Offer summary

Qualifications:

Degree in computer science, engineering, or related field., At least 5 years of management and leadership experience., Hands-on experience with IT technologies, enterprise architecture, and API Rest., Strong knowledge of IT methodologies, tools, and processes..

Key responsibilities:

Lead and develop IT professionals, fostering ownership and delivery.

Implement IT practices to ensure high availability and reliability of products.

Support teams in planning, delivering complex features, and ensuring quality.

Manage team resources, talent acquisition, and budget to align with business goals.

Job description

NN Digital Hub is a subsidiary company of Nationale Nederlanden Group located in Madrid, Spain. We deliver IT services and solutions for the different international Business Units from Nationale Nederlanden Group.

On this occasion, we look for Head of API to join the team to be a supporter of change.

Your impact at NN: what you´ll do

As an IT & Development Manager, you will lead Tech engineers to deliver high-quality, reliable, and secure digital products to our Business Units. Your role will involve balancing IT operations and development/change management, building new platforms and services, ensuring product development and operations practices with a big focus on standardization and reusability. You will focus on people development, coaching IT professionals, implementing best practices and improving IT operations practices within various teams and projects. Your deep understanding of business processes will enable you to align IT needs with business objectives, ensuring the delivery of valuable and secure digital products.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership and Development: Lead, coach, and develop IT professionals, fostering a culture of ownership and delivery. Assess individual qualifications and career ambitions, acting as a mentor to help team members achieve their goals.
Product Development and Improvement: Implement foundational IT practices to ensure high availability and reliability of products and services. Continuously transform teams to a future-ready software product delivery organization.
Quality and Delivery: Support teams in planning and delivering complex features, integrations, and reliability topics. Ensure high-quality software delivery with a strong connection to stakeholders and business value.
Resource Planning: Maintain oversight of team composition, conduct gap analysis, and develop workforce transformation plans. Ensure teams have the required qualifications and resources.
Talent Acquisition: Attract, hire, and retain IT talent, ensuring the team is composed of the required qualifications. Maintain a strong network to provide a funnel of talent.
Budget Management: Manage the budget for the team, including salary decisions, training and development, and tooling. Ensure team members have the necessary resources for their roles.
Operational Excellence: Lead blameless postmortems and implement improvements in the way of working. Ensure good IT operations and security practices are in place, aligned with business objectives and value chains.

What we offer you

As part of our Employee Experience, we offer you a range of competitive benefits that are available to you in order to improve the physical, mental, and professional wellbeing of our workers. Among the benefits are:

We work with a hybrid/remote model
Starting financial aid so you can equip your work space at home
Meal allowance and telework allowance
Flexible working hours and 2 months of intensive working hours in summer so you can fully take advantage of your time
We provide a life insurance and a pension plan for all our employees
We establish objectives bonus as a performance reward
You can get to the office as you please. We have a free parking lot for cars, motorbikes, electric cars with chargers, and bikes.
Get to know our flexible retribution facilities such as transport card, nursery checks, health insurance with Sanitas, trainings…
We care about people. That is why we are involved in society by facilitating volunteer actions and time to all our employees.
We are digital and we love technology. Also, every team works under agile methodology.

Who you are

You are an IT professional with extensive experience in development, IT management, and/or IT operations roles, ideally within the financial services sector. You have a deep passion for coaching and mentoring others, and you excel at building and improving API teams. Your strong technical background and understanding of business processes enable you to align IT strategies with business objectives effectively.

Degree in computer science, computer engineering or a related field
Management / Leadership skills - strong focus on poeple development, planification, agile, engagement, career plan, performance, evaluation - at least 5 years.

Strong knowledge of IT methodologies, tools and processes

Hands-on experience (10 years) with IT technologies, enterprise architecture, API Rest, CI/CD pipelines, ADO, API Management

Experience working in an Agile/Scrum process (also on Project management)

Advanced knowledge in DevOps way of working.

Communication Skills.

Ability to see the big picture maintaining attention to detail.

Problem solving and Analytical skills.

If you think that your profile can fit with us and you like who we are, do not hesitate to sign in to our offers. We are waiting for you!

Please send your CVs in English language.

At NN, we believe our strength lies in embracing the full spectrum of humanity. We recognise each person’s uniqueness and contributions which empowers us to succeed as individuals, as teams, and as a company. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is embedded in our culture which is guided by our values — care, clear, commit — and supports us in fostering a workplace where everyone feels welcome, respected, and proud to work.

Be you. You have our support.

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