Natixis in Portugal belongs to Global Financial Services business unit, the global arm of Groupe BPCE. As the second largest banking group in France, Groupe BPCE pursues a full range of banking and insurance activities, counting 100.000 employees and serving 36 million customers worldwide. 

Based in Porto, Natixis Center of Expertise mission is to transform traditional banking by developing innovative solutions for the bank’s business, operations and work culture worldwide, as a key driver of the company’s culture of agility and innovation: a perfect fit in Portuguese labour culture. Teams of IT, Banking Support Activities and Compliance work in an integrated, inclusive and transversal way, supporting all the business lines and country platforms. 

Natixis in Portugal is the best combination of a “start-up mindset”, given its multicultural and inclusive environment, culture of proximity and participation and dynamic working methodologies, based on agility, collaboration and creativity, with a large, solid structure, founded on career management, including international mobility, financial security and robust processes, along with unlimited learning opportunities: small enough to keep entrepreneurial spirit, big enough to deliver globally. 

Join a team where you can make things change, achieve limitless perspectives to evolve and grow, become an expert and reach your full potential! Because you deserve much more than a job. 

Founded in 2015, BPCE Infogérance & Technologies BPCE Infogérance & Technologies is a subsidiary of Groupe BPCE, dedicated to Infrastructures, End-User Environment, Security and Production. Improving the quality of service for all Groupe BPCE employees and clients, strengthening IT security, in particular Cybersecurity controls and risks, and improving user experience, while contributing to the business growth in a competitive environment are the priorities at the heart of its strategy. Learn more in this 2-minute video! 

The activities performed in Natixis in Portugal consist of an accelerator of BPCE Infogérance & Technologies strategic ambitions, fully integrated in the global organization model. Driven by growth, expertise, transformation and agility, this project embraces an international mindset and a diverse skill set. You’ll find yourself in a dynamic and enriching workplace or, as we like to name it, a real tech playground, where you’ll be able to explore a huge tech stack. 

Within BPCE-IT, the mission of the Infrastructure Data entity is to design, deploy and evolve the DATA infrastructures of the information systems to serve the business applications of BPCE-IT customers by guaranteeing safety, quality, performance, the uniqueness, coherence and sustainability of their exploitation.

As part of its growth, the Infrastructure Data entity is looking for experts (senior and intermediate) and engineers (junior) in the Databases area whose main activities are:

• Design, deploy and evolve Database IT DATA solutions for technical infrastructures (EXADATA, ZDLRA, …) and Transversal tools (SCRIPTS, API, EOM, OUD, MEM, …)
• Ensure the continuity and reliability of the DATA infrastructures for all information systems of BPCE-IT customers, secure their systems by Patching or Upgrade or Migrate the Database in the appropriate supported version, always guaranteeing the service in compliance with the standards
• Analyze and forecast necessary resource developments
• Contribute to business projects and assist users in the use of available solutions.

The Database Infrastructure Team Leader deploys the BPCE Managed Services & Technologies strategy at the department level. It leads its team on a human and technical level.

Missions

Understand the remediation strategy and process to succeed in the SI improvement.

• Develop skills on patching and migration topics.
• Know how to deal with patching and migration subjects by oneself.

Deploy the Company’s strategy at its department level and participate in the development of its business development plans.

• Develop and evaluate employees' skills and culture of the automation
• Support employees so that they are involved in their professional career.
• In response to questions: clarify, illustrate the possibilities for development and/or needs for skills development and/or direct the employee to the appropriate contacts.

Anticipate, define and implement changes in the organization of the activity within the company:

• Create the optimal conditions for defining and implementing changes: involve employees, communicate, support, train.
• Propose methods for integrating changes in the activity of the service concerned to promote their consideration.
• Participate to build the future organization of Patch Management and Migration Factory teams.

Promote exchanges within his entity and within the company by ensure close proximity to employees, top-down communication as part of the deployment of key Company topics (decisions, group info, customer info, etc.).

