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 a 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 specialized 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, corporate 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, color, 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 Business line/Function: ARVAL Service Lease

Arval is a car renting company with Services, for professional entities and more recently, opened to retail market. Serving 30 countries worldwide with the goal of being the best in class both for customer satisfaction and innovation (Partnership, new technologies, etc.)

Arval IT is the IT department of the company.  The IT Production Tribe is a key component of the Arval IT department, focusing on several critical areas to support the company's operations. This tribe is structured into 4 domains :

• Production security domain: Manage the security on Production : Security Monitoring, Advanced Malware Protection, Secure network, Secure Hosting, Security Data Warehouse / Dashboards, DLP Technical, Service Design Validation, Privileged Access Control, Vulnerability Management, Production Security project management, Production Resilience
• Application Production domain: This domain operates daily over 200 business applications that make up Arval's information system. The main goal is to ensure the smooth functioning and support of these applications, addressing any issues that arise and implementing improvements as needed.
• Infrastructure Domain: Manage, Deploy and support Arval infrastructure hosted in BNPP Datacenter. Define and Enrich Infrastructure service catalog, anticipate infrastructure capacity planning and integrate security and compliance requirements. The infrastructure domain consists of 4 teams : Network, Digital Working, Windows, Storage&Virtualisation
• Technical Office Domain: contributes to the preparation and validation of Project Architecture Overview (PAO), drives obsolescence, manage Production Cloud competency center and provide technology expertise (ExaCC, Secure Transport…).

Job Title:

Release Manager

Date:

01/05/2025

 Department:

Arval IT/Production/Application Production

Location:

Bengaluru

Business Line / Function:

IT ARVAL Release Manager

Reports to:

(Direct)

ISPL Production manager

Grade: 

(if applicable)

N/A

(Functional)

Release Manager

Number of Direct Reports:

0

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The Release Manager is responsible for ensuring the successful deployment of applications across various environments. This role requires a strong adherence to the release management process and close collaboration with development teams to prepare and implement releases on the desired dates with the quality expected. 

The Release Manager has a good understanding of Arval application landscape and he’s able to understand how they behave together to deliver our services.

He’s responsible to follow release management calendar and ensure that all the test are performed and validated on non production priori to the production release. He must be able to follow deployment procedures and use Jira, SNOW and Jenkins to achieve its duty. A basic technical understanding of deployment logs is requested in order to troubleshooting failing releases.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

·       Oversee the deployment of applications in different environments, ensuring smooth and timely releases.

·       Guarantee compliance with the release management process, maintaining high standards and consistency.

·       Collaborate with development teams to prepare and execute releases according to the scheduled timelines.

·       Analyze deployment logs to identify and troubleshoot issues, ensuring that any problems are promptly addressed.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Be autonomous on his asset (Senior to expert level) and motivated on the daily tasks.

Be an active member of the squad (often multi-technologies). 

Be proactive by raising alerts when it’s flagged, try to understand the global context and suggest how to solve an issue (without focusing only on his subpart). it will also help to understand better the rest of the team (who will not necessarily work on the same tool)

Have proper communication with the Business. (English language)

Apprehend the global business interaction between all ARVAL application landscape

Rigorous and detail-oriented, with a strong ability to follow procedures meticulously.

Excellent communication skills, capable of effectively interacting with various stakeholders within the IT department.

Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.

Specific Technical skills required for this role:

Ø  Proficiency with tools such as Jira, Jenkins, and ServiceNow (SNOW).

Ø  Ability to analyze deployment logs and understand the root causes of any issues across multiple technology stacks

Ø  Ability to follow technical procedure

Ø  Moderate technical background on any Arval related middleware (weblogic, Kubernetes, database, apache, java, tibco, datastage, IIS, Business Central, CODA…)

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Attention to detail / rigor

Adaptability

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and adapt a process 

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Ability to set up relevant performance indicators

Choose an item.

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)