- 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 Leads, you balance team development, delivery and timelines
- A master's degree in Software EngineeringProven track record in IT (team)management role (5+ years), preferably in the Financial industryProven track record and proficiency in JAVA software development (10 + 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, preferably with Azure.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 container 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 colleaguesIT Risk awareness, understanding of security concepts in software developmentHands-on and pro-active attitudeFluent in English
- A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
- 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
- Pension scheme
- 13th month salary
- Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), of your gross annual salary
- 8% Holiday payment
- Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
- Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
- An informal working environment with innovative colleagues
IT Chapterlead DEV - Amsterdam, Nederland - ING
Beschrijving
The right candidate will build and improve the platform for our critical IT assets. The chapter consists of seasoned and independent DEV engineers.
The team
The team is responsible to support the Vantage, GRID and HALO applications that provide the Wholesale Banking with capabilities for their customer administration. The position is a DevOps role and requires building and working with Websphere, Java, Azure, configuration as code, automation with Ansible, knowledge on the ELK stack, Prometheus & Grafana.
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 have a proven management experience as such (5+ years) and are result driven by nature.
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 conversation, 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 squads offshore in India for our SSI partner and Philippines for ING Shared Service Centres. 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
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? Then you might be the person we are looking for
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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
The benefits of working with us at ING include: