Project Description:Our Client is part of the Group, the 10th largest bank by total assets in the world with 100+ years of history in Singapore.
Their Singapore center is one of the 3 main IT Hubs for Bank's worldwide business with over 1000 IT staff covering Production and Application Development activities. They work daily with international branches located in 33 countries by supporting their IT solutions and envisioning and developing the Bank’s future information systems.
The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications (in-house and package) used worldwide, covering Front Office (Murex, Apex, Orchestrade…), Back Office (Summit, Calypso…), Market data referential (Asset Control..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies).
The IT division, works across the full value chain to sustain business activity and enable its acceleration.
This role aims to develop on the Calypso back office package, in project mode as well as maintenance, and to support the “run the bank” function. It requires a deep understanding of the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The build and support team continuously works with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.
Responsibilities:
Build & change 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.
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Master’s degree in relevant specialties (IT, finance).
• Minimum 8 years working experience in relevant roles.
• Minimum 5 years experience as a Calypso developer.
• Excellent understanding of Java, PL/SQL & Linux.
• Experience on Calypso versions higher than v13.
• Expertise in Calypso Back office functionality with hands-on experience in customizations of different Calypso modules:
- Custom Remote Services
- Engines
- Events
- Filters
- Reporting Framework
- ScheduledTask
- Message / Swift messages
- Transfers
- Settlement Delivery Instructions
- Accounting
- Pricers
- Workflows
- Reconciliation functionalities
• In depth knowledge of Confirmations, Settlement, Position and Accounting modules.
• Understanding of financial assets (repos, bonds, SLB, issuances) and trade lifecycle.
• Experience with regulatory reporting HRF, NORIA, MMSR.
• Experience in interfacing Calypso with external systems.
• Hands-on experience in implementation projects.
• AGILE track record.
• Experience in GIT, MasterDeploy, SVN, JENKINS, Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Dababase: Oracle, Sybase, MongoBD.
• Experience in implementing NR scenarios.
• Developing Micro services.
• Curiosity for new technologies.
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.
• Willing to do On-call rotation with team mates to cover night and week-end support.
• 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.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
