Java Backend Software Engineer

Crédit Agricole CIB; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) seeks a talented Software Engineer to join the Capital Market IT team in Singapore. You will contribute to COMET collateral management and other front-to-back IT projects, designing, developing, testing, and debugging software that supports end users across global platforms.

Responsibilities include researching and implementing software solutions, resolving security and performance issues, and collaborating with

Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience in Java/J2EE development.
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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 security risks, create requirements to capture security issues, and perform initial threat modelling to ensure coding standards meet 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 (business analysts/ support 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 his ideas in a clear and compelling manner.
• Collaborate with computer hardware engineers (CAGIP and ITS) to integrate infrastructure constraint (whether in-premise or cloud) hardware and software systems aligned with capacity, develop specifications and performance requirements.

Skills

Java

J2EE

Microservices

Cloud-native

APIs development

Security design

SQL

Design patterns

Debugging

Maven

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jenkins

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Maven

GitLab

Git

Ansible

Jenkins

Job description

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center (“ISAP” or “Information Systems Asia Pacific”) is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris Head Office)" for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. 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.

Department & Position

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 Transversal Operation division works across the full value chain of Back Office ans specially on the Collateral management. Within GIT and more specifically Capital Market IT, the GMD & MCR Transversal sector has launched the COMET project, aimed at building the new collateral management system:

• Receiving data from position-keeping systems
• Receiving data from the bank's repositories
• Management of collateral contracts
• Collateral management for all types of contracts and products: Calculations and issuance of margin calls and interest (collat & IM)
• Creation and editing of user reports.

This project is managed in Agile mode and is an in-house CACIB development.

We are seeking a talented Software Engineer with a strong aptitude for programming to join our dynamic Capital Market Department.

In this role, you will contribute to projects and possesses capability to make breakthroughs in design, development, testing, debugging and implementing software applications or specialised utility programs in support of end users' needs on platforms.

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 performs 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 (business analysts/ support 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 his ideas in a clear and compelling manner.
• Collaborate with computer hardware engineers (CAGIP and ITS) to integrate infrastructure constraint (whether in-premise or cloud) hardware and software systems aligned with capacity, develop specifications and performance requirements.

Qualification and Profile

• At least 4 years of experience in Java / J2EE development
• At least 3 years of experience with Jenkins, GIT (GitLab)
• At least 2 years of experience in Ansible
• Experience in cloud native architecture (Micro services)
• Experience with Docker / Kubernetes / Microservices
• 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 APIs development and security design
• Good knowledge of SQL or an SQL-inspired dialect such as HQL
• Willing to do L3 Support if required

Nice to have:

• ElasticSearch
• Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, particularly interest rate derivatives in their many forms (Forwards, Futures, Swaps, Swaptions, etc)