Senior Application Consultant

Project Description:

Mx.3 change request project covering data mart and backoffice related changes. Be a part of change squad.

• Responsibilities:

Murex Application Responsibility:
- Understand the Murex system setup at the client, organization of the supportteams, end of day procedures and the report delivery process
- Collect and provide detailed technical specifications / business requirementspecifications
- Participates in peer review of requirements, technical and/or testingdocumentation and assists mentors junior members with same
- Analyze Datamart setup and the table structures for the purpose ofidentifying redundant objects, to minimize execution time of batches, and to seekpossibility of reuse of objects
- Segregate reports by users, products, creation classes, fields needed,complexity and frequency of execution
- Develop a generic data model and then create Datamart objects as required forthe reports
- Execute processing scripts and batches manually or through the use of ascheduling tool like Control-M
- Reconcile report extraction output with the onscreen / mreport output
- Analyze differences caused by adding or removing some filter conditions /dynamic table flags / launcher flags
- Create and suggest processes, templates and tools to streamline thedevelopment, testing and implementation phases
- Analyses issues during planning and test execution phases
- Provide relevant and accurate information about defects and help the businessreproduce 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 escalatesoutstanding 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 definedstandards

• Mandatory Skills Description:

- At least 12+ 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 MXDatamart configuration
- Familiarity with mxres configuration files, and launcher flags
- Thorough knowledge of Datamart objects - dynamic tables, feeders, batch offeeders, 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 desirableawk, 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 onereporting 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