What is this position about?

As a Solution Architect, you will join a team which helps project teams define their Solution Architecture. In addition, you will review the proposed designs with Enterprise Architects as well as Engineering/Production teams and Security teams to ensure that solutions proposed are aligned and compliant with BNPP policies and BNPP Cloud offering.

You will be assigned to a fixed set of IT Divisions/Departments (2 or 3) for which you will manage the solutioning for Cloud migration and BAU evolutions of the applications under their management. In addition, you may be assigned to specific transversal projects for which you will do the solutioning end-to-end.

What would be your typical day at BNPP Paribas look like? 

Primary Role Responsibilities

•    Maintain the Division/Department architecture reference documentation all along the changes brought by projects:

o    IT system diagrams (Division level, or per sub-block)

o    Application referential (with the help of Application Owners)

o    Division level principles and related non-conformities and remediation plans

o    Obsolescence KPIs

•    Lead the solution architecture on the projects he/she is assigned to:

o    Supporting the Project Manager/Business Analysts during solution ideation, design, and implementation 

o    Collaborating with application teams and Business Analysts/Tech leads of impacted applications to design the solution

o    Ensuring the alignment of projects with our architecture principles and IT standards

o    Ensuring the solution is optimized for running on our IBM Private Cloud

•    Support project managers and tech leads along the architecture validation process by:

o    Leading the build of a consistent architecture documentation 

o    Presenting his projects in architecture validation committee

o    Being the reference point on a set of applications for support/evolution activities

o    Supporting the architecture process till the go-live

o    Bringing Cloud and architecture awareness to application teams

•    Being the reference architect on a set of applications for support/evolution activities (having low architecture impacts), before and after they are migrated into the Cloud platform.

•    Collaborate with following roles:

o    Project managers/Business analyst of major transversal projects he/she is assigned to

o    Tech leads/Developers, to understand the architecture of the applications/screens and analyze potential issues

o    Application owner, to update the referential information on applications

o    Engineering and Production team, to check the availability/compatibility with infrastructure/Cloud services

o    Enterprise Architects, to facilitate the review and validation process.

•    Ensure the reference documentation is updated all along the changes brought by projects:

o    Application referential 

o    IT architecture diagrams and documents

o    Application non-conformities and remediation plans

o    Architecture principles, checklist, guidelines

Contributing Responsibilities

•    Provide and share specific expertise on our Cloud capabilities and in selected technical areas

o    Participate to studies and proof-of-concepts with the business before a project is launched

What is required for you to succeed?

Specific Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

•    3+ years of experience architecting or developing solutions in a Cloud environment

•    5+ years of experience in IT either as an Enterprise Architect or Solution Architect

•    Architecture certification (TOGAF) or Cloud Architect certification (AWS, IBM Cloud)

•    Cloud Architect certification (AWS, Azure, Google)

•    Architecture certification (TOGAF)

•    Experience in Data Analytics and AI tools (Apache Spark & Airflow, Nifi, Dataiku, Microsoft Power BI, Starburst, Tableau, LLM, RAG)

•    Experience on designing and developing Cloud-native solutions

•    Experience on Cloud migration, integration patterns, high availability patterns, etc. (e.g. REST APIs, Container platforms, Event-driven architecture, etc)

•    Broad technical knowledge and experience across application, development frameworks and technologies

•    Experience with Java/Spring/Angular, Oracle/PostgreSQL DB, Linux, API, Kafka etc. 

•    Functional/Business knowledge (of his current/past companies), ideally on core banking or portfolio management systems. Interest in Financial & Banking industry

•    Experience working on a project or in an architecture team covering a large ecosystem of applications (30+)

•    Experience in modeling activities (application maps, software design models, data modeling, infrastructure diagrams, etc.)

•    Strong analysis skills with problem solving attitude

•    Ability to communicate effectively in written documents and oral presentations, explaining concepts clearly to audiences at various levels of technical knowledge

•    Effective leadership, planning and organization skills

Plus

•    Experience of Enterprise Architecture discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices

•    Experience in Wealth Management, or Financial and Banking Industry

•    Knowledge of a Wealth Management Core Banking System such as Temenos Transact, ERI Olympic or Avaloq

•    SCRUM/Agile experience

•    Experience running Request for Proposal and assessing solutions

About BNP PARIBAS

As the leading European Union bank, and one of the world’s largest financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence in the region since 1860, BNP Paribas offers a wide range of financial services for corporate, institutional and private investors spanning corporate and institutional banking, wealth management, asset management and insurance. 

We passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued and encourage applicants of all backgrounds, including diversity of origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion applicants who may be living with a disability. We have a number of internal employee networks in place to empower our staff to act and challenge the status quo.

•    BNP Paribas PRIDE is highly active in favour of the LGBTQIA+ community

•    BNP Paribas MixCity which fosters better representation of women at all levels of the organization

•    Ability, the mutual aid network for employees with a disability or a disabling or chronic illness

•    BNP Paribas CulturAll which celebrates diverse backgrounds

BNP is committed to financing a carbon-neutral economy by 2050. The Group is a founding member of the Net-Zero Banking Alliance and has set up its own Low Carbon Transition Group to support its clients through their energy transitions.

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