Setup automated dashboarding to follow activity and share progresses.

Studies and Controls:

• Monitor and control versions of existing databases and software packages selected by the company.
• Contribute to the development of technical solutions for the catalogue and architecture patterns of DBMS solutions.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the Infrastructure Evolution Plan.
• Ensure and guarantee the integrity of the infrastructure bases of the existing databases by guaranteeing physical security (backup procedures, restoration, logging, start-up after incidents, etc.) and logic (confidentiality, access)
• Adjust database settings for optimal use.
• Ensure technological monitoring of the DBMS solutions and software packages selected by the company

Prototyping and qualification of technical solutions for internal company standards​​​​​​​

• Validate solutions to make them the corporate standards

Audit and Recommendations

• Participate to maintain and perform :
  • Architecture audits
  • Architecture performance studies and analysis
  • Databases’ tuning

Exploitation & Support

• Implement automatic monitoring and follow-up with dashboards (technical and functional).
• Management and analysis (AI) tools for directing infrastructure logs Databases.

What we’re looking for 

Qualifications and Hard Skills:

• Good knowledge in Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server;
• Good knowledge in Exadata;
• Problem and Incident Management;
• Monitoring of technological developments (Zabbix, Splunk, …);
• Ability to propose a solution adapted to the problem;
• You should have developed during your career experience the usage of DevOPs tools such as:
  • GIT Bitbucket;
  • Confluence;
  • JIRA;
  • Jenkins;
  • XLDeploy to manage CI/CD environments.

Soft Skills:

• Good level of English - minimum B2 (mandatory);
• Good level of French - minimum B2 (nice to have);
• Ability to keep up with a demanding and fast-paced environment;
• Willingness to learn and develop;
• Good communication skills;
• Ability to work in a team.

Candidate’s Journey 

Following your online application, you’ll be contacted by one of our Talent Acquisition Specialists. The next steps would be to meet our business experts (Team Leaders and Team Managers), welcome and onboard you into the Team. 

Few other things you should know: 

This career opportunity is based in Porto, right in the heart of the city, and offers a hybrid working model. 

Today, we count with over 2.000 employees, from 31 different nationalities, and you can be one of them. If this career opportunity is aligned with your professional ambitions, apply now! We look forward to meeting you! 

In 2023, Top Employers Institute has awarded Natixis in Portugal the Top Employer Portugal accreditation for the first time. This certification recognizes excellence in people practices, following the example of our head office, in France, who was certified Top Employer France for the seventh year in a row. 

Last but not least, we invite you to discover what a day in your like could look like: 

Early morning. Campo 24 de Agosto. In 4 minutes, you are clocking in at the office. Start your day having breakfast with the Team and grab fresh fruit on the way to your seat, in one of Porto’s most typical neighborhoods. This Purple Day is going to be a busy one: daily meeting ensuring all team members are on the same page regarding work status, priorities and blockers, language class and, just after, a Talent Management meeting with your manager, discussing your career path. 

Lunch break. Today, your Team is onboarding newcomers, but also welcoming French colleagues: the perfect excuse to walk downtown and bond over a francesinha. When returning, inhale nature and peace of mind in Natixis Urban Garden (look at the crops; ready to harvest!). 

Back inside. Brainstorming session on a new, exciting project in our disruptive and immersive Manaus Village. The afternoon went flying (tasks, meetings, some jokes with your teammates). End it on a high note: celebrating cultural diversity with a Diwali, the Indian festival of lights. 

Tomorrow, you attend a conference led by influential speakers in your industry and, the day after, you will work from home, benefitting from some focus time to complete that report and soft skills course on LinkedIn Learning. Once you are done with your work for the day, strike the right note playing with Natixis band or be part of a board games session. If that is too steady for you, meet your colleagues to catch some waves or sail the Douro river during golden hour.