Chapter Lead Engineer | BMG

About the Position

Chapter Lead Engineer | BMG @ING Hubs Romania

We are looking for a Chapter Lead Engineer for BMG at ING Hubs Romania to lead engineering teams and drive innovation in technology solutions.

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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 Responsibilities

As Chapter Lead, the role develops engineers, builds organizational capability, and creates an environment where individuals and teams can thrive.

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.

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Requirements

Experience

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

Tech stack/ knowledge

Mandatory

• 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

Foreign 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

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We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and innovative environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Flexible working arrangements

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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?

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