IT Chapter Lead Frontend Engineering

We are looking for an experienced IT Chapter Lead who has a passion to lead by example and build a safe, secure, and quality ecosystem within our area, Experience Engineering. The chapter consists of highly skilled frontend engineers focusing on the continuous development and growth of ING’s global Unified Design System.

The team

Experience Engineering is at the core of frontend engineering at ING. As an area, we own ING’s Unified Design System and SDK for Web and Mobile, which is being consumed by a global audience.

We appreciate a distributed and hybrid work environment. Innovation and fun are our driving forces: We're leveraging the power of the best and the latest trends in business and technology to deliver the most innovative platform services.

ING works in multi-disciplinary teams based on Scrum, Agile, and DevOps principles. Responsibility for Infra and Security is adopted within the squads; Business and IT have joined, making a squad end-to-end responsible for a customer journey or product. For more about our way of working, please visit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3iu2kfZ3w4

Roles and responsibilities

Contributor

• Being a chapter lead means that the majority of time is still spent as a squad member. For that responsibility, we refer to the job description of the relevant craftsmanship area (building block, programming language, Infra, IT risk, etc.)

Maintain a Safe and Healthy team

• Managing a team of experts, including managing the employee lifecycle from recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and career planning
• Keep staff retention levels higher (i.e. attrition levels lower) than the market rates.
• Staff working hours and remote work commitments are managed appropriately.
• Your team is highly engaged and involved and contributes to the evolution of the domain.
• Talent recognition and proactive development and coaching of all staff with an appreciation for good craftsmanship and delivery commitments.
• You work with peer leaders to ensure balanced rotation.
• Continually in-tune with staff needs and address challenges in a timely manner.
• Ensure HR processes are done entirely and timely.
• Ensure Orange Code and be a role model.

Managing Craftsmanship

• Ensure resource allocations of the area across the organization to get commitments done.
• Maintain excellent relationships with stakeholders based on establishing delivery and support objectives.
• Ensuring all staff have the right skills and are fully allocated to consuming entities.
• Create high-performing teams (autonomous teams) by building and cross-training our people’s skill sets.
• Develop and lead people to meet their individual, career, and organization goals.

Keep the Bank Safe

• ING standards and regulatory requirements are followed.
• ING security and other control mechanisms are implemented.
• Meet all service levels as agreed with the stakeholders
• Other skills and competencies
• Lead, influence, and motivate a team of specialists
• Strong communication skills
• Effective interpersonal skills

Client focus

• Ability to liaise with a broad range of people, including line management, senior management, and external suppliers.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to identify practical solutions.
• Ability to solve complex issues and problems.

How to succeed

• 10+ years’ experience in development/software engineering and working within agile organisations.
• Experience with the NodeJS ecosystem and enjoy keeping up to date with the latest JavaScript releases and features.
• Familiarity with WebComponents meta-specification.
• Experience with frontend build tooling, e.g., Webpack and Rollup.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling, preferably Azure DevOps.
• Deployments to CDN, NFM Feeds, release procedures, risk evaluation and security.
• Experience with Cordova and other Web/Mobile hybrid frameworks, Kubernetes semantics.
• Desirable Design Patterns: Single Page Applications, Server-Side Rendering / Static Site Generation (NextJS), SEO optimization.
• Well-versed with TDD, BDD, and testing tools such as Mocha, Chai, Selenium, Karma, etc.
• Strong technical communication skills and keen to engage with customers.
• Excellent English verbal and written communication skills.

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 athttps://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

• 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

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.