Pega Senior Dev Engineer

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The opportunity

Think Forward! Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We are an industry-recognized strong brand with positive customer recognition in many countries, a strong financial position, an omnichannel distribution strategy and an international network.

The team
If you want to work at a place with lots of freedom to innovate, where we believe that you can live by the Agile manifesto without jeopardizing the necessary continuity, compliance and QA measures, where we are committed to delivering stable and secure services to end users, and where we have a 'no-nonsense' getting-things done mentality, please read on!

We do our work within the Consumer Loans domain. We are tackling fundamental, high-impact, problems in the financial services industry. We are passionate about protecting our customers and society, delivering products that make ING a safer and more compliant bank.

Roles and responsibilities

As a Pega Senior Dev Engineer, you are responsible for creating smooth and efficient onboarding and other processes relating to the Consumer Lending processes. You need to be able to support and own what you have built.

In your work environment, you will work in an agile squad together with Ops engineers, Business specialists and other Pega Dev engineers. For more details on the team structure, watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3iu2kfZ3w4

Your squad is part of the Consumer Loans tribe (to focus on business delivery), and you’ll be part of a Pega Dev Chapter (to focus on your engineer craftmanship). Agile/Scrum is our way of working, focusing on iterative and incremental software development in small, multi-disciplinary teams.

In this context, squad engineers should be able to perform a wide variety of tasks. Together with your squad, you are responsible for the end-to-end software and feature delivery of stable and fit-for-purpose Pega systems. It means Feature analysis, Development, Configuration, Testing and Support Operations. Additionally, to strengthen our software delivery, you will suggest and contribute to Continuous Delivery initiatives and enthusiastically automate everything: deployment, functional/technical/performance testing, system health checks, and anything else that is still done manually.

In detail your main tasks will be:

• Take part in User Story refinement
• Analyzes requirements and request modification or enrich it when needed
• Participate on the Design of the solution
• Implement qualitative application
• Build an application as close as possible to Pega's out-of-the-box features
• Create or modify Unit Tests when necessary along with the implementation of new functionalities
• Participate to manual testing activities when required
• Pro-actively monitor application quality
• Ensure that logs do not display unwanted messages and errors
• Participate in the Peer Review process
• Fix incidents and problems when necessary
• Participate in Stanby weeks from time to time. Financial compensation will be provided for standby activity.

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.

• You like to deliver on promises while keeping good communication lines with clients and partners
• You have a “Can do” mentality, flexibility and ability to take ownership
• You have a collaborative approach to solving problems while bringing positive energy to the team
• You have an ability to give and receive professional feedback
• You are relentlessly learning and thinking about new solutions
• You have experience working in agile teams (SCRUM or Kanban or XP)
• You are multi skilled: experience with design, building, testing, documenting, deployment
• You have experience with continuous delivery.
• You believe and have a good collaboration mindset.
• You have great English communication skills, verbal as well as written
• You are able to work under pressure, no 9-5 mentality
• You have very strong technical skills:
• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in Pega
• Pega SSA certification is a bare minimum, CLSA certification is a plus
• Some basic JAVA knowledge would be very handy. People should be able to take up some very basic JAVA coding tasks.

You may have as well:

• Analysis capabilities
• Testing abilities
• Facilitation skills
• Retail Bank knowledge

Rewards & 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 [https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm>

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

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

• 8% Holiday payment

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster

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.