Senior Associate

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, 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
Global Markets
The Global Markets business of BNP Paribas helps its corporate and institutional clients leverage capital markets across the globe for their financing, risk management and investment needs. This encompasses a wide range of financial products ranging from Foreign exchange to complex Equity Derivatives that are traded in financial markets across the globe 24/7. IT systems are integral to the business and are a key part of the value proposition to clients. These IT systems range from industry standard products for standard process automation to internally developed, often, market leading IT applications. The IT teams owning these IT systems are made up of functions that include Technical and Application production support, Business Analysis & Project Management, Development & Maintenance and Quality Control. BNP Paribas India Solutions is an equal partner in these IT functions along with colleagues in other locations including Paris, London, New York, Tokyo, Singapore & Hong Kong. This partnership ranges from sharing the IT work load, executing global strategy to owning global applications offshore. The technology and engineering landscape is wide, encompassing almost all techniques and platforms. It continues to evolve and transform with the market with the business continuing to invest in it.

Job Title
Software Developer

Date
Department:

GM IT

Location:

Bangalore

Business Line / Function
Trade Processing

Reports To
(Direct)

Manager

Grade
(if applicable)

Software Engineer

(Functional)

Number Of Direct Reports
Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The team offers framework enabling technical and functional standardization of reconciliations in order to maintain productivity and provide risk control to the users. The team works for various departments across all regions to serve the reconciliation needs whether control or financial reconciliations. The role is responsible for taking user requirements, create specifications, enhance existing or develop new reconciliations, carry out SIT/UAT/regression testing, be involved in version upgrades of Intellimatch, performance tuning of platform and L3 business Support.

Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities

• To perform development tasks on Intellimatch application and responsible for L3 support activities.
• Should be able to perform enhancements, whereby need to analyze existing set-up and understand the requirement by performing proper impact analysis, provide estimate and deliver quality code.
• Independent player should be able to liaise with different team to re-solve/get dependencies on time. Should be able to for-see issue/risk and intimate the same to team lead / project manager Analyze & develop Recon/functional test plans, & produce and execute test scenarios
• Should be able to guide support team and train team members on IntelliMatch Topics
• Involvement across all stages of Software Development life cycle (SDLC) including business requirement analysis, data mapping, validate data against requirement, build, unit testing, peer reviews, systems integration and user acceptance testing. Should have comprehensive understanding of SDLC in developing new Reconciliations and maintain existing in Intellimatch.
• Propose improvements related to the development and support activity

Contributing Responsibilities

• Assist system migrations/upgrade on Intellimatch application.
• Participate in configuration & release management.
• Communicate with Stakeholders, End-users, IT team, Support etc.
• Prepare the technical and functional documents
• L3 Business support post delivery

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Technical Competencies

• Hands on development/L3 Support experience on Intellimatch (Any version)/Frontier or TLM (Mandatory)
• Good knowledge on SQL database and hands on experience on script/procedures/triggers writing skills (Mandatory)
• Deep knowledge on Intellimatch Database(Mandatory)
• Thorough understanding of Reconciliation process (Mandatory)
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle (SDLC) activities (Mandatory)
• Intellimatch Migration experience is an added advantage
• Knowledge of Investment Banking and its product like Bonds, Stock, Futures, Options, swaps, warrants, other listed and otc products, and aspects like Cash, Ledger, statements, SWIFT etc (Optional)
• Knowledge on Trade lifecycle (Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office) and its events (Optional)
• Knowledge of any defect management tool (Optional)

Behavioral Competencies

• Must be able to work closely with end users and peer business analyst and developers
• Effective communication with all stakeholders/teams
• Pragmatic approach to problem solving.
• Strong organization and prioritization skills

Specific Qualifications (if Required)
Educational Qualifications : B.E / B. Tech or equivalent.

Work experience (in years): 2-5 years of professional software development experience.

Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills:

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to synthetize / simplify

Resilience

Client focused

Transversal Skills
Analytical Ability

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Ability To Develop Others & Improve Their Skills
Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…

Education Level
Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 2 years

Soft Skills
Other/Specific Qualifications
(if required)

• Structured, organised and a good communicator.
• Delivery-focused with a good eye for detail.
• Comfortable working with the offshore teams in a multi diversity environment.
• Willing to share knowledge and skills with other team members whilst able to work independently.