Chapter Lead Engineer | BMG

About the Position

Chapter Lead Engineer | BMG @ING Hubs Romania

We are looking for a Chapter Lead Engineer to join our Bank Mendes Gans (BMG) team at ING Hubs Romania. BMG is a specialized wholesale bank focused on delivering advanced cash management, liquidity management, and transaction banking solutions to multinational corporations around the world.

Requisition ID: REQ-10120730

Location: Bucarest, Rumanía

Department: IT Engineering

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Responsibilities

Engineering Leadership & Delivery

• Delivery Leadership

  • Own end-to-end engineering delivery for assigned Agile DevOps squads, ensuring commitments are delivered predictably, securely, and with high quality.
  • Drive execution against sprint goals, milestones, roadmaps, and business priorities.
  • Remove impediments and enable effective technical decision-making.
  • Ensure delivery risks, dependencies, technical debt, and operational concerns are proactively managed.
  • Establish accountability for service reliability, operational resilience, observability, and availability.
  • Foster the Agile way of working, by supporting transparent feedback loops aimed to ensure continuous improvement.

• Production Ownership ("You Build It, You Run It")

  • Take ownership of services throughout their entire lifecycle, from development to production operations.
  • Monitor application health, investigate incidents, troubleshoot production issues, and lead root cause analysis activities.
  • Improve observability, alerting, reliability, and operational resilience of your services.
  • Participate in on-call and production support rotations where required.
  • Continuously reduce operational overhead through automation and self-healing capabilities.

• Engineering Excellence

  • Define and promote engineering standards, best practices, and modern software engineering disciplines within the team.
  • Ensure solutions meet architecture, security, risk, compliance, and operational standards.
  • Hands-on coding with a strong focus on test automation and efficiency boosting by responsible usage of AI capabilities.
  • Drive adoption of DevOps, CI/CD, test automation, observability, design-for-failure, and secure-by-design principles.
  • Foster a culture of continuous improvement through metrics-driven engineering practices.

• Technical Leadership

  • Coach engineers in solution design, system reliability, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Support architectural decision-making and technology modernization initiatives.
  • Act as escalation point for complex technical challenges.
  • Drive innovation through adoption of emerging technologies where they create measurable business value.

• AI, Automation & Productivity Leadership

  • Drive responsible adoption of AI-assisted engineering practices throughout the chapter and squads.
  • Promote AI-enabled software development, testing, documentation, operations, and knowledge management practices.
  • Ensure AI governance and quality controls for AI-generated outputs is followed in order to support compliancy, security, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
  • Build AI literacy across the engineering population, including foundational AI concepts, AI safety, prompt engineering, and critical evaluation of generated outputs.
  • Measure and continuously improve engineering productivity through automation, AI tooling, self-service capabilities, and streamlined ways of working.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce manual effort and increase delivery speed while maintaining quality and control standards.

• Risk, Governance & Resilience

  • Ensure adherence to technology governance, risk management, security, DORA, resilience, and compliance requirements.
  • Continuously improve engineering controls related to security, operational risk, resiliency, disaster recovery, and service continuity.
  • Ensure teams are audit-ready and maintain appropriate documentation and evidence of compliance.

People Leadership & Capability Building

• People Leadership

  • Direct manager for a team of 8-15 engineers covering full technology spectrum (backend, frontend, database, business analysis, testing).
  • Lead, coach, and develop chapter members to achieve both career and organizational goals.
  • Conduct performance management, development conversations, talent assessments, and succession planning.
  • Support employee wellbeing, engagement, inclusion, and psychological safety.
  • Create a high-performing engineering culture grounded in ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning.
  • Act as mentor and role model for engineering professionalism and leadership behaviors.

• Capability Development

  • Define chapter capability strategies aligned with business and technology objectives.
  • Build engineering capability pipelines through coaching, mentoring, knowledge sharing, and community development.
  • Drive continuous learning and professional growth across engineering disciplines.
  • Encourage certification, technical mastery, AI skills development, and participation in engineering communities.
  • Develop future technical and people leaders through stretch assignments, coaching, and leadership opportunities.

• Workforce Planning

  • Partner with Product Area Leads, IT Area Leads, Architects, and fellow Chapter Leads to ensure appropriate staffing and capability allocation.
  • Evaluate talent gaps and create long-term plans for capability growth.
  • Support recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and retention activities.
  • Participate in hiring decisions and talent selection processes within the scope of the chapter.

• Chapter & Community Leadership

  • Establish standards, practices, and ways of working for the engineering discipline.
  • Foster cross-squad collaboration and knowledge sharing.
  • Contribute to engineering communities of practice and organizational capability initiatives.
  • Promote One Way of Working adoption and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Culture & Leadership

  • Build a culture of accountability, ownership, learning, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
  • Encourage engineers to balance customer value, engineering quality, security, risk, and operational excellence.
  • Champion customer focus, engineering excellence, and responsible innovation.
  • Lead organizational change and technology transformation initiatives.

Requirements

Mandatory Skills

• Experience:

  • 10+ years of software engineering in JVM language and related technology stack
  • 2+ years of people management experience

• Tech stack/ knowledge:

  • Strong engineering foundation with hands-on experience in Java 21, Spring Boot 4.x and Spring Framework suite, JPA/Hibernate, APIs (REST, gRPC, etc), UI technologies (JavaScript, HTML, CSS, accessibility, security) and UI frameworks (ideally Lit-Html or either of Angular, React, Vue, Svelte)
  • Strong knowledge of enterprise integration patterns and integration middleware (JMS, Kafka)
  • Good knowledge of relational databases (MS SQL Server or Oracle) and ability to fine tune database models and data intensive operations
  • Ability to write clean and maintainable code
  • Good knowledge of source control, CI/CD and documentation tools (Azure DevOps, Git, Maven, Confluence) and ability to define CI/CD pipelines and manage DevOps related activities during software development lifecycle
  • Have a mentality to test your code using various frameworks like Junit, Mockito or BDD testing frameworks like JGiven, Cucumber or Karate
  • Knowledge of Playwright framework for web testing and automation
  • Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes using OpenShift as orchestration
  • Knowledge of various communication protocols like HTTP1/2, Messaging, RPCs, etc.
  • Knowledge of Domain Driven Design (DDD) and ability to design systems in this paradigm
  • Familiarity with different architecture patterns (i.e. monolith vs microservices)
  • Strong analytical skills, proactivity, and ability to work in cross-border international teams
  • Excellent Stakeholder Management skills
  • Demonstrates independent thinking and decision-making abilities, with a keen eye on quality
  • Strong interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills

Nice to Have

• Performance testing with tools like JMeter, Gatling
• Exposing meaningful metrics to have proper monitoring and alerting and ability to perform profiling to better understand the application
• Familiarity with Elastic stack and how to query logs
• Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts
• Experience with other JVM languages or other programming languages like Kotlin

Languages

• English: Advanced

Education

• Completed Education at Bachelor/Master level with a strong analytical background, in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering or equivalent

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Be part of a leading global financial institution
• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible working arrangements

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 provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from our office in Bucharest.

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.

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