IT Area Lead II - GT OPS

Do you like setting a vision in a growing and vitally important part of a globally operating bank? Being part of a team working on cutting edge payment products and technologies, always putting the customer first? Do you truly care about people, getting the best out of them and helping them get the best out of themselves? Search no further, if you answered all of the previous with yes, you want to work in Payment & Settlement Services as IT Area Lead.

As an IT Area Lead GT Ops, you will be responsible for defining the vision for ING’s core treasury cash and liquidity applications as well as payment operation utilities, reporting directly to the CIO PSS.  You will be leading the delivery by the agile teams, working closely with the CIO PSS, product area leads and IT Leads.

The Team:

You will work with the larger organization, engage tech teams and stakeholders across many countries with regard to cross-product services and be part of the management team of PSS Tech. You will steer roughly 100 people.

Roles and responsibilities:

• You’ll be responsible for the development and craftmanship of the engineering teams. Steering the diversity in roles and managing the sourcing strategy across countries. Building and expanding the engineering practices in the teams
• You’ll define and implement the area's IT delivery strategy , identifying and adopting changes in the market relevant to Global treasury and payment operations.
• You’ll be responsible for the end-to-end tech delivery of the area's capabilities. You’ll be working with Architecture and the Product Area Lead on defining and executing the strategic roadmap and making sure we deliver according to our promises
• Responsible for operating highly productized services, from the angles of Operations, finance, risk and security. Your incident management is top notch and you’re a trusted partner
• IT Custodianship of our strategic global liquidity (Clue, SMART, Payplus, Myriad), payments operations (PEGA smart invest & Manual Payment solution) and Assisted channels applications
• Predictable delivery of squads in your area and live up to our promises concerning the quality of our services
• Reliable operation of IT assets in your area and install/nurture a ‘zero outage’ culture
• Stakeholder management and contributing to QBRs of the Payments and settlement services and beyond
• Providing technical leadership, and growing craftsmanship to the IT Chapters in your area with an emphasis on Agile customer-centric software development
• People-oriented management and growth of Chapter leads and technical people
• Optimizing the setup of what we build offshore with our SSI partner and IBSS

How to succeed:

• Experience with managing in IT for at least 5 years for high critical applications. Experience in managing managers is a nice to have
• Knowledge in the field of Payments is a nice to have
• Experience in setting out a vision and translating that to a delivery organization
• Experience in supporting/rolling out software at scale
• Skills working with a wide variety of types of stakeholders up to C-level
• Excellent written and spoken skills in the English language
• You are comfortable working in  an international context, within virtual teams and can interact easily with international stakeholders;

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. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A competitive salary
• 24-27 vacation days depending on the contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th-month salary
•   8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
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Questions?
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