Chapter Lead Engineer - Inside Business Portal @ING Hubs Romania

About the Position

Chapter Lead Engineer - Inside Business Portal @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 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We are looking for a Chapter Lead Engineer for the Inside Business Portal at ING Hubs Romania to lead a team of engineers and drive software development excellence.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Capability Development

• Direct manager for a team of 8-10 engineers across different technology skills.
• Setting team objectives and conducting Performance Evaluation. Provide regular performance feedback and conduct career planning with chapter members. Take appropriate corrective action as needed to promote optimal employee performance.
• Identifying training needs of the team and individuals.
• Mentoring and coaching engineers.
• Recruitment (on/off boarding), hiring, and training of new talent.
• Ensure individuals and team align with company policies, training, compliance modules, etc.

Delivery

• Support interactions with customers and development team to gather and define requirements.
• Accountable for the delivery of high-quality software solutions, services, and the support of such solutions and applications (i.e. Build and Run).
• Ensure the team consistently ships high-quality code.
• Build strong partnerships with business, operations, infrastructure, and other key stakeholder groups.
• Analyze risks, issues, and other data in supporting teams reaching actionable decisions. Create and manage plans to mitigate risks for all projects in your Squad.
• Ensure the team focuses on removing bottlenecks, improving system performance, and optimizing reliability and maintainability.
• Partner with Product Owners and CJEs to own and plan the backlog and adapt to changes in priorities/requirements/velocity in an agile environment.
• Provide regular reports to the Area Lead and other departments on your Squad’s achievements, challenges, and recommended solutions.

Practice & Craftsmanship

• Work with Chapter Leads, Tech Leads, and other Senior Engineers to ensure best practices are implemented and followed.
• Identify and implement appropriate continuous improvement opportunities.
• Help improve our engineering tooling and practices.
• Drive cross-team collaboration.

Requirements

• University degree in IT or engineering.
• 10+ years of IT experience, including leadership roles.
• Strong engineering foundation with hands-on experience in Java, Spring Boot, Python, REST APIs design and implementation, knowledge about SOAP.
• Experience with front-end technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, TypeScript) will be appreciated.
• Skilled in modern architecture, DevOps, CI/CD (Azure DevOps), and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).
• Experience with SRE tooling (Grafana, Prometheus), integration (Kafka, JMS, MQ), testing frameworks (JUnit, Selenium, Cucumber), and databases (Oracle, Hibernate, ElasticSearch).
• Previous coordination role with the ability to build teams from scratch.
• Proven experience and expertise in delivering high-quality enterprise applications.
• Excellent Stakeholder Management.
• Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities.
• Strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and changing business priorities and new requirements.
• Professional maturity and responsibility. A Chapter Lead is expected to take ownership of issues and work with others to resolve them.
• In-depth knowledge of industry standard best practices, development lifecycle processes, and methodologies. Experience using agile methodology is a plus.
• Thorough understanding of quality management.
• Self-motivated, able to work independently, and thrive in a fast-paced, multi-tasking, high productivity environment.
• Action-oriented, decisive approach to work required, with the willingness to take a hands-on role to ensure deliverables are met on time.

We Offer

• Competitive salary.
• Opportunity to work in a highly collaborative environment.
• Professional development opportunities.
• Be part of a global team driving innovation and excellence.

About the Company

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 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

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?

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania:

• At ING, we're building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree

Apply now and join our team to drive innovation and excellence in software development.