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 specialized 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, corporate and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and 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, color, 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:
For 150 years, BNP Paribas Wealth Management has been committed to protecting clients’ wealth, developing it, and eventually passing it on to their loved ones. We deliver tailor-made experience, with outstanding attention to detail and expertise from precise local knowledge to the global know-how that we access from the Group. Our goal is to create a new wealth management experience fit for a world where digital interactions have come to enhance human ones. Wealth Management Investment Solution Hub (WMIS Hub) provides a global IT solution for BNP Paribas Wealth Management where we develop, maintain and evolve IT applications which fits to the specific needs of BNP Paribas Wealth Management business users.
Job Title:
Solution Architect – Cloud Architecture
Date:
01/01/2025
Department:
IT
Location:
Chennai, India
Business Line / Function:
Wealth Management (WM)
Reports to:
(Direct)
Deputy Head of Strategy & Architecture
Grade:
(if applicable)
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
As a member of the IS Architecture team, you will be in charge of helping projects define their Solution Architecture while migrating the Information System of Wealth Management into BNPP group Cloud platform. You will review their proposals with Enterprise Architects as well as Engineering/Production teams and Security teams to ensure that solutions proposed are aligned and compliant with BNPP policies and BNPP Cloud offering.
You will be assigned to a fixed set of IT Divisions/Departments (2 or 3) for which you will manage the solutioning for Cloud migration and BAU evolutions of the applications under their management. In addition, you may be assigned to specific transversal projects for which you will do the solutioning end-to-end.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
· Maintain the Division/Department architecture reference documentation all along the changes brought by projects:
o IT system diagrams (Division level, or per sub-block)
o Application referential (with the help of Application Owners)
o Division level principles and related non-conformities and remediation plans
o Obsolescence KPIs
· Lead the Cloud solution architecture on the projects he/she is assigned to:
o Supporting the Project Manager/Business Analysts during solution ideation, design, and implementation
o Collaborating with application teams and Business Analysts/Tech leads of impacted applications to design the solution
o Ensuring the alignment of projects with our architecture principles and IT standards
o Ensuring the solution is optimized for running on our IBM Private Cloud
· Support project managers and tech leads along the architecture validation process by:
o Leading the build of a consistent architecture documentation
o Presenting his projects in architecture validation committee
o Being the reference point on a set of applications for support/evolution activities
o Supporting the architecture process till the go-live
o Bringing Cloud and architecture awareness to application teams
· Being the reference architect on a set of applications for support/evolution activities (having low architecture impacts), before and after they are migrated into the Cloud platform.
· Collaborate with following roles:
o Project managers/Business analyst of major transversal projects he/she is assigned to
o Tech leads/Developers, to understand the architecture of the applications/screens and analyze potential issues
o Application owner, to update the referential information on applications
o Engineering and Production team, to check the availability/compatibility with infrastructure/Cloud services
o Enterprise Architects, to facilitate the review and validation process.
· Ensure the reference documentation is updated all along the changes brought by projects:
o Application referential
o IT architecture diagrams and documents
o Application non-conformities and remediation plans
o Architecture principles, checklist, guidelines
Contributing Responsibilities
· Provide and share specific expertise on our Cloud capabilities and in selected technical areas
· Participate to studies and proof-of-concepts with the business before a project is launched
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Mandatory
- Experience on designing and developing Cloud-native solutions
- Experience on Cloud migration, integration patterns, high availability patterns, etc. (e.g. REST APIs, Container platforms, Event-driven architecture, etc)
- Broad technical knowledge and experience across application, development frameworks and technologies
- Experience with Java/Spring/Angular, Oracle/PostgreSQL DB, Linux, API, Kafka etc.
- Functional/Business knowledge (of his current/past companies), ideally on core banking or portfolio management systems. Interest in Financial & Banking industry
- Experience working on a project or in an architecture team covering a large ecosystem of applications (30+)
- Experience in modeling activities (application maps, software design models, data modeling, infrastructure diagrams, etc.)
- Strong analysis skills with problem solving attitude
- Ability to communicate effectively in written documents and oral presentations, explaining concepts clearly to audiences at various levels of technical knowledge
- Effective leadership, planning and organization skills
Plus
- Experience of Enterprise Architecture discipline, processes, concepts, and best practices
- Experience in Wealth Management, or Financial and Banking Industry
- Knowledge of a Wealth Management Core Banking System such as Temenos Transact, ERI Olympic or Avaloq
- SCRUM/Agile experience
- Experience running Request for Proposal and assessing solutions
Specific Qualifications (if required)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering with minimum 10 years of experience
• 3+ years of experience architecting or developing solutions in a Cloud environment
• 5+ years of experience in IT either as an Enterprise Architect or Solution Architect
• Good to have Architecture certification (TOGAF) or Cloud Architect certification (AWS, IBM Cloud)
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Ability to deliver / Results driven
Attention to detail / rigor
Communication skills - oral & written
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Analytical Ability
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Ability to manage a project
Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…
Ability to develop and leverage networks
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 10 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
• IBM Cloud certification from BNPP (101 and Bronze)
• Other Cloud Architect certification (AWS, Azure, Google)
• Architecture certification (TOGAF)
