Senior Software Engineer (Calypso)

Job Description:

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Identify and resolve issues which have organisation wide and long-term impact.
• Identify security risks, creates requirements to capture security issues, and performs initial threat modelling to ensure coding standards meets security requirements.
• Develop and maintain the software configuration management plan and oversees the building, verification and implementation of software releases.
• Provide guidance and technical support to the quality testing teams.
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Collaborate with cross functional teams (business analysts/ support teams… ) to ensure smooth integration of new features and updates and troubleshoot, debug, and resolve application-related issues.
• Stay updated on industry trends, emerging technologies, and regulatory changes relevant to capital markets.
• Participate to proof of concept for new technology R&D.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and automation by leverage your programming skills to create custom tools and scripts that automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual effort.
• Develop scripts and automation tools using Python, shell scripting, and other basic programming languages to streamline processes and improve efficiency.
• Engage and support others in the team, readily put forth his ideas in a clear and compelling manner.
• 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.
• Collaborate with computer hardware engineers (CAGIP and ITS) to integrate infrastructure constraint (whether in-premise or cloud) hardware and software systems aligned with capacity, develop specifications and performance requirements.

Build 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.

Requirements:

• Candidates should have 7 years experience in relevant activities.

Technical:

• Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Market Risk/Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)
• 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 (FX, Treasury products, repos, bonds, SLB, issuances) and trade lifecycle.
• Experience with regulatory reporting HRF, NORIA, MMSR.

Nice to Have

• Domain-Driven design and Microservices: springboot.
• Exposure to Capital Markets applications.
• Hands-on experience in implementation projects.

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management.
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player.