Ops Chapter Lead RaceING

Ops Chapter Lead RaceING

About the Role

The Competitive Pricing Area, part of the FM Tribe, seeks an enthusiastic Chapter Lead with a solid Operations background and hands-on approach. You will lead and inspire engineers to get the most out of their talents and advance the Area.

Competitive Pricing is a dynamic and contemporary workplace for a diverse leader who enjoys technical and functional challenges. You will work closely with your IT Area Lead, other chapter leads, and product owners to ensure platform and applications stability, keeping engineers ahead of the curve.

The Opportunity and Teams

As IT Ops Chapter Lead, you will play a crucial role leading Ops Engineers for RaceING. RaceING is a fully in-house developed application that performs various types of pricing and risk calculations for XVA position and related capital of the Financial Markets (FM) department of ING. It is a global application, used in multiple ING FM locations, and is developed and supported by engineers in Amsterdam, Singapore, and India.

Hosted on modern infrastructure within ING data centers, it primarily uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux and ING Container Hosting Platform (ICHP). The application is developed in close collaboration with the Front Office Quants team and end users.

Currently, we are working on the next iteration of the application architecture to integrate with the ING Pricing Architecture platform (IPA) and switch to a highly available and scalable design, while maintaining and enriching the existing business-critical version.

As Chapter Lead, you will also participate in Tribe and Area efforts.

Roles and Duties

Approximately 40% of your time will be devoted to empowering, coaching, and motivating your chapter of six to ten individuals. The remaining time will be spent as an engineer in the squad executing on our strategic and functional roadmaps.

Based in Amsterdam, you are expected to take ownership together with your colleagues in Amsterdam, India, and Singapore. Be open, honest, proactive, and communicate clearly.

How to Succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• Strong technical skills: Linux, scripting, SQL/Oracle, affinity with modern distributed middleware (we use GridGain, Kafka, S3/ECS to name a few)
• Familiarity with best SRE practices
• Strong social skills
• Experience with leading teams/Engineers and managing complex application landscapes in an enterprise setting
• Knowledge of, working background, or interest in Financial Markets is very welcome
• Strong team player; you love to share knowledge and are interested in other people’s work
• Enthusiastic about working in an Agile setup
• Well-versed in IT Risk management to help build and maintain secure and reliable applications

Rewards & Benefits

We want to ensure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues
• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster

About Us

With 57,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse, and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us.