Dev Mobile Lead (IOS)

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. 

About Business line/Function: 

At PI Germany IT Solutions, we provide modern development services and IT products that our consumers can use. This includes Frontend Applications like Web, Mobile or other fat client applications and furthermore, we develop and maintain necessary middleware applications and API products which can be used by internal or external customers.  

In addition, we integrate and maintain 3rd party components, products into our solutions and providing additional services to business departments in order to archive the overall business objectives of BNPP PI Germany. 

Job Title: 

Software Developer 

Date: 

01-Sep-2024 

Department: 

PI Germany – ISPL 

Location: 

Chennai 

Business Line / Function: 

PI IT 

Reports to: 

(Direct) 

Karthik GANESAN 

Grade:  

(if applicable) 

(Functional) 

Number of Direct Reports: 

0 

Directorship / Registration: 

NA 

Position Purpose 

The developer helps with the development of Mobile-related information systems, Business Applications and contributes to ensuring its continuity through personal effort as part of a team or to a limited extent within the department to achieve short-term and occasionally medium-term goals.  

They help in the development and realization of the software architecture as a contribution to high-quality software solutions in accordance with the applicable best practices (maintainable, safe, documented, scalable, testable and in accordance with the needs of the business area). 

Responsibilities 

Direct Responsibilities 

• Participating in Mobile activities of BNP Paribas
• Developing Mobile products in banking, trading and beyond banking
• Co-designing technical implementation of Mobile strategy.
• Ensuring the timeliness of documentation, processes, and tool landscape
• Maintenance and development of the Mobile platform
• Ensuring continuous delivery processes via automated pipelines
• Implementing and co-designing architectural specifications.
• Ensuring software quality, test automation, and integration of tools (e.g., Sonar, Fortify) into development process.
• To define and to execute 3rd level support tasks for systems and applications in charge.
• To do necessary bug fix and to execute small enhancement tasks.
• To take care about prevention of obsolete components and libraries.
• Analysis und Continuous Improvement:
  • To support optimization of software development processes & methods and possible usage of advanced tools and technologies
  • To maintain and to improve stability and performance of development software solutions
  • To develop prototypes which are based on new technologies by PoCs
  • To improve operational aspects of developed solutions together with IT Production teams

Contributing Responsibilities 

Cooperation within team and company 

• To define necessary infrastructure with configuration for software development activities
• To support the implementation and testing, acceptance of necessary infrastructure
• To contribute to system stability of the infrastructure and affected system components 
• To support troubleshooting of urgent software or infrastructure issues.

Knowhow and Knowledge 

• To support sharing and transferring Knowhow and Knowledge with others colleagues
• To continuously support code reviews and pair programming with other colleagues
• To foster exchange of software development knowledge with internal channel and network, in order to share best practices
• To ensure necessary training and continuous improvement of knowledge and knowhow 
• To ensure successful participation in mandatory regulatory trainings on-time

Technical & Behavioral Competencies 

• Degree in business informatics, computer science, engineering or comparable and several years of professional experience
• At least 8 years of experience in software development
• Knowhow of modern software architectures and modern development concepts & processes
• Deep know how and understanding of respective development domain (Web, Mobile, Middleware, API, Platform, CRM, CMS etc.)
• Expert knowhow in necessary development tools and programming languages
• Expert knowhow in software requirement engineering and managing requirements
• Knowledge in software testing incl. unit test design & execution as well as E2E tests
• Basic knowledge in IT cyber security and secure software development
• Basic knowledge of banking economics (banking, trading, investing; products and transactions)
• Working in an agile environment with Scrum
• Very good English skills in words and writing

Specific Qualifications (if required) 

iOS: 

• Need to have advanced knowledge in Swift and Experience in SwiftUI (or) Extensive experience in Jetpack Compose
• Good knowledge of Combine Framework (or) Good experience with RxSwift, RxCocoa, other reactive frameworks
• Objective C (nice to have)
• Experience with Gitlab or Gitlab CI (Optional)

Skills Referential 

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills) 

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork 

Client focused 

Attention to detail / rigor 

Ability to deliver / Results driven 

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills) 

Ability to develop and adapt a process  

Ability to develop and leverage networks 

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Education Level:  

Bachelor Degree or equivalent 

Experience Level 

At least 8 years 

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required) 

SwiftUI 

Combine Framework 

Gitlab  

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