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:
CIB Client Engagement and Protection IT having focus on applications servicing Client Lifecycle management, Due Diligence /KYC , Customer Relation Management, Service Request Management, Referential and Data Quality, PreTrade Transaction Screening, Data and Document platforms and Anti-Money Laundering. Technologies being used include Java, .NET, Angular, Informatica, sharepoint, Python, Scala, Spark, PowerBI, Fenergo, Siebel, Actimize, Camunda, Drools on private cloud infrastructure. Agile and DevSecOps practices are widely used. Landscape includes projects that are a mix of established and some under transition to new platforms.
Job Title:
Big Data Architect – Assistant Vice President
Date:
24-Apr-25
Department:
CEP IT
Location:
Mumbai
Business Line / Function:
CEP DATA IT
Reports to:
(Direct)
Grade:
(if applicable)
Assistant Vice President
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
N/A
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
The role is split between architectural / project-based tasks and third-line support of infrastructure hosting CIB SSC Data services. The team is responsible for the CIB SSC Data platform across EMEA, AMER and APAC with an application support team (APS) based in Chennai and Mumbai, India acting as a single, global team.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
· To provide architectural expertise thereby driving change and improvement in technology and process.
· To contribute to the development of the Data technology roadmap.
· To liaise with CIB architecture teams in undertaking architectural reviews.
· To stay abreast of emerging technologies and technology trends.
· To work with Project Managers in defining, designing, documenting and deploying new functionality for existing and new applications.
· To liaise with the Application Developers in low level diagnosis of on-going issues.
· To provide subject matter expertise on core technologies to all business application teams.
· To contribute to the improvement of process and technology used within BNP Paribas.
· Problem Management.
· Change Management.
· Incident Management.
Contributing Responsibilities
· Perform pre-assigned tasks to accomplish the function responsible for.
o The nature of these tasks are Change the Bank or Run the Bank.
· Work cooperatively with the other members of the team.
· Ensure adherence to processes and procedures.
· Request improvement of knowledge (training) when needed.
· Apply own initiative, within the levels of acceptable risk.
· Whenever in doubt, escalate and seek advice and guidance.
· Apply the guidelines and principles of user service mentality and behaviour.
· Escalate risks / issues to the manager of the team.
· Minimise operational failure, including but not exclusively, the risk of fraud, by helping to devise, and by implementing, sufficient regular controls.
· Ensure appropriate escalation to management and/or Permanent Control (or Compliance as appropriate) as soon as an issue is identified.
Provide a direct contribution to the BNPP operational permanent control framework.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Essential
· Strong working knowledge on Linux and Windows systems.
· Experience in installation, configuration, documentation and administration of multiple pre-production and production platforms in both virtual and physical environments
· Strong DevOps mentality (Ansible, Artifactory, BitBucket/Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Apache Spark, Jenkins)
· Excellent security knowledge – vulnerability management, hardening, web access firewall requirements, DMZ architecture
· Web infrastructure technologies (load-balancing, firewalls, proxies, networking, SSO, LDAP, SAML, Kerberos)
· Great understanding of ETL process
· Experience in scheduling tools such as AutoSys, Argo etc
· Server and application monitoring, Dynatrace, ELK
Nice to have Skills:
· Data Visualisation tools:
o Tableau
o Power BI
· DataIKU, Quantexa, Python
· MS SQL Server, Oracle, Mongo
· Infrastructure standards for servers, networks and storage
· Good understanding of Web Services model
· Previously used ServiceNow as a Service Desk Management product
· Knowledge of Process & Quality management, ITIL, Agile principles including SCRUM and Kanban
Personal Attributes
· Strong attention to detail
· Structured and methodical
· Very strong analytical skills
· Team oriented, enjoy adding good team spirit
· Clear communicator in both written and oral forms
· Ability to operate with demanding Senior IT Management
· A “can do” mind set
Good interpersonal / communication skills
Specific Qualifications (if required)
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or MCA
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Ability to deliver / Results driven
Attention to detail / rigor
Decision Making
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Analytical Ability
Ability to develop others & improve their skills
Ability to develop and adapt a process
Ability to develop and leverage networks
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 10 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
Any relevant certification matching expected skill set
