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Senior Application Production Support – Unix, SQL – Global Prime Finance team in Manila.
Join BNP Paribas to ensure stability, automation, and governance of critical front‑office applications.
About BNP Paribas Group
BNP Paribas Group is a leading European bank with a strong global footprint across 72 markets and more than 202,000 employees. The Group provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.
About BNP Paribas Solutions - Philippines Branch
Established in 2024, BNP Paribas Solutions Philippines Branch is a branch of BNP Paribas Group, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. We provide support services, back‑office operations services related to or which further the accomplishment of the corporation’s investment services, banking transaction processing, and equity investment.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind, and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, color, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.
About Business line/Function
Corporate and Institutional Banking has an active IT ecosystem with its own IT backbone that involves a large workforce of IT employees working for DEV, Testing and Support projects. CIB ITO Production ensures the provision of industrialized and digital production services. The objective is to offer innovative products and services to its customers in a performing, globally secured environment to speed up delivery and time to market. We manage operational risk by running stable and robust IT production platforms. CIB ITO production hosts critical service delivery comprising of Global Markets, Global Banking, Client & Employee, ALM&T, Regulatory & Control IT and BP2S.
Position Purpose
This role will be part of the Global Market Global Prime Finance Production Support team that provides application support services to Global Prime Finance business globally. The candidate will be interacting and working alongside the front office, developers, business analysts, middle office and infrastructure teams. Being at the fore front of supporting the applications the team members have high exposure to and work with the Front to Back Business teams on a daily basis within a fast paced dynamic environment.
Responsibilities
This is a front office application support role that requires the candidate to investigate and resolve user, system & infrastructure generated issues across the Global Prime Finance Margin and Risk Production systems in a timely manner. You will be working closely with the regional and global teams across business, product, project management and technology teams. The candidate will also be expected to contribute to projects based on the core production management work streams such as stability programs e.g. Automation, Application Resilience etc.
Your key responsibilities
- Drive an operational environment for front office business applications from daily operational tasks, ensuring a stable operating environment for the applications.
- Drive platform improvement initiatives in monitoring, stability, resiliency and capacity for Global Prime Finance systems across APAC
- Project manages the integration of the new Prime Solutions and Financing platform
- Engage actively with stakeholders including head of trading desk and technology managers
- Plan, review and execute change releases into production environment and work closely with business stakeholders, application developers, infrastructure teams and QA teams to minimize change related incidents
- Lead production governance meetings with compliance and control agenda
- Incident / Problem / Change management work
- Release management – being the gatekeepers for the production environment, ensuring all change is understood and scheduled appropriately
- Morning and weekend checks – in conjunction with global teams ensuring system readiness for the start of day and start of week
- Monitoring – use and continual improvement to the main monitoring tool
- Manage / participate in the implementation rollout of new services.
- Work with counterparts globally and ensuring there is a common/collective approach to issues/problems
- DR Drill – coordinate and participate annual DR events
- Assist in the automation of repetitive task
- Operate in a ‘follow the sun model’ to ensure issues are resolved globally
- Working alongside the existing team members on a shift basis.
- Provide on-call coverage as required
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Must have:
- Strong understanding of key IT infrastructure, including:
- Databases (SQL, Oracle, Sybase)
- Servers (Windows, Linux)
- Scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell)
- Batch control (Autosys, Control-M)
- Monitoring tools (Geneos, Dynatrace)
- Kubernetes
- Ability to both manage and adapt changes and complexity with confidence
- Takes initiative, self-learner, diligent, dependable and result driven team player
- Getting things done in large organizations – understanding of where to use processes and how to build and operate a network
- Self-sufficient drive and ability to work round blockers in a sustainable manner
- Good prioritization skills, with the ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Work across countries, regions and time zones with a broad range of cultures and technical capability
- Experienced and understand Agile methodology