Expert Software Engineer (.NET)

Who we are

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (CA-CIB) is the CIB arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 11th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center is one of the 3 main IT Hubs for CA-CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 33 countries by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
• Collaborating and supporting core banking flagships and transverse areas in their large-scale development projects.
• Providing premium In-house Banking applications

This unique positioning empowers us to bring our core banking business a sustainable competitive advantage on the market.

We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenges.

Team & Position

Capital Markets IT involves technology solutions and systems used in financial markets for trading, investment, and related activities. This includes electronic trading platforms, risk management systems, market risk, counterparty risk, algorithmic trading, data analytics, and Regulatory measures. The use of advanced technologies like API’s, artificial intelligence and cloud solutions are also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.

In this role, you will act as the technical reference point for the team, sharing information with business stakeholders regarding technology stakes, opportunities, and risks. You need to take initiative and drive technical innovation. You will be accountable for ensuring adherence to technical standards and designs shared by the Technical Architect, and for ensuring that the technical delivery of your team is sustainable, consistent with the IT Division ecosystem, and aligned with the IS Strategy of its Filière.

We are starting the decommissioning of one of our Murex trading platform for our Bonds business activity to our main front office target platform (Orchestrade). Orchestrade is already implemented for other asset classes.

The project aims to migrate European Government Bonds Sovereign, Supranational and Agency debt , Credit Primary and Credit Secondary business scope worldwide (all products) that are booked in Murex.

We aim to migrate every Murex functionalities and processes and replicate them in Orchestrade to fit with business needs.

Position, PL and risk management will be migrated in a standalone application called RPS bond.

The scope is to replicate Murex functionalities into OT/RPS, as well as to migrate the stock of data and trades.

With strong interactions with our Paris Head office team, the Senior .net developer would put in place the first foundations of a development team based in Asia in Singapore. The senior developer will lead a future team of developers. The team will be fully allocated to this project and will be part of a multi sites project team.

The position involves working to develop code under modern standards, including possible cloud-readiness.

Main Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialised utility programs.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis.
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems and develop specifications and performance requirements
• Leads technical design for Projects led by the IT Delivery team. Inspires team to search for the optimal technical solution. Facilitates the collective search for technical solution. Validates Team technical design and is accountable for Technical pricing
• Supports the members of the team in their technical activities. Trains new joiners and junior staff. Helps IT Delivery team members in solving their technical issues
• Takes in charge most complex technical subjects. Contributes to code review
• Responsible for consistent code integration in the Information System. Analyses the impact of one technical design on IS technical architecture. Contributes with Technical Architect in the choices of implementation within the IS.
• Ensures quality and technical maintainability of the product. Ensures that development and testing strategies are respected by the team. Favours Best practices like Craftmanship and Devopss

Qualifications and Profile

Technical

• 8+ years of software development experience
• 5+ years’ experience working with C#, and particularly modern, cross-platform .NET
• A strong understanding of advanced C# language features, such as async/await, dependency injection, etc.
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with strong fundamentals in complexity analysis
• Good knowledge of development tools: Jenkins, GIT, SVN, Azure DevOps or equivalent
• Strong ability to analyze code – understand execution flow & debug even without access to a debugger
• Experience with the dotnet CLI, writing and maintaining integration and unit tests
• Strong familiarity with both Windows and Linux, including shell scripting
• Good knowledge of Transact SQL and Entity Framework Core
• 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
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services
• Experience in DevOps tooling (GIT, Maven/Graven/Nuget/Ansible, Jenkins… )
• Experience with Docker/Kurbernetes

Functional

• Experience in supporting capital market applications and trading systems, ideally within the dynamic landscape of Market Risk/Front Office operations with a commendable grasp of financial products (Treasury, FX, Credit, IRD, Bonds, RSF etc.)

Nice to Have

• Domain-Driven design and Microservices: Springboot
• Exposure to Capital Markets applications