Python Dev Engineer

Python Dev Engineer Opportunity at ING Nederland

Financial Markets Transaction Reporting Dev Engineer

ING is looking for an excellent Python Dev Engineer with a focus on design/development skills who would like to work in a challenging environment with a lot of change. You are technically passionate, have an Agile mindset, and have a background as a Dev engineer within a Regulatory Reporting or Data Reporting environment. You are a team player working with end-to-end responsibility.

The Transaction Reporting family is charged with the oversight and steering of ING’s trade and transaction reporting to ensure that the reporting is complete, accurate, and timely. It is a dynamic, multi-faceted environment that partners with all parts of the firm to deliver regulatory transaction reporting capabilities while providing risk management and control to ensure that ING globally complies with the relevant regulations such as MiFID, EMIR, and more.

This position is to build a new application from scratch (a.k.a OrangeBox) as part of the Transaction Reporting Transformation program, using the latest technologies as per the market standards with a focus on CI/CD and Test automation. OrangeBox will be responsible for connecting to a vendor (SaaS) solution to meet ING’s end-to-end regulatory requirements.

Competencies - Behaviors

• Technical Leadership skills and ability to coach less experienced engineers
• The mindset of openness and willingness to try new ways of working and technologies
• Results-oriented, determined, team-player with a self-driven and can-do attitude
• Great analytical and problem-solving skills
• End-to-end ownership mindset
• Active team player who takes responsibility
• Independent and autonomous in completing tasks
• The mentality of continuous improvement of the service and way of working
• Reflects upon behaviors and performance to proactively identify improvement areas
• Strong problem solver to structure and improve complex situations
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing, to align with various stakeholders and cross-border squads (English is the main language)
• Market focus: Combines market knowledge to formulate the right approach and follows progression in own technical discipline. Stays informed on market developments and innovation

Your education and background

• Professional and intellectual IT ability at university level - at least a Master's degree
• 8+ years of Data and/or software engineering and development experience including design and automation
• Experience in Python and related frameworks
• Expertise in Oracle database (SQL and PL/SQL) development
• DevOps knowledge is good to have: CI/CD concepts, Azure DevOps is preferred
• Good understanding of Test automation/BDD concepts
• Knowledge of Java is a plus
• Knowledge of Kafka topics for Data integration/ingestion is a plus
• Knowledge of Linux(RHEL) and Windows servers
• Proven track record in data environment with regards to data quality, data flows, data consistency, and data lineage
• Experience in the Banking industry, preferably Financial Markets Transaction Reporting