Calypso Developer

About the job

Project Description

We are DXC Luxoft Financial Services - an award-winning provider of technology solutions, dedicated to the Financial Services sector.
Join our international team and become a member of our open minded, progressive and professional team of financial services consultants. In this role you will be working on projects for biggest investment banks across the globe. You will have a chance to grow your technical and soft skills, and build a thorough expertise in the Capital Markets industry. On top of attractive salary and benefits package, we will invest into your professional training, and allow you to grow your professional career.
On this project you will be working with the global investment bank under their Global Markets IT team scope to contribute in individual capacity on development, enhancements, and maintenance & support activities for multiple applications by efficiently utilizing continuous improvement and agile methodology.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities:

Application designing / development / testing / support / enhancements / bug-fixing.
Interact with functional and technical representatives of project teams in order to understand business functionalities, technical modules, integration mechanism and data sources.
Prepare test plans and conduct Unit, Integration, Regression, Performance and Functional Testing using automated testing frameworks.
Contribute to the technical designing phase and document the design with UML diagrams and models. Create prototype for proof of concept and business requirements validations.
Ensure that the project and organization standards are followed during various phases of software development lifecycle and day to day development work.
Estimate efforts and schedule for various modules and meet deadlines.
Technical and Release Documentation
Deployment of system components - Application, Shell Scripts and Databases.
Acquire skills in relevant technologies and take up higher responsibilities
To participate in out-of-hours / daytime support as required
To ensure that application is of good quality, ensure any issues are fixed on priority.
To work with teams to help solve complex technical problems
Work towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery efficiency
Contribute towards innovation; suggest new technical practices for efficiency improvement.
Conduct Code reviews

Contributing Responsibilities

Contribute towards innovation, suggest new technical practices to be investigated
Contribute towards initiatives to improve processes and delivery
Contribute towards recruitment efforts - both for the team as well as for the organization.

Skills

Must have

2-5 years experience in Calypso Development
Extensive Experience working Calypso customizations preferable in Back Office area.
Knowledge on Calypso Components: Engines, Event Server, Data Server, Transfers, Messages, BOCre, PL Positions, BO Positions, Reporting Framework, Cache, SDI, Product and Trade API , Cash flows, Pricing.
Customization experience on Message Handlers, Transfer, Custom service creation, Creation of Custom Engine, Customization of Swift Messages, Customization of Scheduled Tasks and other back Office customization. Experience with Calypso cross-asset platform - Calypso Architecture, Modules and Tools. Skilled in developing and maintaining interface designs for applications.
Proficient in Java, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems and proficiency in object-oriented programming
Knowledge on Collections API.
Control structures, access modifier, exception handling.
Thorough understanding of complete Software Development Lifecycle
Self-motivated, good interpersonal skills and inclination to constantly upgrade on new technologies and frameworks.
Good communication and co-ordination activities.

Nice to have

Basic understanding of UNIX servers and commands
Understanding of back-office processes like SWIFT messages, Settlements, CREs, Accounting etc.
Understanding of Equity and other OTC products
Experience of tools like Maven, Jenkins, Gradle

Languages

English: A1 Beginner

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