Backend - Chapter Lead (Amsterdam)

At a glance

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 as Chapter Lead at our Personal Banking Grid! Within the Personal Banking Grid we work every day hard to develop and run the ABN AMRO App, Grip App and ABN AMRO Internet Banking. We strongly believe in Design Thinking and a DevOps way of working. This helps us to research the real problems of our customers and come up with the right solutions for them.

Your job

As Chapter Lead, you will combine working as a backend IT Engineer on ABN AMRO Internet Banking, with your role as Lead. About 60% of the time you will work in your own block 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 focusing 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

Working environment

At ABN AMRO, we strive to be a personal bank in a digital age. Within the Personal Banking Grid we work on this strategy every day. We strive that our customers can work fully digital, on their computer and phone. We are looking for an Backend Chapter Lead within ABN AMRO App. As a Chapter Lead you are part of a Scrum team but also have time and space to coach team members and be lead of your own chapter of developers.

On a daily basis you work together inside and outside your team with developers, designers and product owners. You are the expert in Backend but also get energy to make sure your fellow developers become experts. Together with the other Chapter Leads in your field of expertise you create vision and strategy. As chapter lead, you will work in a fast paced and accessible environment. We love to share knowledge and to challenge each other, for example by sharing our expertise in our blog, during the events of our developer community and by organising hackathons.

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.

Your profile

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?

• 7+ years of experience in backend technology like Java, Spring Framework, rest APIs and Azure.
• Advanced with CI/CD tooling like Jenkins
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Coaching skills
• Understand and act upon the Scrum Values (openness, courage, commitment, respect and focus)
• Strong communication skills in English
• Experience in working DevOps
• Release management

We are offering

We are offering

• The opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally
• The opportunity to pro-actively work on your vitality and fitness
• A supplementary benefit budget of 11%, which you can spend on additional fringe benefits
• A personal development budget of EUR 1.000 per year
• An annual public transportation pass or travel budget, depending on the function
• A solid pension plan

Interested?

Are you interested? Then please respond to this vacancy! For more information, you can reach out to Pleun Stokkers (pleun.stokkers@nl.abnamro.com) We would like to get to know you!

Good to know: Although we appreciate you writing a motivational letter, this is not mandatory for your application. When you don't have a motivation letter please upload a double cv or a blanco document.

Equal opportunities for all

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

Disclaimer external recruitment agencies

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. In addition, a recruitment agency can only submit a resume when invited by a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join the search for a right candidate. All unsolicited resumes sent to us will be considered property of ABN AMRO BANK N.V. In this case, ABN AMRO will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.