IT Chapter Lead Data Engineering in Amsterdam

ING is looking for….

ING is looking for a passionate and inspiring IT Chapter Lead for the Collections & Generics (C&G) department with extensive experience in the Data Engineering field.

This is what you are going to do

The function of IT Chapter Lead is twofold:

First of all, as a Senior Data Engineer you contribute to the maintenance within the Datawarehouse Collections in an IBM platform environment (Oracle, DataStage, Cognos). Your duties include:

• Designing and maintaining the Datawarehouse
• Resolving incidents in batch processes
• Performance tuning of SQL
• Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment in Azure DevOps
• Creating reports and dashboards in Cognos
• You have direct contact with the users to convert complex business requirements into IT solutions
• You devise ways to make solutions scalable & future fit
• Sharing knowledge with and training less experienced colleagues

In addition to substantive IT engineering tasks, you act as a coach of a Chapter (team) of engineering colleagues. You are responsible for all HR aspects associated with stimulating, motivating, and coaching the experts in your Chapter. The chapter consists of 6 Data Engineering specialists. As a Chapter Lead, you are responsible for the knowledge development of your employees within the ING Way-of-Work.

Your work environment

Chapter
Your own Data Engineering Chapter consists of fellow engineers all working in the DISCO squad. Together with your Chapter, you guarantee the required Data Engineering knowledge within the IT Area. You do this by jointly investing in knowledge of the Data Engineering field, for example by:

• Organize knowledge and demo sessions
• Attend relevant and/or interesting conferences in your field together with the Chapter
• Working together with your Chapter on relevant IT issues within the bank (with the aim of knowledge development)

There is room for innovation. Quality comes first and the customer is central to all activities.

Squad
The DevOps squads within ING Bank use the Scrum methodology and a far-reaching Agile Way-of-Work. This puts ING Bank at the forefront of the working method used for designing, building, and testing applications, as well as the process of commissioning, managing and ultimately decommissioning applications. In this way, ING Bank is continuously optimizing its services to its customers and further strengthening its leading position in the market. In your position, you therefore have a direct influence on customer satisfaction at ING and, of course, you are expected to put the customer's interests first in all your work.

You will work in the Disco squad. This squad consists of 6 members and is based in Amsterdam. The squad also includes several offshore engineers in India. The chapter/squad is responsible for the batch processes within the departments and ensures that the data is always up to date. You are also involved in optimizing the queries, and you create reports and dashboards to show the information to the business in a structured way.

Who are you?

You are a skilled and very experienced Data Engineer. You are substantively strong, and you are focused on achieving the best and concrete results in your work. Better than anyone you understand the wishes and needs of you (internal) IT Customers. Also, you are a real team player. The complex and versatile operational working environment requires you to be able to switch quickly. You are able to quickly recognize where to act. You are also able to coach colleagues and give constructive feedback.

Characteristics of a Chapter lead

• Inspiring, shows energy and passion
• Focus on working together, facilitating others to be successful
• Strong market focus in IT (Lean IT, continuous delivery, cloud processes, etc.)
• You are quickly familiarized with the ING Agile Way-of-Work and use this WoW to pursue the goals of the IT Area and ING.
• You achieve the best results by empowering your IT Engineers, giving them responsibility, challenging them, and keeping them sharp
• You have a mindset of continuous improvement
• You have good coaching skills
• You have good social and communication skills
• You do your work with great awareness of the risks that ING and its customers can run

Engineering skills

Must haves

• Knowledge of, and experience with Agile/Scrum
• DevOps skills
• Expert in the field of SQL
• Extensive knowledge of, and experience with IBM Netezza (DWH, Analytical platform)
• Extensive knowledge of, and experience with Oracle 12/18/19 (DWH features on Exadata)
• Extensive knowledge of, and experience with IBM Datastage (ETL)
• Extensive knowledge of, and experience with IBM Analytics (Cognos)
• Extensive knowledge of, and experience with Scheduling Tool zoals UAC
• Knowledge of, and experience with continues delivery tools like GIT, TFS, and Azure pipeline
• Experience in drawing up complex business requirements from stakeholders and converting them into IT solutions
• You have a positive mindset
• You are a team player
• You are flexible and versatile
• You work in a structured way
• You have an excellent command of both the Dutch and English language, both verbally and in writing

Nice to haves

• Knowledge of, and experience with IBM IGC Metadata repository
• Knowledge of, and experience with Data Science Technologies Big Data (Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Python, R, hives, impala, Scoop)​
• Knowledge of, and experience with Risk management in a IT Bank environment
• Knowledge of, and experience with Microsoft PowerBi

Additional information

• Job location is primarily Amsterdam. However, squad DISCO also serves business squads in Leeuwarden, so you are occasionally present in Leeuwarden for consultations and contact moments with your stakeholders who work there.
• Contract is based on 36-40 hours per week

You also endorse the values ​​of ING, you consider it natural to behave in accordance with these values ​​in your work and you are, like all ING employees, prepared to take the banker's oath. For more information on this, see: