Job Description

ASSET CONTROL KNOWLEDGE MANDATORY

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, CARD,..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies).

CARD (Client's Architecture Reference Data)

is one of the pivotal projects in Capital Market application landscape which focuses on managing the market data (static and pricing) integration from external data vendors into bank information systems. CARD is the central to sourcing & distributing of market data to all others bank systems (like accounting, risk, compliance, FO and BO etc.). It acts as the golden source for the bank.


This role aims to develop on CARD 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 & 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. Technology, tools and infrastructure upgrade Automation of manual work Delivery efficiency and quality improvement

Qualifications and Profile

At least 4 years of software development experience on Asset Control (Alveo) financial market data integration system At least 4 years' experience working with

Java

and

Spring Boot

framework, strong knowledge in both technologies Good knowledge and experience in

OOPS

and

design principles

Strong understanding and experience in

SOLID patterns

,

unit testing

and integration tests Good knowledge and experience in Linux/Unix, shell scripting (sh, bash/KSH etc.) Good knowledge and experience in SQL Good knowledge and experience in RESTful API design and development Good experience with Maven, Git, Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines and Jira etc. Well experienced in RESTful APIs design & development with Swagger and OpenAPI standard Good knowledge and experience in

AWS

Cloud Fundamentals

(

Microservice architecture, Docker

&

Kubernetes

,

S3

storage,

Redshift

etc.) Experienced with

Java OpenTelemetry

and

ElasticSearch

to build the observability for applications 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 An ideal candidate will also have expertise in some or all of the following: Web development fundamentals (HTML, CSS, Javascript and Angular etc) Security by design MangoDB & Redis Control-M, CFT and MQSeries Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required: Understanding or interest in

finance & financial markets

, particularly the general knowledge of different types of financial assests, like bonds, equity, interest rate derivates and CDSetc. 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. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.


Besides having great development experience, a senior developer will be expected to make 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 sometimes 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. It goes without saying that your English must be extremely fluent.

Education

Bachelor's degree in relevant specialities (IT). Minimum 4 years working experience in relevant roles.

Shift Timings

* Work hours : 8:45am - 6:30pm SGT