Assistant Vice President - Java Full Stack - Listed Derivatives - Global Markets IT

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**Job Title:** AVP – Technical Lead – DEC Clearing **Department** : ISPL GMIT **About Business Line/Function** 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 workload, 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. **Position Purpose** Purpose: AVP for Global Markets (GM) IT Clearing LD Stream Scope: The role of a AVP is embedded in the globally distributed Clearing LD Stream, with Development Teams located globally. The remit of the role is to contribute to the design, development, and optimization of software solutions within the Global Markets IT Clearing LD Stream. The engineer will work collaboratively with globally distributed teams to deliver robust, scalable, and secure software aligned with business needs and technical best practices. **Responsibilities** Direct Responsibilities - Reviewing current project design, identifying drawbacks and proposing performance, scalable designs - Involve in strategy and collaboration with stakeholders on the vision of the project - Architect digital solutions for complex problems involving capital markets platforms - Modernization of applications by initiating study around gap analysis, architecting solutions and collaborating with the team to bring it to closure as per plan and schedule. - Use cutting edge Gen AI tools in SDLC to bring in end-to-end optimization from design, development to rollout - Hands on - Full stack development. (UI, Middleware, Services/API, Backend (SQL) using Java 8+ with expertise in building, optimizing, and scaling Kafka‑based event‑driven architectures, Angular 14 or above, & Stored procedures. - Involve in performance benchmarking and optimization using monitoring tools like Dynatrace - Work in a collaborated setup with geographically distributed Agile Scrum teams - Understand and practice data security protocols and controls to ensure data protection. - Ensure usage of appropriate practices to ensure high quality (e.g. TDD). - Able to mentor a small team from a technical standpoint - Review current design to show how the application can be modularized. - Be able to build features from scratch to demonstrate how frameworks function - Lay down standards for best practices for coding. - Peer Review code to improve quality and implement best practices - Onboard/Train existing team members on target technology - Contributing to designing the best solution that meets the functional needs while respecting the overall workflow of the existing application. - Writing/Amending code that conforms to the best practice standards, both documented and de-facto. - Escalation of barriers to progress via his/her team leader in a timely and succinct manner. - Providing Technical guidance to other developers; assisting other team members in design related discussions Contributing Responsibilities - Strong Architectural skills - Strong in Design patterns and Design principles - Methodologies Agile - Java Core, 1.8 or above. - Database development, SQL and Stored Procedures in Oracle. - Hibernate, Spring, Spring Boot or any other frameworks - JUnit, mocking techniques (e.g., easymock, jmock, Mockito,..) - Experience with Architectural Paradigms like DDD, notions of division by domain/sub-domain, API First, Data Driven - Knowledge of Integration Patterns - Event Driven Architecture - Knowledge of Apache Camel/Kafka - Experience with deployment models like modular, monolith and microservice - Should have good exposure to application and/or database performance tuning - Exposure to DevSecOps tools and pipelines – BitBucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Fortify, NexusIQ, SONAR, Ansible - Knowledge of performance tuning of java applications - Knowledge of Agile methodologies, e.g., TDD, XP, Scrum. - Excellent communication skills - Be able to understand complex systems and take the initiative, to seek out and accept new responsibilities - Have drive, self motivation, good interpersonal skills, and work in a team **Specific Qualifications** - Minimum 13 years of experience along with bachelor’s degree in the related field or equivalent experience. - Prior experience in similar domain (Good to have). **Technical Skills** **Skills Referential** **(** **Required knowledge, skills and abilities)** - Java 8+ - Angular 14+ - SQL/PL-SQL - Dev-Ops tools (Good to have) **Behavioral Skills** - Communication - Analytical Ability - Team Player **Education Level:** Bachelor’s degree or equivalent **Location:** Bangalore **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: Co