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Job Posting Details Feature Engineer@ING Hubs

Job Requisition REQ-10051722 Feature Engineer@ING Hubs (Open)
Job Family IT Feature Engineering
Start Date 04/12/2023
End Date
Worker Sub-Type Regular
Location Bucharest - Dacia One
Time Type Full time
Locations
Supervisory Organization Digitalization (Andrei - Iulian Dumitru)
Description
Description
At ING we value and support our employees before recruiting external talent. If you think this vacancy is
the right next step in your ING career, we’d encourage you to apply. Should you have questions about the
vacancy or need to hear more before you feel you can apply. Please do not hesitate to reach out to the
responsible recruiter.

Discover ING Hubs Romania

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania –
then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Formerly known as ING Tech, as of 2022 we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities
under the name of ING Hubs Romania and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.
With the help of over 1600 engineers, risk, and operations professionals, we offer 130 services in tech,
non-financial risk & compliance, audit and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide.
Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1300 colleagues active in Data
Management, TouchPoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.
We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive
feedback is encouraged. Work ethics, honesty and knowledge sharing are key to our teams and we’re
always looking for like-minded people.

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania: At ING, we're
building the solutions of tomorrow, today | 80% of our colleagues in Romania agree

The Mission:
The Financial Markets (FM) landscape is rapidly going through a process of digitisation, at the core of
which is eTrading. eTrading at ING covers all products traded in ING FM. These span from the very liquid
and electronic products (cash equities, futures, commodities and FX), Fixed Income products (corporate
and government bonds) which are in the process of becoming electronic due to balance sheet reduction
and regulation, to the less liquid and less electronic derivative products. Data is core to eTrading and
eTrading also covers the data and business intelligence strategy.
Your heart beats in time with the latest technologies and you know how to transform business into IT
architectures? Customer journey is no stranger to you, and you put a lot of know-how and creativity into
sending our customers on a very special digital journey? Perfect! Enrich our eTrading team and design
the architecture of digitalization journey by:

• creation of a standardized messaging layer, a framework that will allow safe and easy
access to all FM data in the data democratization initiative
• design of the sales and trading tools that are used cross product

Your Day-to-Day:
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As a Technical Feature Engineer in the eTrading team you will: 

• Responsible for the delivery of infrastructure epics and features based on global design
and solutions, including technical aspects like networking/ storage/ performance/ data
centre connectivity, performance
• Refine and design features to the desired level of technical detail clarifying its technical
usage and interdependencies with other features in our data, platform and infra
architecture. You administer this with the Product Owner(s) in our backlog management
tool (ServiceNow and in the future AzureBoards)
• Safeguard the delivery of complex features, often cross-team/domain; herewith
maintaining close relationship with (business) counterpart(s). This includes liaising with
our Tech Infra domain as well as external data center hosting providers and
upstream/downstream DevOps teams in Financial Markets
• Own the integration of the services and platforms across the domain, optimizing functional
and non-functional requirements and reducing complexity and technical debt. This
includes performance & capacity analysis over the chain/customer journey, including
network traffic analysis, network design analysis (with hosting providers and Tech Infra)
• Ensure IT Services are correctly documented as per IT Minimum Standard Requirements
(A-OSG, ITRA) and the delivery comply with local regulations and any submission
required for the regulators
• Supports Asset Owner in assessing the risks associated with the usage of an IT Service
• Manage Service Improvement roadmap (service upgrades, technology changes, lifecycle
etc.) and defines backlog items to further improve the quality of the domain
• You will closely collaborate with the data and trading teams.

Your key competencies:

• Excellent team player in an international team, quality focused, service oriented, eager to
learn and to coach others
•  Hands-on mentality
• ‘Can do’ attitude and positive mind set
• Creative learning and thinking, passion for technology
• Challenger of the status quo, always striving to do things more efficiently and effectively
• Well versed and practicing Agile Way of Working
• Strong communications skills to present in boardroom meetings, collaborate with
global/regional counterparts, engineers, and 3rd party service providers. 
• Genuine team player.

What you bring to the team:

• A University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering,

Financial Engineering or equivalent 
• Experience in refining and designing features, at least 5-year technical design
knowledge with proven experience in transforming business need to solution architectures
following reference architectures
• In depth IT application, IT infrastructure and feature knowledge
• You can prove that you are constantly pro-active improving your IT knowledge and have
your own IT vision about designing solutions and next steps in a very complex/big data
environment
• Large experience in developing, administrating, or integrating complex applications and
databases
• In-depth database design or enterprise database performance tuning
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• Experience in coordinating technical teams on a technical lead role

• IT Security experience.
• Knowledge of non-functional aspects of IT Architecture (Performance, Resilience,
Availability, Security etc.)
• Requirements analysis skills and stakeholder management, and ability to work across
organizations to architect complex solutions
• In-depth understanding of banking environment, products, and processes.