Data Engineer - DARE @ING Hubs Romania

Discover ING Hubs Romania

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania – then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Formerly known as ING Tech, as of 2022 we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities under the name of ING Hubs Romania and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

With the help of over 1600 engineers, risk, and operations professionals, we offer 130 services in tech, non-financial risk & compliance, audit and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1300 colleagues active in Data Management, TouchPoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged. Work ethics, honesty and knowledge sharing are key to our teams and we’re always looking for like-minded people.

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:

At ING, technology isn't the goal, but the best way of achieving it | 84 % of our colleagues in Romania agree

The Mission

The ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform consists of multiple components that enable real-time and batch calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. XVA,PFE, Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining, pre-deal derivatives Pricing) which are driven by new banking regulations as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This platform is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia, Europe and Americas, with 7-9 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest and Singapore), cooperating to evolve it towards target ING Financial Markets IT vision.

The IPA DARE Purpose

We provide a fast, easy, secure and reliable Data, Analysis and Reporting Environment, based largely on the GCP technology in the public cloud. The purpose of this asset is to provide one system for FO (Front Office) and Risk Management business users to be used for both Intraday and End Of Day pricing, Risk Management and Position Management.

Your day to day

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• As a Senior Data Engineer, you contribute and are responsible for the design, development, test automation, hardening (security, stability, deployment) and documentation of components and data pipelines for the extraction and provision of structured and unstructured data within a cloud infrastructure or between cloud and on-premises systems.
• You contribute to technology choices and architecture of newly built components and services
• You have a strong focus on performance, large data sets and towards event-driven architecture
• You monitor and assess the efficiency of end-to-end operational processes by identifying and mitigating risks
• You continuously improve and optimize the ingestion, post-processing and reporting layer of the data platform
• You standardize and reutilize automation patterns as part of the data ingestion and processing stages
• You design and develop automated unit, integration and regression tests
• You prove strong analytical skills, proactivity and ability to work in cross-border international teams.
• You work in an Agile environment, collaborate closely with the Product Owner and Feature Engineer to interpret business requirements and estimate, plan, implement, test and deliver as part of short delivery cycles.
• You focus on delivering working software of high quality that satisfies customer requirements.

What you’ll bring to the team

Experience: 5+ years of engineering experience.

Tech stack/ knowledge:

• Mandatory:
  • Proficient in relational databases and SQL.
  • Proven big data experience, either from an implementation or a data science perspective.
  • Strong coding experience in the likes of Scala, Java, or Python.
  • Experience with GCP tech stack (BigQuery, Dataform, Dataflow, Cloud Composer, Google Cloud Storage) or other public cloud providers equivalents (AWS, Azure)
  • Experience with Git, Maven, CI/CD (eg. Azure DevOps) and documentation tools
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (eg. Terraform)
  • Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts
• Nice to have:
  • DBT
  • Looker
  • Data governance, Data lineage, Data Catalogue (Metadata)
  • Apache Beam
  • Spark
  • Flink
  • Kafka
  • Automated testing framework

Foreign languages: English (advanced)

Education: A University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering or equivalent.

What’s in it for you

• Annual Performance Bonus up to two salaries
• Extra vacation days depending on the total length of working experience
• Flextime – our own way of working
• Monthly budget on Benefit platform
• Growth opportunities
  • Defining a clear career path on short/ mid/ long term and identify the competencies you need to build/ develop to reach the next level: vertically – towards a managerial position or horizontally – towards an expert or architect level, locally or globally
  • Internal mobility is encouraged
  • Possibility to access International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments
  • Upskilling/ reskilling programs
• Learning & Development opportunities
  • Annual training & certifications budget
  • Pluralsight & e-learning platforms
• CSR activities: tree planting, coding lessons for teenagers etc.