IT Senior Java Developer

Job description

Overview

GROUP BNP PARIBAS

BNP Paribas is an international bank with leading positions in the European market.

It is present in 74 countries and employs more than 192,000 people, 146,000 of whom are in Europe.

The Group holds key positions in its three main areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (retail banking and financial services network part of Retail Banking & Services), as well as Corporate & Institutional Banking, which offers services to corporate and institutional clients.

The Group supports its customers (individuals, entrepreneurs, SMEs, large companies and institutions) by providing financing, investment, savings and insurance services.

In Europe, the Group has four domestic markets (Belgium, France, Italy and Luxembourg) and BNP Paribas Personal Finance is number one in retail financing in Europe.

BNP Paribas is developing its integrated retail banking model in the Mediterranean countries, Turkey, Eastern Europe and has an important network on the US West Coast.

In both its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas has leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and a solid and growing network in the Asia-Pacific region.

CIB IT

BNP Paribas Corporate & Institutional Banking provides large companies, multinationals and financial institutions with various solutions in the areas of advisory, financing, transactional banking, capital markets, settlement, clearing and custody of securities, asset and fund management services and solutions for corporate issuers.

It has 620 professionals in Spain with offices in Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao and Coruña.

The entity has a network present in 56 countries.

CIB IT Spain is responsible for CIB European local applications under its scope, providing ADM (Application Development and Maintenance) and APS (Application Production Support) services to its internal clients, providing vision to the applications and systems under its scope, implementing the overall strategy for developing and implementing technology initiatives.

It is also responsible for the planning and implementation of BAU activities, initiatives, and projects for the local BNPP systems within the European territories, delivering those with the respect of Group IT rules, regulatory standards, and compliance guidelines for the IT domains in its scope.

From the 17 European branches of BNP Paribas CIB, there are 13 countries (Netherlands, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Czech Republic, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Belgium) that are under CIB IT Spain scope.

The others are managed currently by local IT teams.

As a member of the IT development team of CIB IT Spain, serving as Technical Leader, your primary responsibility will be to lead the development of a portfolio of applications, ensuring their quality and continuity, as well as compliance with the standards and cybersecurity policies in force at BNP Paribas.

• Understand and analyze the needs coming from the Business, proposing sustainable solutions, in line with the entity’s development good practices.
  
  
• Involve all relevant stakeholders in the process of definition and validation of any new requirement, assessing all potential impacts.
  
  
• Guarantees the proper functioning of applications and that they can be maintained and upgraded.
  
  
• Reports and alerts on the continuity of the service, deadlines, budget.
  
  
• Proposes methods to increase optimization and efficiency.
  
  
• Analyses incidents and proposes preventive action plans and areas of improvements.
  
  
• Helps to estimate and establish road maps of his scope of applications.
  
  
• Ensure the implementation and changes in Production environment and ensure its quality of the SW.
  
  
• Follow the go live process, compare the impacts towards expectations and propose adjustments when needed.
  
  
• Support the team to achieve commitments.
  
  
• Coordinates and / or participates in communities of practice.
  
  
• Develops relationships networks.
  
  

Studies

Bachelor's (3-5 years) in Information Technology and Computer Science or equivalent science bachelor's.

Experience

• Ideally, a prior experience of 6–8 years is required, specialized in the design and development of Java applications, including at least 3 years of experience with microservices (Kubernetes).
  
  
• Solid experience throughout the entire development lifecycle, from requirements analysis to production rollout, with support during testing phases.
  
  Knowledge of project management will be a plus.
  
  
• Experience providing support to production teams for incident handling.
  
  
• Experience in task prioritization, development estimation, and providing guidance and assistance to less‑experienced developers.
  
  
• Language requirements: full professional proficiency in English is mandatory; knowledge of French or any other European language is a plus.
  
  
• Languages: Spanish - Fluent; English - Fluent

Technical

• Strong Development skills and IT general Knowledge
• Java
• PHP / JSP
• AngularJS
• Microservices (Kubernetes)
• Spring Boot
• Shell scripting
• Spring Batch
• Data Knowledge
• Relationship database, Oracle sql / plsql & PosgreSQL
• Software Architecture
• Knowledge of Agile and Product Owner methodologies (Scrum)
• Must be client‑oriented and possess strong creativity and innovation skills.
  
  

• Training programs, career plans and internal mobility opportunities, national and international thanks to our presence in different countries.
  
  
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee that ensures an inclusive work environment.
  
  In recent years, several employee communities have been created to organize diversity and inclusion awareness actions (PRIDE, We Generations and MixCity).
  
  
• Corporate volunteering program (1 Million Hours 2 Help) in which employees can dedicate time out of their working hours to volunteer activities.
  
  
• Flexible compensation plan
• Hybrid telecommuting model (50%)
• 31 vacation days

BNP Paribas Group in Spain is an equal opportunity employer and proud to provide equal employment opportunity to all job seekers.

We are actively committed to ensuring that no individual is discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy and maternity / paternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

Equity and diversity are at the core of our recruitment policy because we believe that they foster creativity and efficiency, which in turn increase performance and productivity.

We strive to reflect the society we live in, while keeping with the image of our clients.

Required Skill Profession

Other General