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, 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, 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 Business line/Function:

CIB Architecture & Digital is a global team of technology and domain experts whose mission is to help optimize value across the full IT lifecycle. Our extensive range of services are designed to support CIB teams from early-stage experimentation all the way through to Production. These services ensure that projects align with CIB strategy, principles and standards, and comply with Group policies.

Job Title:

Senior Engineering Expert

Date:

Department:

Transversal IT

Location:

Business Line / Function:

ISPL CIB IT Architecture

Reports to:

(Direct)

Principal Technology Architect

Grade: 

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

-

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The purpose of this role is to join the Technology Architecture team under ISPL CIB IT Architecture and contribute to the technology strategy of the CIB division. As a Technology Architect, the incumbent will be responsible for enhancing technology practices and helping the Engineering team adopt better engineering tools and processes. This role will play a key part in advancing the Engineering team towards a ShiftLeft approach and may involve conducting PoCs or participating in quick technical assessments of emerging technologies. The ultimate goal of this role is to help drive efficiency improvement and ensure the use of modern technology practices within the Engineering team.

Direct Responsibilities

DevOps:
·       Be an expert in Technology Architecture for the DevSecOps topic, with a strong understanding of CI/CD toolchains, requirements, pitfalls.
·       Contribute to ongoing study to refresh the CIB CI/CD toolchains and strategy, including relative to Group toolchains, in collaboration with CIB Developer SPOC

• Understand the CIB and Group development environment offers both local (desktop/laptop) and virtual infrastructure
• Contribute to definition of E2E DevSecOps processes, with a full RACI

Engineering:
·       Contribute to studies on usage of programming languages and associated developer frameworks at all levels of the technology stack from data level, middleware, runtimes, application frameworks (Spring etc), front end frameworks

• Ensure application teams adhere to CIB Technology standards while designing & building their solutions
• Contribute / review the technical design & specifications
• Responsible for managing & reporting technical risks
• Responsible for Technologies and Software validation used in CIB

Contributing Responsibilities

• Contribute towards innovation; suggest new technical practices for efficiency improvement.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory Skills:

• Working experience with build tools like Maven & DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube
• Proficient in understanding architecture solutions for complex enterprise applications.
• 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.
• Strong knowledge in Core Java, J2EE, Spring framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate/JPA
• Strong knowledge in RDBMS / SQL with Oracle or SQL server or Postgres.
• Good knowledge on front-end technologies preferably Angular.
• Knowledge/experience on Messaging middleware, Caching technologies & No SQL databases.
• Development experience of MVC Architecture based web applications, including creation of RESTful APIs.
• Good experience in Troubleshooting & Performance tuning using profiling tools e.g. Dynatrace, JProfiler etc.
• Experience in Security topics such as IDP, SSO, OAuth2, OpenIdConnect
• Good knowledge on Linux/Unix environment (basic commands, shell scripting, etc.)
• Ability & willingness to learn & work on diverse technologies (languages, frameworks, and tools).
• Good knowledge on containerization & orchestration tools
• Inclination to constantly keep up to date on new technologies and frameworks.
• Self-motivated with good communication, inter-personal and organization skills

Nice to have Skills: 

• Working exposure to API Gateway preferably APIGee

·       Exposure to financial domain

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Decision Making

Attention to detail / rigor

Critical thinking

Communication skills - oral & written

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Analytical Ability

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution

Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 15 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)

Not  Applicable