Delivery Lead – ALMT IT

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24×7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialized businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporate and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings, and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group’s performance and stability

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:

ALMT function is responsible for Asset Liabilities management and treasury activity of BNP Paribas. It also handles Bank’s funding needs and risk management activities. 

ALMT IT, has four domains – FOMO (Front Office & Middle Office), Settlements and Accounting,

Treasury Forecasting and Intraday Monitoring, Steering and Referential System (SRS)

Job Title:

Delivery Lead

Date: Jan 25

Department:

ALMT IT

Location:

Mumbai

Business Line / Function:

ALMT IT

Reports to:

(Direct)

Head of Department – ALMT IT

Grade: 

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

5

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

This position is for a Delivery Lead within ALMT IT.

Responsibilities

• Delivery Excellence: Oversee end-to-end IT delivery, ensuring projects meet timelines, budgets, and quality expectations. Monitor progress against schedules and conducts reviews of assigned projects/activities.
• Application Expertise: Develop a deep understanding of applications like OMR (Operations Management Reporting) and their key functionalities, such as deal capture, trade release control, payment messaging, and accounting entry creation.

·         Hands-On Leadership: Be open to getting involved in technical problem-solving and code reviews as needed.

• Talent Development: Identify and groom team leads and individual contributors, drive upskilling programs to enhance technical and functional capabilities. Build robust succession plans and remove person dependencies.
• Team Building: Foster collaboration and maintain high morale across cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

·         Stakeholder Collaboration: Build and nurture strong relationships with senior stakeholders, including CXO-level executives. Work to align on priorities from multiple stakeholders and resolve conflicts effectively. Collaborate with the onshore managers to chalk out the offshoring plans and appropriately develop resourcing/hiring strategies.

• Strategic Planning: Partner with onshore managers to design and implement offshoring strategies for efficiency and scalability. Work in co-corporation with the Onshore Managers and assist in coordinating Domain related plans with the immediate/long term requirements of the projects/programs.
• Risk Management: Demonstrate a strong understanding of fundamental risk concepts and ensure proactive mitigation. Identify and mitigate IT delivery and operational risks. Understand and ensure the team works in adherence to Production Processes and have ‘Production First’ mindset.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Core Competencies 

• Ownership mindset – Take end to end ownership and accountability of deliverable, projects/programs.
• Excellent analytical skills – capacity to leverage on data to identify actions.
• Strong problem-solving skills – capacity to analyse issues, prioritise based on potential impact, synthesize findings, and communicate them in an effective manner.
• Drive for results – Delivers high quality work and a proven track record of meeting targets.
• Risk awareness – Demonstrates a good awareness of risk and fundamental risk concepts. Always considers risk in his/her daily activities and abides by the Key Front Officer Responsibilities and Principles & Guidelines, where relevant.
• Corporate role model, integrity & ethics – Acts with discipline and high ethical standards
• Team player & cross-cultural awareness Works effectively in a team. Collaborates and shares information and solutions with colleagues, with other teams and stakeholders.
• Client focus – Sees stakeholders as “customers”.

Technical skills and qualifications required for the role: 

• 15+ years of combined industry, management and technology experience, preferably within the IT Services industry dealing with Financial Services Fortune 500 companies.
• Good to have prior hands-on development experience in JAVA. Experience in relational databases is an added plus.
• Experience in working with EMEA and NAR regions.
• Knowledge of Capital markets and back-office settlement systems.
• Complete understanding of the software development life cycle.
• Knowledge and experience with Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Resilience

• Ability to handle and deliver on several priorities simultaneously is essential.
• Ability to work under pressure, tight deadlines and changing business needs.
• Passion, tenacity and resilience in an ever-changing environment 
• Capability to influence, negotiate and resolve issues.

Communication (Active listener and clear communicator) 

• Communicates clearly (both written and verbal) including strong presentation skills.
• Strong team player, able and willing to share developments and improve global practices.
• Ability to rapidly develop solid relationships with the key business stakeholders.
• Communicates pro-actively with management, escalating issues as necessary.
• Must be able to over communicate with Onshore and Offshore teams on functional / technical topics.

Specific Qualifications (if required)

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Client focused

Critical thinking

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution

Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Ability to inspire others & generate people’s commitment

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 15 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)

NA