Chapter Lead Java Engineer

Do you love tech and are you an ambassador for the agile way of working? Want to work in an multidisciplinary team, and bring out the best in people?

We’re looking for an enthusiastic IT chapter lead who combines thought and action. Are you an explorer and knowledgeable about what IT can do?

We’re on a mission

ING is transforming rapidly towards a top-notch IT company with a Software Craftsmanship culture, incorporating FinTech start-up mentality and financial innovation. We are end-to-end agile, work in multidisciplinary teams and use cutting edge technology. This enables us to offer our customers the best possible service and respond to rapidly changing customer demands.

Mortgages NL

A mortgage is one of the most important financial decisions in the life of our customers. Our purpose: we offer customers financial and emotional stability when purchasing their dream house and offer a carefree living afterwards. We provide them with excellent advice and exceed customers and intermediary expectations.

Your role & work environment

You are an energetic Chapter Lead with expertise in software engineering, people management and affinity with building critical applications. You are an Senior Java Engineer, and this will be your role in the squad for 40% of your time. The other 40% you spend on building up expertise in your chapter, developing your chapter members and work with your peers to overcome challenges and collectively do a better job. You co-create the area vision and effectively resource the tribe and squads. The remaining 20% you will spend as a part of the IT management team.

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) your colleagues. You are ambitious with what you and your chapter want to achieve. You stimulate your chapter members towards continuous improvement of their skills. You speak up and challenge the status quo.

You will work in a dynamic and challenging environment of tribe Mortgages where you will support and build further on the digitalization strategy. 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 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. Does this sound interesting? Please read on!

Your key responsibilities

• Creating and safeguarding the professional culture

• Have an active role in embedding the new way of working according to the Agile principles(ING WoW).

• Function as an ambassador for cultural change and advocates the 'organization doing' principles rather than ‘organizational talking’ ones.

• Put in place a culture of self-development and high performing teams.

Manage and achieve IT maturity and the squad's mission

• Spend approximately 40% of the time working as a Software Engineer.

• Have an up-to-date vision regarding IT expertise and keep abreast of developments inside and outside of ING.

• Stay one step ahead in the domain of expertise and apply learnings in your specific context,

• Define and ensure application of standards in your own area of IT expertise.

• Organize regular meetings to share relevant insights/developments in your own IT expertise with members of your own chapter and possibly also other chapters.

People and Chapter management

• Be responsible for the personal development and evaluation of the chapter members, based on input from the Squad Master, the Engineering Lead, Product Lead and individual squad members.

• Encourage chapter members to develop themselves and facilitate this (e.g. providing training opportunities).

• Provide coaching both in terms of professional and of personal development. Constantly ensure development of individual members' expertise.

• Identify top performers and take action at an early stage for underperformance.

• Support talent acquisition and retention management activities (e.g. interview applicants)

• Discuss resource planning for squads and chapter with the Tech Area Management Team.

Delivery

• Be a key member of the Squad Master, Chapter Lead, Engineering Lead and Product Lead sessions, where ways to optimize performance and improvement of capabilities of the squad are discussed

Your key competencies / skills:

You have strong technical skills:

• At least 10 years of experience in the Java ecosystem

• You have a good understanding of Software Architecture

• Experience and thorough understanding of continuous integration and delivery

• You know have experience in implementing test strategies (e.g. JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber)

• You are familiar with Monitoring solutions (Kibana, Grafana)

• You are able to discuss with your stakeholders and product owner about features and stories and can translate these into software with real business value

You have Soft skills, Mindset:

• Diplomacy and good communication

• Proactive attitude, always on the look-out for improving your and our way of working

• You are easy to get along with and really enjoy collaborating with others.

• You think in terms of solutions by analyzing facts and information instead of looking for excuses

• Analysis capabilities and testing abilities

Rewards & 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 60,000 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.