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 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 Technical Lead / Technical Specialist

Date:

21-May-24

Department:

CEP IT

Location:

Mumbai

Business Line / Function:

Data & Document platform

Reports to:

(Direct)

Grade:

(if applicable)

Python Sr Developer

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

N/A

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

Overall 5-8 years of experience as a Sr Developer in delivery of IT Projects and preferably in the area of Spark and Python. To be able to provide CIB’s business line with IT services enabling them by industrializing the processes for Enterprise Content Management.

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 database design,  performance improvement,  SQL

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

4- Sound knowledge of Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Propose / Review Application code and Design.
• Guide/Review Technology Obsolescence Management plan for CEP teams.
• Experience in automation and work with teams to align with shift left and shift right strategy by encouraging a mindset for automation first and reduce recursive manual efforts
• Goto person to find solutions to any technical challenges in the domain.
• Hands on and lead by example.
• Resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Review Performance test reports and propose preventive measures to be undertaken.
• Participate in POCs and technical feasibility studies.
• Keep up-to-date with latest technologies, trends and provide inputs, expertise and recommendations.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Contribute towards innovation (e.g. AI/ML); suggest new technical practices for efficiency improvement.
• Contribute towards recruitment.
• Level-up of members in the vertical.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Resourceful to quickly understand complexities involved and provide the way forward.
• Good experience in technical analysis of n-tier applications with multiple integrations using object oriented, APIs & Microservices approaches.
• 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.
• Good experience in development and maintenance of code/scripts in both functional and technical specifications of all applications component, bug fixing and production support.
• Experience in Security topics such as IDP, SSO, IAM and related technologies.
• Good knowledge on Linux/Unix environment (basic commands, shell scripting, etc.), testing phases, documentation and new framework.
• 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 Flask/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.

·       Experience in Agile – SCRUM and DevSecOps

·       Exposure to Client Management or financial domain.

·       Industry related certifications e.g. TOGAF

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

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 5 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)