IT Team Lead - Risk in Amsterdam

Within ING Group Services we are looking for an IT Chapter Lead for the chapter GRC NFR within Tribe CNFR. The chapter consists of IT Engineers in the role of DEV and OPS Engineer, managing NFR software solutions and platforms.

ING works in multi-disciplinary teams based on Scrum, Agile and DevOps principles. Responsibility for Infra and Security is adapted within the squads, business & IT have joined, making a squad end-to-end responsible for a customer journey or product. This is also called the ING adaptation of the ‘Spotify’ model. For more about our way of working please visit: 

As a Chapter Lead you are a senior IT engineer who leads the chapter GRC NFR.

As a senior IT engineer you set the example, transfer your knowledge to the chapter, drive innovation, voice opinions and deliver as a member of a squad.

You are part of the leadership team of the Tribe CNFR. Together with the IT Area Lead and other Chapter Lead a vision is developed and executed to inspire engineers to grow and drive technological innovation. Managing your chapter means enabling our engineers to grow their mastery and to develop themselves through continuous on-the-job coaching, 1:1 conversations, creating a development plan and monitoring it together. Finding the true purpose of your engineers and enabling them to grow in what they are passionate about and excel in finding that win-win situation for the engineer and ING.

Your employees work in BusDevOps-squads that combine the expertise of Business Analysts, DEV and OPS engineers and are self-managing, autonomous units with end-to-end responsibility to deliver and support applications to meet the needs of the stakeholders and end users. They work according to Agile Scrum, which means that work is sliced in stories and planned via sprints, and as a team take responsibility to deliver value according to sprint planning.

Your employees are IT Engineers in the role of DEV or OPS Engineer, active in the iRisk squad.

Focus is on ensuring operational availability of services to the customers next to compliancy to IT Risk Controls (including audits), using consistent software delivery through environments (DTAP). As this area is going through a time of many developments and changes, it is a dynamic area in which there is lots of opportunity to learn, grow and excel.

The engineers in the chapter manage and support the applications in the domain of NFR (iRisk). The squad is specialized in NFR processes. The teams are knowledgeable about maintenance and security for ING-hosted solutions.

• Identify and fulfil IT knowledge gaps within your chapter ensuring that your chapter is qualitatively properly staffed

• Continuously work on skills improvements, expertise and personal growth of your IT engineers

• Ensure quality and ownership for work delivered via sprints, set and improve standards according to the agile way of working

• Leading role in processes and decisions which are strategic for your chapter, such as the vendor selection, technology selection, offshore strategies

• Align with IT vendors, ING Infra departments and the end users at the ING departments Risk

• Line management tasks such as hiring new employees, assess performance of current employees

• Together with your Engineers: end-responsible for keeping your IT environment up and running, healthy, secure, documented, and standardized where possible

• Together with the Product Owners of the squads and the Chapter Lead of the Business analysts, you balance team development, delivery and timelines

• Member of Tribe Leadership team

Do you love to inspire other people to grow? Are you a motivated engineer who likes to work on complex IT solutions? And although you are an experienced engineer, do you continuously want to grow your personal skills as an engineer and as a leader? Is ‘keep doing things smarter’ part of your DNA? Do you have the mentality that aligns with our culture where you ‘take it on and make it happen’? Are you someone who takes ownership and who can give other engineers a lot of energy? And constantly looking for improvements? Than you might be the person we are looking for!

A master’s degree in Software Engineering

• Proven track record and proficiency in software development (8 + years): backend or front end (and thorough knowledge of the other, you are expected to be able to work on front- and backend).

• Experience and thorough understanding of (test) automation, continuous delivery, deployment tools and pipelines. We work with Git, Tomcat, Jenkins, TFS, Ansible, SonarQube, Artifactory, Selenium, OpenShift / private cloud environments and migrating to Azure DevOps CD pipeline.

• We are moving towards pure DevOps profiles, so you are expected to refine, code, test and deploy your own work on our on-premise and cloud environments.

• Earlier lead development experience is a pre.

• An itch and self-motivation for solving technical and functional challenges.

• Great analytical skills and conceptual / architectural understanding, ability to quickly understand new technical concepts that are outside of your comfort zone.

• Strong interest and vision in recent trends in software development and technology in general.

• We expect the ability to transfer knowledge back to the ING Bank by holding presentations, workshops, documentation and most important: setting new standards for the ways we do tech.

• Strong social and communication skills. Being a sparring partner for our business colleagues

• IT Risk awareness, understanding of security concepts in software development

• Hands-on and pro-active attitude

• Fluent in English

ING sets high standards for a high-performing culture, but also for our values according we are working to. These values are defined in the “orange code”. Check out more on: 

• Your work enables you to develop yourself in Engineering, next to IT management, IT Security, Risk management, BI, and Agile/Scrum roles.

• 36 to 40 hour work week

• 13th month salary

• Amsterdam location