IT Chapter Lead in Bunnik

The opportunity

ING is looking for an IT Chapter Lead (Data&Analytics Lease&Factoring) for developing and maintaining the Lease&Factoring data platforms and reporting functionalities. Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We are one of the most innovative banks with a strong established brand that operates worldwide with a clear omnichannel distribution strategy and international network.

You will work together with a team consisting of many cultures and in different time zones, all of them connected to the same goal. The team takes end to end ownership and responsibility, it contributes in an agile way to the full lifecycle of an application, from requirements phase to implementation and to running in production. We work in a fun and creative environment where we enable everyone to perform at its best. Trust is essential: we respect each other’s opinion, and we are not afraid to speak up whenever it is required.

Who you are

• You love to inspire other people to grow.
• You are a motivated engineer who likes to work in a team on complex solutions.
• Although you are an experienced engineer, you continuously want to grow your personal skills as an engineer and as a leader.
• Keep doing things smarter is in your DNA; ‘Automate… Everything!’
• You have a mentality that aligns with our culture where you ‘Take it on and make it happen’. You naturally behave towards our values and you take the banker's oath, like all ING employees.
• In your mindset it is stability above all. Besides development, operations activities come natural to you.
• You take ownership, and you enable others to take ownership.
• You have a team player mindset, but with leadership qualities.
• You are a result oriented, determined, team-player with a self-driven and can-do attitude.

What you'll do

• As an energetic Chapter Lead with expertise in people management, you are an engineer, and this will be your role in the squad for 60% of your time. With your fellow squad members, you develop and deliver features to production.
• The remaining 40% you spend on building up expertise in your chapter and developing your chapter members. You are enthusiastic about transferring your knowledge to others, and about coaching members of your Chapter and overseeing their personal development.
• You help your chapter develop through coaching, mentoring and constant feedback.
• Together with your IT Area Lead, you set targets for each team member.
• You are responsible for HR-related activities: for instance, 1 to 1 meetings with your team members, performance management.
• You work with the recruitment team to attract, onboard and retain top talent.
• Stakeholder management: work with stakeholders from different squads to understand and be able to help the team set-up their individual KPI’s and determine the way of working for the chapter;

How to succeed

• Master of Science in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• Working knowledge in data warehousing concepts, data lakes, data marts.
• Knowledge/affinity in data analytics and data science.
• Excellent SQL knowledge and experience, working with various types of relational as well as non-relational databases.
• Experience with ETL processes and tools: SAS and/or other relevant tooling.
• Experience with BI tools like Cognos, PowerBI etc.
• Experience with stream-processing systems like Kafka and/or Flink.
• Working knowledge of message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable data stores.
• Object-oriented and/or scripting programming languages: Python, Java, Scala.
• Experience in building and optimizing (big) data pipelines, architectures and data sets in both batch and real-time data integration.
• DevOps knowledge and experience: CI/CD concepts, Azure DevOps.
• Understanding of Agile - Scrum methodology.

• Fluent communication skills in English.
• A minimum of 1-2 years of experience in leading and coaching fellow engineers in a hierarchical or project role.
• 5+ years’ experience in Agile development (SCRUM, Kanban).
• 5+ years of engineering and maintenance experience.

Rewards & benefits

We want to ensure you can strike the right balance between your career and private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at 

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• • Above market salary
• • Hybrid working
• • Equal opportunity workplace
• • 24-27 vacation days depending on the 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

About us

With 57,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what's possible and simultaneously ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer's interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.