Project details
Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world’s 12th largest bank by total assets.
We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:
- Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
- Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.
- Providing premium In-house Banking applications,
This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.
We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.
We are seeking a talented Software Engineer with a strong aptitude for programming to join our dynamic Capital Market Department!
Responsibilities
• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs. Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Identify and resolve issues which have organisation wide and long-term impact. Identify security risks, creates requirements to capture security issues, and performs initial threat modelling to ensure coding standards meets security requirements
• Develop and maintain the software configuration management plan and oversees the building, verification and implementation of software releases. Provide guidance and technical support to the quality testing teams.
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (business analysts/ support teams… ) to ensure smooth integration of new features and updates and troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application-related issues
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes relevant to capital markets.
• Participate to proof of concept for new technology R&D
• Contribute to continuous improvement and automation by leverage your programming skills to create custom tools and scripts that automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual effort.
• Develop scripts and automation tools using Python, shell scripting, and other basic programming languages to streamline processes and improve efficiency
• Engage and support others in the team, readily put forth his ideas in a clear and compelling manner.
• The candidate should have analytical and problem solving skills, a pro-active mind-set in security, proven ability to work individually under pressure. Team player with good interpersonal skills. Very good communication skills and keen to work with business users.
• Collaborate with computer hardware engineers (CAGIP and ITS) to integrate infrastructure constraint (whether in-premise or cloud) hardware and software systems aligned with capacity, develop specifications and performance requirements.
• Build management:
- Develop in JAVA for Calypso v14.4 package.
- Develop internal components.
• Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams)
- Communicate effectively.
- Analyse enhancement requests and bug-fixes.
- Document deliveries.
• Change Management
- Apply monthly release strategy, following the team’s milestones for analysis, coding and testing.
- Support the release roadmap in production.
- Operations management
- Application support, level 3 (expert).
- Troubleshoot and fix issues.
• Continuous improvement
- Process improvements.
- Coach more junior team members as required.
• Research, design, and develop software.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems
• Develop specifications and performance requirements.
Requirements
- Good understanding of Overall Calypso Architecture
- Hands-on Calypso development and customizations, like Scheduled Tasks, Reports, Engines
- Understanding and application of Calypso APIs
- Strong Java, SQL and XML skills
- Good analytical skills, should be able to analyze and resolve production issues
- Good understanding of Calypso's message and sender frameworks
- Ability to write SQL queries and understand Calypso database tables
- Good and effective communication skills
- Understanding of Fixed Income Markets & Products