Job Description
This role is part of the Agile way of working:
People and interactions over processes and tools.
Functional propositions over comprehensive documentation.
Collaboration (with the customer) over contract negotiations.
Responding to change over following a plan.
Guiding principles for the structure and way of working include:
A squad has E2E responsibility for a concrete customer-related mission, that contributes to the Tribe's “purpose” (overall mission).
Several roles have been defined to facilitate the success of the squad
The Product Owner is responsible for the squad's achievements and priorities.
The Agile Coach focuses on developing a squad into a high-performance team and helping it maintain that level. An Agile Coach works with 2-4 squads.
The (Business ) Chapter Lead determines the way of working for individuals in a particular area of specialization and ensures personal development within that area.
The IT Chapter Lead fulfils a similar role, spending at least 60% of his/her time as a competent engineer, with the remaining 40% of his/her duties comprising people management (including planning, coaching and review) and facilitating the development of job maturity for his/her entire chapter.
The IT Area Lead is the IT contact for a Tribe. He or she manages all of the IT Chapter Leads in the Tribe, uses his/her IT expertise to contribute to the Tribe's strategy and monitors achievement of this objective. He or she is responsible for helping write the Tribe's strategy and acquiring IT expertise in planning and execution.
The IT Lead is the hierarchical manager of the IT Area Lead for the Tribe. He or she will cover around 25% of the CIO NL IT organization. He or she will share responsibility for writing the bank's IT strategy, provide input for the bank's IT architecture, bear primary responsibility for identifying and adopting applicable changes in the market with regard to the procedure, processes and methods used by the IT organization.
Tasks and responsibilities
1. Creating and safeguarding the 'new' culture
Has an active role in effecting the culture change. Functions as an ambassador for culture change and is a role model in terms of the new way of working: from 'an organization talking' to 'an organization doing'.
Facilitates insights and actions from individuals and the team for self-development and for maintenance of a high level of performance.
2. Achieve and manage IT maturity and the squad's mission
Has an up-to-date vision regarding IT expertise and keeps abreast of developments.
Is recognized as competent in his or her field.
3. Engineering
Spends 60% of the time working as an Engineer in a squad.
4. Development and facilitation in the hierarchical line
Is responsible for the personal development and evaluation of his/her chapter members. Does this based on input from the Product Owner, the Agile Coach and individual squad members.
Encourages his/her chapter members to develop themselves and facilitates this. Provides coaching both in terms of professional and of personal development. Constantly ensures development of individual members' expertise.
Discusses both the progress and the development needs of the chapter as a whole the IT Area Lead.
Identifies top performance and takes action at an early stage for underperformance.
5. Resource planning
Discusses resource planning for a squad and chapter as a whole with the IT Area Lead.
6. Knowledge sharing
Ensures application of standards in his/her own area of IT expertise.
Shares relevant insights/developments in his/her own IT expertise with members of his/her own and possibly also other chapters.
Behavior and competencies
You are an ambassador for the 'new' culture (Orange Code) and meet the requirements of the associated manager's profile. This role requires emphasis on the following:
You are inspiring and exude energy and passion.
You have a keen IT market focus: you are passionate about major trends in the new way of working, including Lean IT, continuous delivery, cloud processes, etc.
You are focused on collaboration: you set aside your own 'ego' in the interests of achieving the best results – you help others achieve success.
You achieve optimum results by empowering teams and giving them responsibility, at the same time 'provoking' them, challenging them and keeping them 'on the ball'.
You encourage people to achieve real personal development.
You have the capacity to learn new content quickly and transfer it.
You actively seek help and feedback, but are also not afraid to give feedback.
You are curious and always look out for innovation opportunities in your focus area.
You have a mindset that focusses on continuous improvement.
Knowledge and experience
You have management experience in an Agile organization.
You have experience in functional management (output management).
You have strong analytic skills.
You have experience in management based on hard and soft data.
You have more than 5 years’ experience as an JAVA engineer.
Broad knowledge and experience with Java, Spring, OO, REST, SOA, XML/XSD/WSDL, JSON
Experience with encryption algorithms
Experience with test driven development.
Experience with Linux and shell scripting.
Experience with relational databases and NoSQL datastores.
Education
- Professional and intellectual ability at higher vocational education (HBO) or university level, with a background in IT
- Certification and/or proven skills in one or more high-level programming languages
- Clean coding or industrial software course