Job Title: Run and Change Qlik Sense Confirmed Developer
Department: IT Functions - Tribe IT IAM
About Business line/Function:
BNP Paribas Cardif is the insurance subsidiary of BNP Paribas. We are a worldwide leader of the Credit Protection Insurance market with strong positions in savings and protection insurance in more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Within the IT department, the IT IAM Tribe (Insurance Asset Management) is structured into cross-functional squads to drive, accelerate, and maximize client-value creation. The squads oversee IT projects and ensure the operational continuity of the Asset Management Division’s business applications. Their core activities include:
- Order management & life-cycle follow-up,
- Position management,
- Valuation of investment mandates,
- Administration of financial reference data (securities, pricing, securities transactions, etc.),
- Portfolios accounting,
- Management of financial cash flows.
The I&A Squad (Inventories and Approvals) is part of the IT IAM Tribe and is responsible for business in-house software such as Edgar and Swat to provide the information to:
- Build the French asset inventories,
- Aggregate the BNPPC asset inventories (France and international),
- Prepare asset inputs for Solvency II and IFRS accounting standards
- Generate the Quantitative Reporting Templates (QRTs) for regulatory compliance
- Provide the approval workflow for the commercialization of unit-linked funds (UC)
- Provide historical archiving of unit-linked fund (UC) approval processes
Position Purpose:
Mission takes place within the I&A Squad, whose goal is to handle autonomously the RUN activities (morning-checks verifications, incident management, production support, user assistance, etc.) as well as the CHANGE activities. The squad shares common motivations: proximity to the business line, agility, and quality of delivered services, combining business-line skills with IT expertise.
Responsibilities
Main Responsibilities
- Operations / Maintenance
- Investigate and resolve technical incidents
- Implement or apply bug fixes to fix anomalies
- Remediate security vulnerabilities
- Support deployment plan executions (on-call duties and night/weekend work, 1-2 times per month)
- Propose improvements and action plans for recurring incidents
- Contribute to preparations for extreme application exercises
- Assist users with technical issues
- Development
- Design, develop, test and maintain Qlik Sense, Powershell, SQL & PROC/SQL code
- Estimate costs and timelines
- Create and update production and technical documentation as needed
- Prepare test environments and support testing phases
- Perform non-regression testing to ensure technical stability
Contributing Responsibilities
- Agile Participation
- Participate in agile rituals, including quarterly agile / sprint plannings, daily meetings, reviews and retrospectives
- Estimate tasks and commit to sprint goals with squad members
- Provide technical support to the team
- Analytical skills and business / user requirements analysis
- Understanding the functional requirements
- Analyze functional requirements and propose technical solutions
- Identify non-functional requirements and integrate them into proposals
- Estimate roughly solutions costs
- Identify and raise alerts on weak/obsolete code already implemented
Technical & Soft skills
- Ability to combine technical and non-technical / soft skills to address complex challenges and drive business value
- Ability to actively participate in workshops with business analysts, tech lead, and product owner to discuss business needs and identify solutions that deliver the most business value
- Ability to analyze constraints and identify alternative technical solutions to maximize delivery, while minimizing risks and ensuring compliance with budget and timeline requirements
- Ability to interpret and optimize execution plans (EXPLAIN PLAN), manage indexes, and apply best practices for databases.
- Ability to organize oneself to achieve ticket closure, track progress, follow up, and escalate to teams as needed
Specific Qualifications: Minimum 5 years of experience along with Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Skills Referential (Required knowledge, skills and abilities)
Technical Skills:
- Programming Languages: Qlik Sense, PowerShell, SQL, Oracle PL/SQL (expert)
- Advanced Oracle SQL Development: stored procedures (PL/SQL), analytical functions (OVER, PARTITION BY, RANK), complex query optimization, execution plans (EXPLAIN PLAN) (master)
- Object-oriented programming and microservices architecture (master)
- ITIL (incident, problem and change) concept: Service Now
- Knowledges as a software developer:
- Other development skill : Java (preferred but not mandatory)
- Database: Oracle (ExaData, ExaCC)
- DevOps tools: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Argo CD, XL Release
- Database: Oracle (ExaData, ExaCC), PostgreSQL
- Quality Lifecycle management platform: ALM Octane
- French (B2) / English (C2)
Soft Skills:
- Results driven
- Active collaboration
- Communication skills
- Problem-solving
- Rigor
- Proactivity
- Resilience
Transversal Skills:
- Agile Work
- Analytical Skills
- Commitment Generation
Education Level: Bachelor Degree or equivalent