IT Area Lead | Lending Business Banking @ING Bank

Mission

Manage the IT Business Banking Lending team, deliver the agreed roadmap of the area, align and adapt existing way of working.

You will be responsible for managing the tech team within Business Banking Lending Area.

You are an inspiring leader of your Area.

You draw energy from creating an environment where people can reach their full potential and where people have the confidence to take responsibility when it comes to realizing their missions.

You act as an ambassador of full, End2End technical services to the consumers through frequent interaction and alignment. With your solid technical & business understanding of your Area and people leadership skills, you are overall responsible for the performance and health of your team.

You set the people development path to develop the required set of skills.

You determine the strategy for E2E delivery together with the other IT Area Leads, Chapter Leads and IT Lead(s) and implement the strategy within your Area.

About the team

The Tech Team within the Business Banking Lending Tribe is responsible for building, evolving, and operating the digital platforms that enable seamless lending journeys for ING’s Business Banking customers. Working in close partnership with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Architects, Data specialists, and Customer Experience experts, the team delivers end-to-end solutions across digital lending, loan servicing, collateral management, loan monitoring, and customized lending products. The organization is structured around multidisciplinary squads that combine platform engineers, software developers, QA engineers, and DevOps specialists, allowing teams to independently design, build, test, deploy, and support their products. The tribe’s mission is to scale simple and seamless digital-first lending solutions, with a strong focus on automation, customer experience, operational excellence, resilience, and regulatory compliance.

Your day to day

• Ensure the delivery of the strategy by executing against the roadmap: analysis, development, testing and maintaining the health of the applications (security, maintainability and performance)
• Support the definition of full-service visions and roadmaps that feed into the mission of your team
• Define clear KPIs to manage the Area
• Closely interact with all stakeholders to implement the roadmap and improve service offerings
• Make sure your team delivers E2E services to the consumer and maintains set quality standards & SLAs
• Set clear aspirations for the team: new way of working, high performing workforce, automated service delivery
• Translate DevOps concepts into requirements and enforce implementation and adaptation of those concepts
• Continuously improve yourself, your team members and the services you deliver by communicating and sharing knowledge about the new way of working with other peers/stakeholders
• Define resource plan for your Area and support hiring of new talent
• Review performance results and align development plans
• Support team members to continuously develop, both personally and within their area of expertise
• Foster craftmanship and multilateral development inside the Area.

What you bring to the team

• Sound understanding of E2E cross-functional support, and management of ITSM processes and tools, with experience in managing technical setups
• Exceptional people management abilities – leading cross-functional teams, conflict management, constant alignment, coaching & mentoring, focus on people development, addressing performance as a way of improving the business
• Excellent stakeholder management skills – understanding the business, being the ambassador of the Tech organization and a true partner to your business stakeholders/Tribe Lead(s)
• Very good understanding of interdependencies within organization, both from a technical and a dynamics point of view
• Fact and data-based decision taking (both in day-to-day management and in contributing to determining strategic planning)
• Empowering people management style – inspiring & energizing, empowering & challenging people to foster development, encouraging team members to set development goals for themselves
• Mindset of continuous improvement of the service and way of working
• Strong team player who takes responsibility; Independent and autonomous in completing tasks; result oriented; adapts approaches to situations
• Passion about major trends in technology and latest innovation

What we offer

• Impactful work in a fun and collaborative environment
• Open-concept offices designed for both team work and relaxation
• Corporate events and social gatherings
• Hybrid way of working with flexible working schedule and short week options
• Monthly budget on Benefit platform
• Extra annual leave days depending on the total length of working experience
• Growth opportunities through upskilling/ reskilling programs and a variety of learning and development platforms: ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, as well as through trainings and certifications
• Possibility to access Internal roles, International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments
• Context to make an impact through Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility projects.

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