Java Software Developer (Asset Control/Alveo)

Luxoft; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in Singapore is seeking a skilled Software Developer to enhance their Capital Market IT applications. Responsibilities include managing design and architecture, supporting production, and developing high-quality, tested code. The ideal candidate has strong Java and Spring Boot skills, extensive knowledge in Asset Control or NeoXam, and experience with RESTful API development. Join a dynamic team driving innovation in banking technology.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of software development experience.
• 4+ years working with Java and Spring Boot framework.
• Strong knowledge in Asset Control or NeoXam software.
• Experience in Linux/Unix, shell scripting.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Lead technology design and architecture.
• Manage incidents and requests from users.
• Apply monthly release strategy and support production.
• Provide level 3 application support.
• Identify and implement process improvements.

Skills

Software Development

Java

Spring Boot

Asset Control knowledge

OOPS and design principles

SOLID patterns

Unit testing

Integration testing

Linux/Unix

SQL

RESTful API design

Maven

Git

Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines

Jira

AWS Cloud Fundamentals

Java OpenTelemetry

ElasticSearch

Web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Security by design

MangoDB

Redis

Control-M

CFT

MQSeries

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 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). 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.

SKILLS

Must have

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

• 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