Engineering Architect

HR Business Partner & Talent Manager na Alter Solutions Portugal

Job Description:

The Technology Architecture team at BNP Paribas CIB plays a key role in driving the technology landscape and ensuring that its technological strategy meets the challenges of the Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) division. As an Engineering Expert, you will be part of a dynamic, international, and tri‑lingual English‑French‑Portuguese environment, supporting the existing team activity to enhance technology practices and adopt better engineering tools and processes.

Main Tasks

• Contribute to studies on usage of programming languages and associated developer frameworks at all levels of the technology stack
• Ensure application teams adhere to CIB Technology Standards while designing & building their solutions
• Manage and report technical risks
• Perform and contribute to technology domain studies
• Validate technologies and software used in CIB
• Contribute towards innovation; suggest new technical practices for efficiency improvement
• Participate in Proof of Concepts (Po
  Cs) or quick technical assessments of emerging technologies
• Drive efficiency improvement and ensure the use of modern technology practices within the Engineering team
• Contribution to evolution of Dev
  Sec
  Ops toolchains

Technical Skills

• Proven Technology Architect expertise – experience in several programming languages, knowledge of architecture patterns and principles, Dev
  Sec
  Ops, etc.
• Expertise on Cloud Solutions, Kaa
  S, Iaa
  S and Paa
  S hosting solutions
• Proven experience in development of production‑deployed complex software applications
• Ability to understand the scope and purpose of an application and propose/guide the team to comply with adequate principles, guidelines and patterns
• Solid experience in technical analysis of applications with various architecture styles, including monolithic, n‑tiered, SOA, Microservices, and hosted on cloud‑based or virtualized environments
• Good knowledge on containerization & orchestration tools
• Familiar with common middleware components such as WAF, VIP, Load Balancer, MQ, Event Broker, API Gateway, etc.
• Solid knowledge about IT Security topics (encryption at rest or in transit, authentication, authorization, vulnerability management, threat analysis) within Application and Architecture Domains
• Abstract and Analytical Thinking to assess if a technical design meets the organization standards
• Ability to synthesize, organize and present reports to Management
• Exposure to financial domain (experience in banking sector is a nice to have)

Soft Skills

• Self‑motivated with good communication, interpersonal and organization skills
• Ability to work in a dynamic, international, and bilingual environment
• Team player with willingness to collaborate and contribute to the team's success

Language Skills

• French (nice to have)

Additional Information

• This mission is to be performed in a hybrid working model, with two days per week at the office.
• The candidate should be able to commute to the office whenever necessary.
• Candidates must already be located in Portugal mainland.

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Consulting

Industries: Investment Banking