Murex Application Engineer

Hong Kong Unison Limited; Singapore; On-site; SGD 200,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Hong Kong Unison Limited is seeking an experienced Senior Developer to join the Murex Engineering team. The role focuses on environment management, configuration management, and tooling with a strong DevOps emphasis.

The candidate should have solid Murex exposure, scripting skills, and the ability to automate routine tasks. Experience with CICD and test environment provisioning is essential for success in this position.

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in financial services.
• Solid experience with Murex service architecture and configuration management.
• Ability to provision and manage Murex test environments and perform housekeeping.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain Murex test environments per project needs.
• Automate manual environment tasks and develop tools to improve efficiency.
• Coordinate environment upgrades and hardware/software recommendations.
• Develop scripts to automate environment refresh and monitoring dashboards.
• Troubleshoot environment and job execution issues including EOD tasks.
• Support production go-lives and mock runs during weekends as required.

Skills

Senior developer

DevOps experience

Murex knowledge

Scripting

CI/CD

Tools

Control-M

MQ

SFTP

Connect Direct

Omgeo

Bpipe

Job description

The candidate will be part of the Murex Engineering team responsible for environment management, configuration management and tooling. The ideal candidate should be a senior developer with a solid experience on devops and exposure to Murex.

Responsibilities:

• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience, preferably in a financial institution.
• Familiar with Murex service architecture, application configuration, service start/stop, housekeeping etc.
• Provision new Murex test environments as requested by project teams by following the official bank’s
• Support and maintain the test environments, e.g. application files change, database operation, housekeeping etc.
• Execute ad-hoc jobs and EOD jobs manually, by scripting or by tools like control-M.
• Troubleshoot service and job execution issues for the test environment.
• Inject Murex configuration into test environments by following runbooks
• Support projects Go Lives and Mock Runs during weekends.
• Include, but are not limited to:
• Setup and Build SIT/UAT Application
• Setup interface connectivity – MQ, SFTP, Connect Direct, Omgeo, Bpipe, BSMT TOF, RTNS etc
• Perform Thorough Sanity Checks post Environment preparation, including connectivity (if any)
• Prepare and submit relevant regular/adhoc automation jobs related to Test Environment
• Monitor and track the utilization of the test servers (App and DB), including storage space
• Setup key alerts on resource capacity and perform regular review and housekeeping to manage server stability and performance.
• Participate and perform application upgrade (Murex version/binaries) • Participate actively and coordinate in other upgrades covering Hardware upgrade patches
• Assess and recommend additional Hardware/software to support the requests, should the need surface
• Track and maintain up-to-date Hardware/Software Inventory and Connectivity
• Guide and support PROD/DR Env setup
• Coordinate and participate in production deployment.
• The role is about being responsible for automating manual processes and building new tools to improve the efficiency and quality of the Murex environments.
• Examples of assignments include writing scripts to automate the refresh of environments, building tools to version control Murex configuration files or creating a dashboard to monitor the health of environments.
• Proficient in Murex configurations and Configuration Template Tool from GUI and Linux console
• Able to identify the dependencies for Murex configurations, merge configurations and optimize the configuration templates
• Able to trouble shoot issues arisen in configuration import and export
• Able to optimize the runbook procedure and reduce the time and effort
• Proficient in scripting and tools to enhance DevOps procedure
• Familiar with CICD concept and able to coordinate the test team for the regression and sanity test involved
• Support projects Go Lives and Mock Runs.