Company purpose:
Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable
economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical
standards.
Our employer promise is built around three pillars:
- Being a great place to work
- Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact
- Being dedicated to the development of our people
Business area
The mission of RISK function is to provide Senior
Management of the Group and of the Operating Divisions with full transparency
and dynamic analysis of the risks and clients managed by the various operating
divisions: Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB), Retail Banking,
Investment & Protection Services (IPS).
The scope of the RISK function within CIB in London is:
- Market
and Liquidity risks: covering the CIB capital markets activities, ALM Treasury
as well as the IPS Business Units,
- Counterparty
risks: covering all counterparty risks arising from derivative and repo
transactions,
- Credit
risks: credit analysis and approval for Financial Institutions Sovereigns,
Wealth Management clients and other IPS private clients,
- Insurance
risks: risks generated by Insurance activities,
The RISK function contributes to the definition of the
Group’s risk appetite, its risk decision making process and the optimisation of
capital allocation to support the development of the Operating Divisions.
The RISK Systems team is part of RISK Global Services,
whose mission includes providing the bank with a comprehensive capital markets
risk system used to calculate market and counterparty risk capital figures
using advanced methods and to support the needs of users for risk analysis,
risk reporting and the credit process.
Job purpose
As Developer within the Tribe is
responsible to contribute to the design and production of quality software
solutions in accordance with the applicable best practices (maintainable, secure,
documented, scalable, testable and in line with the business line’s needs).
As Developer is
expected to contribute to high quality and responsive third level development
support to Business and Operational stakeholders within the Tribe and beyond,
and to participate to the provision of out of hours support.
Key responsibilities
A fully competent and experienced IT professional
accountable for carrying out a full range of professional duties.
Monitors and supports a range of systems within
RISK to ensure that they are effectively maintained and coordinated within
company procedures, guidelines and expectations. Recommends improvements
through expertise and knowledge and propose initiatives to automate tasks.
Works under general direction and provides
professional know-how to enhance the knowledge and skill base of the
organisation. Provide the business with driving consistency and quality optimization.
Delivers small-scale changes or well-defined
features on major initiatives. Works to enable feature delivery through
defining and documenting new functionality. Comply and enforce norms and
standards.
Establishes relationships and collaborates with
individuals across the business to achieve business results. Works with teams
and project managers to develop new functionality and improvements.
Gives consideration to IT Change Management and
quality of changes.
Design and
development:
- Help
to clarify and qualify needs.
- Help
to carry out studies before project launch.
- Design
software solutions.
- Provide
estimates for work and updates of status and remaining effort to complete.
- Develop
software that meets development and security standards, while incorporating
data and security objectives.
- Help
to optimise existing code and improve its maintainability.
- Help
to integrate software packages and in the definition of settings.
- Identify
risks and issues and help monitor them.
Testing, acceptance,
and release:
- Contribute
to and follow the Department and Tribe test strategy.
- Plan,
design, perform, support and document integration, system, and regression tests.
- Install
the product deployment tools in the different environments.
- Create
and/or help to upgrade the documentation.
- Support
user tests
- Assist
the investigation of production incidents which cannot be resolved by the
global support teams.
Process
Improvement:
- Participate
to the regular review and process improvements ceremonies within Tribe/Squad.
- Participate
in internal and external developer networks to communicate and share best
practices.
- Engage in continuous training and awareness of new information technologies.
Requirements
Professional
qualification and expert knowledge in a specific Risk specialism and how that fits
within the broader organisation as well as more deeply within the Risk
function.
Good working
knowledge of a wide range of Risk and company-wide policies, procedures,
regulations and legislation; knowledge of best practices in risk management
processes.
Excellent
analytical skills with the ability to translate technical concepts and provide
specialist guidance and advice to others.
Strong
working knowledge of the IT technologies, systems, and architecture;
understands and delivers on Cyber Security, Obsolescence and Technical
Architecture topics; focussed on the quality, maintainability, optimisation and
documentation of software deliverables; conversant with Dev Ops processes and
practices and fully engaged with Change Management and release preparation and
deployment.
