Position
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 Repo and Secured Financing (RSF) 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.
Main 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.
- 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.
Qualifications and Profile
- 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.
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.
Education Requirements
At least a Bachelor’s degree in any of these faculties:
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Programming & Systems Analysis
- Science (Computer Studies)
Working Hours
- Work in shift for ASIA mainly but work on EMEA hours on specific need: (9am – 6:30pm SGT) or (3pm – midnight SGT).
- L3 On-call when needed and possible intervention during week end but limited
Interested applicants, please email your resume to Shaun Quek Yew Meng
Email: [email protected]
CEI Reg No: R1660732
EA Licence No: 99C4599
