IT Area Lead - Insurance and Consumer Loans in Amsterdam

IT Area Lead - Insurance and Consumer Loans

Location: Amsterdam.

The opportunity

We are looking for a strong IT Area Lead for our Insurance and Consumer Loans Area in DBNL Products domain.

Insurance and Consumer Loans is one of the 4 IT areas in the domain, each lead by an IT Area Lead, and working with the IT Lead Products. We design, build and maintain the full life cycle of products we offer as a bank to millions of customers. Think about Investments, Current and Savings accounts, Consumer Loans and Insurances. An IT Area within Products offer a unique possibility the manage the full end-to-end journey of a Product!

We are looking for an IT Area Lead for our Insurance and Consumer Loans, with talent and enthusiasm, to lead the way in our journey towards excellence for our Insurance and Consumer Loan business domains. The IT Area Lead will be contributing to define and implement the IT strategy for his/her own IT Area in line with the bank’s IT strategy. He/she will be mainly managing and coordinating ING Tech functions will be responsible for enhancement, stability, maturity, security, risk, availability and operations of the platforms and applications.

In terms of technology, the IT area is pretty homogeneous. For Insurance we deliver a cross border insurance platform with integrations to our backend systems and partners and all frontend for our channels (frontend in LIT HTML, api’s in Java running on Openshift). For Consumer loans on top of backend API’s and frontends we have workflows (where manual intervention in assisted channels is needed) with Pega.

The IT area has a good balanced set of engineers and is currently in the middle of improving & standardizing the end-to-end delivery process, whilst delivering for multiple interesting use-cases for the Products domain and remaining a safe & compliant bank.

The team

IT Area comprise around 100 engineers working across the Netherlands, ING’s Tech Hubs in Manilla and with our strategic partners in India. New IT Area Lead will be responsible for creating a balanced team of internals/externals with a good Dreyfus maturity distribution.

Roles and responsibilities

A successful IT Area Lead

• Ensures proper implementation of Product thinking and Team topologies across his/her respective IT Area
• Creates an awesome atmosphere in which everyone feels appreciated and heard, and where everyone enjoys their work
• Uses his/her skills to attract and retain the best engineers and create the best culture in Agile way of working
• Values engineering craftsmanship and develops craftsmanship of the employees working in his/her respective area. Provides high-level strategic guidance to the chapter leads
• Keeps IT budget related to the area in control
• Encourages his/her chapters to invest in innovation
• Works closely with Product Area Lead/Tribe Lead on the delivery of the squads

IT Area Lead is an ambassador for the ING culture (Orange Code) and meets the requirements of the associated manager's conduct profile. This role requires emphasis on the following:

• You are an AWESOME leader
• Being inspiring and exude energy and passion
• Excellent strategic management / decision taking-skills
• Empowering people management style
• Mindset of openness and willingness to try new ways of working
• End-to-end ownership mindset
• A Master’s degree in computer science, or related technical discipline
• Proven experience in IT management
• Experience in an Agile context
• Strong leadership and people management skills
• Having a continuous improvement mindset
• Are a role model and an ambassador for our culture in cross departments
• You shine!

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.

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

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 in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time 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.