Java Developer (with Asset Control)

LUXOFT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the IT sector is looking for a software developer to work on the CARD application for capital market IT solutions. This role will require strong skills in Java, AWS, and software development principles, along with a proactive approach to problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Strong knowledge in Java and Spring Boot framework.
• Good knowledge in SQL and RESTful API design.

Responsibilities

• Develop on CARD application ensuring high-quality code.
• Manage incidents and requests effectively.
• Improve processes and automate manual tasks.

Skills

Asset Control Software

AWS

Java

Shell Scripting

Tools

Maven

Git

Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines

Jira

Job description

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).

CARD 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. CARD 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 on CARD 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

Mandatory Skills:

• Asset Control Software
• AWS
• Java
• Shell Scripting
  

Mandatory Skills Description:

• 4+ years of software development experience
• 4+ years of experience working with Java and Spring Boot framework, strong knowledge in both technologies
• Asset Control software knowledge is mandatory
• 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
• 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

An ideal candidate will also have expertise in some or all of the following:
• Web development fundamentals (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular etc)
• Security by design
• MangoDB & Redis
• Control-M, CFT and MQSeries
• Asset Control (Alveo) financial market data integration system

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required:
• Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, particularly the general knowledge of different types of financial assets, like bonds, equity, interest rate derivatives and CDS etc.
• Willing to do L3 Support