About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 71 countries and has almost 199 000 employees. The Group ranks highly in its three core areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking networks and financial services are grouped together under Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, centered on corporate and institutional clients. The Group helps all its clients (retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporate and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings, and protection. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas enjoys leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and has a solid and fast-growing network in the Asia/Pacific region.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, a leading bank in Europe 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 6000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

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:

BNP Paribas IT teams provide infrastructure, development and production support services to all applications used worldwide by all business lines. There is a great variety of technologies and infrastructures from legacy systems to cutting edge Cloud technologies.

Within BNP Paribas Group IT, the filiere “FORTIS” oversees operationally to the challenges of IT applications with an end-to-end vision and consistently across the Bank. Several domains of these filiere contribute to this, including the domain “Service Offering DevOps”, which provides the DevSecOps platform for IT Group, Control Center, DB Activities and move to Cloud project.

BNP Paribas Fortis is a bank that is responsible and socially committed. The environment, diversity, cultural support, sponsorship... Through various and concrete ways, we are dedicated to meeting our customers’ expectations and proud to demonstrate our values: responsible, human, innovative and enthusiastic.

Job Title:

Mainframe L2 knowledge 

Date:

Nov 2025

Department:

ITGP

Location:

Chennai

Business Line / Function:

BNPP FORTIS

Reports to:

(Direct)

Team Lead /Manager 

Grade: 

(if applicable)

NA

(Functional)

BNPP FORTIS

Number of Direct Reports:

NA

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

In the BNPP Fortis Agile Production Services tribe, the message based system squad  is supporting our applicative tribes for their usage of MQ on our different platforms. In the context of the evolution and support of this infrastructure, we are looking for an experienced MQ system administrator to join and reinforce the team to:

·       Maintain the current infrastructure

·       Participate in  projects using MQ technology

·       Support the teams for the follow-up of changes and incidents

·       Security Management

·       Process automation

·       Documentation

Responsibilities

·       Administration of the existing infra (manage servers, queues managers)

·       Create queue managers and queues

·       Prepare, document, plan, organizes, execute, and validate changes

·       Contribute to projects for the MQ part

·       Follow-up incidents and participate to root cause analysis

·       Participate to support of the infra

Technical Experience:

·       Knowledge of IBM MQ v9 on z/OS.

·       Good knowledge of the IBM z/OS environment (ISPF, REXX, …)

·       Familiar with Cobol on z/OS

Preferable:

·       Knowledge and experience with high availability environments 

·       Knowledge of MQ on AIX/Linux and Windows 

·       Knowledge of the Agile Way of Working 

·       Knowledge and experience of automation and scripting in MQ environments

·       Knowledge of IMS TM z/OS.

·        Knowledge of DB2 on z/OS.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory 

·    Discuss with the internal client all along the projects lifecycle

·    Set up, monitor, report and review SLA’s with responsible maintenance departments

·    Ensure a good working relationship is established with all necessary support organizations both internal and external

Preferable 

·       Coordinates the escalations when the projects are in production

Specific Qualifications (if required)

·       Agile environment.

·       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

Attention to detail / rigor

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Communication skills - oral & written

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Analytical Ability

Ability to set up relevant performance indicators

Ability to develop and leverage networks

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Choose an item.

Education Level: 

 Master Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)