Lead Global Infrastructure Enterprise Connectivity & Network Services | Orange Contract

ING; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25-28 vacation days

Pension scheme

13th month salary

8% Holiday payment

Hybrid working

Personal growth and challenging work

Informal working environment

Job summary

ING seeks a Tribe Lead Global Infrastructure Networks to define the future of ING’s global network and drive strategy for secure, resilient, scalable connectivity powering banking services worldwide.

You will lead a global tribe of around 310 engineers and technology leaders, shaping standardisation, product-focused delivery, and long-term platform sustainability while collaborating with senior stakeholders across technology, architecture, risk and business functions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale infrastructure, cloud or platform engineering teams.
• Proven ability to turn vision into actionable roadmaps and results.
• Strong collaboration with risk, architecture and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, transformation and performance of ING’s global networking capabilities.
• Own the enterprise-wide networking platform roadmap and secure connectivity.
• Drive standardisation, convergence and reusable networking capabilities.
• Oversee investment decisions, financial performance and risk management.
• Build high-performing, globally distributed engineering teams.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to align priorities and accelerate adoption.

Skills

Strategic leadership

Stakeholder management

Programme governance

Team development

Communication in English

Change management

Financial acumen

Platform engineering

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelor’s in relevant field

Master’s degree (advantageous)

Tools

SD-WAN

Network automation

Cloud connectivity platforms

Monitoring tooling

Job description

As Tribe Lead Global Infrastructure Networks, you will define the future of ING’s global network and connectivity landscape, driving the strategy and transformation of the platforms that enable secure, resilient and scalable ING banking services worldwide. This is a rare opportunity to influence enterprise-wide technology decisions and leave a lasting impact across the organisation.

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 310 engineers and technology leaders. The tribe is responsible for the networking digital products that underpin employee access, third-party connectivity, firewalls, private networking and secure communication across ING. Together with senior stakeholders across technology, architecture, risk and business functions, you will drive standardisation, simplification and convergence across the global network landscape. The culture is collaborative, international and product-focused, with a strong emphasis on ownership, engineering excellence and continuous improvement.

Roles & Responsibilities

In this role, you will lead the strategy, transformation and performance of ING’s global networking capabilities.

• Leading the enterprise-wide vision and roadmap for networking platforms, ensuring secure, resilient and scalable connectivity across ING.
• Driving standardisation and convergence of networking services, reducing complexity and creating reusable capabilities for technology teams across the bank.
• Steering innovation, automation and product lifecycle management to improve reliability, efficiency and long-term platform sustainability.
• Overseeing investment decisions, financial performance, risk management and regulatory compliance across the networking portfolio.
• Building strong partnerships with senior stakeholders to align priorities, resolve cross-domain challenges and accelerate platform adoption.
• Developing high-performing engineering teams, strengthening capability, craftsmanship and engagement across a global organisation.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself. To succeed in this role, you bring:

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: Connectivity strategy, secure network services, standardisation, convergence, platform lifecycle and resilience.

• Enterprise network architecture: LAN/WAN, data centre networking, campus connectivity and segmentation.
• Software-defined networking: SD-WAN, SDN, network automation, intent-based networking and network-as-code.
• Cloud connectivity: private cloud connectivity, hybrid patterns, routing, DNS, latency and traffic engineering.
• Security network services: firewalls, segmentation, zero-trust network access and secure third-party connectivity.
• Load balancing and traffic management: ADCs, global traffic management, DDoS protection and high availability.
• Routing and resilience: BGP/OSPF concepts, failover design, active-active connectivity and DR networking.
• Network observability: telemetry, flow monitoring, packet-analysis concepts and performance diagnostics.
• Network lifecycle standardisation: convergence into reusable global connectivity products.

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.