Senior Ops Engineer – IPA Ops @ING Hubs Romania

<p><b><span><span>Discover ING Hubs Romania</span></span></b></p><p><span> </span><span><span>ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk &amp; compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of </span>over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. </span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span><span>We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. </span><span>Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and </span>operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca<span>.</span> </span></p><p><b><span> </span></b></p><p><span>Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business<span>, with more than 1</span><span>800 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels &amp; Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.</span> </span><span> </span></p><p><span><span>We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged. </span></span><span> </span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span><span>For us, impact </span><span>isn't</span><span> a </span><span>perk</span><span>. </span><span>It's</span><span> the driver of our work.</span><span> </span><span>We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful </span><span>things</span><span> and they love doing it in good company. Do you? </span></span><span> </span></p><p></p><p><b><span>The Mission</span></b></p><p><span>In the Financial Market environment, building a platform integrating your own pricing and risk models is crucial to stay in control of your risk while keeping a competitive edge. ING Financial Markets has taken up the challenge by initiating the building of the ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform.</span></p><p></p><p><span>The IPA project landscape consists of service-oriented components that will enable the real-time and portfolio calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. VaR, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining) which are driven by new ECB regulation as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This will be a key platform in the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms, with 10 scrum teams cooperating towards one Financial Markets IT landscape.</span></p><p></p><p><span>The Trade Store project is one of the essential applications within the IPA domain. It serves the strategic Area purpose of pricing trade portfolios in a uniform way, regardless of data formats or additional complexities of various deal capture systems within the bank (e.g. Murex, Summit). Aside from secondary purposes, the Trade Store application is responsible of:</span></p><ul><li><p><span>Capturing all trade feeds within the bank via various integration methods, and handling their lifecycle;</span></p></li><li><p><span>Modeling the data in a uniform format based on each specific product using Google protocol buffers and compressed serialization;</span></p></li><li><p><span>Serving the data via high throughput APIs based on Google RPCs and distributed in memory caching systems for EOD risk pricing purposes;</span></p></li><li><p><span>Streaming the data for pre-deal pricing purposes;</span></p></li></ul><p></p><p><b><span>Your day to day</span></b></p><p>Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:</p><ul><li><p>Monitor, support and run the IPA service consisting of multiple components such as the in-memory Trade Store (Java based, Apache Ignite, Linux technologies, distributed systems architecture) as well as the Calculation/Risk Engine, the Static Data Manager, the workflow Orchestrator and the Post Processing application.</p></li><li><p>Take care of incident management, and root cause analysis in case of unavailability and data quality issues. You communicate directly with users (Traders, Credit/Market Risk Managers) on this from Amsterdam, London, Brussels, New York and Singapore.</p></li><li><p>Implement and work with the latest tooling with a strong focus on performance, stability and security</p></li><li><p>Find opportunities to automate the testing of existing features, performance, and security as well as the automation of deployments, monitoring, and more. This is a key responsibility of the Operations Engineers.</p></li><li><p>IT Risk &amp; security controls need to be put in place and accurately documented, for this you will need to get familiar and keep up to date with the ING Information Security Management Policy.</p></li><li><p>Continuous deployment and delivery using Azure DevOps</p></li><li><