Senior Software Engineer (Java), Capital Market IT

Who we are

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world’s 10th largest bank by total assets.

Our Singapore center, Information System Asia Pacific (ISAP), is the 2nd largest IT setup (after Paris head office) for Crédit Agricole CIB's worldwide business. We work daily with international branches located in 30 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 and 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.

Recent years have seen unprecedented evolution to the technical infrastructure available to answer still more challenging regulation. The open position is to join one major investment project to answer to FRTB regulation. To be ready to tackle the regulatory requirement, the Market Risk Information System platform is being redesign to be global and adaptable enabling automated reporting and real-time processing and monitoring. The MArket riSk dAta Intelligence project will transform the Market Risk application landscape as it was known to bring it to the next level.

Main responsibilities

• Lead technical study into a propose solution, while involving expertise from infrastructure big data expert, business analyst requirement
• Document proposed design and develop the solution
• Implicitly ensure all CI-CD artefacts are part of the solution
• Perform code review while fostering knowledge and coaching best practices to team members
• Interact and provide reporting to project managers
• Monitor technical risk and escalate appropriately to management
• Research, design, and develop software.
• Analyse user needs and develop software solutions
• Update software, enhances existing software capabilities, and develops and direct software testing and validation procedures.
• Work with other engineers to integrate hardware and/or software systems

The position requires autonomy and reliability in performing duties with initiatives and leadership when it comes to all non-functional deliverables such as testing tools, mocking objects, production monitoring concerns, quality control including performance and load testing.

Qualifications and Profile

Mandatory

• At least 8 years in Software Development
• At least 5 years in Java/J2EE development
• Hands on data ingest and data processing technology like Spark streaming and Spark
• Hands on messaging systems like Kafka, Flume or ActiveMQ, MQSeries or RabbitMQ
• Hands on knowledge on Hadoop (preferably Hortonworks distribution) - HDFS, HBase, Hive, ORC/Parquet.
• Build tool - Maven/SBT/Ant, UML, Restful web services, Jenkins/Team City, Source management – SVN/GIT, TDD using Junit, Jira/QC.

Good to Have

• Solution design using proven patterns, awareness of anti-patterns, performance tuning, especially in streaming
• Knowledge of tools like Phoenix, ElasticSearch, Sqoop, StreamSets are good to have.
• Basic understanding of finance and investment banking