The Position
The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market applications 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 Repo and Secured Financing (RSF) IT division, works across the full value chain to sustain business activity and enable its acceleration.
“Run the bank” is the first mission of IT department. It involves many front line IT professionals who understand the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. We are continuously working with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.
This role is a great opportunity to onboard the IT banking domain, with a fundamental learning of what the Information System of an investment bank is. It provides step by step learning, starting from Level 1 support, moving to level 2 and finally being part of the continuous improvement and evolution of new applications and process optimization.
Main Responsibilities
Operations management
- Provide a technical expertise on Murex application (v2 and v3).
- Optimize end of day batch.
- Improve STP performance.
- Manage Murex services.
- Process and issue daily, weekly and monthly reporting on data quality of risk chain in which the activity is usually more intense on monthly run.
Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams)
- Communicate effectively.
- Analyze enhancement requests and bug-fixes.
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.
Problem management and Continuous improvement
- ITRS Geneos monitoring implementation.
- Solve recurrent incidents.
- Collaborate with build team to assess the priority of problems and follow-up the resolution, even contributing to the definition of long term solutions.
- CI/CD implementation.
- Process improvements.
- Coach more junior team members as required.
- Maintain programmable code outlined in technical instructions and specifications for software applications.
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.
Qualifications and Profile
Candidates should have at least 3 years’ experience on MUREX software.
- Murex Datamart – Workflow – RTBS – architecture - Market Risk module
- EOD batch
- Control M
- ITRS Geneos
- SQL
- UNIX
- CI/CD tools
- Understanding of trade life cycle, financial products (BONDS, CDS…)
Optional
- General banking and finance understanding and knowledge
- Exposure to Capital Market FO/BO system (E.g. Summit, Kondor+, Murex…)
Soft skills:
- Very good communication skills and keen to work with business users.
- Autonomous, pro-active, cooperative mindset.
Education Requirements
At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties:
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Programming & Systems Analysis
- Science (Computer Studies)
Shift Timings:
Work in shift for ASIA or EMEA region: (9am – 6:30pm SGT) (3pm – midnight SGT). On-call rotation with team mates to cover night and week-end support.
Interested applicants, please email your resume to Shaun Quek Yew Meng
Email: [email protected]
CEI Reg No: R1660732
EA Licence No: 99C4599
