Role Summary
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 Static and Market Data team works across the full value chain to feed FO, BO and Risk department with Static Market Data to sustain business activities.
This role aims to develop on Static and Market Data application, 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.
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.
Besides having greater development experience than an intermediate or junior developer, a technical lead will be expected to make sometimes complex architectural decisions that balance difficult trade-offs, and defend those decisions to management and clients within the bank; he or she will be expected to take a leadership role in the team, mentoring less experienced colleagues and helping them progress.
All candidates, but particularly seniors, will be held to high a standard when it comes to communication, both oral and written. You should have good expository style, be able to explain yourself clearly and concisely, especially when the subject is technical and complex.
Main Responsibilities
Build & change management:
- Able to lead in terms of technology and conceptualize, propose design and architectural evolution, along with operational model.
- Contributing to development of high quality fully tested source code complying with deadlines, schedule and coding standards.
- Liaise with business analysts for clarification and understanding of requirements.
- Provide deployment and change management of the solution/platform.
- Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts.
- Provide technical assistance during user acceptance test.
Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams):
- Communicate effectively, analyse enhancement requests and bug-fixes and document deliveries.
- Support applications in production - analyze and resolve issues as they arise as well as propose optimizations for future.
- Monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organization.
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.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s in Information Technology or relevant fields.
- At least 12 years of software development experience.
- At least 8 years’ experience working with Java.
- Strong knowledge on various design patterns.
- A strong understanding of recent Java language features, such as lambdas, streams, and futures.
- Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with strong fundamentals in complexity analysis.
- Strong ability to analyze code – understand execution flow & debug even without access to a debugger.
- Experience with Maven, Git, writing and maintaining integration tests.
- Strong familiarity with APIs development and security design.
- Good knowledge of SQL or an SQL-inspired dialect such as HQL.
- Experience in cloud native architecture (Micro services).
- AWS cloud architecture, Docker/Kubernetes, Microservices.
- An ideal candidate will also have expertise in some or all of the following: JupyterLab, JupyterHub, Jupter notebook, Mercury ecosystem.
- Gitlab, Jenkins and Ansible with exposure to DevOps culture.
- Jira or a similar issue-tracking systems.
- Willing to do L3 Support if required.
Good to Have:
- Web development fundamentals (HTML, JavaScript, typescript, jQuery, ReactJS, etc).
- ElasticSearch.
- Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, particularly interest rate derivatives in their many forms (Forwards, Futures, Swaps, Swaptions, etc).
Shift Timings:
- Work hours : 9am – 6:30pm SGT.
- On-call rotation with team mates to cover night and week-end support on demand.
