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 BNP Paribas Wealth Management Information Technology:

Wealth Management Information Technology (WM IT) is a function that manages the Information System on behalf of Wealth Management Global Asian & International Market (GAIM) and acts like partner and IT Assets provider for Domestic Sites. 

Our teams, located in Singapore, India, Switzerland, Portugal, and France, conceptualize, design, develop, and maintain the IT Assets that support WM Business.

Job Title:

IT Governance Lead 

Date:

Department:

CIO Office

Location:

Chennai, Global Info city

Business Line / Function:

Wealth Management

Reports to:

(Direct)

Head of CIO Office

Grade: 

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

2

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The IT Governance Lead’s main objective is to design, develop and maintain the WM IT Governance as the development and deployment framework to optimize IT activities & processes.  

In so doing, he/she will assist the organization in attaining the level of quality as determined by the WM IT Management 

This will be done with the mindset to increase collaboration, transparency and to promote a culture of innovation.

Responsibilities

The mission of WM IT Governance Lead consists in:

-      Manage WM IT Governance team, mainly located in ISPL

-      Manage and report IT Group Governance Deployment (v6.X),

-      Manage and report IT Governance evolutions and transformation: project lifecycle and cloud-based application, implementation of Artificial Intelligence within project lifecycle, …

-      Prepare, Present and Animate WM IT Governance Committee, where the rules of governance are shared, discussed and agreed

-      Prepare, Present and Animate WM IT Strategic Validation Committee, where IT families come together to exposed their views on specific initiatives, prior to Sponsor’s validation

Direct Responsibilities

Quality control:

-          Conduct project governance initiation meeting

-          Guide through the life cycle of the projects and supports

-          Evaluate objectively projects against process descriptions, template and procedures

-          Identify and documentation and process non-compliance issues

-          Ensure that issues are addressed until completion

Contributes to Continuous Process Improvement:

-          Collaborate with Project teams and Transversal teams

-          Identify improvement opportunity 

-          Analyse impact of organization change to our existing process and deploy new processes

-          Work with global IT quality team to improve practices and processes

-          Write specific local procedures 

 Structure the training process:

-          Schedule and conduct Process training

-          Collaborate with other transversal team in terms of training.

-          Own the Training Calendar

-          Build the KPI on Training.

Additional Responsibilities

-          Structure Manage Quality Repository assets

-          Manage and organize Organisational training

-          Support IT for IT tools used for maintaining IT Governance.

Contributing Responsibilities

Process Improvement & Governance for Agile projects

-          Coach the agile teams in agile methodologies and best practices. 

-          Develop and establishing agile standards and assets and thereafter to deploy such standards and assets on the organization level.

-          Guide the teams in using agile best practices to initiate software improvements and increase productivity. Organize, develop and deliver trainings to maintain the expected outcome from the project.

-          Help the project team develop a set of self-regulation and reflective skills to bring about sustainable transformation in line with the organizational process.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

§  Familiar with IT Development Life Cycle

§  Implement Process Improvement Initiatives

§  Perform Internal IT Process Audit

§  Previous experience of a scrum master or experience in Agile projects

§  People Management

Specific Qualifications (if required)

§  Undergraduate/Post-graduate degree in Computer science engineering or related engineering.

§  10 Years overall IT experience

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Critical thinking

Communication skills - oral & written

Organizational skills

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to develop and adapt a process 

Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment

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

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Ability to set up relevant performance indicators

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 10 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)