Senior Project Manager / IT Integrator

IT Project Manager (IT Integrator)

If you want to work at a place where you will make an impact on developing ING Wholesale Banking’s (WBs) strategic service offerings, where we endorse a proper engineering culture, and where we believe that the sky is the limit to where we can be in the future, please read on.

The opportunity

ING Wholesale Banking TECH is looking for an experienced IT Project Manager to join our Lending, CMA and SSG department. ING’s goal is to enable people to “do their thing” and empower them to stay a step ahead in life and business. We are one of the largest banks in Europe and we continuously evolve to become one of the most innovative companies in the banking sector using proven and art of the state technology.

The department is servicing three ING WB business departments:

• Lending, being on a mission to become fully digitized and data led, enhancing the experience of our clients and our employees. Lending is the core of ING’s lifeline. Hence also the driver in ING’s transformation journey.
• Capital Market Advisory Capital Markets and Advisory, enhancing the ability to better compete in the board rooms of clients for high value-added fee and advisory services while also aligning more of our internal capability to accelerate capital velocity. CMA includes Corporate Finance, Global Capital Markets and Corporate Investments, Acquisition Finance and Loan Distribution Group.
• Sustainable Solutions Group, enhancing sustainability efforts and delivering superior solutions to clients. This initiative consolidates various sustainability functions to drive systemic change and reinforce ING’s position as a sustainability leader.

In our urge to make complex business processes simple, reusing data, following the patterns it provides and predicting the investments we make in our clients, is key. We are tackling fundamental, high impact solutions in the financial services industry. We are talking of game changers.

The team

Together with other IT Integrators you form a Chapter with the purpose to improve continuously and extend our expertise and to coordinate delivery of complex solutions going beyond the scope of a Product and Tribe.

IT Integrators work in close collaboration with internationally diversified Squads over the complete Lending, CMS, SSG portfolio.

You will work primarily with Credit Risk Rating and Financial product area within the Lending Tribe. Several initiatives are ongoing to be ready for the future and to make future innovations and improvements possible.

Roles and responsibilities

Wholesale Banking works conform Agile principles in self-organizing teams. Important aspects of this way of working are initiative, flexibility, continuous development, continuous improvement and active and positive collaboration with other teams. In other words, assignments for an IT Integrator are diverse and the role description is not always 100 percent clear; this is where your project management skills/experience come in; understand what is needed from you to facilitate squads, management and stakeholders in delivering overarching Themes/Epics/Features, so ... you take things on and make them happen!

Your key responsibilities:

• Take responsibilities and accountabilities on the end-to-end feature journey – design and implementation
• Ensure there are clear business requirements in cooperation with Customer Journey Expert/IT Business Analyst.
• Ensure the design is created by the Solution Architect and aligned with the Domain Architect.
• Create Feature planning, establish cooperation cross Squads and plans Feature delivery; herewith maintaining close relationship with (business) counterpart(s).
• Review technical solution directions and technical dependencies drafted in the Epic in coordination with the Business Analyst, the Domain Architect and relevant Squad members, using in-depth IT/application knowledge.
• Facilitate end-to-end testing, ensuring the delivered Feature works as designed and as per the business requirements.
• Have a cross-domain view and identify the needs and dependencies of stakeholders across Tribes or domains to enable business and IT in slicing Epics into Features.
• Identify which Squads/Teams/specialists to involve in the Agile build cycle.
• Challenge and advise Product Owners on Feature dependencies and priorities and backlog alignment of individual Squads.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

Your profile (Desired Skills & Experience)

• Bachelor's or master's degree.
• You are a natural team player who forms relationships based on social skills rather than hierarchical structure.
• Close cooperation with your fellow IT Integrators, architects, management, and the DevOps squads is your greatest achievement.
• You are an energetic and proactive person with a passion for how to use the right tools and techniques for the environment and a positive, “Do it-Try it-Fix it” mentality.
• You are eager to align with management, architects, and squads to implement solutions and roadmaps that are safe, robust, and maintainable
• You can work and bring together multiple stakeholders, you are flexible enough to zoom in and out based on the context so being able to handle both details as well as big picture overview.
• You must have experience managing features end to end in an Agile organization.
• You are able to define end to end planning and end to end business processes in a vast change initiative with a complex IT application landscape.
• You are passionate about IT Architecture and you are curious on the latest technologies (e.g. genAI)
• You are comfortable with topics such as Non-Financial Risk, IT Security and IT Run aspects.
• You have knowledge on cyber security, data and privacy.
• You are well versed with ITIL processes.
• Experience/affinity with Wholesale Banking is a pre
• Experience/affinity with Credit Risk Rating process is a big plus but not mandatory.

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:
●          A gross salary between € 5.212,06 and € 8.387,68  

●          24-27 vacation days depending on contract

●          Pension scheme

●          13th month salary

●          8% Holiday payment

●          Hybrid working

●          Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

●          An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us
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Questions?
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