BUSINESS OVERVIEW:
Interns will be placed on one team for the duration of the summer program, where placements could include but are not limited to:
IT Production:
is responsible to build, operate and support the IT Platform and all the technology used by our businesses in the Americas.
We aim to provide a robust, resilient and scalable Technology across the Region and we are a core pillar for all businesses.
We connect exchanges, clients, people and we ensure to operate the platform with the least incidents possible.
- Application Production and Support: Provide Application Production and Application Support to each business line: Global Market, Global Banking, CIB2S, ALMT, USDC and corporate or transversal departments.
- Infrastructure: Builds a resilient regional platform to serve as a foundation to all our businesses. The “Infa” department provides and supports Network, Network Security, Telecom, Voice/Trading voice, Record Keeping, Datacenters and Facilities, as well as IaaS, “Infrastructure-as-a-Service,” “Platform-as-a-Service,” and “Container-as-a-Service”.
- Workspace: Delivers work environment and toolset to all our end-users, with a global standardization for a Global Bank. Provides and supports Desktop, Messaging & Mobility, Endpoint Mobility, and Software Asset Management.
- Production Factories: Develops and provides global services to enable standardization, digitalization, and automation of ITO platforms via DevSecOps toolchain, monitoring, observability and scheduling services.
- Production Security: Operate and protects the organization’s digital assets. Provides and supports Identity Access Management, Vulnerability Management, Security design, Security engineering and Security operations.
- Control Tower: Facilitate Crisis & Command Center, providing change and incident management services.
- CTO Office: Manage projects, finance, staffing and resource management and service delivery for the department.
AMER ITO CCCO:
ensures the protection of Corporate and Institutional Banking in the Americas (North and South) by overseeing Cyber and Corporate Security, Operational Resilience, IT/Cyber Governance, Risk and Controls. The team includes:
- Business and IT Continuity: Provides oversight and governance of the programs to plan and respond effectively to crisis events and serious business and IT disruptions.
- CIB Americas Operational Resilience: Drive the Bank transformation to ensure the vital businesses services will respond and recover from an adverse occurrence that may harm, destruct the ability to deliver those services according to the bank risk tolerance.
- Corporate Security: Ensures the safety of employees, clients, visitors and protects the firm's assets and reputation.
- Information (Cyber) Security: Protects the Bank's information from external and internal threats by defining and ensuring implementation of proper IT security framework and controls;
- Record Management Office: Ensure the Banks capacity to manage regulatory and client records, mitigate risks as well as maintain lifecycle with oversight, compliance controls- including, classification, retention and disposal/destruction of records as appropriate.
- IT and Cyber GRC: manages and strengthens the IT governance, procedures, and risk and control framework, for both the IHC and CIB Americas, in alignment with IT Group and Global CIB guidelines. The team also ensures IT and Cyber risks are identified, tested, properly mitigated and managed with appropriate Key Risk Indicators, maintaining and confirming sustainability for the IT & Cyber control framework as well as executing the RCSA and attestations as required. The IT and Cyber Management also oversees the IT and Cyber audits and monitor any remediation deemed necessary.
- Operations Operational Permanent Control: provides strategic direction to maintaining a robust and effective risk and control framework that respects internal guidelines and procedures issued and governed by control functions as well as the external regulatory and supervisory requirements
CIB IT:
Responsible for IT development, business/technical analysis, project, maintenance and support for the large range of applications within the Americas region, covering all CIB business areas such as Global Markets, Global Banking, Client Engagement & Protection, Securities Services and ALMT. We work closely with our business partners and users as part of the global team to understand new requirements from clients, exchanges, industry, regulators and other stakeholders, and code against those requirements to enhance our platforms. The team also dedicates a large amount of time and effort to contribute to the overall platform engineering strategy to enhance our resiliency, stability and scalability across businesses and applications. Our services include métier-dedicated technology support and IT platform management for Americas, which strives for excellence and fully aligns with the group’s strategic goals. The collaboration of these IT teams, representing multiple business clusters, forms one CIB IT Americas team with a global vision, strategy and aligned direction. CIB Americas CIO leads the CIB IT teams as follows:
- Global Markets IT: develops, improves, analyzes, maintains and reviews architectural solutions for the wide range of applications across the Global Markets business areas, such as Prime & Financing, Electronic Trading, Financial Services, Clearing and Settlement, Booking, Position Risk & PnL, and Surveillance;
- Global Banking IT: responsible for meeting all IT needs for Trade Finance, Supply Chain Finance, Cash Management, Corporate Loans, Corporate Deposits & Liquidity, Payments and USD Clearing;
- Client Engagement & Protection IT: develops, improves and maintains the applications used across the different functions within Corporate & Institutional Banking (e.g. Risk, Compliance, Legal, HR, Enterprise Data Management, Client Engagement & Protection etc.) and provides transversal IT services;
- ALMT IT: implement IT initiatives and transformation to support ALMT business growth ambitions in the region by further strengthening of ALMT IT structure, improving execution capacity in the region and securing global alignment.
