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.
Skills
Must have
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
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.