Product Manager - Core Banking @ING Hubs Ro

ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. 

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.

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. 

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 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.  

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you? 

The Mission

The project's goal is to establish a new business design for restrictions and limitations that aligns with the responsibilities in our organization. We will provide the concept and guide the implementation of new services to access restrictions and limitations. Therefore, with the project we create decoupling points that enable the corresponding business and IT owners to gradually evolve their services and move away from legacy system towards target solution.

Our ambition is to promote the evolution of our core banking into a modular and scalable landscape that is more adaptable than today. Therefore, we are creating, operating and maintaining an extensible interface to our Core Banking that prepares us to quickly integrate new business cut services leveraging target technology and domain governance concepts. We enable target interfaces to our Core Banking by providing the required technical integration.

Your Day-to-Day Activities

• You are accountable for effective backlog management: create, prioritize and update the backlog, and make sure it is properly refined. Assists with the elaboration/refinement of the requirements to ensure they are granular enough for the squads to deliver within a sprint;
• Translate Epics into Features and Stories, capacity- and sprint-planning for squad;
• Co-creates / contributes to the Tribe’s QBR memo;
• Updates stream roadmap timelines due to changes in sprint plannings after discussion with stream lead / project lead;
• Ensures that functional and non-functional requirements are addressed for all stakeholders;
• Align with domain architect regarding solution design / create architectural diagrams and ARM / AB documentation with architect;
• Manage / is host of agile routines, such as stand-up, sprint planning, review and retrospective, focusing on deadlines and goals of the product and product release plan; lead POCLAC meetings;
• Offers feedback and aligns with the chapter leads for the appraisal of people in the squad;
• Participates to CoE Base & Core Services product owner meetings / workshops / alignment meetings;
• Delegate to stream lead - participates in project board or alignment meetings;
• Define product vision and establish a strategy based on long-term vision, assessing customers’ needs and working closely with your stakeholders and squad;
• Clearly articulate and document the product definition and it’s value, elaborating pricing models and preparing the roadmap for product development & adoption. Share outcome with squad, stakeholders; identify/align dependencies.
• Ensure purpose and clarity for the squad, share vision, strategy and value (why);
• Organizes all delivery and support activities to assure the SLAs and KPIs agreed;
• Creates short term forecasts based on squad performance / velocity;
• Continuously take initiative to improve the way of working and the collaboration with& within your squad. You frequently align with the Agile Coach, Scrum master, Chapter Leads, the IT Area Leads and other Product Managers.

What you bring to the team

Experience: At least 3 years of experience in a Product Owner role, Product Manager or Feature Engineering role, preferable in an Agile environment

• Strong stakeholder management capability;
• Willing to explore new ideas & initiatives;
• Creative mindset;
• Familiar with Software Development Life Cycle and IT Processes;
• Product- and/or Project Management skills, including presentation and reporting skills;
• Eagerness to learn and improve;
• As a plus, prior experience in building / delivering an IT Service, Java projects, APIs, Kafka;
• Experience in working with Microsoft technologies is a plus.

• Foreign languages: English (advanced)
• Education: Bachelor Degree (Technical studies, Business and/or Banking).

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