Senior Software Engineer (Calypso)

Job Summary
Adecco is partnering with one of the most well-established and respected financial institution with a strong track record of success. They have a culture of innovation and continuous improvement, constantly looking for ways to improve their services and offerings. Our client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer (Calypso) with a strong aptitude for programming to contribute to projects. Candidates would have the opportunity to work with various individuals from various department and play a key role in delivering high-quality software solutions across the application lifecycle.

Main Responsibilities

• 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 perform 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 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 ideas in a clear and compelling manner.
• The candidate should have analytical and problem solving skills, a proactive mind-set in security, ability to work individually under pressure. Team player with good interpersonal skills. Strong communication skills and keen to work with business users.
• Collaborate with computer hardware engineers 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, enhance existing software capabilities, and develop, direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems
• Develop specifications and performance requirements.

Qualifications and Profile

• 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.

Next Step

• Prepare your updated resume and expected package.
• Simply click on Apply here or email to [Confidential Information] to drop your resume.
• All shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Tamanna Bilandi

EA Licence No. 91C2918

Personnel Registration No. R2096241