Investment jobs in Singapore

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).The Static and Market Data team works across the full value chain to feed FO, BO and Risk department with Static Market Data to sustain business activities.This role aims to develop on Static and Market Data 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

• 12+ years of software development experience
• 8+ years of experience working with Java
• Banking / Investment Banking domain experience
• Strong understanding and experience in SOLID patterns, unit testing and integration tests
• Strong knowledge and experience with latest and advanced Java language features as well as Spring Boot framework
• 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
• Experienced with front-end development with either Angular or React
• Good knowledge and experience of SQL or similar
• Experienced with Maven, Git, Gitlab and JIRA
• 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:- Apache Kafka, Spark and Iceberg- Exposure to devops culture
• The candidate should have analytical and problem solving skills, a pro-active mind-set in security, proven ability to work individually under pressure.
• Team player with good interpersonal skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• 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 if required.• Market Data experience• 1-2+ years of experience as a Java Architect