Chapter Lead Engineer

Roles and Responsibilities

We are looking for you to help others to be successful and always be a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast-changing and complex environment. You are an energetic Chapter Lead with expertise in engineering, people management and affinity with building critical applications, and with that make a large impact. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions.

• Together with your Engineers you take end-to-end responsibility for keeping our IT environment safe and within risk scores, up and running, healthy, secure, documented and standardized where possible.
• Together with the Product Leads, you balance team development, delivery and timelines.
• You are a member of IT Area Leadership team.
• 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 engineers in your chapter to grow their mastery and to develop themselves through continuous on-the-job coaching, 1-1 conversations, creating a development plan and monitoring it together.
• You find the true purpose of your engineers and enable them to grow in what they are passionate about and excel in finding that win-win situation for the engineer and ING. You use your seniority and maturity to maximize team performance.
• Push innovation and continuous improvements, where you have the possibility to show your work on platforms with high impact for our consumers.
• Work in an international environment with some team members offshore.
• Identify and fulfil IT knowledge gaps within your chapter ensuring that your chapter is properly staffed with good quality.
• Mentor and guide chapter members to help them reach their full potential.
• Train the engineers to grow their skillset.
• Stay up-to-date with industry trends and technologies to ensure our platform is up to date. Ensure that the team is familiar with ING's IT landscape (tools, technologies and processes).
   

How to Succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay open, curious and keep learning. You should be ready to take responsibilities and add your own flavour and style in fulfilling your responsibilities. In return, we’ll support you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• You have a Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science or related courses.
• You have passion towards IT, Banking and Leadership.
• You have good analytical skills and conceptual/architectural understanding, ability to quickly understand the new technical concepts that are outside of your comfort zone.
• You have minimum 2 years of experience in IT Leadership. If you don’t have leadership experience, at least you should have gone for leadership trainings and have high motivation towards leadership.
• You have good knowledge in Core Java, Spring Boot and Microservices.
• You have good knowledge in GIT, Maven, CI/CD pipelines, Cloud platforms and Monitoring tools.
• You enjoy new technologies and transferring them into new ideas and possibilities.
• Inspire and develop mindsets to stay complaint in IT Risk for all our applications.
• You are a good team player with proactive and constructive attitude towards working in a complex and international teams.
• You have a “Can do” mentality, flexibility and the ability to take ownership and  responsibility.
• You have experience working in AGILE/SCRUM methodology.
• You have good communication skills in English (writing and spoken).