Equities IT - Senior VP/Director role - Fortune Global Bank in Singapore.

This role will encompass all aspects of the technology build and will require someone with experience of leading development teams, delivering mission critical front office applications and the ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines. The role demands detailed business knowledge of Equity Derivative products and markets. The ideal candidate comes from the Equities domain with focus on Wealth Management projects.

Requirements

·         The candidate is likely to be an experienced development manager having more than 12 years in IT with excellent product knowledge and technical expertise with a strong track record of delivery.

·         Strong knowledge of equity products and business, in particular the needs of Middle Office and Operations.

·         Lead a team of developers and analysts delivering high performance, scalable and robust solutions to the businesses.

Key Responsibilities

·         Responsibilities will include planning, technical design, development, testing, production readiness, financial management and environment management

·         Drive the technology build framework including continuous builds and test driven design.

·         Define the technology architecture for all applications and liaise with the architecture team to gain approval.

·         Build and lead a development team of developers and analysts.

·         Recruitment, development, retention and performance management of the team.

·         Detailed activity planning for design, build, test, and delivery.

·         Thought leadership for technical design of applications.

·         Ensure that application solutions are compliant technology and group standards, and that solutions satisfy both functional and non-functional requirements.

·         Build strong working partnership with other technology teams within the organization.

·         Ensure that project implementations adhere to all relevant acceptance criteria

Interested and Qualified Candidates can share their interest or apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

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Front Office Developer (C++ or C# or Java) - Derivatives team in Singapore

Overview

The Resource will be working as part of the global Technology solution delivery team for Commodity Derivatives and Structured Product Trading Business. This is critical business facing role to deliver high quality technology solutions to allow continual development and refinement of Pricing / Risk Management Framework based in Singapore.

Role: Front Office Developer

Responsibilities                      

·         Develop, Test & Release Sabre /Cortex based components for Commodity Business

·         Quality Review / Test components developed by peers

·         Work with business users and PSS teams to ensure stability                                       

Qualifications & Skills            

·         Strong development experience in Financial / Derivatives world

·         Strong C++ or C# or Java programming skills and Multithreading (Linux / Unix environment)

·         Strong Derivatives knowledge (Pricing and Risk concepts) is mandatory

·         Highly analytical and should have good quantitative skills

·         Knowledge of Commodity Derivatives a definite plus                                         

Interested and Qualified Candidates can apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

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Open Positions in Singapore (Let's discuss if you are Interested)

Are you working currently working in the Banking & Financial Services industry? We have new challenges in the market to discuss with you if you are interested to stabilize your career in Singapore!!!

Here are some of the Open Positions :::: to be based in Singapore!

1.      Core Java Senior developer (6-10 years) – Candidates must be in Singapore (Urgent)

2.      Senior Development Lead (Strong Java & C++) – Location not a constraint

3.      Core Java Swing (GUI) developer (4-10 years) – Location not a constraint

4.      Murex Technical Support Team Leader (7+ years) – Location not a constraint

5.      Murex (MXML) Developers (4-10 years) – Location not a constraint

6.      Data Architect (Product Control/Finance) (10-15 years) – Location not a constraint

Qualified and Interested candidates can share their profile to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

For more information Visit: http://theperfectjobs.blogspot.com

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Data Architect (Product Control/Finance) - Senior VP role with a Global Bank (Singapore)

Role: Data Architect (Product Control/Finance)

Job type: Direct Contract (12 months)

Job Description

This exciting new position will play a key role as Data Architect on a Finance project. The primary function will be to engage technology, finance and business finance teams in all aspects of discussions related to solutions and provide architectural roadmap that aligns with business priorities as well as technology governance.  This position will deliver variety of design artifacts such as blueprints, data models, data mappings and standardization, and data integration strategies and solutions.

Qualifications & Skills

·         Proven industry experience across all aspects of systems development, technology strategy creation, and management with an emphasis on data.

·         Some experience in Financial Markets and familiarity with Front Office Trade Booking Systems and Product Control functions.

·         Familiarity with Balance Sheets, Income Statement and Accounting Standards.

·         Proven analytical capability and thorough working knowledge of modeling and model management for ER- and UML-based models.

·         Exposure to key data standards and trends in financial services.

·         Extensive experience in working on the following tasks:

o        Enterprise data architecture management

o        Data warehouse, data mart, ETL/ELT and Business Intelligence technologies

o        Experience on data interface protocols, tools and standards, and familiarity with Data Delivery/Integration Tools.

·         Engaging with senior people within business, operations, and technology

·         Knowledge of recent trends in database and associated technologies.

·         Strong understanding of the relationships between processes, data and technology.

·         Good team work with strong influencing skills.

·         Excellent written and verbal communication skills, highly organized.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

The key roles of the Data Architect are in two areas: Establish a bank-wide data and information architecture and assist in the development of associated technology roadmaps for business units.  This person will also act as a key liaison with the various technology streams supporting the banking functions within Wholesale Banking, Group Functions and other Technical domains.

Interested and Qualified candidates can apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

           

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Senior Java Developer (GUI) - Work for a Banking client in Singapore

This role is an exciting opportunity to be part a large ecommerce trading system development team within a Greenfield environment. A successful candidate is expected to:

·         Execute development within a Greenfield development environment

·         Work with teams spread across infrastructure, product development, support, test, and the front office

·         Participate in ecommerce product requirements gathering

·         Participate in the development of all aspects of product delivery including design documents, functional specifications, and component build

·         Make contributions to the evolving architecture

·         Conduct issue and risk identification, management and resolution

This is a key role which will play pivotal role in the development.

Qualifications & Skills

·         Knowledge of all aspects of software design and development including the judicious use of domain specific languages and code generation techniques

·         Must have a working knowledge of the design of scalable, high availability, distributed architectures including three tier and n tier

·         Must have an excellent grasp of multi threaded, low latency, high throughput development in Java Swing

·         Must have an excellent grasp of messaging and communication protocols including point-to-point (TCP), multicast (UDP) and RPC’s including reliable and guaranteed messaging delivery policies

·         Cognizant of architecture and heuristics for the dissemination of market data and other real-time information. 

·         Working understanding of SQL and simple DDL operations

·         Excellent oral and written communication skills

Key Roles & Responsibilities

·         Take responsibility for the system component design and build, ensuring application release quality

·         Ensure developed code is fully tested through automated unit tests

·         Build relationships with key stakeholders

·         Adhere to the development practices

·         Manage application support handover to global support teams

·         Maintain and enhance the code base after project go-live

·         Build relationships with fellow developments managers, Infrastructure units etc.

·         Advocate delivery excellence, ensuring application release quality

Interested Candidates can apply to gopinath.karunamoorthy@talent2.com

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