Technical Portfolio & Project Manager | CIO Office @ Bank

Mission

At ING, we believe in giving people the freedom to grow, explore, and build what matters to them. Our Data Warehouse stands at the heart of that mission — powering decisions that shape products, protect customers, and help millions stay a step ahead in life and business. If you’re passionate about high‑quality data engineering and want to build meaningful solutions with real impact, you’ll feel right at home here.

You’ll join a collaborative, dynamic Tech team working on high‑impact initiatives that shape ING’s transformation. The environment is cross‑functional, transparent, and focused on delivering value. You will work closely with technology leaders, delivery tribes, transformation teams, and financial partners to ensure portfolio decisions are well‑informed and strategically aligned.

As a Technical Portfolio & Project Manager
, you ensure that technology initiatives are strategically aligned, effectively prioritized, and delivered with measurable value. You will coordinate the Tech project portfolio, bridging strategy, delivery, governance, and financial oversight.

• You will lead assigned IT projects throughout their full lifecycle, from initiation to post ‑ implementation review, ensuring delivery of agreed scope within time, budget and quality expectations. This includes planning and managing resources and costs, providing forecasts and variance analysis, and ensuring effective financial and quality control.
• You will proactively identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and constraints, escalating when needed and driving mitigation actions. You will define and execute stakeholder engagement plans, ensuring effective collaboration, transparency and alignment across technical and business stakeholders.
• You will apply appropriate project management methodologies to deliver intended outcomes, while balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders and making decisions that optimize overall results. Clear, structured and audience ‑ appropriate communication will be a key part of your role, enabling informed decision ‑ making at all levels.
• Beyond individual projects, you will contribute to the governance and coordination of the Tech project portfolio. You will support portfolio planning and prioritization activities, taking into account value, risk, dependencies, regulatory requirements and delivery/non‑delivery capacity. You will monitor portfolio ‑ level performance (progress, financials, risks and dependencies) and provide consolidated insights to Tech leadership.
• You will actively identify cross ‑ project dependencies and resource conflicts and propose sequencing or mitigation options. You will support portfolio decision ‑ making forums by preparing materials, scenarios and impact assessments, and ensure consistency in project execution, reporting and governance standards in line with ING standards. Continuous improvement of portfolio management practices, tools and ways of working is an integral part of the role.

• University degree, preferably in a technical field
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in IT and at least 3 years’ experience as a Project Manager
• Experience working in complex, cross ‑ functional environments
• Strong leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to engage stakeholders at multiple levels
• Analytical, structured and data ‑ driven mindset
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively under pressure
• Excellent communication skills in Romanian and English
• Experience or strong exposure to portfolio or multi ‑ project environments
• Ability to articulate trade ‑ offs between scope, cost, risk, capacity and value
• Project management certifications are a plus
• Strong Excel skills; advanced PowerPoint skills; experience with project/portfolio tools is a plus

• Impactful work in a fun, inclusive and highly collaborative environment.
• Modern, open office spaces built for teamwork and creative work.
• Hybrid working model with flexibility baked in.
• Monthly benefit budget you can use your way.
• Extra paid vacation days based on total work experience.
• Continuous learning opportunities through ING…