PEGA engineer REAL ESTATE FINANCE in Amsterdam

The opportunity
ING is looking for a passionate Senior Pega DevOps Engineer

Think Forward! Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We are an industry-recognized strong brand with positive recognition from customers in many countries, a strong financial position, an omnichannel distribution strategy, and an international network. If you want to work at a place with lots of freedom to innovate, 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 delivering stable and secure services to end users, and where we have a 'no nonsense' getting-things done mentality, please read on!

The team

We create applications in the Real estate finance domain. We are tackling fundamental, high-impact, problems in the financial services industry. We are passionate about protecting both our customers and our society, delivering products that make ING a safer and more compliant bank.

Roles and responsibilities

As a Senior Pega DevOps Engineer, you are responsible to create and maintain smooth and efficient onboarding and other processes relating to Real estate finance processes.

In your work environment, you will work in an agile squad together with DevOps engineers, Business specialists, and Stakeholders.

Your squad is part of the Real estate finance tribe (to focus on business delivery), and you’ll be part of the Pega Chapter (to focus on your engineer craftmanship). Agile/Scrum is our way of working, focusing on iterative and incremental software development in small, multi-disciplinary teams.

In this context, squad engineers should be able to perform a wide variety of tasks. Together with your squad, you are responsible for the end-to-end software and feature delivery of a stable and fit-for-purpose Pega application. It means Epic, Feature analysis, Development, Configuration, Testing, and Support Operations in a 24*7 manner. Additionally, to strengthen our software delivery, you will suggest and contribute to Continuous Delivery initiatives and enthusiastically automate everything: deployment, functional/technical/performance testing, system health checks, and anything else that is still done manually.

In detail your main tasks will be:

• Participate in Design Review
  • Participate in Design sessions across teams
• Take part in User Story refinement
  • Analyses requirements and request modification or enrich them when needed
  • Participate in the design, testing, and delivery of the solution
• Implement qualitative application
  • Build the application as close as possible to Pega's out-of-the-box features
  • Create or modify Unit Tests when necessary along with the implementation of new functionalities
  • Participate in manual, automation, and sanity testing activities when required
  • Pro-actively monitor application quality
  • Ensure that logs do not display unwanted messages and errors
  • Participate in the Peer Review process
  • Feel and Take responsibility for the work committed and deliver accordingly with high quality
  • Fix incidents and problems when necessary with proper root cause analysis and show expertise, and dynamics in structural fixes

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.

• You like to deliver on promises while keeping good communication lines with clients and partners
• You have a “Can do” mentality, flexibility, and the ability to take ownership and responsibility
• You have a collaborative approach to solving problems while bringing positive energy to the team
• You are relentlessly learning and thinking about new solutions
• You have experience working in agile teams (SCRUM or Kanban or XP)
• You are multi-skilled: experience with design, building, stubbing, testing, documenting, deployment
• You believe and have a good collaboration mindset and have experience in working in large programs
• You have great English communication skills, verbal as well as written
• You are able to work under pressure when required, no 9-5 mentality
• You have strong technical skills:
  • At least 8 years of experience on Pega
  • Pega SSA certification is minimum, and LSA certification is a plus
  • Basic Java knowledge
  • You have knowledge of any Stub framework
  • You have knowledge about CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps )
  • You know how to work with an automation tool (e.g. Ansible, Selenium, Cucumber)
  • You are familiar with Monitoring solutions (Kibana, Grafana, PDC)
  • Test Automation Framework knowledge for defining and running automated tests or appetite towards it to learn is mandatory
  • Knowledge in Test Driven Development/ Behaviour driven development
• You have Soft skills, Mindset      :
  • Diplomacy and good communication
  • Proactive attitude, always on the look-out for improving your and our way of working
  • You are easy to get along with and really enjoy collaborating with others.
  • You think in terms of solutions by analyzing facts and information instead of looking for excuses
  • Analysis capabilities and testing abilities