Job Description
Bank Overview
All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 73 countries, with more than 196,000 employees, including around 149,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets, International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors.
BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking is a globally recognised leader offering capital markets, securities services, financing, treasury and advisory solutions.
Business Area/Dept Overview
Stock Loan and Borrow (Client facing) – Financing. Stock Loan and Borrow (SLAB) sits within the Financing stream of Prime & Services pillar which is part of Global Markets (GM) IT.
Purpose & Scope of role
The role is embedded in a technology team, Glasgow based but will work with colleagues in all main locations globally namely London, New York, Paris & Lisbon. The remit of the team is to deliver a suite of software products used to manage the stock loan business in a challenging technical environment (S3, Spark, Kafka, .Net, Angular …) and deliver functionality to clients of the bank. Responsibilities include, understanding requirements, analyzing workflows and data proposing, designing and delivering appropriate software solutions.
The holder of this role is an expert in modern development practices and actively seeks to maintain a current up to date set of skills including Development Management techniques and SDLC approaches.
An appreciation of Big Data techniques and Apache Spark and advantage but not essential.
In this role there is an expectation that the individual will lead others and instill best practice in the work that they do. The role demands that quality is made a core part of the teams work practices. This culture is set by the Development Lead.
Key Responsibilities of role
Responsibilities:
- Day-to-day management of the EQF IT team located in Glasgow
- Establish strong partnership across central and region with various stakeholders (other T teams inc APS/TCOE, Business & Operations)
- Focused on developing software solutions for the stock loan business.
- Innovation is expected as much of the work is green field.
- Extend and improve the test automation.
Experience, Qualifications & Competencies
- Steer, supervise, delegate and control the team's everyday work
- Ensure maximum team utilization & productivity
- Maintain an effective workforce and manage attrition risks
- Identify opportunities for improvement and build in culture of continuous improvement in the teams
- People Development: career progression, talent development, upskilling, follow mobility and training process guidelines, support and coach managers, succession planning
- Strong skills in developing Java software components using modern development practices. Scrum based SDLC. High levels of monitoring and automation of the processes.
- Strong knowledge in messaging systems.
- Expert in Secure REST interface design and build.
- Expert in automated software testing techniques.
- Used to managing deadlines, and conveying information on risks and blockers to the project manager.
- Able to resolve blockers when presented to the team or find an owner who can resolve them.
- Knowledge of the Prime and Stock Loan business useful or to be acquired on the job.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to present and defend solutions with the global team.
- Expert understanding of architecture principles.
- Engages with the banks development community and the wider development community to validate and seek out good solutions.
- Appreciates that good quality software improves user community trust and drives down cost. Able to seek out high quality practices.
- Java 11+
- Kafka
- Docker/Kubernetes
- Web packaging stack
- Spring Boot
- Akka frameworks for restful services.
- Apache Spark
- Linux
- Oracle Database
- JMS
- OO Design skills
- Test driven development
- Jenkins
- Junit and Mockito
- Intellij.