Chapter Lead

As a Chapter Lead you are 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 serve our clients even more and help them in a better way. As a Chapter Lead, you contribute to these goals by focussing on innovation within our department. You stay up to date on the latest developments and you mentor your team members in becoming technical experts. Are you shaping innovation, enhancements, and projects within your department?
Besides innovation, you are also going to improve craftmanship of your Chapter members. Our employees want to grow and experiment. As a Chapter Lead you support and guide them, so they can become the technical experts that contribute to a future-proof bank.
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? Do you love to ensure Transactions now and in the future? Are you keen on implementing cloud technologies, or ensure high volume transactional processing on the Mainframe? Can you lead directly around 10 colleagues in a grid with 300 other professionals? Then, apply with Core Transactions!

As Chapter Lead, you will combine working as an IT Engineer, with your role as Lead. About 60% of your time, you will work in your own block (DevOps Team) on refining, analysing, designing, developing/coding, testing, maintaining, and realizing good quality and future proof IT solutions. As a seasoned developer you feel at home in a challenging technical environment.
The remainder 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.
• Focussing on proper knowledge dissemination across the teams, pushing the limits of 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 mentoring your team, evaluating technical assessments, doing interviews, and ensuring that new employees are properly onboarded.
• Taking care of the HR processes to facilitate all aspects relating to the influx, development, performance and outflux of employees.
• Creating and fostering a healthy working environment and a holistic culture for your Chapter.

As a Cloud Development Chapter Lead, we expect you to have:

• A Developer mindset with problem solving ability.
• Up to date knowledge of public cloud frameworks.

At ABN AMRO, we are 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, 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.

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.

• 8 to 12 years of IT work experience.
• Exposure to cloud technologies with minimum 2 years of hands-on experience preferably on Azure.
• Good technical understanding of API design, Microservices, Database design, Containerization, and other relevant concepts.
• Technical skills:

- Proficient in programming language Java
- Framework Spring boot, spring cloud.
- CI/CD
- Monitoring tools
- Change management
- Good to have exposure to Kubernetes

• You have experience with working in a DevOps team and possesses good interpersonal skills to get the best out of the team.
• An initiative-taking mindset and you take responsibility.
• A passion for experimentation and continuous improvement.
• A curiosity for old and innovative technologies.
• Proficient in the English language

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:

• Scale 10 or 11 salary.
• 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.

Are you interested? Then respond to this vacancy. For more information, you can reach to walter.van.ulden@nl.abnamro.com from Core Transactions

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.

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.

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