Job Description – Senior Software Engineer (Calypso)
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Business Requirements Elicitation and Critical Analysis –
- Self-driven independent contributor (IC), with strong proven experience of implementation on Calypso Application
- Expected sphere of influence and collaboration is expected to be immediate team and interfacing teams.
- Skills involving negotiation and convincing are important, but person needn't be an expert.
- Train new joiners and team members technically
- Deliver to functional specifications and detailed user stories
- Suggest better ways of working and delivering the tasks assigned
- Present technical related topics in relevant forums and discussions
- Help to implement decisions taken during IS Strategy Opco’s of her/his conurbation
- Make sure that all the deliverables are met as per time, cost and plan
- To help in implementing project/applications/services architecture and propose modifications
- To identify pain points and highlight the same along with some high-level solution proposal
- Research to determine if solutions currently exist within calypso or required customization
- Strengthen functional/technical testing strategy definition and activities
- Validate the effectiveness and coverage of test strategy
- Propose new ways of testing in line with evolving market standards/practices in QA area. Implementation Strategy and Support
Profile Required:
- Should have 6+ years of Java development experience with at least 4+ years of working knowledge in CALYPSO
- Hands on technical exposure on Calypso Backoffice function, Message setup, workflow, settlement (SWIFTS), Accounting, Settlement instruction, Payment , BO Positions & expert in customization around Calypso
- Basic product Knowledge on capital markets as Securities including Corporate Actions, Money Market, Foreign Exchange, Listed and OTC Derivatives
- Should be analytical and able to troubleshoot, debug issue independently & out of box thinking for the solutioning & designing
- Ownership attitude & good influencing skill is expected
- Highly motivated, good communication, ability to follow the open point till the closure is expected
- Good in verbal and written communication
- Agile environment exposure preferred
- Calypso
Configuration - Static data/ event config/engine config/server config/User config/Filters/SD filters/Task config/workflow config/ Product config/Fees config/Accounting config/Nettings/message configs/sender config
• Use of APIs - Calypso core and util classes, different type of handler classes, handle cache. create persistence services. SDIs, Asset classes.
• Workflows - Create new workflows/ workflow Kickoff/cutoff setups, rules
• Engines - Create new engines/ Engine optimization, Engine parameter settings, Monitoring engines.
• Event handling
• Working with Trade/Confirmation/Transfers life cycle
• Reporting framework - Create new reports, Schedule task
• Calypso Data model - Oracle
(B) Java
• OOPS, Design patterns(Singleton/Factory/Observer)
• Collections
• Multithreading
• Swings
• JAVA i/o, File handling
• JDBC
(C) Oracle 10g or more
• sql, PL/SQl
• SQL query optimization
• table/index creation
(D) Unix
• Unix commands, shell script basics
(E) Spring Boot & REST APIs (good to have)
Skills Required
- 6+ years Java development experience with at least 4+ years working knowledge in Calypso
- Hands-on experience with Calypso Backoffice functions, message setup, workflows, settlement, accounting, payment, BO positions and Calypso customization
- Calypso APIs, handlers, SDIs, workflow and engine configuration, event handling, reporting and Calypso data model (Oracle)
- Basic product knowledge of capital markets: securities, corporate actions, money market, FX, listed and OTC derivatives
- Analytical troubleshooting and independent debugging skills; out-of-the-box solutioning and design
- Ownership attitude, influencing skills, strong verbal and written communication, and ability to drive issues to closure
- Experience with Oracle (10g+) including SQL, PL/SQL, query optimization, table/index creation
- Unix skills including commands and basic shell scripting
- Knowledge of Java concepts: OOP, design patterns (Singleton/Factory/Observer), collections, multithreading, JDBC, Swing, Java I/O
- Agile environment exposure
- Spring Boot and REST API development (good to have)
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