CMI Software Engineer
Summary
Software engineer in Crédit Agricole's Capital Markets IT department in Singapore, building and supporting front-office, back-office, risk and valuation platforms for the bank. Day-to-day work centers on Java development with Maven, Git, CI/CD, SQL and Linux, plus testing and production support.
About CMI
Capital Markets IT (CMI) is the IT department within the bank focused on solutions related to Capital Markets. This includes Front Office (FO) booking platforms, Back Office (BO) platforms, Risk Management (RM) control and regulatory reporting systems, financial product and contract valuation systems, and much more. It is the department most directly exposed to the bank’s financial operations.
Responsibilities
· Contributing to development of high quality fully tested source code complying with deadlines, schedule and coding standards.
· Liaise with senior developer and technical lead for design understanding
· Liaise with business analysts for clarification and understanding of requirements.
· Familiar with CI-CD and good understanding of branching implementation
· Organize and keep up to date detailed technical documentation
· Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts
· Provide technical assistance during user acceptance test
· Support applications in production - analyze and resolve issues as they arise
The successful candidate will definitely have:
· At least 2 years of software development experience
· At least 1 years’ experience working with Java
· An understanding of recent Java language features, such as lambdas, streams, and futures
· Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures
· Strong ability to analyze code – understand execution flow & debug even accessing to a debugger
· Experience with Maven, Git, writing and maintaining integration tests
· Strong familiarity with Linux and bash
· Good knowledge of SQL or an SQL-inspired dialect such as HQL
An ideal candidate will also have exposure in some or all of the following:
· Jenkins and Ansible with exposure to devops culture
· Jira or a similar issue-tracking system
· The Spring framework and IoC, and particularly Spring Boot and Swagger for restful web services
· Messaging technology such as kafka, MQ
Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required:
· Web development fundamentals (HTML, Javascript, jQuery, ReactJS, etc)
· Docker/Kubernetes, Microservices
· ElasticSearch
· General knowledge and understanding of investment banking domain, capital market FO/BO environment is an advantage
· Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, particularly interest rate derivatives in their many forms (Forwards, Futures, Swaps, Swaptions, etc),