Intermediate Application Analyst Programmer

**Responsibilities**:

- Resolve incidents impacting users swiftly and efficiently. Thorough investigation and communication throughout the incident lifecycle. Proactive identification of workarounds. Effective coordination of stakeholders during significant incidents. Clear and timely communication to users, senior management, and other IT stakeholders.
- Handle user requests promptly and effectively. Prioritizing requests based on urgency and impact. Escalating requests when necessary while remaining the primary point of contact for the user.
- Perform Java code analysis and propose code adjustments.
- Drive sustainable solutions to prevent recurring issues. Identifying root causes of incidents and defining remediation actions. Proposing solutions such as feature development, automation, or online help updates for recurring requests.
- Serve as the primary communication channel between IT and stakeholders. Collaboration with other support engineers, users, and other CMI and CAGIP stakeholders. Potential involvement in complementary tasks such as testing or business analysis.
- Follow CMI Run processes, standards, and recommendations provided by the Run Control Tower, actively contributing to their improvement.

Application Monitoring
- Supervise and monitor daily and monthly batch chains, which take place during the Singapore morning and early afternoon time, to ensure that problems are swiftly analyzed and resolved to minimize down-time.
- Process and issue daily, weekly and monthly reporting on data quality.
- Streamline processes to minimize manual intervention.

Incidents and Requests management (from business users and other IT teams)
- Analyse and manage incidents/requests.
- Coordinate incidents impacting several teams.

Problem Management and continuous improvement
- Identify recurring problems and eliminate them.
- Provide requirements to build team for bug fixing and improvements.
- Put in place trainings for business users to reduce the number of daily requests from business to IT.
- Process improvements.
- Coach more junior team members as required.

Change improvement
- Release testing.
- Performance analysis.
- Production deployment and validation.
- Production releases on weekend (rotating schedule within the team).

**Job Requirements**:

- Minimum 4 years hands on experience with development and support experience.
- Experience on Calypso version 16 is a nice to have but other back-office systems is advantageous to have
- Nice to have an exposure to Calypso Back-office functionalities:

- Engines
- Events
- Filters
- Reporting Framework
- ScheduledTask
- Message / Swift messages
- Transfers
- Settlement Delivery Instructions
- Accounting
- Pricers
- Workflows
- Reconciliation process
- Understanding of financial assets (Repos, Bonds, securities) and trade lifecycle.
- Experience with regulatory reporting (MMSR).

Technical
- Knowledge of Java, PL/SQL & Linux.
- Good knowledge in UNIX platform and database management systems( SQL, Oracle, Sybase, BigData..)
- Experience with automation frameworks and libraries.
- Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Shell script, PowerShell, SQL )
- Valuable exposure to tools & technologies like Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, Gitlab, MQ Series.
- Experience in DevOps tooling (GIT, Maven/Graven/Nuget/Ansible, Jenkins)
- Experience with Docker/Kurbernetes.

Functional
- In depth knowledge of Confirmations, Settlement, Position and Accounting modules.
- Understanding of financial assets (repos, bonds, SLB, issuances) and trade lifecycle.