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.

Job Title:

Mainframe APS 

Date:

April 2025

Department:

ITGP

Location:

Chennai/Mumbai

Business Line / Function:

BNPP FORTIS

Reports to:

(Direct)

Grade: 

(if applicable)

(Functional)

ITGP/FORTIS

Number of Direct Reports:

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The Application Production Support squads within Agile Production Services Tribe work together with the tribes and Release Engineers on the release of applications on the infrastructure provided by our partners. They also provide 24/7 Level 2 support for certain of these applications. And they assist during the infrastructure releases that involve these applications.

Responsibilities

• Second line support for applications 
• Coordinate production deployments (creation of runbooks + follow-up during the complete deployment).
• Responsible for monitoring / documentation / life cycle management of these environments and participation in a correct H20 (Handover to Operations).
• Being flexible and ready to work outside normal business hours (on call turn roll 7/7 24/24) is mandatory for this mission  

You need to be eager to build an all-round view of the IT environment; the team will assist you in this.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory: 

• Good understanding of automated batch scheduling: Control-M or another batch scheduler
• Knowledge of Mainframe:
  • Mainframe z/OS
  • DB2 for z/OS, SQL, SPUFI, QMF
  • DB2 and IMS utilities 
  • TSO/ISPF, JCL
• A good knowledge & comprehension of control-M on Mainframe
• You have strong analytical thinking skills.

·       ITIL knowledge

·       You are able to understand technical and complex architecture design documents

Nice to have:

• Experience in Unix/Linux and Windows scripting (powershell)
• Experience in distributed scheduling (CTRLM)
• Python, ansible, git, TerraForm
• Experience with Cloud Integration and/or Life Cycle Migration.
• Knowledge of the main characteristics of Cloud Computing and the different types of Cloud services (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• General knowledge Cloud and Infra Technologies such as Kubernetes, Database, Object Storage.
• Knowledge of infra and applicative performance monitoring 
• cobol

Specific Qualifications (if required)

·       Follows the Customer processes for projects, incident and change management.  

·       Being standalone and team worker, analytical minded, meet commitment, ability to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment, flexible, customer-oriented, understand risk awareness. 

·       Motivated self-starter, process-oriented with high attention to detail 

·       Quick self-starter, pro-active attitude. 

·       Good communication skills, Good analytical and synthesis skills. 

·       Autonomy, commitment and perseverance. 

·       Ability to work in a dynamic and multicultural environment. 

·       Flexibility (in peak periods extra efforts may be required). 

·       Open minded and show flexibility in self-learning new technologies/tools. 

·       You are customer minded and can translate technical issues into non-technical explanations.

·       You are always conscious about continuity of services.

·       You have a very good team spirit and share your knowledge and experience with other members of the team. Working in collaboration with team.

·       Client-oriented, analytical, initiative oriented and able to work independently.

·       Be flexible and ready to provide support outside of Business hours (on-call).

·       Able to take additional responsibility. 

·       Able to work from base location Chennai/Mumbai (Whichever is your base location) during hybrid model.

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Communication skills - oral & written

Organizational skills

Client focused

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

Ability to manage a project

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)