About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 71 countries and has almost 199 000 employees. The Group ranks highly in its three core areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking networks and financial services are grouped together under Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, centred on corporate and institutional clients. The Group helps all of its clients (retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporates and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings and protection. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas enjoys leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and has a solid and fast-growing network in the Asia/Pacific region.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, a leading bank in Europe 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 6000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About Businessline/Function :

CIB Client Engagement and Protection IT having focus on applications servicing Client Lifecycle management, Due Diligence /KYC , Customer Relation Management,  Service Request Management, Referential and Data Quality, PreTrade Transaction Screening, Data and Document platforms and Anti-Money Laundering.  Technologies being used include Java, .NET, Angular, Informatica, sharepoint, Python, Scala, Spark, PowerBI, Fenergo, Siebel, Actimize, Camunda, Drools on private cloud infrastructure. Agile and DevSecOps practices are widely used. Landscape includes projects that are a mix of established and some under transition to new platforms. 

Job Title:

Senior Project Manager

Date:

1-Jun-25

Department:

CEP IT

Location:

Bangalore 

Business Line / Function:

Data & Document platform

Reports to:

(Direct)

Grade: 

(if applicable)

AVP

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

N/A

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

Overall 12-15 years of experience as a SR Project Manager in delivery of IT Projects and preferably in the area of Data Platforms. To be able to provide CIB’s business line with IT services enabling them by industrializing the processes for Data Platform.

The Technical Architect should have key skills as mentioned below: 

1- Strong experience to manage the end to end cycle, knowledge on Financial Market is an advantage

2 Good experience in the areas of Python, SQL server in terms of data base design,  performance improvement,  SQL, PowerBI

3- Participate in Design / Architecture discussions in building new systems, Frameworks and Components 

4- Sound knowledge of Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Coaching:-

• Motivate & inspire team members
• Facilitate problem solving & collaboration
• Encourage innovation, creativity, and continuous improvement
• Support new team members in working through induction programme, ensure that they have the necessary knowledge to effectively participate on the team.
• Contribute to staff appraisals & supervision process.
• Represent CEP IT at local and global CIB Forums on Data Platform subjects
• Propose / Review/ Challenge Application Architecture and Design.
• Track Technology Obsolescence Management plan for CEP teams.
• Lead automation and guide teams to align with shift left and shift right strategy by encouraging a mindset for automation first and reduce recursive manual efforts
• Keep up-to-date with latest technologies, trends and provide inputs, expertise and recommendations.
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Team Management:-

• Facilitate the day to day organisation.
• Organise & facilitate regular team meetings.
• Help keep the team focused & on track.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Contribute towards recruitment.
• Level-up of members in the vertical. 

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong knowledge about design patterns and development principles.
• Inclination and prior experience of working across SQL, Python, Spark and Pyspark.
• Strong Hands-on experience in SQL, Python, Spark and Pyspark, Python Frameworks, Restful APIs, MS-SQL or Oracle, Messaging Middleware Flask, numpy, pandas,Django, SQL/noSQL, Elastic search.
• Good Knowledge and experience to use Python packages such as Scikit learn, MatPlotib, NumPy, etc. Cleaning up of Data, Data Wrangling, Analysis of Data, Visualization of Data, User Authorization and Authentication.
• Experience in Security topics such as IDP, SSO, IAM and related technologies.
• Good knowledge on Linux/Unix environment (basic commands, shell scripting, etc.)
• Some experience of working with build tools like Maven & DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube.
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps.
• Development experience in Data Engineering environment.
• Ability & willingness to learn & work on diverse technologies (languages, frameworks, and tools).
• Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.
• Good communication and co-ordination skills.

Nice to have Skills: 

• Good knowledge on front-end technologies preferably Angular.
• Experience in Cloud Architectures.
• Knowledge/experience on dynatrace

·       Knowledge/experience on No SQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra), Kafka.

• Some exposure to Caching technologies like Redis or Apache Ignite.

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Personal Impact / Ability to influence

Attention to detail / rigor

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Analytical Ability

Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…

Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 12 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)