Lead Software Engineer (Calypso)

Location: India

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• Technical expert, with strong proven experience of end-end 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

• Liaise with all related Business and Support Unit stakeholders, including Product Owner, to analyze and challenge business requirements

• Leading 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

• Work out the team's deliverables as per the planning chalked out by the PO

• 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

Should have 9+ years of Java development experience with at least 6+ 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

(A) 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/SQ , SQL query optimization , table/index creation

(D) Unix

• Unix commands, shell script basics

(E) Spring Boot & REST APIs (good to have)

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