Company purpose:

Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.

Our employer promise is built around three pillars:

• Being a great place to work
• Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact
• Being dedicated to the development of our people

Business area

Prime Services Technology is part of Global Markets and comprises Equity Financing, Inventory Management, Cash Prime Brokerage, Synthetic Prime Brokerage, Trade Processing, Client Experience, Cross Product Margining and Margin & Risk Management.  

Job purpose 

The role is embedded in a globally distributed inventory management technology team with presence in London, New York, Hong Kong, Lisbon, and Glasgow. The remit of the team is to deliver a new state of the art inventory management platform called AOS (Asset Optimisation Services).  The platform will be the basis for both manual and automated inventory management decisions, creating a global business by abstracting away from our entity structure and managing requirements across the group level.   The technical stack includes Java, Oracle, Spring, Apache Flink, Apache Kafka, Apache Ignite, Angular.

Key responsibilities

• Reporting into the Glasgow inventory management development lead and will work closely with the global development team.
• Requires a specialized IT skill set and will be responsible for upskilling and mentoring junior team members in both the local and global teams.
• Proactively influence design, providing input on complex assignments developed both inside and outside their immediate project, and promoting good software development standards.
• Act as a role model, supporting and fostering a culture of good conduct.
• Demonstrate proactivity, transparency, and accountability in identifying and managing conduct risk.
• Work closely with the regional managers of the team to ensure consistency of program goals, architecture, resource allocations & assignments, and people topics (career management, objectives, reviews).
• Manage business demand and expectations for work and delivery of the work in alignment with budget and overall business direction and governance.
• Responsible for the full development lifecycle of a project, from design to deployment in production and post-release support.
• Ensure end-deliverables are clearly defined and communicated, and that stakeholders are kept informed of each deliverable’s progress, issues, and risks. 
• Proactively manage risk and issues, escalating where appropriate, to ensure delivery progress is maintained.
• Partner with the architecture teams to ensure robust design and adherence to bank-wide architectural goals. 
• Design solutions that align technology roadmaps to business strategy and conduct high-quality functional design, system, integration testing, and UAT.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in complex software development with advanced specialization in either messaging middleware, databases, such as Oracle, Flink, Ignite, Kafka, or Kubernetes.
• Experience working with SDLC automation tools such as Jira, Bitbucket, Artifactory, and Jenkins. 
• Very strong technical skills, and be an advocate of test-driven development and delivery automation
• Experience working in a global team, aiding others through pair programming and knowledge sharing to help the team improve their development practices.
• Able to demonstrate excellent analytical and problem-solving skills. Possess a can-do attitude and be able to partner with others both inside and outside of the development team to investigate issues, drive conversations to find and agree on solutions, and communicate those solutions to a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Able to partner with business, operations, developers, architects, and infrastructure teams to help shape the future platform.

And of course, we expect all our colleagues to embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy, commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).

A bit more about why you should join us

1. We’re a great place to work

We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid working, flexible working and agile)

We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health & wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:

• Generous holiday allowance of at least 26 days (plus bank holidays) – with option to buy and sell holidays.
• Valuable financial plans – a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident insurance.
• Extensive wellbeing and mental health offering – one of the most advanced private medical schemes in the UK, dental cover, wellbeing app, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy support, subsidised gym memberships, bespoke health assessments including genetic testing, Private GP (including digital GP services to parents of employees), Employee Assistance Programme, menopause & fertility support (we are an accredited Menopause Friendly Employer), neurodiversity assessment and support.
• Key onsite services and facilities in Scotland – include free monthly massage and yoga, mental health first aiders and seasonal flu vouchers.
• Plus, emergency back-up care for dependants, green car leasing, season ticket loan, and a range of other benefits.

* Subject to relevant caps

2. As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are committed to having a positive impact in the world.  

For example, we are committed to Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030, 80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.

But impact for us means more than climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four volunteering days each year - in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.

3. We believe in our people

We support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and inhouse career tools.

We are proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally. In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled internally. 

Investing in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:

• Direct feedback from our people shows that our internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.
• Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:

Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents & Carers Network.

Equal opportunities 

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation, or any other legally protected status.

Adjustments

We don’t want anyone to be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.

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