As Tribe Lead Global Infrastructure Platform as a Service (PaaS), you will define the future of ING’s data and integration platforms, enabling innovation at scale while driving simplification, resilience and enterprise-wide impact. This is a unique opportunity to influence technology strategy across the bank and lead a global engineering organisation through its next phase of transformation.

The team

You will form part of the Global Infrastructure management team.  Global Infrastructure is the technology backbone of ING, providing the platforms, networks, cloud services, and core technology foundations that power digital banking across the world. Automation & Orchestration sits at the heart of this landscape, defining how infrastructure is designed, automated, secured, and operated at scale.

You will lead a global tribe of around 340 engineers and technology leaders. The tribe owns the data services and integration services platforms that connect applications, power critical business processes and support the secure flow of data across ING. Working closely with business, technology, architecture and risk leaders, you will help create a more standardised, scalable and future-ready platform landscape. The culture is collaborative, international and product-focused, with strong ownership, continuous learning and a shared ambition to make things simpler and better for our customers and colleagues.

Roles & Responsibilities

In this role, you will drive the strategy, transformation and adoption of ING’s global platform as a service capabilities. 

• Leading the enterprise-wide vision and roadmap for data services and integration services, ensuring

• platforms remain secure, resilient and ready for future business needs. 

• Driving platform standardisation and convergence, creating reusable services that accelerate delivery and reduce complexity across the bank. 

• Steering innovation, automation and product lifecycle management, ensuring investments deliver measurable value and long-term sustainability. 

• platform direction and increasing adoption. 

• Embedding a product-led operating model across infrastructure services, ensuring platforms are managed through clear customer outcomes, adoption measures, value creation and lifecycle accountability

• Developing high-performing engineering teams, strengthening capability, craftsmanship and engagement across a global organisation.

How to succeed

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Leadership Profile

• Strategic thinker with a strong external perspective and a proven ability to turn vision into results.

• Trusted and influential leader who drives alignment across diverse stakeholders, builds strong partnerships, and mobilises people towards common goals

• Developer of talent and builder of strong, inclusive teams that consistently perform and grow. 

• Courageous decision-maker who thrives in complexity and drives progress with clarity and confidence. 

• Accountable leader who combines commercial acumen with a relentless focus on customer, people and business outcomes. 

• Leader who leads with courage, integrity, and accountability, especially during periods of change and complexity. 

• Authentic role model who leads with integrity, self-awareness, and a genuine commitment to learning and continuous improvement

• Creates an environment where people feel engaged, valued and empowered to succeed.

Competencies & Skills

• Bring deep experience leading large-scale infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering, or technology

• operations organisations in complex international environments.

• Use data and insights to drive decisions, assessing complex information, identifying trends and

• opportunities, and turning analysis into clear actions and measurable outcomes. 

• Lead large-scale technology transformation, managing change effectively while maintaining service

• stability, performance and business continuity. 

• Champion secure and resilient technology environments, ensuring infrastructure solutions meet regulatory, compliance, risk and cyber security requirements. 

• Demonstrate strong commercial and financial acumen, making informed investment decisions, managing budgets effectively and optimising technology spend to maximise value. 

• Drive strategic planning and execution, anticipating future technology needs and building roadmaps that strengthen organisational capability and readiness.

• Adapt quickly to emerging technologies and changing business needs.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.

Technical Skills

Functional emphasis: Data and integration platform strategy, service lifecycle management, platform adoption and cross-domain stakeholder alignment.

• Database platforms: relational and NoSQL concepts, high availability, replication, backup and lifecycle governance. (deep Oracle experience, but also PostgreSQL and Kassandra)

• Messaging and event streaming: Kafka/Pulsar-style architectures, durability, ordering, replay and resilience.

• File transfer and integration services: managed file transfer, APIs, integration middleware and scheduling.

• Search and indexing platforms: search services, indexing, scaling, resilience and operating models.

• PaaS operating model: reusable data/integration products, service catalogues and lifecycle ownership.

• Data resilience and continuity: RPO/RTO, active-active / active-passive patterns, failover and recovery validation.

• Security and compliance for data platforms: encryption, access control, classification, auditability and controls.

• Automated platform provisioning: self-service templates and lifecycle automation.

• Note: Tribe Lead level technical fluency — intended for direction-setting, architectural challenge, risk governance, investment steering and senior engineering leadership; not a hands-on engineer requirement.

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Hybrid working

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

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This vacancy is part of the Global Infrastructure Organisational change. The related Request for Advice (RfA) submitted to the Works Council Tech on 8 July 2026 is currently under review of which this newly created position is an integral part.