Project Description:Mx.3 change request project covering data mart and back office related changes. Be a part of change squad.
Responsibilities:
Murex Application Responsibility:
- Understand the Murex system setup at the client, organisation of the support teams, end of day procedures and the report delivery process
- Collect and provide detailed technical specifications / business requirement specifications
- Participates in peer review of requirements, technical and/or testing documentation and assists mentors junior members with same
- Analyse datamart setup and the table structures for the purpose of identifying redundant objects, to minimise execution time of batches, and to seek possibility of reuse of objects
- Segregate reports by users, products, creation classes, fields needed, complexity and frequency of execution
- Develop a generic datamodel and then create datamart objects as required for the reports
- Execute processing scripts and batches manually or through the use of a scheduling tool like Control-M
- Reconcile report extraction output with the onscreen / mreport output
- Analyse differences caused by adding or removing some filter conditions / dynamic table flags / launcher flags
- Create and suggest processes, templates and tools to streamline the development, testing and implementation phases
- Analyses issues during planning and test execution phases
- Provide relevant and accurate information about defects and help the business reproduce errors
- Prepare and send effective periodic and timely status reports
- Track the testing progress and escalate the issue well in advance
- Assists in the preparation and execution of test plans
- Identifies the conditions that create errors to occur and escalates outstanding issues for clarification and resolution
- Escalates identified issues/risks in a timely fashion to the team lead.
- Assist team lead with effort estimation related to the development and UAT
- Ensures test documentation and deliverables are consistent with defined standards
Mandatory Skills Description:
- At least 8+ years of experience on MX3.1 Datamart
- Understanding of the Murex system as a whole
- Good understanding of capital market products
- In-depth understanding of MX reporting architecture, MX datamodel, and MX Datamart configuration
- Familiarity with mxres configuration files, and launcher flags
- Thorough knowledge of Datamart objects - dynamic tables, feeders, batch of feeders, scanner templates etc.
- Exposed to Mreports; Mreport to Datamart migration experience is desirable
- Experience with Simulation and Risk Matrices
- Experience with Market risk and credit risk report development
- Experience with RDBMS, e.g. Oracle, Sybase
- Excellent SQL programming skills
- Unix experience necessary; shell programming experience highly desirable; awk, sed, and Perl scripting experience would be a bonus
- Experience with at least one reporting tool, preferably Actuate eRD Pro
- Other programming experience a plus, esp MS Excel VBA
- Product knowledge (Any one or more, FX mandatory) - FX, IRD, FI, EQD, CRD
- Technical skills - Very good knowledge of SQL (Sybase and Oracle), Atleast one reporting tool (Actuate, Crystal reports, Micro Strategy), Basic unix commands
- Understanding of Trade Life Cycle
- Should possess an understanding of financial markets
- Basic knowledge on financial instruments such as Interest Rate Derivatives