SPECIFIC
BUSINESS/TECHNICAL SKILLS
–
Able to incrementally deliver server side
applications to meet dynamic customer requirements
–
Proficient in Python, with a good
knowledge of its ecosystem
–
Solid understanding of object-oriented
programming and functional programming paradigms
–
Familiar with Python application design
and architectural patterns
–
Demonstrable ability to write clean and
readable code
–
Experience with SQL and any industry
standard relational database
–
Understanding fundamental design
principles behind a scalable application
–
Creating data schemas that represent and
support business processes
–
Unit, integration and end to end testing
–
Valued experience on technologies (or
similar) used by the team: k8s, Kafka, etc.
BEHAVIOURAL
SKILLS
- Client focussed
- Ability to Deliver / Results Driven
- Decision making
TRANSVERSAL
SKILLS
- Ability to work closely with users,
business analysts, application production and infrastructure teams.
- Willing to share knowledge and skills with
other developers within the team
- Whilst able to work independently, should
be a true team player
TOOLS
- Jira, JiraAlign
- Excel, Confluence, Teams
- Sharepoint, Clarity
BENEFICIAL
METHODOLIGIES
–
Lean, Agile@scale, Agile Scrum, DevOps,
Site Reliability Engineering,
Behavioural/Test/Data Driven Designs, Data
Driven Design, Design Thinking
And of course, we expect all our colleagues to
embody and practice the Group values (alignment with the Bank’s strategy,
commitment, work ethic, integrity and Code of Conduct).
A bit more about why you should join us
1.
We’re a great place to work
We aim for optimal work/life balance (depending on role, this includes hybrid
working, flexible working and agile)
We are proud of our award-winning flexible benefits and health &
wellbeing strategy. Our flexible benefits include:
- allowance of at least 26 days
(plus bank holidays) – with option to buy and sell holidays.
- plans
– a 12% non-contributory pension which has been moved to sustainable
investments*, life assurance*, income protection and personal accident
insurance.
- , neurodiversity assessment and support.
- in
London – include physiotherapy, nutrition, massage therapy, physiology, mental
health first aiders, seasonal flu vaccinations and free onsite fitness centre.
* Subject to relevant caps
2.
As the eurozone’s largest bank, we are
committed to having a positive impact in the world.
For example, we are committed to
Net Zero in all of our financing and investment portfolios by 2050. By 2030,
80% of our energy production financing will be low carbon.
But impact for us means more than
climate. It means empowering our people every day. Everyone gets four
volunteering days each year - in 2023, we achieved over 18,000 hours of
volunteering across the UK and reaching over 4,500 young people.
3.
We believe in our people
We
support our people to develop skills to adapt to the ever-evolving world of
work and to prepare for the jobs of today and tomorrow. We do this through a
comprehensive training offering, talent programmes, mentoring, career days and
inhouse career tools.
We are
proud of the number of our people who progress and secure new roles internally.
In fact, in 2023, nearly half of our positions in UK CIB were filled
internally.
Investing
in our people also means we have a collaborative and inclusive culture:
- Direct feedback from our people shows that our
internal culture sets us apart from our industry peers.
- Each year, nearly 30,000 employees globally are
involved in professional networks that play an active role in promoting Diversity
and Inclusion within the Group. These include our:
Pride Network, Ability Network (which supports
disabled employees), MixCity (gender equality network), Women in Global
Markets, Women in Global Banking, Women in IT, Diversity Equity & Inclusion
in Technology, Early Careers Network, Multicultural Network and Parents &
Carers Network.
Equal opportunities
BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters
diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to age,
disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status,
pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation,
or any other legally protected status.
Adjustments
We don’t want anyone to
be disadvantaged in our recruitment processes, so if you have a disability or
health condition which may mean that you’d benefit from some adjustments or
additional support, please let us know as early in the process as possible.
