Chapter Lead - Consumer - Backend in Amsterdam

Are you a technical expert and enthusiastic person who inspires others to create innovative solutions? Then we need your help, in making ABN AMRO a personal bank in a digital age as Chapter Lead at our Consumer Grid!

One of our strategic goals is to become data-driven, so we can get to know our clients even more and serve them in a better way. As a Chapter Lead, you contribute to this goals by focussing on innovation within your department. You stay up-to-date on the latest developments and you mentor your team members in becoming technical experts. How are you going to shape innovation, advancements and projects within your department? 

Besides innovation, you are also going to enhance IT craftmanship of your Chapter members. Our employees get the freedom to grow and experiment. You support and guide them, so they can become the technical experts that contribute to a future-proof bank. When and where you and your team do you work, that is up to you! We work hybrid, which means you and your team can flexibly decide where and when you can work most comfortable and effectively. 

Within the Consumer Grid we work every day hard to develop and run the ABN AMRO App, Grip App and ABN AMRO Internet Banking. We strongly believe in Design Thinking and a DevOps way of working. This helps us to research the real problems of our customers and come up with the right solutions for them.

All-in-all, working at ABN AMRO means that you contribute to projects that matter and impact millions of customers! Are you up for the challenge?

As Chapter Lead, you will combine working as a backend IT Engineer on ABN AMRO Internet Banking, with your role as Lead. About 60% of the time you will work in your own block (scrum team) on refining, analysing, designing, developing/coding, testing, maintaining and realizing good quality and future proof IT solutions. The rest of the time you will manage your team. This includes:

• Educating yourself and others with the right technical capabilities and the latest innovations.
• Mentoring your Chapter members on technical craftsmanship.
• Actively participating in knowledge gaining and sharing by joining triangles, circles, communities and events. Furthermore, focus on proper knowledge dissemination across the teams, pushing the limits of our technology and focussing on holistic solutions. 
• Proper alignment with stakeholders. For example, informing leadership on the alignment you have with the Solution Engineer on the technological landscape and lifecycle. Furthermore you ensure a current stack and room for innovation on the backlog by discussing this with the Product Owners.
• Working in a DevOps environment and advocating the Agile and CICD processes. 
• On a strategical level you mentor your team, evaluate technical assessments, do interviews and ensure that new employees are properly onboarded.
• Take care of the HR processes to facilitate all aspects relating to the influx, development, performance and outflux of employees.
• Create and foster a healthy working environment and a holistic culture for your Chapter.

At ABN AMRO, we strive to be a personal bank in a digital age. That strategy is also brought to life in how we work ourselves. Hence we offer hybrid working as the new normal. This offers you the flexibility to decide when and where can work most comfortably and effectively. Of course we offer you the right resources you need in order to set up a good home office. For example an ergonomic chair, desk and laptop.
 
As chapter lead, you will work in a fast paced and accessible environment. We love to share knowledge and to challenge each other, for example by sharing our expertise in our blog, during the events of our developer community and by organising hackathons.

Withing the Consumer Grid we strive that our customers can work fully digital, on their computer and phone. We are looking for a Chapter Lead within ABN AMRO Internet Banking. As a Chapter Lead you are part of a Scrum team but also have time and space to coach team members and be lead of your own chapter of developers. 
 

You feel at home in a technical environment and are always up to date on the latest technologies. At the same time, you are people minded and a tactful inspirator. You get enthusiastic from creative and innovative solutions, and you inspire others to get started with these new opportunities. Furthermore, you constantly look to push the boundaries of new possibilities. 

Do you think you‘re a fit? Check your profile:
•    7+ years of experience in backend technology like Java, Spring Framework, rest APIs and Azure.
•    Advanced with CI/CD tooling like Jenkins 
•    Strong problem-solving skills
•    Coaching skills
•    Understand and act upon the Scrum Values (openness, courage, commitment, respect and focus)
•    Strong communication skills in English 
•    Experience in working DevOps
•    Release management 

You are given every opportunity and independence to demonstrate your professional expertise in a no-nonsense environment and to further develop yourself. We attach great value to personal development and thereby offer you many training and development opportunities. In addition:

-    Market conform salary.
-    Pension scheme.
-    Benefit budget, so you can decide yourself if you want extra holiday allowances, a lease bike or that you want the budget paid out.
-    Personal development budget.
-    Banking for better days. These are days you can use for your personal development or on which you can contribute to society.