Business Overview:
Global Prime Services technology is seeking a Senior Technology Engineer to assist in developing and maintaining applications supporting Prime & Finance platform. This is a specialized, cross-asset platform, providing full service offering including Cash PB, Synthetics, Financing, and Margin. The long-term focus of the platform is on supporting activity growth targets set by the management, responding to the fast-pace of client demand for new products and services, and compliance with new regulatory obligations. There are several strategic technology initiatives on the way to accelerate DevOps, Virtualization, and Cloud transformation, as well as adaptation of machine learning and artificial intelligence to deliver client offering
Candidate Success Factors:
Candidates are measured on the following four performance drivers, which will dictate how individual impact is considered on the Americas platform:
- Results and Impact
- Able to influence peers and team.
- Demonstrates good judgement when making decisions of high complexity and impact.
- Exercise appropriate autonomy in the execution and delivery of work.
- Responsible for driving outcomes, which have meaningful effect on team or department.
- Leadership and Collaboration:
- Creates trust with colleagues.
- Acts in leadership capacity for projects, processes, or programs.
- Client, Customer and Stakeholder Focus:
- Able to build relationships with a mix of colleagues and clients.
- Interacts regularly with management and department leaders.
- Demonstrates the ability to influence stakeholders at the team level.
- Compliance Culture and Conduct:
- Takes full responsibility for personal actions and demonstrates courage in facing problems and conflicts.
- Perceived as a person of high moral character; upholds corporate values and displays high ethical standards.
Responsibilities:
- Candidate will work closely with internal business users and team manager to understand the requirements and provide business process automation ideas and solutions.
- Work in an agile and fast-paced environment. Participate in all facets of Software Development Lifecycle covering requirement analysis, design, architecture, implementation, delivery and maintenance of the application.
- Design and develop scalable and flexible applications along with performance tuning and optimization configuration.
- Interface, as necessary, with other IT teams in the delivery of product solutions.
- Learning intricacies of bank’s Prime Brokerage IT workflows and infrastructure.
- Ensuring adherence to all relevant compliance and regulatory policies.
- Ensuring that all development is completed in line with the company’s technical architecture and IT security standards.
- Manage multiple priorities effectively and deliver the projects in timely fashion.
- Coordinating development efforts between the offshore development and QA teams.
- Escalate blocking issues to the appropriate level of management.
- Perform Level 3 support on rotation, investigating any issues, determining root causes and obtaining resolution.
Minimum Required Qualifications:
Functional and Technical
- Bachelors in Comp Science with 9+ year experience in software development or Masters in Comp Science with 7+ year experience
- Hands-on experience developing flexible, scalable and robust applications, supporting the financial services sector
- Strong and demonstrated experience in using Java, Spring Container/Boot/Batch and Hibernate or similar frameworks
- Experience in design and building scalable, distributed applications capable of supporting straight through processing of a large number of transactions
- Experience in Capital Markets
- Experience with Architectures using Distributed caching using EhCache / Gigaspaces or similar engines
- Experience using web services using REST based API
- Messaging using JMS/MQ/Kafka/Tibco or similar products
- Web development experience with GWT/Angular like frameworks & Java script libraries like GXT / EXT JS/ NodeJs /React
- Data modelling, SQL expertise using Oracle, SQL Server
- Knowledge of UNIX shell scripting
Behavioral Competency
- Client focused & highly result driven
- Strategically motivated to design thinking
- Well organized, strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Mentoring, people development skills are must have.
- Collaborative, analytical & logic driven, creative solution provider with go getter attitude & positive personality.
- Desire to work in global delivery environment
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience in Investment Bank and functional domain knowledge of Prime Brokerage is a plus
- DevOps tools with experience in continuous integration & deployment
- Cloud Application Design experience
FINRA Registrations Required:
- Not Applicable
CFTC Swap Dealer Associated Person (if yes, NFA Swaps Proficiency Program is required):
- Not Applicable
SEC Security-Based Swap Dealer Associated Person:
- Not Applicable
The expected starting salary range for this position in New Jersey is between $111k to $141k annually. The actual salary may vary based upon several factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills/experience, time in role, base salary of internal peers, prior performance, business line, and geographic/office location.
About BNP Paribas:
BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach across the US, EMEA and APAC. It has a presence in 65 countries, with nearly 190,000 employees. In the United States, BNP Paribas has built a strong and diversified presence to support its client base. We continue to grow and strengthen our commitment to the US market through our Corporate & Institutional Banking activities. We are one of a few non-US banks to offer a full value chain for our clients, from trading to financing, and clearing and custody in the US with the international footprint and capacity to deliver both globally and locally. Leveraging the strength of our European roots, our network can support clients in virtually every region of the world, enabling more connectivity and efficiency wherever our clients conduct business. We take pride in our expertise and our ability to adapt while constantly looking ahead to create a more sustainable world.
The bank employs nearly 6,000 people and has a presence in the country since the late 1800s in major cities including New York, Jersey City, Chesterbrook, PA, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Denver and Washington, DC.
As an international company with a global footprint, the unique cultures and viewpoints of our team members are an integral part of the fabric of BNP Paribas. We are a company with a purpose – to be a responsible and sustainable global leader. We aim to create an environment where our employees feel empowered to drive change, make an impact and be true to themselves. We employ talented individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds, locally and globally, and are inspired by our employees who help us in cultivating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace through initiatives such as our Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Leadership Forum and Employee Resource Group (ERG) communities. We strive to be a workplace where all team members can grow and thrive and offer robust training, development and mentoring opportunities to make that vision a reality. Our leaders are deeply committed to DEI and highly accessible to our employees, consistently soliciting feedback on how we can continue to support our employees to reach their highest potential.
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