At a glance

ABN AMRO’s Central Data Office stands at the forefront of data innovation, meticulously crafting and executing the bank’s data strategy to unlock unparalleled value. With its eyes set on a data-centric future, the CDO harmonizes the intricacies of data governance, engineering, and management under a unified vision. Championing the Federated Data Governance Model, it not only ensures pristine data quality and streamlined initiatives but also champions compliance and efficiency across the board. CDO is the bank’s beacon for informed decision-making and a culture of excellence in the digital age.

In Data Management Engineering, our goal is to improve business operations and introduce new capabilities across the organisation. To accomplish this, our talented engineers, data scientists, and analysts are responsible for democratising data via visualisation and governance-driven solutions.

Using Azure's platform as a service, our developers have delivered a cloud-based solution to visualise and manage ABN AMRO's data (The Data Marketplace). The backend is powered by NodeJS and Python, while the frontend provides a rich user interface using VueJS and Typescript.

Our frontend team has used ABN's AMRO Emerald components library and custom components to handle mouse clicks and used REST web services for seamless integration with our DIAL data platform. We created a highly interactive cloud-based solution to find and manage complex data quickly.

Your job

As Chapter Lead of Reliability & Infrastructure Engineering, you will combine working as an Engineer, with your role as leading the chapter of Reliability & Infrastructure Engineering. About 60% of the time you will work in your own block (Devops team) on refining, analysing, designing, developing/coding, testing, maintaining and realizing good quality and future proof IT solutions. The rest of the time, you will manage your team.

Primary focus will be on:

• Mentoring your Chapter members on technical craftsmanship, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development
• Actively participating in knowledge gaining and sharing by joining triangles, circles, communities and events
• Proper alignment with stakeholders both from IT and Business
• Working in a DevOps team and creating a good atmosphere for innovation
• On a strategic level you make sure that everything continues to work flawlessly, mentor your team, execute and experiment with technical assessments, do interviews and ensure that new employees are properly onboarded
• Take care of the HR processes to facilitate all aspects relating to the influx, development, performance and outflux of employees. Above all, be flexible and willing to learn and develop yourself further.
• Creating, together with the engineers, the attack plan to stay abreast of the many regulatory aspects and KPIs related to the OARs we create and maintain.

Working environment

The Chapter Reliability & Infrastructure Engineering will have about 6-8 members with various levels of experience. You will be working with some of the chapter members also in your team. You will be lead of the chapter, guiding, mentoring and coaching the members of chapter on various aspects.

We apply DevOps and own what we do in mindset, behaviour, and execution: Whatever you do, you build it, you run it, you love it. Think of automate first, too. You report to the IT Lead who is also your sparring partner for challenges with regards to staffing or IT delivery.

As Chapter Lead, you will work in a fast paced and accessible environment. We love to share knowledge with and to challenge each other, for example by sharing our expertise in our blocks, during the events of our developer community and by organizing hackathons.

ABN AMRO utilizes adaptable working hours, and you can choose for yourself whether you telecommute or at the workplace by planning this with your team.

Your profile

You have a positive and proactive mentality with which you tackle difficulties for your chapters and grid and draw in ownership to you. You look for contact with different departments, intently observe the turns of events and guideline, and is proactive in the channels that are facilitating for your work and for your field. You motivate others and act as a mediator to de-escalate conflicts. Your knowledge is looked with regards to a specialist in the Reliability & Infrastructure Engineering. 

In addition, you have a proven track record in the following:

• Knowledge on Tower Dashboard and different operational KPI.
• Experience on adjusting the technical implementation to match regulatory and compliance expectations.
• Experience in designing, implementing, testing and deploying services with a focus on high availability, low latency
• Knowledge on how to monitor and manage applications. You build it, deploy it, and run it
• You have experience in working with Azure Cloud in large scale environments with complex network/infrastructure setup (App services, Azure functions, storage, SQL, VMs, Streaming and Databricks)
• You are comfortable with coaching people and have good people skills
• 5+ years of experience.

regarding soft skills:

•  Communication with different IT teams, departments and business stakeholders
• Proactiveness and ownership mindset are key aspects
• Teaching skills and coaching people
• Respect for other people’s opinion and conflict mediator mindset.

We are offering

• The gross monthly salary displayed above is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget.
• The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month.
• Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year.
• Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000.
• Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position).
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands.
• An excellent pension scheme.

Interested?

Do you want to be part of the data revolution in the banking industry? Do you have a strong understanding of data, and do you agree that data is at the core of creating value for customers? Do you want to unlock the power of data by using all forms of technology? And does solving complex data-related cases make you happy? Then this is the place for you!

Please apply online for this vacancy. For more information, you can contact marcos.barroso@nl.abnamro.com.

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Disclaimer external recruitment agencies

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