General information

Job description

Business type

Types of Jobs - IT, Digital et Data

Job summary

About CMI
Capital Markets IT (CMI) is the IT department within the bank focused on solutions related to Capital Markets. This includes Front Office (FO) booking platforms, Back Office (BO) platforms, Risk Management (RM) control and regulatory reporting systems, financial product and contract valuation systems, and much more. It is the department most directly exposed to the bank's financial operations.
Responsibilities
. Able to propose design and architectural evolutions under the guidance of a senior or technical lead
. 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.
. Organize and keep up to date detailed technical documentation
. Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts
. Provide technical assistance during user acceptance test
. Support applications in production - analyze and resolve issues as they arise

Qualifications and Profile
The successful candidate will definitely have:
. At least 5 years of software development experience
. At least 3 years experience working with Java
. 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 Linux and bash
. Good knowledge of SQL or an SQL-inspired dialect such as HQL

An ideal candidate will also have expertise in some or all of the following:
. Jenkins and Ansible with exposure to devops culture
. Jira or a similar issue-tracking system
. The Spring framework and IoC, and particularly Spring Boot and Swagger for restful web services
. Messaging technology such as kafka, MQ

Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required:
. Web development fundamentals (HTML, Javascript, jQuery, ReactJS, etc)
. Docker/Kubernetes, Microservices
. ElasticSearch
. General knowledge and understanding of investment banking domain, capital market FO/BO environment is an advantage
. 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 than an intermediate or junior developer, a senior developer 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.

Position location

Geographical area

Asia, Singapore

Candidate criteria

Minimal education level

Bachelor Degree / BSc Degree or equivalent

Academic qualification / Speciality

Degree and above in relevant discipline

CMI Java Software Engineer