The Department and 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 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.
Main Responsibilities
Build and 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.
- 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 and Profile
The successful candidate will definitely have:
- At least 10 years of software development experience
- At least 8 years’ experience working with Java
- Strong knowledge and experience on various design patterns and design principles
- Strong understanding and well experienced with recent Java language features, such as lambdas, streams, and futures
- Strong understanding and well experienced with Spring framework
- Strong understanding and well experienced with APIs development and security design
- Strong understanding and well experienced with SQL
- 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
- 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
Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required:
- 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)
Besides having greater development experience and more raw technical skill than the average candidate, as a senior developer you must be particularly self-motivated and driven. You will frequently be driving changes and balancing trade-offs that your management is not well equipped to understand, and you will need to be able to explain and advocate for these. This means having a clear understanding of the goals of the project, and pushing the team to achieve those goals – not merely passively completing tickets assigned to you, but truly leading and participating in the process.
Next Step
Prepare your updated resume and expected package.
Simply click on 'Apply here' or email to [email protected] to drop your resume
All shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Prasant Sirohi
EA License Number: 91C2918
Registration Number: R22106307
