IT Area Lead Wholesale Banking Tech Data Management

The Opportunity:

Do you want to make an impact in the daily lives of over a million customers?

Within ING Tech Wholesale Banking, we have an opening for an experienced IT Area Lead with talent, ambition and enthusiasm for Tech, Data and Banking.

ING is a global financial institution with market leadership in the Benelux, a strong pan-European base, and a growing worldwide presence. Its purpose – as a bank, employer, and an engaged member of society – is to empower people to stay ahead in life and business. About sixty thousand ING employees serve around thirty-seven million customers, corporate clients, and institutions in over forty countries. The bank’s retail products include savings, payments, investments, loans, and mortgages.

For its Wholesale Banking clients, ING provides specialized lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, and payments and cash management. Its omnichannel approach and dedicated focus on customer experience are vital to the bank’s success.

Thanks to its state-of-the-art tech stack, data ecosystem, and personalized mobile-first customer interface, ING is a digital frontrunner in global banking. Along with its innovation partners, the bank is always improving its capabilities and developing disruptive new features. Data is an invaluable enabler in this continuous cycle and crucial to ING’s ongoing success.

Data is key to providing a superior customer experience, and crucial for creating value, scaling up, and developing new products. It helps the bank meet its regulatory requirements, mitigate risks, reduce costs, and make better business decisions.

The Team:

The IT Area Lead Data Management will drive the vision for data management for Wholesale Banking Tech. They will develop the roadmap for data capabilities and lead the delivery of their agile teams, provide direction and ensure the quality and pace of the release. The IT Area Lead will have direct and indirect reports and will manage a department of 100+ data & platform engineers in The Netherlands, Romania, and India. This role will report to the IT Lead of Cross Product Services (CPS).

The Roles and Responsibilities:

• The IT Area Lead Data Management will drive the vision for data management for Wholesale Banking Tech. 

• They will develop the roadmap for data capabilities and lead the delivery of their agile teams, provide direction and ensure quality and pace of the release. 

• The IT Area Lead will have direct and indirect reports and will manage a department of 100+ data & platform engineers in The Netherlands, Romania, and India. This role will report to the IT Lead Cross Product Services (CPS).

• One of the primary responsibilities for the IT Area Lead will be to drive the transformation of the data architecture and associated way of working.

• To develop the architecture, the IT Area Lead will work closely with Global teams. Their efforts will create a first-class agile working environment, attract and retain the best engineers, and encourage innovative thinking around data, analytics, and AI.

• This requires someone with expertise in data strategy, architecture, data management, and analytics as well as extensive managerial and transformation leadership experience. 

• This role should have a background in delivery along with technical know-how and solid people skills.

• The IT Area Lead will have the opportunity to put their extensive skillset into practice at ING by taking ownership of one of the largest data lakes in ING and leveraging its contents to strengthen the bank’s position as the global digital standard in its industry.

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.

• You will manage an extensive data estate running on our internal private cloud with experience in Cloudera Data Platform (CDP), Cloudera Data Flow (CDF), IBM DataStage and Oracle. You will also help charter our course to the public cloud using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tools and technologies such as BigQuery, Dataplex and Google Cloud Storage.
• You have a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead.
• You strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast-changing and complex environment.
• You are knowledgeable in main Data Principles, data transformation techniques, functional management (output management), market trends in Data processes, solutions & coding languages.
• You have experience in developing and implementing IT policies in an Agile organisation.
• You have excellent problem-solving skills and passion for and the ability to redesign processes that would otherwise pose an impediment to the organisation.
• You have a strong organisational sensitivity and the ability to understand and take into account the underlying issues, opportunities and dynamics of the cross-border organization.

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 want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do ING. Join us. Apply today.