Chapter Lead – Java Dev Engineer – IPA StaticDataManager (SDM) @ING Hubs Romania

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania – then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

The Mission

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Within FM, in Competitive Pricing area, we have ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform, which consists of multiple components that enable real-time and batch calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. XVA, PFE, Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining, pre-deal derivatives Pricing) which are driven by new banking regulations as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This platform is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia, Europe and Americas, with 7-9 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest and Singapore), cooperating to evolve it towards target ING Financial Markets IT vision.

The ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform consists of service-oriented components that will enable the real-time and portfolio calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. VaR, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining) which are driven by new ECB regulation as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This will be a key platform in the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms, with over 20 scrum teams cooperating towards one Financial Markets IT landscape.

IPA SDM squad’s main purpose is to become the golden source of static and reference data in FM Competitive Pricing. The current focus is on strengthening and consolidating all underlying components and internal architecture, in order to be used at scale for data enrichment and reporting by risk and analytics systems / users.

Your day to day

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. As a Chapter Lead, you will split your time between individual contributor activities and management / people leading activities (hybrid role):

From an individual contributor point of view, the following will be the main responsibilities of the role:

• Perform design reviews, provide input and estimate effort required for implementation
• Design application components to meet the business requirements and the functional design
• Develop code and maintain associated documentation, in accordance with the functional and technical design
• Produce well structured, maintainable, reliable and fit for purpose code
• Design and develop automated unit, integration, and regression tests
• Take active responsibility for delivery within the squad in line with priorities set by the PO
• Work on the latest technologies with a strong focus on performance, large data sets and towards event-driven architecture
• Drive technical discussions and document changes or proposals
• Take initiative and identify inefficiencies or flaws and drive proposals for remediation
• Support efficient change by providing impactful analysis on cross domain, end-to-end, complex environments
• Support users with investigations on business flows and defects that they encounter during testing
• Aim for serverless solutions based on Docker, containers, and virtualization
• Influence technology choices and architecture of newly build components and services
• Have a performance mindset in terms of being familiar with garbage collection fine tuning, application profiling, processing and transferring of large data sets
• Continuous integration and delivery using Azure DevOps
• Through Agile/Scrum collaborate with other colleagues and Product Owner to refine and break down features into stories or tasks
• Ensure delivery and support on the production environment to our global users

From a managerial / people leader point of view, you will:

• Collaborate closely with the other Chapter Leads, Customer Journey Experts, Product Owners, Product Managers, Product Area Leads, Chapter Leads and IT Area Leads to improve the maturity of the processes and practices and to facilitate the knowledge sharing across teams
• Cultivate the sense of ownership and accountability within your team
• Stimulate a continuous delivery culture in terms of services and working conditions
• Coach and mentor the team members (be available for them and genuinely care about their aspirations)
• Provide continuous feedback for team members (regular 1:1s)
• Help the team members grow in their career path (identify opportunities within the project and learning needs)
• Recognize team and individual members’ efforts and successes
• Motivate the team, be an inspiration for them and act as a role model
• Remove impediments that obstruct the team in pursuing their goals
• Think strategically in terms of overall chapter opportunities and contexts for growth (functional knowledge, technical knowledge, ownership for the delivery, autonomy in the wider Tribe context, etc)
• Grow the team and perform recruitment interviews (technical and/or HR related). Work closely with the recruitment team to attract, onboard and retain top talent
• Define objectives for your team members and conduct yearly performance evaluations

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience:
  • 7+ years of software engineering in JVM language and related technology stack
  • 2+ years of people management experience
• Tech stack/ knowledge:
  • Mandatory:
    • Knowledge of Java 11+, SpringBoot 3.x (Java 17+), Kafka, MQ
    • Knowledge of best practices and SOLID principles (and other principles related to system design)
    • Comfortable with relational databases (Oracle)
    • Familiarity with source control, CI/CD and documentation tools (Azure DevOps, Git, Maven and Confluence)
    • Proven mindset for testing own code using frameworks like Junit, Mockito, or BDD (using Cucumber or other frameworks)
    • Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes using OpenShift as orchestration
    • Strong analytical skills, proactivity, and ability to work in cross-border international teams
  • Nice to have:
    • Google Protobuf and gRPC
    • Familiarity with Elastic stack and how to query logs
    • Familiarity with Checkmarx/CheckmarxOne (SAST/DAST related technologies)
    • Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts
    • Experience in the Financial Markets domain or statistical analysis.
• Foreign languages: English (excellent level), French may be a plus
• Education: Completed education at Bachelor/Master level

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