IT Area Lead Data Management

IT Area Lead Data Management

Hiring Manager: Jorge Garcia Abadia

Recruiter: Pierre-Julien Dechassat

A day in the life of an IT Area Lead Data Management

• Supervising the Data Management team, which consist of 3 chapters (~ 40 employees) in Belgium and 3 chapters in Romania (~40 employees), serving different tribes within ING Belgium, by managing their performance, defining and following up their goals, training plan and career aspirations in collaboration with your dedicated HRBP.

• Designing and executing the IT strategy with proper IT Landscape in line with the bank’s data strategy to realize the purposes of the Tribe, such as delivering one global data platform to provide data compliance services, offering robust data operations and innovating with Next-Gen products.

• Managing dependencies and cooperate closely with other tribes and stakeholders, solving impediments.

• Developing craftsmanship of everyone working in your IT area by encouraging Chapter Leads to continuously improve their capabilities and competencies to always remain up-to-market in their field and providing high-level strategic guidance on development of your engineers.

• Identifying and adopting applicable changes in the market with regards to innovation, time to market, procedures, processes and methods to stay one step ahead.

• Ensuring a safe and compliant bank from an IT perspective (IT custodianship) by guaranteeing that all assets in scope comply with the risk management model. You proactively monitor your budget and align with your counterparts.

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.

• You have a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead.

• You strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment.

• You are knowledgeable in main ETL Principles, data modelling techniques, functional management (output management), market trends in IT processes, solutions & coding languages.

• You have experience in developing and implementing IT policies in an Agile organisation.

• You have excellent problem-solving skills and passion for and the ability to redesigning processes that would otherwise pose an impediment to the organisation.

• You have a strong organisational sensitivity and the ability to understand and take into account the underlying issues, opportunities and dynamics of the cross-border organisation.

As an IT Area Leader Data Management, you will have the opportunity to:

• Have a huge impact in our IT strategy

• Work in a multi-cultural, diverse and no-nonsense environment

• Be one of the key players in data management in ING

• Grow in a company that promotes internal mobility

The team

Becoming fully data driven is at the very core of ING’s Think Forward strategy to empower people to stay ahead in life and in business. To contribute to the ambition of leading the future of ING through data, the data management tribe has the purpose to manage data in a controlled and governed way, to ensure required quality and to foster a data driven culture.

The main technologies that are used within the DataLake are IBM Infosphere for ETL, BI and Data Governance. The main databases are Oracle Exadata and IBM Netezza. However this technologies are currently transitioning to cloud based technologies (join us to shape this journey!)

As Data Management has a mission to empower end-users to take data driven decisions, the area has taken its first steps towards public cloud. Together with analytics, data management has the ambition to be a front-runner on public cloud to move ahead to a modern data platform. 

Data Lineage, Data definitions, Data Quality, Data Processing and Data modelling are the core pillars within data management.

Data Management has an international context with a focus on consuming (from ING Group) but also offering some services (for local and global market), with the clear responsibility to safeguard the reliability, evolution and user satisfaction. In this international setup, an intense collaboration with other entities of ING Group (including CDO Office) and a common view on the data strategy is key for success balancing between local and global aspects.

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