Assistant Vice President, Global Markets IT

About BNP Paribas India Solutions

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About BNP Paribas Group

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.

About Business Line/Function

The Global Markets business of BNP Paribas helps its corporate and institutional clients leverage capital markets across the globe for their financing, risk management and investment needs. This encompasses a wide range of financial products ranging from Foreign exchange to complex Equity Derivatives that are traded in financial markets across the globe 24/7. IT systems are integral to the business and are a key part of the value proposition to clients. These IT systems range from industry standard products for standard process automation to internally developed, often, market leading IT applications. The IT teams owning these IT systems are made up of functions that include Technical and Application production support, Business Analysis & Project Management, Development & Maintenance and Quality Control. BNP Paribas India Solutions is an equal partner in these IT functions along with colleagues in other locations including Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore & Hong Kong. This partnership ranges from sharing the IT work load, executing global strategy to owning global applications offshore. The technology and engineering landscape is wide, encompassing almost all techniques and platforms. It continues to evolve and transform with the market with the business continuing to invest in it.

Position Purpose

The Assistant Vice President, Global Markets IT will contribute to the Prime Services suite of applications, which offers services like borrowing securities or cash for netting and achieving higher returns. This suite includes applications for Cash, Synthetics, Trade Processing, Margin, and Financing. The PB Portal serves as a content integration framework for CIB web applications. This role requires a Senior Developer with strong technical capabilities to propose solutions, gain functional knowledge, mentor junior team members, control technical debt, and maintain optimal DevOps setups.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Application development / support / enhancements / bug-fixing / mentoring.
• Demonstrate Good understanding of the Functional aspects of the application.
• Reporting progress to the Project Manager.
• Escalation of problems to local management and suggest solutions.
• Ensuring that the project and organization standards are followed during various phases of software development life-cycle and day to day development work.
• Maintain administration tasks; i.e. Jira to record progress against tasks, Wiki for documentation.
• Meeting deadlines deliverables.
• Able to mentor team of 3-5 team members.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Develop solutions with respect to the specifications and fit to the architectural and infrastructure constraints of the organizational platform.
• Propose solutions and approaches, supply impact analysis.
• Work with quality in mind (scope, defect, performance, testing).
• Estimate team work, and report on their progress.
• Architecture and design discussion.
• Liaise with production release and support team in the context of the application in charge.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Java, Spring, SQL, Hibernate
• Dev Ops – Jenkins, Sonar, BitBucket, Rundeck etc
• Rest API/MicroServices

Good to Have

• Kafka
• MQ
• Python
• Redis/Oracle Coherence

Education Level

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 10 years

Key skills/competency

• Java Development
• Spring Framework
• SQL
• Hibernate
• DevOps
• Microservices
• REST API
• Mentoring
• Application Support
• Financial Markets IT