Technical Lead/Architect (Chennai)

Job Title: AVP Regional Technical Architect Department : ITG Cardif About Business line/Function: BNP Paribas Cardif is the insurance subsidiary of BNP Paribas. We are a worldwide leader of the Credit Protection Insurance market with solid positions in savings and protection insurance in more than 30 countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America. In Asia, Cardif regional IT team provides services to our business entities in Japan, South Korea , Taiwan and our regional office in Hong Kong. Position Purpose: The regional Tech lead / Architect works for Cardif Asia regional IT. You will be responsible for defining, co-building, communicating, or validating a technical architecture (covering both application software architecture and infrastructure architecture) description to ensure the new IT solution under development fits for its intended purpose. You will predominantly focus on technologies or solutions implementation by providing a technical leadership for development / integration teams and defining standards and practices to stick to. You will have the responsibility for technical architecture and associated documentation (guidelines, specifications, etc.) and will ensure that the Information System (at both IT System and Application software levels) is consistent and sustainable. The regional Architect works in close collaboration with the other architects at central or local level and with Subject Matter Experts. Responsibilities Direct Responsibilities Design Solution - Contribute to impact analysis and studies about business needs and architecture enhancements / evolutions - Help define non-functional requirements for the designed solution - Support project / product teams to design IT solutions and new technical architectures - Make recommendations about technologies to use (IT System, application software, etc.) - Identify the interfaces between components and collaborations between them - Realize exploratory studies or prototypes to investigate .