Regional IT Architect - functional and technical

In BNP Paribas Personal Finance, at the Central Europe region, the BNPP PF Architecture charter deployment requires the definition of a new role: Regional functional and technical architect has the responsibility to define and deploy the main and structuring evolutions impacting the information systems of one or several countries.
The Regional functional and technical architect must ensure the global coherence of the Regional Information Systems.
At the technical level the Regional functional and technical architect must provide the required support and expertise related to all the tools running in production (software, hardware, databases, middleware…).

Central Europe is made up of Hungary, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria.


All the following activities must be held at the central Europe regional level and must reflect the activities defined by the BNPP PF Architecture charter, in particular the documentation and the committees set up and participation.
The regional Architect reports to the Head of Central Europe Architecture and must be available to travel when necessary over the different countries of the CE Region


1 – To ensure the IS coherence per country and at the Region Level:

• To define and provide the documentation related to the main functional domain and their relation, according to the functional reference model defined by BNPP PF Enterprise Architecture – to define the target according to the business plan, decided by the country and the Region
• To define, if required by PF business, new specific functional architecture rules
• To analyse the IT impacts (functional and technical) of new applicative module integration or impacts linked to major modification/evolution of existing modules, and take into consideration all technical constraints including security, performance and maintainability, and ensure a coherence at the region level
• To propose scenarios to improve the current architecture to support the business processes and to move to the target architecture
• To verify the opportunity of any new specific development, including tools and environments
• To participate to innovation ‘active watch’



2 – To provide the project support:

• To provide the required support to the major projects as defined within the Architecture charter of the Region from the conception to the delivery, including the Project Solution Document delivery and presentation to the defined committee (Central or Regional IT Validation Committee)
• To communicate/explain the rules in terms of architecture governance to follow for a project and expected quality to the project managers in charge
• To follow up the implementation / deployment of the architecture rules defined for the project
• To support the architecture choices and take the responsibility of all exceptions/derogations from architecture principles and rules
• To validate the solution proposed by the project according to the architecture rules, the current architecture and the target architecture.



3 – To communicate / exchange with the architecture community:

• To communicate and exchange with the other architects of the Region, with the Central team and with the other Regions to share the new rules and best practices
• To ensure the coordination with the BNP PF Enterprise Architecture when necessary, in particular for presentation of the Project Solution Document to the PF IT Validation Committee or to higher instances in the group (when needed)
• To participate to workgroups and workshops organized at the level of BNPP PF Enterprise Architecture or CE Region Architecture



4 – To ensure the cartography maintenance:

• To build each country and a regional IT cartography
• To maintain this cartography with the main impacts highlighted by the projects
• To share the information with all stakeholders (country and NNPP PF group IT)


Business competencies:
• project management and follow-up
• solution conception
• IT strategy knowledge and support
• Innovation active watch

Transversal behaviour:
• Team spirit
• Respectful of BNPP PF rules and processes including the BNPP PF and BNPP Group NORMS AND STANDARDS
• Rigorous
• Aptitude to listen, understand the business need
• Able to negotiate and propose the best compromise
• Able to communicate easily
• Flexible and accepts evolution, modification
• Able to sum up, to advice, to provide expertise

Technical knowledge:
• Architecture rules and principles
• BNPP PF business domains and main processes
• Development norms and tools
• BNPP PF technical architectures and environments


• Strong background of international banking group BNP Paribas
• Perspective, interesting and motivating workload
• Support of professional development
• Work in inspiring and cooperating team environment
• An incentive program of fringe benefits:
• - Up to 6 weeks of holidays
• - Meal vouchers
• - Contribution to leisure activities
• - Pension and life insurance allowance
• - Holiday contribution, Language courses


In case you are interested in the offered position send us your CV in English

http://hellobank.jobs.cz/pd/1402173805?rps=183&source=10&exportID=0