GROUP BNP PARIBAS
BNP Paribas Group is the top bank in the European Union and a major international banking establishment. It has close to 185,000 employees in 65 countries. In Spain we are more than 5,100 employees within 13 business lines.
Spain IT Production
Spain IT Production organization consists of CIB ITO ITG IT Platforms and is responsible for providing IT Production services to our Clients in EMEA, ensuring a Digital Market evolution, in a secured and performant environment, and with a reliable quality. IT Production organisation includes Infrastructure services, Telecom Workspace, Production Security and Application Production domains and associated transversal services (CTO Office, Control Tower, PMO and IT Continuity). In Spain, IT Production relies on a Platform with over 400 experts that provide full-stack support services ensuring a secure, stable, standardized, and efficient production.
ABOUT THE JOB
MISSION
The Production Security Domain is part of the Corporate Institutional Banking Information Technology Operations (CIB ITO) of BNP PARIBAS, it manages all the security solutions.
The SSO team provide identity and access management tooling as a middleware delivery team, supporting authentication and authorisation for both internal and external customers.
Using several standardised frameworks, the team maintains and governs access policies and works to deliver technologies to ensure that the right entities have the appropriate access to technology resources.
The SSO team is dealing with support and project delivery on the Identity and Access Management technologies: SiteMinder, LDAP, Axway API Gateway.
The jobholder will be part of multi-geographical (presence in 3 regions and 6 locations) and multi-disciplined team.
Architecture
Project Delivery
Platform Support and Maintenance
Incident and Problem Management
Change Management
General
The candidate will also be well versed with cryptographic notions such as RSA, symmetric and asymmetric encryption, certificates and digital signatures etc.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Full and detailed description of each responsibilities related above
Architecture
To provide architectural expertise thereby driving change and improvement in technology and process.
To contribute to the development of the SSO and LDAP technology roadmaps.
To liaise with CIB architecture teams in undertaking architectural reviews.
To stay abreast of emerging technologies and technology trends.
To automatize the process to accelerate the delivery time
Project Delivery
To take responsibility for the delivery of key projects around SSO and LDAP which are aligned to drive significant change within the platform.
To work with the Application Production Support project managers in defining, designing, documenting and implanting new functionality for existing and new applications.
To liaise with the Application Developers in low-level diagnosis of on-going issues.
To provide subject matter expertise on SSO and IDM technologies to all business application teams.
To act as technology evangelists for the improvement of process and technology in use for the Authentication services within BNP Paribas.
Platform Support and Maintenance
Pro-actively monitor, manage and improve availability and performance of the production environments (from presentation and application layers to Infrastructure layers)
Pro-actively manage the capacity of production applications
Incident and Problem Management
To work with partner teams to conduct analysis of major and critical incidents.
To identify tactical or strategic improvements that can be introduced to help reduce the number of on-going incidents within the SSO and LDAP area.
Change Management
To work within the change management framework adopted by BNP Paribas to ensure that all changes to the production environment are planned and executed in a controlled manner.
To take responsibility for the quality of changes within the SSO and IDM environments, ensuring that changes raised are of sufficient standard in terms of technical and planning detail.
Attending and sharing knowledge / updates in the Weekly Change Control Board Meetings and the Weekly Problem Management Meetings.
General
Perform pre-assigned tasks to accomplish the function responsible for. The nature of these tasks are Change The Bank or Run The Bank
Work cooperatively with the other members of the team
Ensure adherence to processes and procedures
Request improvement of knowledge (training) when needed
Apply own initiative, within the levels of acceptable risk
Whenever in doubt, escalate and seek advice and guidance
If the