Calypso Lead Engineer (Java)

Job Description:

Purpose:

Acts as a team lead of a software development team and provides business support for the production systems in assigned business units. Leads in all phases of the system development life cycle. Plans, monitors, designs, develops, integrates, and implements custom and packaged solutions to achieve business goals. Architect s solutions that are fit for purpose and mentors more junior staff to ensure overall quality. Manages internal client relationships to resolve complex support issues.

Primary Responsibilities:

Engineer Responsibilities:

• Lead in project analysis, design, and implementation phases
• Analyze project requirements and accordingly decide on technical and functional direction
• Prepare user requirements, technical specifications, and design specifications
• Lead in software development and suggest architecture decisions
• Lead in the definition of coding standards and lead the Peer Code Review processes
• Lead technical support of system acceptance testing and validation activities
• Define the appropriate agile processes to be adopted for a given project and provide leadership as required
• Drive the continuous improvement of engineering processes
• Lead system maintenance and oversee periodic review processes
• Review and decide upon improvements to existing system designs
• Deliver solutions to improve system performance and reliability
• Respond to customer queries and concerns in a timely fashion.
• Track issues, determine trends, and drive new designs to eliminate future issues.
• Lead meetings with teammates and business partners to discuss new ideas, issues and projects
• Perform system failure analysis and drive corrective actions.
• Lead root cause analysis and determine long term solutions.

Lead Responsibilities:

• Lead and mentor a team of employees/consultants, providing guidance and support
• Participate in capacity planning and resource management to ensure optimal team performance and project delivery
• Delegate tasks and set deadlines
• Monitor team performance and report on metrics Discover training needs and provide coaching
• Ensure that the team is consistently delivering working software to the highest standards
• Verify that the team is adhering to our commitment of principles and practices
• Understand and communicate process methodologies used in the bank
• Provide technical guidance in planning and executing assigned projects
• Communicate information to management including escalation of key issues and risks

Education:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Accounting, and Finance, or a related field, or equivalent work experience, is required.

Experience:
Minimum 10-12 years of experience in leading team(s), designing, developing, implementing, and supporting business applications, regulated financial services (preferably banking) environment is required.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Experience with hands-on development and implementation of Calypso v16 or higher (on-premises preferred) Strong understanding of over-all Calypso architecture with proven experience customizing and extending the platform, including APIs and infrastructure
• Experience with Calypso upgrades and enhancements for non-SaaS environments
• Familiarity with Calypso modules: Bonds, Swaps, Money Market, Workflows, SDIs, Accounting, Task Station, Corporate Actions, Scheduled Tasks, ERS, Reporting, Static and Reference Data Working knowledge of fixed income and derivative instruments, treasury, capital markets, and accounting knowledge is highly desirable.
• Understanding of operating systems, application security configurations, and best practices in Windows and UNIX environment is required.
• Ability to take the initiative to pursue assignments, responsibilities, and support requests to a logical and final solution and to employ System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) standards is required. Demonstrated knowledge and experience:
• 10-12 years of Object-oriented programming (OOP), Java experience of designing, proposing, documenting technology solutions and development experience of client applications, web services, and web applications.
• Relational Database Management Systems, such as Oracle, including PL/SQL and expert SQL.
• Working experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Angular and Serverless Framework is desirable.
• Designing, developing, and implementing web services in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Diagnosing and resolving complex issues with banking/capital markets systems.
• Developing functional and technical specifications for financial and/or accounting system (vendor or in-house) enhancements.
• Prior experience in large-scale enterprise-wide system implementation in financial services or similar experience strongly preferred.
• Experience in modern CI/CD tools and practices
• Creating and executing application test cases and test plans.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.