Engineering Manager C++

Details

ABN AMRO Clearing is a global leader in the domain of clearing, offering access to a wide range of listed instruments on markets across the globe. Our clients can select to open an account in one of our local offices in APAC, EU, or US and receive their daily position reporting on a regional basis. According to their preference and subject to applicable rules and regulations, they can also opt for a single master account, covering their activity globally in a consolidated report.

Job Context

ABN AMRO Clearing is designated as a mono-line company within ABN AMRO and holds its own banking license (ABN AMRO Clearing Bank NV). Globally, the company consists of about 900 FTEs (excluding externals) and is self-sufficient, organizing its own supporting organization. As a chapter lead, you reside within the IT organisation and are responsible for the ‘how’ in the organisation in terms of (technical) way of working and people management.

Job Purpose

A Engineering Manager (chapter lead) forms the most important connection between the (business) developers and the chapter area lead in making sure that the (business) developers receive day-to-day coaching. While attributed limited managerial capabilities (15 FTE max.), a chapter lead still spends about 70% of their day-to-day activities on non-managerial tasks like developing code (Chapter Lead IT) or translating business requirements for IT (Chapter Lead BD). About 30% of the time is spent directly coaching their peers.

An essential part of the chapter lead role is helping to develop talent within your craft. As an expert and servant leader, you are able to coach and develop your chapter members to become better craftspeople and to find their own rewarding career paths. Importantly, while you provide sparring and craft-specific support to your chapter members, you do not manage their day-to-day activities.

Three main types of responsibilities:

1. Define best practice way of working
2. Perform strategic workforce planning (for your chapter, together with the Chapter Area Lead)
3. Manage and grow people

Along with other Risk IT Engineers, you work on large technical projects, help set the direction for the development of our clearing and risk management application landscape and serve as role model within the organization. You establish vision and technical direction for major initiatives and build high quality and architecturally sound systems. You develop a deep understanding of trading, clearing, risk management and what the 'machine' is doing.

Expertise

As an Engineering manager(chapter lead) you’re considered a (thought) leader in your chapter’s area of expertise, which means you’re expected to have experience with:

• C++ 20
• Postgres
• Kafka
• Redis
• Linux (Bash)
• Jenkins, Ansible
• OpenShift

Moreover, we are looking for someone with the following profile:

• Strong engineering instinct and a growth mindset.
• Innovative, big-picture thinking grounded in real-world pragmatism.
• Solid experience with IT development in an agile environment.
• Strong affinity with financial services and risk management.

Working Environment

You’ll work in an agile setting alongside a culturally diverse group of individuals, based in Amsterdam, Chicago, and Sydney. Our systems play an essential role in everything we do in the clearing and risk management domain. Our application development teams collaborate closely to explore ideas and set the new direction. Together we build and maintain an outstanding suite of reliable, high performing systems and applications.

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.