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Ref #
1000005192
Country
Portugal
Region
Porto
City
Porto
Contract type
Permanent
Professional Family
F06 - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Description

About the job

  •  BNP Paribas is the top bank in the European Union and a major international banking establishment, strongly positioned in its three key operating divisions - Corporate & Institutional Banking, Commercial, Personal Banking & Services and Investment & Protection Services - and present worldwide with 184.000 employees across 64 locations. Established in Portugal since 1985, with a presence in Lisbon and Porto and more than 8.000 employees, BNP Paribas is the leading European bank in the country for corporate, institutional and private clients
  • FRESH is an IT framework encompassing Projects & Systems of Finance and RISK functions that brings together a community of 1.600 experts coming from Finance, RISK and IT backgrounds, with a strong focus on efficiency, proximity, agility and time-to-market
  • It is a new worldwide organizational model that contributes to tackle major challenges of Group’s transformation of today and tomorrow, building the best offer for Finance and RISK community through a progressive rotation towards new technologies and best practices
  • FRESH organization is the outcome of several convergences: between the Project & Systems teams of Group Finance, CIB Finance and RISK and their related IT teams. FRESH is part of the ITG organization (ITG in Europe and ITO overseas) with a threefold sponsorship by ITG, Finance and RISK (CIB-ITO; RISK Solutions and ITG-FIT)
  • The team acts in close proximity with end users, providing services and means to fulfill short term requirements, to prototype, test and learn around innovation, to improve adequation between processes and their related systems, and to monitor production on a daily basis and support users especially on closing periods
  • We implement solutions in an agile way of working to face short term requirements that cannot be covered in due time by existing industrialized systems. We coordinate activities to address needs covered by generic/transversal solution


Your Main Activities Are

  • Change & Run:
    • Ensure that technical and functional setups are aligned with architecture’s patterns & recommendations
    • Ensure that every IT setup abides by Security obligations and frameworks
    • Be able to install/configure/parameter components/modules of Portfolio’s applications
    • Be able to install new patches and/or deploy upgrades when provided by the vendor
    • Be able to design/build/monitor/update/decommission data feeds as inputs/outputs of portfolio’s applications (CFT, API Exchanges, Data Flow monitoring…)
    • Be able to build/administer DatavBase Schemas for Portfolio’s applications, and also perform on-demand/scheduled queries on those DBs (mainly Oracle-based DB setup)
    • Help plan, prepare & document Delivery milestones (IT Road Map, Rollback Instructions, delivery roadmap…)


  • Support: Be in charge of the L3 support level which implies being Responsible/Accountable for certain actions such as:
    • Analyse & diagnose L3 incidents
    • Provide OPS with proper solving instructions (if applies)
    • Open & follow up an issue at Vendor level (Axway)


  • Testing: be able to perform unitary testing before UATs or Breakfix delivery


  • Monitoring:
    • Help detect service interruptions (Up/Down status of servers/DBs…
    • Help watch data exchanges & detect any data feeds disruptions
    • Attendee in some committee (Kick off, go-live, SFO, ..) 
    • Establish efficient communication with perimeter steakholders (OPS, BP2I, vendor, software editor, ..)
    • Help create/maintain relevant documentation across whole Portfolio’s lifecycle, for ex:
      • Technical specifications
      • Installation procedure


  •  Applications Portfolio holds today 3 applications (provided by Axway):
    • Composer : Axway Composer is the central configuration and design tool of the Axway 5 Suite. Composer consists of a server and a client GUI
    • You use Composer to define, test, and deploy sets of parameters for EIR & Sentinel
    • Sentinel : Axway Sentinel is an application that enables you to perform end-to-end monitoring of data flow
    • PAE : PaE maps, documents, centralizes, automates and secures accounting systems and interface
       


Profile and Skills to Success

  •  Tech skills :
    • Bachelor’s degree in IT
    • Relevant professional experience in IT (between 6 and 10 years)
    • Relevant experience as a TMA/tech lead
    • Knowledge of Business/IT relationship
    • Database conception & implementation
    • Programming  (JAVA, Shell, SQL/PLSQL)
    • Any experience with Axway tools would be a substancial plus

 

  • Soft skills:
    • Capacity to collaborate in a project
    • Capacity to be organized
    • Excellent communication skills
    • Fluency in English (Both written and spoken)


Mobility is one of the core principles of BNP Paribas career and management strategy, which aims to meet our Employees’ needs for personal development along with ensuring that the company meets the overall business needs. For further details, we invite you to explore the mobility principles available on https://bwelcome.hr.bnpparibas/internalmobility. Before applying, please make sure you discuss it with your manager whose support is critical for a smooth mobility process.