​IT Chapter Lead - Cards in Amsterdam

IT Chapter Lead - Cards

The opportunity

Within ING Group Services we are looking for an IT Chapter Lead for Cards NL within Tribe Payments. We’re looking for an IT Chapter Lead who will build and improve our platforms for our critical IT assets within Cards. The chapter consists of engineers with expertise both in development as well as operations.

The team

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. For more about our way of working please visit: 
 

Roles and responsibilities

As a Chapter Lead, you are a senior IT engineer who sets the example, transfers knowledge to the chapter, drives innovation, voices opinions and delivers as a member of a squad.

You are part of the leadership team of the Tribe.

Together with the IT Area Lead and other Chapter Leads 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. Sixty percent of your time, you work as a senior engineer. You use your seniority to maximize team performance. You will be the differentiating factor to ensure continuity while moving the chapter to ING standards and push innovation and continuous improvements in an environment where you have the possibility to show your work on platforms with high impact for our customers.

The people in your chapter are equally ambitious as you, and you like to transfer your expertise to them and feel satisfaction from coaching (both professionally as personally) less senior chapter members. We work in an international environment with some teams offshore. You are ambitious and want to achieve. You stimulate your Chapter members towards continuous improvement of their skills. You speak up and challenge the status quo.

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.

Key responsibilities

• 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
• 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

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.
 

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!

Your backpack ideally contains

• 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 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.
• 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

Rewards & benefits

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster