Chapter Lead Non-Financial Risk (Amsterdam)

Details

Are you an Azure professional who enjoys combining technical depth with people leadership? Do you like finding solutions that actually work in a complex enterprise landscape? This role is to strengthen the IT craftsmanship of engineers while actively contributing to the direction of the Grid’s IT landscape, working with COTS solutions, SaaS platforms and bespoke applications.

Responsibilities

• Spend around half of your time working as an IT Engineer within your own scrum team, contributing to the design, implementation, and maintenance of solutions.
• Take responsibility for the IT craftsmanship of your Chapter: help engineers grow their skills, make better technical decisions (clean design, automation-first, etc.), and take pride in the quality of their work.
• Take responsibility for HR-related topics within your Chapter, such as onboarding, performance discussions, development planning, and team health.
• Contribute to defining and evolving the IT vision and landscape of the NFR Grid, together with Architects, Product Owners, and IT Leads.
• Help teams navigate a mixed landscape of custom-built systems, COTS packages, and SaaS implementations.
• Advocate for Agile and DevOps practices, Quality Assurance and CI/CD, while staying pragmatic about what fits the context.
• Make trade-offs between innovation, stability, security, and maintainability.
• Help foster a safe, inclusive, and constructive working culture.
• Continuously develop your own knowledge and help the Chapter stay current with Azure and cloud-native developments.

Working environment

• The Chapter consists of around 10 engineers with varying levels of experience. You will collaborate closely with several of them in your block.
• Focus is ensuring that Azure platforms, SaaS and COTS solutions run reliably, securely, and efficiently within the NFR domain.
• Continuous improvement of deployment, release, monitoring, and automation with sensible simplification and modernization.
• You report to the IT Lead and work in an international, diverse environment valuing openness, technical discussion, and learning from each other.
• Working from home is possible in consultation with your team and depending on your role.

Requirements / Your profile

Leadership & mindset

• Experience in coaching and leading engineers.
• Able to translate vision into clear direction and practical steps.
• Comfortable balancing innovation with stability.
• Strong communicator who connects easily with different stakeholders.
• Motivated by improving both systems and people.

Technical strength

• Solid experience with Azure cloud architecture (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS).
• Experience with migration and modernization paths, from lift-and-shift to SaaS adoption.
• CI/CD and DevOps practices (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Security and governance-aware (Azure Policy, RBAC, Defender for Cloud).
• Monitoring and optimization using Azure-native tooling.
• Networking and identity knowledge (VNets, Azure AD, Private Endpoints).
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM).

Benefits / We are offering

• Gross monthly salary range: €5.847 - €8.353 based on a 36-hour work week, including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget.
• An excellent pension scheme.
• Flexibility in working; working from home possible in consultation with your team. Ergonomic home office setup provided.
• Five weeks of vacation per year plus two mandatory days off; option to purchase up to four additional weeks.
• Five “Banking for better days” for personal development or volunteer work.
• Development budget of €1,000 per year (can accumulate to €3,000).
• Annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands for both business and private use.
• Employment conditions and salary scales governed by the Collective Labour Agreement (CLA).

Interested?

If you are interested, respond to this vacancy. For more information, contact the Chapter Lead recruitment team at [email protected].