Chapter Lead Financial Markets - Chapter Murex Development & Security in Amsterdam

Are you a technical expert and enthusiastic person who inspires others to create innovative solutions? Then we need your help, in making ABN AMRO a personal bank in a digital age!

One of our strategic goals is to become data-driven, so we can get to know our clients even more and serve them in a better way. As a Chapter Lead, you contribute to this goals by focussing on innovation within your department. You stay up-to-date on the latest developments and you mentor your team members in becoming technical experts. How are you going to shape innovation, advancements and projects within your department?

Besides innovation, you are also going to enhance IT craftmanship of your Chapter members. Our employees get the freedom to grow and experiment. You support and guide them, so they can become the technical experts that contribute to a future-proof bank. When and where you and your team do you work, that is up to you! We work hybrid, which means you and your team can flexibly decide where and when you can work most comfortable and effectively.

All-in-all, working at ABN AMRO means that you contribute to projects that matter and impact millions of customers! Are you up for the challenge?

As Chapter Lead, you will combine working as an IT Engineer, with your role as Lead. About 60% of the time you will work in your own block (scrum 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. This includes:

•  Educating yourself and others with the right technical capabilities and the latest innovations.
•  Mentoring your Chapter members on technical craftsmanship.
•  Actively participating in knowledge gaining and sharing by joining triangles, circles, communities and events. Furthermore, focus on proper knowledge dissemination across the teams, pushing the limits of our technology and focussing on holistic solutions. 
• Proper alignment with stakeholders. For example, informing leadership on the alignment you have with the Solution Engineer on the technological landscape and lifecycle. Furthermore you ensure a current stack and room for innovation on the backlog by discussing this with the Product Owners.
• Working in a DevOps environment and advocating the Agile and CICD processes. 
• On a strategical level you mentor your team, evaluate 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. 
• Create and foster a healthy working environment and a holistic culture for your Chapter.

The Financial Markets Grid is the financial heart of the Bank. Global Markets provides access to the financial markets with a wide range of services and solutions for risk management, capital market products, investment products and financing products. Our clients are institutional investors, multinationals and private banking clients.
We are very ambitious and keep on exploring / implementing new technologies / solutions in order to reduce manual work and speed-up processing and reporting time in good collaboration with our stakeholders. We have embraced an agile way of working where we strive towards a flat organisation with self-organising teams which have the autonomy to make quick decisions and are end-to-end responsible. The atmosphere within the team and the department is open and informal. You will work in a diverse team with many different cultural backgrounds and a good work-life balance.

At ABN AMRO, we strive to be a personal bank in a digital age. That strategy is also brought to life in how we work ourselves. Hence we offer hybrid working as the new normal. This offers you the flexibility to decide when and where can work most comfortably and effectively. Of course we offer you the right resources you need in order to set up a good home office. For example an ergonomic chair, desk and laptop.

 
As chapter lead Development & Security Non Murex, you will work in a fast paced and accessible environment. We love to share knowledge and to challenge each other. You will play a vital role in the development and security of the Financial Markets applications and the growth of development expertise within the Grid
 

You are given every opportunity and independence to demonstrate your professional expertise in a no-nonsense environment and to further develop yourself. We attach great value to personal development and thereby offer you many training and development opportunities. In addition:

-    Salary scale 10, 11 or 12 depending on seniority
-    Pension scheme.
-    Benefit budget, so you can decide yourself if you want extra holiday allowances, a lease bike or that you want the budget paid out.
-    Personal development budget.
-    Banking for better days. These are days you can use for your personal development or on which you can contribute to society.

You feel at home in a technical environment and are always up to date on the latest technologies. At the same time, you are people minded and a tactful inspirator. You get enthusiastic from creative and innovative solutions, and you inspire others to get started with these new opportunities. Furthermore, you constantly look to push the boundaries of new possibilities. 

Do you think you‘re a fit? Check your profile:

• You have an academic degree in Information/computer science related studies
• 7+ years of experience in technologies like Java, Spring Framework, rest APIs and Azure.
• Good experience with CI/CD process and tooling
• Excellent communication skills
• Good experience in security architecture / design reviews, threat modelling, security standards and how to improve security from all perspectives.
• Good understanding and experience of Capital Markets Business Processes and Products
• Experience in working with Azure in large scale environments with complex set-ups
• Experience in People and Performance management
• Ability to coach, motivate and inspire others
• You have an entrepreneurial mind-set
• You know all about DevOps and Agile working