OFS Neo - Senior Java Full Stack Developer

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 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, 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

Under BNP Paribas IT Group, FRESH is the IT framework encompassing Projects & Systems of Finance and RISK functions, with a strong focus on efficiency, proximity, agility, and time-to-market.

FRESH is a worldwide organizational model that will contribute to tackle major challenges of the Group’s transformation of today and tomorrow, building the best offering to the Finance and Risk Community through a progressive rotation to new technologies and best practices. The FRESH organization is the outcome of several convergences: between the Project & Systems teams of Group Finance, CIB Finance and RISK and their related IT teams.

FRESH is part of the IT Group organization (ITG in Europe and ITO overseas) with a threefold sponsorship by ITG, Finance and RISK (CIB-ITO; RISK Solutions and ITG-FIT).

Job Title

Java Developer

Date

Sept 2024

Department

FRESH ECS

Location:

Mumbai/Chennai

Business Line / Function

ITG

Reports To

(Direct)

Vice President

Assistant Vice President

Grade

(if applicable)

Software Developer

(Functional)

Number Of Direct Reports

NA

Directorship / Registration

NA

Position Purpose

Within the FRESH entity, OFS NEO project team is to completely overhaul the Group's Finance platform, One Financial System (OFS), which manages the accounting of more than 70% of the bank's entities. The construction of this new generation of financial platform, which will take place over several years, is a key challenge for the Finance and RISK professions. This is a. unique opportunity to participate in an ambitious and exciting project!

Position involves in the design and development of the OFS NEO product within an agile squad and in coherence with the architecture and design patterns defined by the Technical Leader.

Position is part of a multidisciplinary team (architects, developers, analysts, production teams, etc.) that will operate in agile and iterative mode, from design to deployment. The team is made up of about fifty people and will interact with a wide range of stakeholders within the IT and business community

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Analyze and interpret requirement specifications received from Business analysts.
• Participate with BA to ensure correct understanding and implementation of specifications.
• Work in collaboration with the Business analyst of the project to meet the client’s expectations.
• Take charge of the development work according to the priorities defined by the product owner.
• Propose technical solutions adapted to the business needs, develop technical requirements
• Design and develop IT solutions based on the specifications received.
• Packaging and deployment on non-production environments and monitor production releases & deployments
• Participate in the testing support (system, user acceptance, regression…) .
• Bring a high level of quality in developments, in terms of maintainability, testability and performance
• Participate in code reviews set up within the program.
  
  

Contributing Responsibilities

• Participate in transversal, capability building efforts for the bank.
• Implementation of best practices, coding & development cultures
• Work closely as “one team” with all stakeholders jointly to provide high quality delivery
• Work on data-driven issues, innovative technologies (Java 17 or 21 with Quarkus Framework, Kubernetes, Kogito) and in the Finance & Risk functional areas.
  
  

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory Technical Skills

• Strong technical expertise with proven practice of Java: minimum of 5 years of professional experience in Java development
• Excellent capabilities on Spring framework
• Extended knowledge of REST API, SQL and relational databases
• Fluency with modern toolchains and DevOps tools, including at minimum Git and Jenkins
• Excellent practice of unit testing with Junit (knowledge of TDD or BDD methodologies is a plus)
• Understanding of secure developments best practices
  
  

Additional Technical Skills

• Knowledge of Quarkus framework
• Expertise on microservice architecture with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience on performant data-driven systems with high volumes.
• Automated acceptance testing tools: cucumber, selenium.
• Other DevOps tools: Sonar, Artifactory, Ansible, Jira
  
  

Behavioral

• Ability to collaborate and work as part of a team.
• Rigorous and disciplined, with deep attention to quality of work (software craftsmanship approach is welcome)
• Result oriented, ability to meet and respect deadlines.
• Curious, ability to learn and adapt to technological change.
• Good communication skills
  
  

Specific Qualifications (if Required)

Bachelor in Eng./ B-Tech/ MCA (Equivalent)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Attention to detail / rigor

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Organizational skills

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Analytical Ability

Ability to understand, explain and support change

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Education Level

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years