Head of ISPL CIB IT Architecture

As the Head of ISPL CIB IT Architecture at BNP Paribas, your role involves proactively defining, maintaining, and evolving the organization's technology architecture strategy to align with business goals and technology investments. You will lead a team of architects to design scalable, secure, stable, and cost-effective enterprise solutions across applications, data, and infrastructure layers. Your responsibilities include: - Defining the policy and objectives based on the entity's strategic priorities - Adapting the entity's general strategy concerning information systems in accordance with Group-level IT Governance procedures - Evaluating emerging technologies and market trends for competitive advantage - Leading and organizing work within your scope of responsibility - Presenting, explaining, and adapting objectives for your scope - Setting objectives, defining operating methods, and organizing work for teams - Coordinating and monitoring all activities under your responsibility - Promoting teamwork, co-construction, and cross-functionality - Developing employees" skills and ensuring employability - Managing resources in accordance with schedules, budgets, and quality standards - Helping define the budget and monitoring costs incurred - Building action plans, monitoring their implementation, and reporting on decisions - Participating in process improvement initiatives - Managing available human resources to achieve expected results - Ensuring a contractual relationship within the framework of Procurement procedures - Assessing and managing IT & Cyber security risks within your scope of responsibility - Applying and promoting the Group's IT governance rules, including those related to IT & Cyber security risks - Communicating any organizational, scope, or operational change impacting the risk profile of activities - Implementing necessary corrective actions depending on your level of delegation In addition, your role involves responsibilities related to CIB IT Architecture, including: - Administration & Surveillance - Application Portfolio Management, Technology & Service Catalogue, Application Cartography - ITVC Process within Project Portfolio Management, Technology Roadmap, Technical Due Diligence Framework - Innovation Process Management, IT Market Watch Required Technical and Behavioral Competencies: Technical: - Designing and delivering large-scale, complex enterprise systems - Expertise in architecture domain (Applications, data, infra, and security) - Knowledge of cloud architectures, API, Microservices, data architecture (Data lakes, data governance) Behavioral: - Ability to delegate and drive change - Employee development and strategic vision - Positive direction and commitment encouragement - Networking and multicultural integration - Strong communication, decision-making, and listening skills - Client-focused approach and valuing employees - Risk-informed enterprise and leading by example,