BNP Paribas
FX Plus Technical Lead -Vice President
London
Posted 15 days ago
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Company Purpose
Our company purpose is to contribute to a responsible and sustainable economy by financing and advising clients according to the highest ethical standards.
Our Employer Promise is built around three pillars:
- Being a great place to work
- Committed to sustainability and having a positive impact
- Being dedicated to the development of our people
Business Area
FX Plus is a worldwide platform that provides FX rates for international payments. The FX products include live rates, guaranteed rates, and pre-negotiated rates.
Key Features:
- Feature-rich and real-time pricing capabilities, creating a win-win situation for BNP Paribas and its corporate/retail clients
- More FX choices at better rates
- Covers the APAC, Middle East, Europe, and North America regions
Ambitions
FX Plus currently has two major ambitions:
- Expansion into new BNP Paribas Group territories, domestic banks, and payment processing providers
- Introducing new product offerings such as exotic currencies and API products
Role: Technical Lead
The FX Plus IT team is recruiting for a highly motivated, hands-on Technical Lead who will be a key player in delivering FX Plus technical change, supporting these ambitions.
Job Purpose
To:
- Guide the Development Team
- Work in collaboration with Product and IT teams
- Capture technical requirements
- Provide architectural guidance to the Head of FX Plus IT
Key Responsibilities
- Propose and provide feedback from experience/knowledge on:
- Architecture, design
- Technology choices
- Technology direction of the platform
- Work closely with developers to determine and follow best development/architecture practices
- Participate in an agile-based software development lifecycle:
- Technical analysis
- Documentation
- Development
- Testing
- Code reviews
- Collaborate with the production support team for release and maintenance of components
- Coach less experienced participants through:
- Instruction
- Pair programming
- Code reviews
- Fully participate in meetings for:
- New functionality (requirement, design, estimation, planning)
- Provide 3rd line application support on a rota basis
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Requirements
Essential
- Extensive experience in software development in a highly regulated enterprise environment
- Experience in:
- Designing distributed systems at scale (with respect to consistency and availability)
- Testing systems for load and performance requirements
- Excellent knowledge of:
- Programming best practices and design patterns
- Java, Spring, Hibernate, Open API, Log4J
- Good skills/experience with:
- Angular, JavaScript, TypeScript, CSS
- Strong understanding of:
- Oracle relational databases
- SQL knowledge
- Enterprise Messaging Patterns (REST & MQ styles)
- Understanding of:
- Test-driven development
- Continuous integration practices
- Strong communication and presentation skills (both verbal and written)
- Strong understanding of:
- The FX cash business
- Associated products (Spot, Fwd, NDFs)
- Familiarity with Atlassian tool suite:
- JIRA, Confluence, etc.
- Familiarity with:
- Jenkins, TeamCity, Ansible, Nexus, Artifactory (DevOps ecosystem)
- Experience working with:
- In-house development teams across regions
- Agile teams
Preferred
- Strong interest in application modernization and continuous improvement
- Prior exposure to systems in the FX part of the payments chain
- Experience in:
- Architecture governance (enterprise environment)
- Containers, Kubernetes, Helm
- Apache Kafka
- Certified ScrumMaster
Additionally, embodiment of the Group values is expected:
- Aligning with the Bank’s strategy
- Commitment, work ethic, integrity
- Adherence to the Code of Conduct
Why Join Us
We’re a Great Place to Work
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Optimal work/life balance (role-dependent; hybrid/agile/given flexibility)
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Flexible benefits and health/wellbeing strategy:
Life Benefits:
- Generous holiday allowance (at least 26 days plus bank holidays – with option to buy and sell)
- Comprehensive financial plans:
- 12% non-contributory pension (moved to sustainable funds)
- Life assurance
- Income protection
- Personal accident insurance
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Wellbeing Support:
- Advanced private medical scheme in the UK (plus dental cover)
- Wellbeing app
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) support
- Subsidised gym membership
- Bespoke health assessments (genetic testing inc.)
- Digital GP services for parents of employees (with onsite physiotherapy/nutrition)
- Menopause & fertility support (accredited Menopause Friendly Employer)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Neurodiversity assessment and support
- Mental health first aiders
- Onsite facilities (seasonal flu vaccinations, physiotherapy)
- Emergency back-up care for dependants
- Green car leasing, season ticket loan and other benefits
Subject to relevant caps.
We Are Committed to Positive Impact
- As the eurozone’s largest bank, we pursue:
- Net Zero financing and investment portfolio by 2050
- 80% low carbon energy production financing by 2030
- Empowering people daily:
- All staff receive four volunteering days/year (>18,000 hours+ in 2023 with reaching 4,500+ young people)
We Believe in Our People
- Dedication to internal talent mobility:
- In 2023 alone, nearly half of UK CIB positions were filled internally.
- Training and development offerings:
- Career tools, mentoring, training, and talent programs
- Inclusive culture driving diversity and inclusion efforts:
- ~30,000 employees annual participation in global professional networks, including:
- Pride Network
- Ability (disabled employees)
- MixCity (gender equality)
- Women in IT/global markets/banking
- Multicultural
- Early Careers
- Parents & Carers (and more)
- ~30,000 employees annual participation in global professional networks, including:
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Commitment to equal employment opportunity without regard for:
- Age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage/civil partnership status, pregnancy/maternity, race, religion/belief, sex/sexual orientation, or other legally protected categories.
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