IT Chapter Lead SAS Data Engineering

Within TECH Finance & Risk we are looking for a Chapter Lead SAS Data Engineering to lead our team of top-quality experts. The new chapter lead will be responsible for improving our SAS data engineering workforce, modelling future proof data structures, modernizing our data pipeline & ETL frameworks.

The team

You will be working in a team where you will learn, share your knowledge, have fun and collaborate together with a team of likeminded people. Be a part of making ING data driven!

Our ideal candidate is a mixture of an experienced data engineer with a thorough understanding of data integration & (relational) database concepts, near real time data streaming and management experience in our team formation.

Experience in the Agile methodologies is necessary to make our way of working culture continue to evolve, more efficient, and even more productive.

Roles and responsibilities

Do you love to inspire other people to grow? Are you a motivated leader who likes to work on complex IT solutions? And although you are an experienced engineer, do you continuously want to grow your personal skills as an engineer and as a leader? Is ‘keep doing things smarter’ part of your DNA? Do you have the mentality that aligns with our culture where you ‘take it on and make it happen’? Are you someone who takes ownership and who can give other engineers a lot of energy? And constantly looking for improvements? Than you might be the person we are looking for!

• Identify and fulfil IT knowledge gaps within your chapter ensuring that your chapter is qualitatively properly staffed.
• Continuously work on skills improvements, expertise and personal growth of your IT engineers
• Ensure quality and ownership for work delivered via sprints, set and improve standards according to the agile way of working
• Leading role in processes and decisions which are strategic for your chapter, such as the vendor selection, technology selection, offshore strategies
• Align with IT vendors, ING Infra departments and the end users
• Line management tasks such as hiring new employees, assess performance of current employees
• Together with your Engineers: end-responsible for keeping your IT environment up and running, healthy, secure, documented, and standardized where possible
• Together with the Product Owners of the squads and the Chapter Lead of the Business analysts, you balance team development, delivery and timelines
• Member of IT Area and Tribe Leadership team.

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.

• We are looking for a candidate with 8+ years of experience in a Data Engineering role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field.
• A senior engineer in SAS technologies (SAS DI studio, SAS base, SAS EG, SAS VA)
• Experience with ETL processes and a good understanding of Data Integration concepts
• Experience with online and/or streaming data integration and pipelines
• Experience with database design, modelling and data analysis
• Excellent knowledge of SQL and relational database concepts
• Experience with Linux operating system or other Unix systems
• Experience with CI/CD
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing, to be able to align with various stakeholders and cross border squads
• Technical leadership skills, able to motivate and advance the data engineering practice and its craftmanship to the next level
• Understanding of Agile – Scrum methodology
• Understanding of Kafka technology and implementations
• Hands-on and pro-active attitude
• Fluent in English

Desirable Certifications:

• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
• Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

Rewards and 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 Benefits in the Netherlands  

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A base salary in scale 11
•  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
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

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.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.