Project Description:
- Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets.
- We work daily with international branches located in 30 markets by:
- Envisioning and preparing the Bank's futures information systems
- Partnering and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large scale development projects.
- Providing premium In-house Banking applications,
- This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.
- We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.
- Capital Market IT is the IT department within the bank focused on solutions related to Capital Markets. This includes Front Office (FO) booking 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.
- CARMA is an ambitious project to revamp the bank's existing counterparty risk system, CCC, and move it onto the cloud. The application and its uses are extremely complex, comprising a grid computing component (with containerized workers orchestrated using ArmoniK as grid computing middleware), an electronic trading component, a live credit check component (on the critical path for trading), and much more.
Responsibilities:
- Lead technical study into a propose solution, while involving expertise from infrastructure big data expert, business analyst requirement
- Document proposed design and develop the solution
- Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution
- Perform code review while fostering knowledge and coaching best practices to team members
- Interact and provide reporting to project managers
- Monitor technical risk and escalate appropriately to management
- Research, design, and develop software.
- Analyse user needs and develop software solutions
- Update software, enhance existing software capabilities, and develop and direct software testing and validation procedures
- Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems
- The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties with initiatives and leadership when it comes to all non-functional deliverables such as testing tools, mocking objects, production monitoring concerns, quality control, including performance and load testing
Mandatory Skills Description:
- At least 5 years in Java/J2EE software development.
- Hands-on Data ingest and data processing technology like Spark streaming and Spark.
- Hands-on Messaging systems like Kafka, Flume or ActiveMQ, MQSeries or RabbitMQ.
- Hands on knowledge on Hadoop (preferably Hortonworks distribution) - HDFS, HBase, Hive, ORC/Parquet.
- Build tool - Maven/sbt/ant, UML, Restful web services, Jenkins/Team City, Source management - SVN/GIT, TDD using Junit, Jira/QC.
Other Professional Skills and Mindset:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both teammates and management.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficient software development life cycle.
- Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
- Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members skills.
- Interest in mentoring and guiding junior team members on the path of high quality deliverables.
Education Requirements:
- At least a Bachelor's degree in any of these faculties:
- Computer Science
- Information Technology
- Programming & Systems Analysis
- Science (Computer Studies)
Nice-to-Have Skills Description:
- Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning, especially in streaming.
- Knowledge of tools like Phoenix, ElasticSearch, Sqoop, and StreamSets is good to have.
- Basic understanding of finance and investment banking.
