Chapter Lead Java Development | Business Banking @ING Bank

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ING believes in a world where everyone has the right to grow and progress in their own way. We express this in our global tagline, “do your thing”. Perhaps more than in any other large company, we extend our belief in the power of autonomy to our own people. But there’s a catch. In return for great freedom, we expect people to do great things for our customers, our stakeholders, and ING at large.

To work here is to be surrounded by people who are energetic, ambitious, friendly and respectful: talented specialists who take the responsibility and autonomy to make great things happen. We stay curious, thrive on change, and seek new and better ways to make it happen. Active in Romania for more than 25 years, ING Bank pioneered and challenged the local banking industry. Technology and innovation are at the core of what we do, making our products relevant for our customers’ lives and businesses.

Currently, ING is the 4th bank in the local markets, based on the assets and is a universal bank with 1,6 million clients from three business segments: individual clients (Retail), SMEs and Mid-Corporate clients and Wholesale Banking.

Join us!

Mission

As a leader in the engineering community, you will play a key role in the continual advancement of our engineering practices and your main mission is to enable your engineers to grow their mastery and get better in what they do every day by using industry best practices.

Your area, Digital Platform Business Banking – has the mission to keep the bank and customers safe while providing the best processes for our customers!

Together with your team, you will work on multiple and various projects in the area (local and global road mapping) with the scope to implement the IT strategy of the tribe and evolve the existing ecosystem for Business Bank.

As an IT Chapter Lead

• Lead, motivate & mentor the team and be the team representative
• Inspire and encourage your Chapter members to develop themselves, providing them coaching on both technical and soft skills
• Contribute to the technical roadmap and evolve the technical capabilities in the area
• Continuous improve the delivery process by learning and adopting latest trends in the industry
• Determines, together with the Chapter members, the way of working in his/her IT Chapter and sets standards for the area of expertise
• Collaborate and partnership with other Chapter Leads, Product Owner, Architect, and other roles in the bank to oversee the future developments and their deliverables
• Contribute to the implementation of the Daily strategy. Translate the strategy in terms of the Chapter

Your day to day

As an Engineer Chapter Lead, you are responsible for leading and inspiring a team of 8 engineers, including performance review, compensation, recruitment, professional development, and you are also a contributor and role model in the team.

• Recruit, build & lead, motivate & mentor the team and be the team representative
• Performance and career path management for members in your team
• Role model in the development of your own capability across industry trends, technologies, methodologies, and behaviours
• Develop financial and people resource plans for the area, ensuring resources are in place and operating effectively within the technical discipline
• Handle delivery – identify, manage and escalate delivery issues and risks
• Handle delivery – lead projects within the area like POCs, technology upgrades etc.

Together to your chapter:

• Engineering solutions which are highly secure, performant, and maintainable
• Proficient at helping the organisation structure complex engineering issues, aware of different development methodologies, end-to-end testing, Identity and Access Management, IT Risk control, infra provisioning, Change Management, CI/CD
• Be aware of requirements and underlying feature requests, recommend alternative technical and business approaches and estimate the requirements to meet deadlines
• Champion effective adoption of continuous delivery methodology, practice, and attitudes / mindsets

What you bring to the team

• Strong technical leadership skills, including coaching, consensus building, and ability to effectively manage competing priorities
• Strong capabilities to build internal confidence in a situation of constant change
• Strong resilience, constructive and collaborative mindset
• Work experience in an Agile organization and proven Agile mind-set
• Strong knowledge about design patterns and development principles
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies/ cloud architecture oriented (preferably Microsoft Azure)
• Min 5 years of Professional Experience in Java EE 8+ (Java versions) and data structures - included in latest J2EE version (9.1)
• Good understanding SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture), RESTful and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) services, REST APIs design and implementation
• Work experience with Spring / Spring boot / Spring MVC
• Database experience: SQL Server / Oracle / NoSQL
• Demonstrated experience with CI/CD (preferable Azure DevOps, GitHub etc.)
• Proven experience with Messages brokers (queues), preferably Kafka
• Experience and high curiosity in Microservices architecture, Containers orchestration (RedHat OpenShift) and Kubernetes (K8S)
• Foreign languages: English (proficient)

What we offer

• Impactful work in a fun and collaborative environment;
• Open-concept offices designed for both team work and relaxation;
• Corporate events and social gatherings;
• Hybrid way of working with flexible working schedule and short week options;
• Monthly budget on Benefit platform;
• Extra annual leave days depending on the total length of working experience;
• Growth opportunities through upskilling/ reskilling programs and a variety of learning and development platforms: ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, as well as through trainings and certifications;
• Possibility to access Internal roles, International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments;
• Context to make an impact through Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility projects.