Senior Java Developer (with Asset Control/Alveo)

Job description

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 30 countries 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.The position is within the department responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications, used worldwide, covering Front Office, Back Office Market data referential, Market Risk and so on.This is one of the pivotal projects in Capital Market application landscape which focuses on managing the market data (static and pricing) integration from external data vendors into bank information systems.

This application is the central to sourcing & distributing of market data to all others bank systems (like accounting, risk, compliance, FO and BO etc.).

It acts as the golden source for the bank.This role aims to develop the 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
Bachelor’s degree in relevant specialities (IT).


8+ years working experience in relevant roles.


5+ years of software development experience on Asset Control (Alveo) financial market data integration system.


4+ years of experience working with Java and Spring Boot framework, strong knowledge in both technologies.


Good knowledge and experience in OOPS and design principles.


Strong understanding and experience in SOLID patterns, unit testing and integration tests.


Good knowledge and experience in Linux/Unix, shell scripting (sh, bash/KSH etc.).


Good knowledge and experience in SQL.


Good knowledge and experience in RESTful API design and development.


Good experience with Maven, Git, Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines and Jira etc.


Well experienced in RESTful APIs design & development with Swagger and OpenAPI standard.


Good knowledge and experience in AWS Cloud Fundamentals (Microservice architecture, Docker & Kubernetes, S3 storage, Redshift etc.).


Experienced with Java OpenTelemetry and ElasticSearch to build the observability for applications.


Willin to do L3 Support if required.


The candidate should have 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.


Besides having great development experience, a senior developer will be expected to make complex architectural decisions that balance difficult trade-offs and defend those decisions to management and clients within the bank; He or she will be expected to take a leadership role sometimes in the team, mentoring less experienced colleagues and helping them progress.


Nice to have
Proficiency in Web development fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Angular)
Familiar with Security by design
Familiar with MongoDB & Redis
Familiar with Control-M, CFT, and MQSeries
Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, especially knowledge of financial assets like bonds, equity, interest rate derivatives, and CDS etc.


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