Data IT Chapter Lead - Lending

IT Chapter Lead – ING WB Tech Lending - Loan Origination & Monitoring

If you want to work at a place where you will make an impact on developing ING Wholesale Banking’s (WBs) strategic service offerings, where we endorse a proper engineering culture, and where we believe that the sky is the limit to where we can be in the future, please read on.

The opportunity

ING is looking for an experienced IT Chapter Lead to strengthen its Wholesale Banking Lending organization. Our strategic direction is to create a fast, seamless, personalized & data driven digital Lending experience for borrowers, ING employees, investors, and regulators. Within the Tribe we re-design and digitize our end2end customer journeys to significantly improve our user and customer experience while staying regulatory compliant as well. The tribe consists of five areas:

Loan Origination & Monitoring Ratings & Financials Loan Admin & Channels Collateral & Availability Data Offering & Readiness

This position is the IT Chapter Lead of the Data Engineering Chapter in the Loan Origination & Monitoring area.

We believe that data engineering is a critical foundation capability to improve our lending processes and create new and innovative data-driven products that go beyond traditional banking

The team

As an IT Chapter Lead, you will report to the IT Area Lead of the area within the WB Tech Lending organization of ING.

Within Loan Origination and Monitoring area, we work on two product spaces: Loan Origination & Execution and Portfolio Monitoring Insights & Alerts. We have a couple of initiatives which will contribute to making the lending processes fully digital; reduce the time to yes and cash; digitalize and automate our loan origination and portfolio monitoring processes. We do this by rethinking and replacing current processes and tooling with new technologies, while ensuring compliance to policy and regulations by design.

This is a challenging area due to the high degree of complexity in processes and product offering. At the same time this is an Area which will directly impact the daily work of our Front Office and Risk colleagues globally and keep us compliant to European Central Bank requirements and local regulations.

Roles and responsibilities

You are an energetic IT Engineer with a passion for IT especially on data engineering and a positive can-do mindset. You are a team player working as a core member of a multidisciplinary and cross-functional squad: a self-managing, autonomous unit with end-to-end responsibility for a customer journey whose primary driver is the customer perspective. You will be involved in the whole development lifecycle, from refining user stories to monitoring software in production. Close collaboration within and across the squads and with the consumer is of utmost importance for you.

You will perform the people management of your chapter members. You further develop and safeguard the knowledge and craftsmanship within the chapter and grow their mastery. You will be responsible to manage the demand and capacity of your chapter members and product spaces they are contributing to.

 Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership, and growing craftsmanship in your chapter with an emphasis on
  • Agile customer-centric software development
  • People-oriented management and growth of
  • Analytics and metrics of customer and systems’ behaviour
  • Organize for flow of delivery, e.g., with Product Management and Team Topologies
• You will be overseeing a chapter of 5-7 engineers globally (Netherlands, Dublin, Manila and India), with some engineers reporting directly to you and others as functional manager, which you will closely collaborate with their hierarchical manager locally.  
• Develop and grow your chapter members to meet both their career goals and the organisation’s goals, driving engagement and results via inspiring leadership.
• Working with Product leads and other leads to ensure feasibility of technology capabilities, expertise and capacities of Data Engineering chapter meeting the product and technology delivery demands.
• Drive the innovation, enhancement and evolution of data engineering technology together with your chapter members
• Contribute to our data driven strategy and continuously discover product/tech use cases which may benefit from the data engineering technology.
• Balancing business requirements with technical debt
• Act as an expert on the craftmanship development needs for Data Engineering
• Contribute to the success of the projects you are assigned to by doing hands-on data engineering work.

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.

Your Profile (Desired Skills & Experience)

• Master of Science in Computer Science or an equivalent field.
• Management experience in an Agile organization.
• Experience as a data scientist, and financial domain is a plus.
• Expert level SQL knowledge
• Expert level data analysis
• Deep RDBMS experience and understanding the performance practices
• Experience on Data Modeling and different modeling techniques
• Experience on database programming (T-SQL)
• Experience on E2E data solutions design
• Good understanding on batch and near real-time data processing
• A proven track record in analytics, backlog management and resource planning
• Ability to lead teams of experts working in a highly complex and dynamic environment promoting awareness in others
• Achieve optimum results by empowering teams
• Passionate about developing teams to achieve craftmanship and personal development.
• A mindset that focusses on continuous improvement.
• You love technology and naturally stay up to date on relevant new developments
• You value a multi-cultured environment where English is the working language, and you easily get on with people from different cultural backgrounds.