Senior Java Engineer in Credit Risk

We are looking for an experienced, communicative DEV Engineer to strengthen us in Credit Risk. We are looking for engineers who can push us to the next architectural design of our credit risk (Fit-for-Future) program. This means thinking about, trying out and applying this new architecture. In this chapter, we deal with large amount of data which needs to be validated, processed (apply calculations) and loaded into systems for further processing.

The Team

COO Risk and Finance deliver baseline and change activities for both Risk and Finance. Our vision and purpose for COO Risk and Finance is clear: To deliver best in class data, insights and advice which empower our consumers to control, explain, predict and optimise the performance of ING. We play a critical role at ING and will be the go-to function for all kinds of data across the Bank.
 

Roles And Responsibilities

You will work in the TECH organization of COO Risk and Finance. You will be part of the Vortex team delivering IT solutions and services for the Credit Risk Tribe. The Vortex teams operate according to the Scrum Agile development process. The focus is on high-quality secure-critical software delivered in time. The key development technologies used in the squad are Java, Oracle, Docker, and Kafka. The Azure DevOps is the single solution used for version control, build, release etc.

Your Main Focus:

• Build and maintain new ETL solutions and calculation engines.
• Implement a new architecture to deliver data to the Credit Risk Datawarehouse applications.
• Improving stability, performance, and reliability of the Credit Risk applications.
• Whatever software you develop, you own it and support it in the full lifecycle of your product.
• A bank is based on trust of their customers. Therefore, your software requires to be trustworthy, and you are keen to be the best in class to learn and apply security standards.
• Build scalable deployment pipelines, to support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Automate test and make it part of the design, code, build and release process.
• Own your product and know how your product(s) are performing implementing the required Observability/Monitoring.

In addition to developing software solutions, you will contribute to:

• We expect you to share and teach your knowledge to other team members as well.
• Optimization of the service stability and continuity.
• Help Credit Risk to make big steps to the future. Enhance the CI/CD maturity, move to a containerized environment, prepare for the move to the public cloud, implement GenAI responsibly, etc.
• In short, we expect you to have or help us have a vision on how to provide our services in the future.

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.

• A degree in computer science or a comparable education on an academic level.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• Loves technology and naturally stays up to date on relevant innovations.
• Has experience and understand the benefits of the agile scrum methodology.
• Holds knowledge and experience on most of the following technical skills and competences:
• You have a good understanding of Software Architecture.
• Excellent team player in an international team, quality focused, service oriented, eager to learn.
• You are able to discuss with your stakeholders and product owner about features and stories and can translate these into software with real business value.
• Has exposure/affinity with Generative AI, being able to do our daily jobs in more creative ways.

• Strong Analytical Skills

• Excellent oral and written English skills

• Java 21

• Spring (boot, core, mvc, data, JDBC, cloud, security, JPA)
• Test-driven mindset (TDD, unit testing)
• Kafka and the matching spring templates (is a plus to have)
• Hibernate (or any other ORM)
• Clear concepts of microservices
• CI/CD experience. Preferably using Azure DevOps
• Docker (Kubernetes/OpenShift is a nice to have)
• Security: Web (OWASP), other best practices, Transport layer security, encryption, various authentication schemes viz. bearer tokens, JWT, etc., code scans and code quality checks
• Relational database (Oracle is a plus to have)
• Performance tuning of Java\Spring\Web applications. Able to do profiling, memory analysis etc. (nice to have)

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. You can find out more about our employment conditions at Benefits in the Netherlands  

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension Scheme

• 13th Month Salary

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• 8% Holiday Payment

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About Us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.