.Net Developer (Bond)

CREDIT AGRICOLE CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global banking institution in Singapore is seeking a .NET developer to join a dedicated team working on the migration of trading systems. This role requires strong C# skills with a focus on DevOps practices, including automating deployment processes and developing infrastructure tools. The ideal candidate will have at least five years of software development experience and be comfortable working within an agile environment. You will collaborate closely with teams in Paris to enhance existing functionalities.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of software development experience.
• Strong understanding of advanced C# language features.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures.

Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer software.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues.

Skills

C#

DevOps

Agile methodology

Automated testing

Shell scripting

Interpersonal communication

Tools

Jenkins

GIT

Azure DevOps

Transact SQL

Job description

Who we are

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (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, Information Systems Asia Pacific (ISAP), is the 2nd largest IT hub for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 countries by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
• Collaborating 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.

Position

We are starting the decommissioning of one of our Murex trading systems for our Bonds business activity to our main front office target platform (Orchestrade). Orchestrade is already implemented for other asset classes and some Bonds trades.

The whole project aims to migrate European Government Bonds (Sovereign, Supranational and Agency debt), Credit Primary and Credit Secondary business scope worldwide (all products) that are booked in Murex.

We aim to migrate every Murex functionality and process and replicate them in Orchestrade to fit with business needs.

Position, PL and risk management will be migrated in a standalone application called RPS bond.

The scope is to replicate Murex functionalities into OT/RPS, as well as to migrate the stock of data and trades. We have already migrated some features and trades, but we will need to improve Orchestrade for existing activities.

With strong interactions with our Paris Head office team, the .net developer would join an existing Orchestrade development team based in Asia in Singapore working on these projects with Paris. The team is fully allocated to this migration project and business as usual enhancements.

The position involves working to develop code under modern standards, including possible cloud-readiness.

Main Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer software or specialized utility programs.
• Develop and maintain automation tools for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment and quality assurance.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment as well as test processes.
• Work on the industrialization of test management.
• Work on the management of OT/RPS environments.
• Work on the preparation/industrialization of the transition to Run mode of Orchestrade for Bonds.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of our DevOps culture and processes.
• Implement automated testing systems to ensure reusability and efficiency.
• Promote and implement testing methodologies, aiming to identify and address defects early in the development lifecycle.
• Provide technical support to other teams, assisting with problems encountered internally, such as system malfunctions. Propose solutions, suggest improvements, and contribute to data analysis.
• Stay up to date with the latest DevOps technologies and trends.

Qualifications and Profile

• At least 5 years of software development experience
• At least 3 years’ experience working with C#, and particularly modern, cross-platform .NET
• A strong understanding of advanced C# language features, such as async/await, dependency injection, etc.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with strong fundamentals in complexity analysis
• Good knowledge of development tools: Jenkins, GIT, SVN, Azure DevOps or equivalent
• Strong ability to analyze code – understand execution flow & debug even without access to a debugger
• Experience with the dotnet CLI, writing and maintaining integration and unit tests
• Strong familiarity with both Windows and Linux, including shell scripting
• Good knowledge of Transact SQL and Entity Framework Core
• Knowledge of a backend stack
• Experience with Agile methodology organization

Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required:

• Understanding of and interest in finance & financial markets, particularly Fixed income and money market products in their many forms, knowledge of risk management concepts and market data.

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player