- Securities Services IT (also known as 2S IT): responsible for IT business/technical analysis and meeting IT platform development needs for Banking Services Operations, Corporate Trust Operations, Market & Financing Services and International Financial Services;
- IT Strategy Management, Project Portfolio & Budget: a transversal team responsible for program management office, reinforcing strategic CIO topics, employee engagement and governance of financials, staffing, sourcing, remediation, recommendations, controls, conduct and project portfolio.
APS:
Responsible for the Americas Production Platform to ensure applications and associated services are monitored and incident resolution is managed and resolved to have the least or no disruption to the business. APS teams work closely with Business on a daily basis to provide IT functional and Technical support (Level 1 and Level 2) to the business under a common set of processes and tools. APS teams are responsible for Change management to keep the platform up to date with application related changes, security patching and obsolescence management. The team collaborates closely with Infrastructure, Production Security, Information security and application development teams to enhance the security of our production platform, keep it resilient and secure. The team works closely with Audit, IT risk and IT controls on regulatory, audit topics and to be aligned with the groups strategic goals.
- Application Production Support: Manage and monitor applications in Production, and provide IT Functional and Technical Support (Level 1 and Level 2) to the Business, under a common set of processes, tools and KPI. Ensure Production teams is actively contributing to the Business requests responses.
- IT Service Management: is a set of practices, policies and procedures that help to manage the services delivered to our end users, using the ITIL framework to ensure best practices are implemented within our organization. APS being the first line of defense, responsible for Incident, problem and change management related to applications in production.
- Digital Transformation: Work closely with the Business and with IT on the Digital Transformation trajectory. Contribute actively to the transformation of IT to new digital model & Business IT Digital Plan. Contribute to the definition, promotion and implementation of the strategy IT for the Métier, with consistency between operations and transformation.
- Production Platform Stability and Security: Manage integrity, stability, robustness, continuity and security of the platform along with the Infrastructure, Application Development and Production security teams.
- IT Transversal Project Portfolio & Budget: a transversal team responsible for program management office, reinforcing strategic CTO topics, employee engagement and governance of financials, staffing, sourcing, remediation, recommendations, controls, conduct and project portfolio.
CIB ITO Quality & Efficiency:
is a dedicated global team within IT and Operations. Its mandate is to drive alignment between the local, regional and global ITO Stakeholders on core transversal activities, such as overall Governance, Budget, People program development, as well as SLAs to ensure that best practices are deployed and implemented across ITO Americas and to consistently deliver high quality reporting while optimizing efficiency.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED
Our internship programs are a springboard for college students to launch their careers through exciting and intellectually stimulating opportunities.
They are highly driven, intellectually stimulating, and crafted to build your real-world capabilities. To succeed amongst our teams, we look for those with a strong academic story, sharp analytical skills, and the ability to articulate ideas well, to clients and colleagues alike.
- Graduation year of Winter 2026 – Spring 2027
- All majors accepted
- Strong analytical, synthesis, and communication skills
- Quick learners who are detail-oriented and self-motivated
- Individuals who are enthusiastic, energetic, curious, and innovative
Our IT organization is large, but depending on the IT stream, we may be looking for:
- Computer Engineers: Develop applications using C++, Java, .Net, Python on Linux, SQL, Windows for the execution platforms etc. and have knowledge of programming and OS in combination with the business; who have experiencing coding with these applications and are up to date with the latest technology trend and security requirements;
- Cyber Security Specialists
- Business Analysts: Understand business needs, analyze products and various workflows. Convert them into specifications for developers to code;
- Integration Specialists: Integrate chain of systems across various functions to bring out the desired outcome for executions;
- Quality Analysts: Help to validate the application build by performing various functional and non-functional testing; and
- Transversal champions: work with CIO/Chief of Staff on transversal IT strategic & PMO topics.
WHAT DOES A SUMMER 2026 INTERNSHIP WITH BNP PARIBAS LOOK LIKE?
At BNP Paribas, our people are our greatest asset, and we are committed to helping you grow from day one. The internship program is our primary source for hiring early talent into the Bank, providing you with the network and resources you need to build a successful career.
Over 10 weeks, you will acquire in-depth insight into BNP Paribas and gain valuable and practical experience. Whichever area you are placed in, you will join a team of award-winning specialists in a dynamic, collaborative environment. Through the program, interns have a distinct opportunity to gain guidance from mentors and exposure to senior leaders within the Bank.
As an Intern, you will:
- Engage in an initial induction training that will set you up to succeed, and allow you to network with your intern class across all business divisions
- Complete technical projects and collaborate with colleagues across the Bank, gaining exposure to real work in order to identify your skills and explore where your interests align
- Participate in weekly senior speaker events and roundtable discussions to gain a comprehensive understanding of financial markets and the industry
- Network with colleagues and learn about industry topics through workshops and speaker series, as well as through philanthropy and social events
ABOUT BNP PARIBAS
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. The bank employs over 3,500 people in offices in the US across 10 states including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Miami, and Washington, DC. BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.
As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose - to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development, and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential.
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COMPENSATION:
The annualized base salary for this position in Jersey City, NJ is $95,000.
EQUAL CHANCES & OPPORTUNITIES FOR ALL:
BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.
