Murex Datamart Lead

Roles & Responsibilities

Project Description

One of our client (a leading bank of Singapore) is undertaking a strategic upgrade of its Murex MX.3 platform to enhance system resilience, support new product capabilities, and align with evolving regulatory and operational requirements.

This initiative includes upgrading from version 3.1.42.48b to 3.1.6x.x, onboarding the EQA and OSP Excess modules, and implementing comprehensive reconciliation, testing automation, and governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Understand the Murex system setup at the client, organization of the support teams, end of day procedures and the report delivery process

• Collect and provide detailed technical specifications / business requirement specifications

• Participates in peer review of requirements elicitation, technical and/or testing documentation and assists mentors junior members with same

• Analyze DataMart setup and the table structures for the purpose of identifying redundant objects, to minimize execution time of batches, and to seek possibility of reuse of objects

• Segregate reports by users, products, creation classes, fields needed, complexity and frequency of execution

• Develop a generic data model and then create DataMart objects as required for the reports

• Execute processing scripts and batches manually or through the use of a scheduling tool like Control-M

• Analyze differences caused by adding or removing some filter conditions / dynamic table flags / launcher flags

• Create and suggest processes, templates and tools to streamline the development, testing and implementation phases

• Analyses issues during planning and test execution phases

• Provide relevant and accurate information about defects and help the business reproduce errors

• Prepare and send effective periodic and timely status reports

• Track the testing progress and escalate the issue well in advance

• Assists in the preparation and execution of test plans

• Identifies the conditions that create errors to occur and escalates outstanding issues for clarification and resolution

• Escalates identified issues/risks in a timely fashion to the PM

• Assist PM with effort estimation related to the development and UAT

• Coordinate with development and infrastructure team for availability of Mx environments and database

• Create and maintain report delivery plan with relevant traceability

Requirements

• At least 8+ years of experience on MX3.1 Datamart

• Understanding of the Murex system as a whole

• Good understanding of capital market products

• In-depth understanding of MX reporting architecture, MX data model, and MX Datamart configuration

• Familiarity with mxres configuration files, and launcher flags

• Thorough knowledge of Datamart objects - dynamic tables, feeders, batch of feeders, scanner templates etc.

• Experience with Simulation and Risk Matrices

• Experience with Market risk and credit risk report development

• Experience with RDBMS, e.g. Oracle, Sybase

• Excellent SQL programming skills

• Unix experience necessary; shell programming experience highly desirable; awk, sed, and Perl scripting experience would be a bonus

• Experience with at least one reporting tool, preferably Actuate eRD Pro

• Other programming experience a plus, esp MS Excel VBA

• Product knowledge (Any one or more, FX mandatory) - FX, IRD, FI, EQD, CRD

• Very good knowledge of SQL (Sybase and Oracle), Atleast one reporting tool (Actuate, Crystal reports, Micro Strategy), Basic unix commands

• Understanding of Trade Life Cycle

• Should possess an understanding of financial markets

• Basic knowledge on financial instruments such as Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Currency Derivatives, Swaps, Futures, Options, FRA, etc.

•Murex upgrade related report development & reconciliation experience.

Tell employers what skills you have

Product Knowledge
Perl
UAT
Interest Rate Derivatives
Market Risk
Derivatives
Currency
VBA
Unix
Traceability
Credit Derivatives
Crystal Reports
Excess
Test Execution
Excel VBA
Credit Risk

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