IT Development Engineer - Backlog Management

An IT Development Engineer to join us in Jira & Confluence Team (also known as ‘BB8’) of the Development Tooling department. The Development Tooling department. is responsible for the development environment for all of the ABN AMRO development teams in the Netherlands, Germany, France, UK and India.

As IT Development Engineer you will be working with team of 8 people including PO on challenges product teams face in the area of backlog management, portfolio management and related capabilities. Your job is to get a thorough understanding of the challenges and provide the technical solutions. In addition you will be working on the actual technical implementation and maintenance and support of the solutions.

Development Tooling consists 12 teams, each covering a separate part of the development lifecycle from start to finish. In this scope, BB8 is responsible for backlog and portfolio management tooling in this environment. All teams in our department work as DevOps teams, meaning that they are equally responsible for both development (Infra-as-code, Ansible, ARM templates) and the subsequent operational work (monitoring, incident management, functional questions, patching, admin-activity).

We strive to be an impactful team, advocating a DevOps mindset within the bank. Within the team we find it important to be honest and open in our communication, we foster an open atmosphere, where everyone is free to speak their mind and is listened to. We encourage collaboration between team members (for example pair programming), and always help each other out were needed. Our team values are collaboration, learning, joy, understanding, impactful, respect, openness, and kindness.

BB8 is currently responsible for the following tools:

• Jira, Jira Align, Confluence
• Azure Boards (Part of Azure DevOps)
• Sparx EA, Aris, Box.com, Protopie, Figma and more

We are looking for an engineer that has the following profile:

• You are a good communicator
• You have strong functional and technical knowledge on Jira, Jira align and confluence.
• You have experience implementing Backlog and portfolio management processes using Jira align.
• You have experience maintaining applications and application stacks in DTAP for a medium/large company on Azure cloud
• You have a lot of energy.
• You enjoy helping people.
• You have patience.
• You want to learn on the Azure platform and SaaS tooling.
• You have an interest in networking on Azure.
• You have debugging/problem solving skills.

• The gross monthly salary displayed above is based on a 36-hour work week, including vacation pay and benefit budget.
• The Benefit Budget is 11% of your salary. The Benefit Budget allows you to acquire additional employment benefits. If you make no purchases or reservations in the Benefit Shop in a given month, you are paid one twelfth of your Benefit Budget that month.
• Five weeks of vacation per year. You have the option to purchase an additional four weeks per year.
• Personal development Budget of € 1,000 per year, which you can accumulate up to € 3,000.
• Possibility to work from home (in consultation with your team and depending on your position).
• An annual public transport pass with free public transportation throughout the Netherlands.
• An excellent pension scheme.

If you want to join our team please apply online to this vacancy. If you have any questions about the vacancy or the team please contact Herbert Geers via herbert.geers@nl.abnamro.com

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.

External recruitment agencies must have signed an agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., issued by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, in order to submit CVs. Acquisition is therefore not appreciated.