feature dependencies and priorities

• Domain expertise in Risk or Finance is a big plus

• Understanding of DataWareHousing concepts

• You’ve got experience with the agile way of software delivery

If you tick the bigger part of these boxes, then we are looking for you!