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 Businessline/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:
Senior Project Manager
Date:
18-Aug-25
Department:
CEP IT
Location:
Bangalore
Business Line / Function:
Data & Document platform
Reports to:
(Direct)
Grade:
(if applicable)
AVP
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
N/A
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
Overall 12-15 years of experience as a SR Project Manager in delivery of IT Projects and preferably in the area of Data Platforms. To be able to provide CIB’s business line with IT services enabling them by industrializing the processes for Data Platform.
The Technical Architect should have key skills as mentioned below:
1- Strong experience to manage the end to end cycle, knowledge on Financial Market is an advantage
2 Good experience in the areas of Python, SQL server in terms of data base design, performance improvement, SQL, PowerBI
3- Participate in Design / Architecture discussions in building new systems, Frameworks and Components
4- Sound knowledge of Agile (Scrum/Kanban)
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
Team Leadership & Coaching:-
- Motivate & inspire team members
- Facilitate problem solving & collaboration
- Encourage innovation, creativity, and continuous improvement
- Support new team members in working through induction programme, ensure that they have the necessary knowledge to effectively participate on the team.
- Contribute to staff appraisals & supervision process.
- Represent CEP IT at local and global CIB Forums on Data Platform subjects
- Propose / Review/ Challenge Application Architecture and Design.
- Track Technology Obsolescence Management plan for CEP teams.
- Lead automation and guide teams to align with shift left and shift right strategy by encouraging a mindset for automation first and reduce recursive manual efforts
- Keep up-to-date with latest technologies, trends and provide inputs, expertise and recommendations.
Team Management:-
- Facilitate the day to day organisation.
- Organise & facilitate regular team meetings.
- Help keep the team focused & on track.
Contributing Responsibilities
- Contribute towards recruitment.
- Level-up of members in the vertical.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Strong knowledge about design patterns and development principles.
- Inclination and prior experience of working across SQL, Python, Spark and Pyspark.
- Good Knowledge and experience in SQL, Python, Spark and Pyspark, Python Frameworks, Restful APIs, MS-SQL or Oracle, numpy, pandas, SQL/noSQL, Elastic search.
- Good Knowledge and experience to use Python packages such as Scikit learn, MatPlotib, NumPy, etc. Cleaning up of Data, Data Wrangling, Analysis of Data, Visualization of Data, User Authorization and Authentication.
- Experience in Security topics such as IDP, SSO, IAM and related technologies.
- Good knowledge on Linux/Unix environment (basic commands, shell scripting, etc.)
- Some experience of working with build tools like Maven & DevOps tools like Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, SonarQube.
- Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, DevOps.
- Development experience in Data Engineering environment.
- Ability & willingness to learn & work on diverse technologies (languages, frameworks, and tools).
- Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.
- Good communication and co-ordination skills.
- Review the Design and optimize data models for financial products, transactions, non-financial risk metrics, and financial reports.
- Contribute to the end-to-end architecture and lifecycle management of financial data platforms, from ingestion to consumption.
- Manage the delivery for Data Services via a core platform.
- Effectively manages and leads the largest and / or highest risk projects to ensure completion and significant impact on client KPIs.
- Implement best practices for data lineage tracking (Collibra, Data catalogs, Data lineage tools), metadata management, and data quality monitoring.
- Manage complex data ingestion pipelines sourcing from market data providers, custodians, and internal systems & platforms.
- Oversee data classification, retention, and masking (PII and financial data).
- Builds and preserves credibility and trust with internal clients.
- Collaborate with Risk, Finance, Compliance, and Operations to deliver trusted data for regulatory filings, risk reporting, and front-office analytics.
- Manage and mentor data engineers and developers.
- Act as key liaison between onshore, nearshore & ISPL teams.
Nice to have Skills:
- Good knowledge on front-end technologies preferably Angular.
- Experience in Cloud Architectures.
- Knowledge/experience on Dynatrace
- Knowledge/experience on AML, Non-Financial Risk data, Regulatory reporting, Transaction data
- Knowledge/experience on No SQL databases (MongoDB, Cassandra), Kafka.
- Some exposure to Caching technologies like Redis or Apache Ignite.
Specific Qualifications (if required)
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to synthetize / simplify
Personal Impact / Ability to influence
Attention to detail / rigor
Ability to deliver / Results driven
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Analytical Ability
Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…
Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment
Ability to develop and leverage networks
Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 12 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
