IT APPLICATION MANAGER BNP PARIBAS - BNP PARIBAS | MADRID, ES

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 people, of whom are in Europe.
The Group holds key positions in its three main areas of activity.
Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking and financial services network is 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) to help them carrying out their projects 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 Spain 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.
ABOUT THE JOB 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.
MISSION Holding a position within the IT Develoment team of CIB IT Spain as Application Manager, your main responsibility will be to lead developments teams of java in house applications, ensure continuity and be compliance with standards and cyber security rules, guaranting the quality of the applications within your scope and manage related maintenance and development.
RESPONSIBILITIES 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 preventine 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.
REQUIREMENTS • Studies Bachelor's Degree (science oriented) • Experience Ideally a previous experience (+10 years) in Information Technology.
Experience on a whole live cycle of a develpment, from the requeriment analysis to the release on Production enviroments, support on testing phases.
Experience on Production support.
Experience managing development team, priorization of task, estimation of developments, able to guide and assist development teams so they can carry out their day-to-day development.
Language requirements.
full professional proficiency in English is mandatory; knowledge of any other European language is a plus.
• Languages • Spanish (Fluent) • English (Fluent) SKILLS • Technical • IT knowledge and Development (Java,, Spring Boot, Shell scripting, Spring Batch) • Data Knowledge (Relationship database, Oracle sql/plsql) • Architecture • Transversal & Behavioral • Leadership • Organizational skills (Expert) • Communication Skills - Oral & Written (Expert) • Creative and Innovation / Problem solving (Expert) • Analytical Ability(Expert) • Ability to manage a IT development project (Expert) • Ability to understand, explain and support technical change (Expert) Diversity and inclusion commitment 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.