The Mission

Data Analytics Platform’s aim is to leverage analytics for ING, providing a multi-tenant hybrid platform, combining cutting-edge technologies on both private cloud/on-prem and GCP. Working in a Big-data environment, together with data governance and security, is to be sure that we're building scalable solutions.

We seek an enthusiastic Chapter Lead with a passion for data, technologies, and people!

Your passion is to work with the latest and greatest technologies that make working with large amounts of data easy, you’re pro-active in keeping yourself up to date and are always searching for new ways to discover new technologies. You also enjoy laying the architectural foundations for the things you’re working on. You combine both thinking of the future and a hands on, right now attitude. You will work in a team with highly skilled people and enjoy a creative atmosphere where trying things out is encouraged.

Your Day-to-Day

We are looking for a new colleague whose profile comprises both solid people management experience and technical expertise. Your should always view your team as the no. 1 priority, while still being able to actively participate and deliver on the technical side. Take a look at how your responsibilities would look like:

 People Management Responsibilities (40%):

• Participate in the recruitment of new talents

• Provide continuous coaching and mentoring by clarifying job responsibilities, setting performance expectations through the establishment of goals and job competencies, identifying skill gaps, creating development plans and evaluating performance

• People management of highly talented data engineers

• Balance effectively independence and acting in the interest of the team

• Collaborate closely with data analysts, data scientists and business colleagues across the organization

Besides great people skills, the Team Lead that we are looking for should match one of the following technical profiles (60% individual technical contributionalongside the team members):

1. Chapter Lead SRE

Required skills:

• Familiar with SRE concepts and System and application monitoring

• Knowledge of infrastructure architecture and practices 

• Good understanding of databases including RDBMS, non-SQL Experience with monitoring and observability (ELK stack) 

• Deployment and provisioning automation tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, CI/CD 

• Infra as code (Terraform, Ansible) 

• Bash scripting and Linux systems administration 

• Analyze, solve and correct issues.

Nice to have: 

• Experience with distributed systems and clusters for both batch as well as streaming data (S3/Spark/Kafka/Flink) 

• System design and architecture 

• Experience with Apache Airflow

• Programming in Python 

• Experience working in cloud environment (e.g. GCP) and building distributed, large scale and secure applications 

2. Chapter Lead Data Engineer

What you bring to the team:

• You have at least 5 years of (global) work experience in the Data (software) Engineering horizons (methods, technology, data)

• You have a proven track-record of developing, coaching and mentoring people from different technological backgrounds.

• You have experience and love leading teams to drive results and interact with (senior level) stakeholders

• You can explain complicated subjects clearly

• You are motivated to keep up to date with the latest developments and to introduce them to the team and projects where applicable

• You are always thinking one step ahead, for example in advising about the best way of implementation.

• You are a team player who strikes effective balance between independence and acting in the interest of the team

Required skills:

• Knowledge of data manipulation and transformation, as well as setting up both SQL as well as noSQL databases

• Hands-on experience building complex data pipelines e.g. ETL

• Hands-on experience managing and further developing distributed systems and clusters for both batch as well as streaming data (Spark)

• Programming in scripting languages, e.g. Python

• Deployment and provisioning automation tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

• Bash scripting and Linux systems administration

• Affinity with Advanced Analytics, Data Science

Nice to have:

• Programming in a statically typed language, e.g. Java/Scala, Kotlin, Golang

• Hands-on experience managing and further developing distributed systems and clusters for both batch and streaming data (S3 and/or Kafka/Flink), as well as building 0-downtime applications/components

• Security, authentication and authorization knowledge (LDAP / Kerberos / PAM)

• Good understanding of databases including RDBMS, non-SQL and time-series databases;

Do you recognize yourself in one of these profiles?

Discover ING Hubs Romania

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?

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