Data Lake Chapter Lead

Are you a seasoned and eager Engineer, who loves Data and have managerial experience? Please read on!  

We are looking for an ambitious colleague who can make our cutting-edge Data&Analytics stacks even better for our Private & Public Cloud users while being a CL for the engineers working on it. 

Job description  

You will be working in Data & Analytics, more specifically in the Data Products IT Area. This Area acts as a Center of Excellence for central data ingestion, supporting efficient onboarding and delivery. It also enables the development and scaling of global data products through standardized frameworks and close collaboration across domains.

You and your team will be building & maintaining data lakes, including the delivery of IBM DataStage ETL’s. You will take part in the transition from data to data products & the migration of data lakes to the public cloud. You will use state of the art technologies both on-prem and in the public cloud. You will work in an international organization collaborating with teams in many other countries, including IT Area Leads, Chapter Leads, Product Owners and Business Analysts.

We are looking for a Chapter Lead/Engineering manager to guide, coach, and support our team of Data Lake engineers. As Chapter Lead, you will be responsible for developing individual expertise within your chapter, fostering best practices, hiring and staffing and collaborating closely with cross-functional squads to ensure high-quality delivery. You will balance technical leadership with hands-on mentoring, shaping the direction of your chapter while supporting members in their career growth. 

The ideal CL is someone with empathy, can create a safe environment for everyone, knows how to adjust communication so any message can be brought with respect, gets motivated by making also others successful and is curious and connect topics and people within the area. 

Key Responsibilities (Managerial) 

• Chapter Leadership: Build, coach, and inspire a team of Big Data Cloud engineers. Promote a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and innovation within the chapter of engineers with different technological backgrounds 

• Technical Excellence: Set and maintain standards for best practices, tools, and methodologies in [specific chapter field]. Drive initiatives to improve technical quality, scalability, and maintainability 

• Talent Development: Conduct regular one-on-one meetings, performance reviews, and growth plans with chapter members. Identify individual strengths and support members in their career paths 

• Community Building: Foster a strong sense of community within the chapter by organizing knowledge-sharing sessions, workshops, and other opportunities for professional development 

• Stakeholder Engagement: Engage with stakeholders across engineering, product, and business functions to ensure alignment on product goals, priorities, and strategies with those of your Chapter members 

• Communication: You can explain complicated subjects clearly to different audience 

• Environment shaping: You are friendly, empathetic and approachable and can challenge engineers in and out of your chapter 

• Curiosity: You are motivated to keep up to date with the latest developments and to introduce them to the team and projects where applicable  

The CL part will be approx. 50% of your time; the other 50% will be hands-on contribution on delivering our solutions.  

Who are you

Do you tick at least the following boxes:

• You are passionate about data-driven software solutions
• You are customer focused
• You are eager to learn new technologies and not afraid to deep dive into these
• You have at least completed a technical HBO / bachelor’s degree, preferably computer science
• You have at least 3 years’ experience in IT in a corporate environment
• You have a curious mindset; you are collaborative and passionate about helping others to grow and improve.
• You have strong experience in implementing and running data lakes
• You are competent in building CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps
• You  are experienced with IBM Infosphere/DataStage or other relevant ETL/ELT technology
• You have a good understanding of databases, specially RDBMS, including database concepts, database design, data analysis and performance tuning.
• You have experience with message-oriented middleware e.g., Kafka.

• You have a good understanding of data products
• Preferably you have experience with GCP/BigQuery and DBT

Your work environment 

You will work in the Enterprise Data Foundation & Compliance department within our  Data&Analytics organization. You will join some 150 engineers with the mission to make banking in ING data driven. Our mission is to deliver a scalable and governed data foundation and compliance capability. We provide global data products and empower the organisation to use data for analytics and reporting. We work in a fun and creative environment, and we are dedicated to bringing out the best in both each other and our projects. We have offices in Amsterdam (primary office), Poland, Romania and India. 

Do you recognize yourself in this profile?  

What do we offer?  

  
Working at ING means working in a dynamic and international setting. Individual development of our employees is important, which is why ING offers excellent courses and programs. You will become a member of the Data Products Area. We only hire people with exceptional talents and capabilities! You will work on the most innovative projects within ING. In addition, we offer:  

• Fun!  

• A competitive salary  

• Working with highly skilled people  

• Working in an area which is significant to the strategy of ING  

• A relaxed and fun team  

• An international atmosphere  

• A full-time position (36 or 40 hours week)  

• Great training and education opportunities  

We are looking forward to getting to know you!