API Integration Engineer @ ICS

Within ICS' Information & Technology, we're searching for an Integration expert to build up the Center of Excellence for Integration and API, helping the organization achieve high throughput and reduce time to market. Are you a true team player with a strong Agile mindset and engineering background? Are you capable of turning ideas and opportunities into visible results? Do you want to work together with various disciplines in a dynamic and changing environment? Great, because this could be the start of an impressive adventure at International Card Services (ICS) as an Integration Engineer!

Your Job

A typical day in the life of an Integration Engineer includes:

• Starting the day by joining the daily standup
• Aligning with both Architecture and Development teams to ensure adherence to CoE guidelines
• Contributing to continuous improvement of CoE activities with regards to Integration and API development
• Contributing to the Reusable Assets

Working Environment

ICS aims to be the safest payments provider in the Netherlands. For over 30 years, we've been the credit card specialist and market leader in issuing Visa and Mastercards. To achieve our ambition, we are innovating ICS from the ground up between 2024-2028.

Step by step, our company is evolving. Our technologies, the hard- and software for our daily work, the office where we work, our processes, the way we provide help to our customers, the skills we have—everything we need to innovate for a better future is something we tackle. This is how we remain the safest and most reliable payment provider. Are you a strong team player with an Agile mindset, capable of turning ideas and chances into visible results? Do you prefer collaboration and want to join a dynamic company undergoing major changes? Then you must be the Integration Engineer we are looking for!

You’ll be working with the Center for Excellence team of ICS. CoE is a small team of engineers & coaches aiming to make development teams’ lives better and more fun by increasing the speed and quality of code and researching new possibilities. They do this by offering greater learning choices combined with experimenting with new technologies and much more.

"We like to keep things informal and prefer working together on things via pairing or mobbing; everything that can be automated, we try to automate. And we’re always looking for that next improvement!"
ICS Team Member, CoE Engineer

Your Profile

You have good experience in solving difficult problems across multiple teams. That experience has shaped you into an effective expert that can help set up best practices, frameworks, documentation templates for ICS IT. You do what's necessary to achieve results, without being constrained by traditional divisions of roles, tasks, development methodologies, or other sacred cows. You have an innate drive to improve yourself and your practical knowledge. We’re keen to hear what you've recently learned during a meetup or conference that you attended (online).

• 5+ Years of Experience in Integration and API development (a background as a development or ops engineer is a strong plus)
• Strong in Integration and API principles
• Strong experience in Azure API Manager, including provisioning and defining best practices.

You have experience in deployments with Azure DevOps pipeline, including terraform, Biceps, and ARM templates.

Experience in an Agile/Scrum/DevOps team

Very skilled in communicating with IT teams as well as non-IT stakeholders

Nice to have experience in Azure products like Azure App Services/Functions/Logic Apps.

Nice to have experience in Azure networking concepts like VNet configuration, private endpoint, etc.

What Are We Offering?

At International Card Services, you can develop your competencies to the max! Besides that, we offer:

• The opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours, and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally.
• A very nice working environment and open culture that respects you as an individual!
• A competitive salary in Hay scale 11 (ABN AMRO Group)
• A personal development budget
• Excellent secondary working conditions, including a benefit budget (11% of the gross annual salary), a public transport card, and a solid pension scheme.
• Room to visit seminars and research new technologies to improve our solutions.

Interested?

We invite you to apply directly. Tell us in a letter of motivation why you would like to join ICS, why you expect to be a suitable candidate for the role of Integration Engineer, and illustrate your relevant working experience.