Senior Software Developer - T-SQL and Java

Project description

Our client is the corporate and investment banking arm of The Group, world's 10th largest bank by total assets. Their Singapore center, Information Systems Asia Pacific (ISAP), is one of the 3 main IT hubs for worldwide business with over 1000 IT staff covering Production and Application Development activities. They work daily with international branches located in 33 countries by supporting their IT solutions and envisioning and developing the Bank's future information systems. 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..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies). The SALES IT division works across the full value chain to sustain business activity and enable its acceleration (thru integration of new financial products, optimizing and automating front to back business processes). This role aims to develop on SALES 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.

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.

SKILLS

Must have

• 12+ years of working experience
• 8+ years of experience working with Java and T-SQL (Transact-SQL)
• Strong knowledge on various design patterns
• 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
• Experience in cloud native architecture.
• AWS cloud architecture
• 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.

Nice to have

• Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required: Web development fundamentals (HTML, JavaScript, typescript, jQuery, ReactJS, etc), Docker/Kubernetes, Microservices.
• An ideal candidate will also have expertise in some or all of the following: JupyterLab, JupyterHub, Jupyter notebook, Mercury ecosystem, Gitlab, Jenkins and Ansible with exposure to devops culture, Jira or a similar issue-tracking system, Python, ElasticSearch.
• Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, particularly interest rate derivatives in their many forms (Forwards, Futures, Swaps, Swaptions, etc).
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.