Engineering Manager ING Pricing Architecture

Engineering Manager ING Pricing Architecture

Competitive Pricing Area, part of the FM&GT Tribe, seeks an enthusiastic, hands-on Engineering Manager (we call the role Chapter Lead), with a solid Software Development background, willing to 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 and other Chapter Leads in the Area and product owners to ensure that platform and applications using it are stable, and engineers are always ahead of the curve.

The opportunity and teams

As Development Chapter Lead, you will play a crucial role leading Software developers for ING Pricing Architecture platform (IPA).

IPA is fully in-house developed platform that aims to centralize pricing and risk calculations for Financial Markets (FM) department of ING, and beyond. It is a global platform, used in all ING FM locations, and is developed and supported by multiple squads in Amsterdam, Belgium, Singapore and India.

Particular component of IPA you and your team are responsible for is Derived Market Data component (DMD) the role of which is to be the primary source of market data used for pricing and calculation of risk for all FM products, mainly, but not limited to, derivatives.

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

Roles and duties

50% of your time will be devoted to empowering, coaching, and motivating your chapter of six to ten individuals. Your responsibilities in that part will include making sure that craftmanship and engineering capacity is matching the demands put forward by business, represented by Product Owner.

The remaining 50% of your time will be spent as Software Developer yourself in a squad supporting the tribe's larger endeavors. You will have to work on individual stories, for example, onboarding new market data for new asset classes (e.g. commodities, crypto), but also setting strategic course for applications owned by your team, making sure they are scalable, can support real-time use cases, all while preventing accumulation of technical debt.

Team members are currently based in Amsterdam and India, with stakeholders using and consuming the data your team is responsible for all over global ING locations. .

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:
  • Java 17+
  • Spring / Spring Boot 2.3+
  • SQL / Oracle
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • Linux-based OS and scripting
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Secure coding skills
  • Focus on code quality and test coverage
  • Understanding software delivery lifecycle and processes around it (Change Management, Identity and Access Management) etc.
• Strong social skills
• You have experience with leading teams/Engineers and managing complex application landscape in an enterprise setting
• Knowledge of, working background or just an interest in Financial Markets is very welcome
• You are a strong team player; you love to share knowledge and you are interested in other people’s work
• You are enthusiastic about working in an Agile setup, and don't mind taking initiative in case requirements are not extremely clear or need further refinement

Rewards & benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

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 60,000 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. Apply today.