Feature Engineer Payments

Your role & work environment

[What should the job accomplish]

As a feature Engineer Payments you understand the payments business inside out.

Given your functional knowledge on Payments combined with your IT background, you translate new business requirements into IT systems to create new bank payment products for the bank’s customers. You collaborate, based on your excellent analytic and communication skills, with bank product managers at one hand side and at the other hand side with IT Application designers and developers.

The team and department

Bizdevops says it all.

Our Payments IT department (450+ FTE across multiple countries) , organized in squads of max. 6 to 9 people, collaborates daily and intensively to deliver quarterly product increments (end 2 end functional features backed by the increments of the IT payments applications). “Collaborative successes through agile teams”. You will join the chapter of Feature engineers to ensure EPIC refinement followed by delivery of these end 2 end solutions in a quarterly cadence.

You will be surrounded by/collaborate with/supported by proficient knowledge workers.

Your key responsibilities

Responsibility 1

• Translate business requirements into features and stories by using Business & IT knowledge combined with knowledge of the IT landscape. Stories being the smallest functional unit that a development team can code into an application

Responsibility 2

• Ensure features delivery (product increments) via quarterly planning, coordination and dependencies management through Scrum of Scrums

Responsibility 3

• Make things happen by installing a close collaboration climate. Teamwork is our strength.
• Keep your business and IT knowledge up to date, and keep track of relevant trends and outlooks

We look for

A colleague with atalent for taking it on and making it happen,enthusiasm forhelping others to be successfuland a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.

As a Feature Engineer you will need:

• [Education]

Master degree or equivalent through elaborate job experience

• [Specialised knowledge]

Sepa payments and/or International payments knowledge (F.e. rulebooks by the EPC, UDFS …)

• [Skills & Competences]

Problem solving skills to find creative ways of driving progress and removing impediments
Extremely results-oriented, always striving for maximal customer value as early as possible
Continuous improvement mindset
Eager to learn (and ability to coach others as skillset grows)
Very strong communication and presentation skills (telling – selling) across skill and seniority levels
Ability to challenge, influence or convince others through fact-based arguments
Self-disciplined, proactive and organized, with ability to identify what needs to be done

We offer you

A clear purpose, a unique offer and a range of flexible compensation and other benefits:

• Personal growth & challenging work with endless opportunities to realise your ambitions
• An informal, dynamic environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavours
• A progressive and agile way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention

Furthermore, within the “Payments IT” department, you can count on a range of opportunities to invest in your personal and professional growth with:

• IP-Reward benefit*: this function is eligible for compensation for the transfer of rights to intellectual property (hereafter: IP Reward) that is created when developing software and creating databases and models. This remuneration is included in the agreed salary and therefore has no impact on your gross salary, but will lead to a higher net income.*

• extremely challenging projects & a steep learning curve given that Payments requirements are evolving rapidly in the current digital area
• in depth onboarding package
• ample support of knowledge workers in your chapter
• option to work 2 days from home after onboarding/training and agreement in the chapter

We redefine banking. What about you?

We’re on a journey that’s centred around our customers, powered by technology and driven by smart, determined people. Our customers feel our people are empowering them to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We’re proud of that!