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:
Within BNP Paribas Fortis, the tribe IT Agile Production Services (APS) – Team IT APS Customers, CS&E Robotics, Data and AI, one of our missions is to enable the advanced analytics use cases identified throughout the bank.
The use cases can come from any department at the Bank, for instance: Risk, compliance, ALM, Fraud Prevention, Marketing, Sales or HR.
As an ML Ops engineer you will need to setup, deploy and monitor AI applications for the Tribes of our Area.
Job Title:
AI & ML engineer
Date:
30-Jan-2025
Department:
ITG- Fortis
Location:
Chennai
Business Line / Function:
ITG
Reports to:
(Direct)
NA
Grade:
(if applicable)
Senior Associate to Technical Lead
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
NA
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
The squad AI Platform Support is looking for a Machine Learning Ops Engineer with a proven track record deploying python applications and/or data science models. You should be specialized or have a strong interest in Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform, Linux system administration and Python deployment.
As an ML Ops Engineer within the Tribe APS, you will have the opportunity to work at the centre of the banks initiatives in generative AI, smart automation and traditional machine learning.
You will work to maintain both the workbench environment of the data scientists as well as monitor and deploy their models and applications.
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Responsibilities
As part of your responsibilities, you will have to work on the following:
- Evaluate sizing and infrastructure requirements for new use cases.
- Setup self-service deployment pipelines for AI applications.
- Ensure reproducibility of deployments in both environment Non-Prod and Production.
- Make sure that all applications are properly monitored, and alerting is in place.
- Evolve in an environment where innovation and lean processes are praised, straight-forward communication is encouraged, and peers understand the meaning of team up.
- Work with a team of colleagues who are ready to collaborate and to share their experience.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Mandatory:
· Knowledge of Python ecosystem.
· Experience with http rest APIs with focus on Django
· Experience with Git (version control system). E.g. Gitlab, Gitlab CI
· Experience in MLOps / DevOps
· Linux operating system experience
· Experience in containerization (docker, podman)
· LLM operations
· Cloud experience (e.g. IBM Cloud / Azure)
Preferable:
· Kubernetes/Helm
· Familiar with code quality gating (Sonar, Nexus, Fortify)
· Ansible
· Domino Datalab, Jupyter
· Artifactory
· Kafka
· SQL Postgres
· Terraform
· Dynatrace
Business Experience: Knowledge of the financial services industry.
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 Mumbai (Whichever is your base location) during hybrid model.
· You are flexible and ready to provide support outside of Business hours (on-call).
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Ability to deliver / Results driven
Ability to share / pass on knowledge
Client focused
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Ability to develop and adapt a process
Ability to develop others & improve their skills
Analytical Ability
Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 7 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
