Software Developer (.Net)

Who we are

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (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 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 markets by:

• Envisioning and preparing the Bank’s futures information systems
• Partnering 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.

Team and Position

We are seeking a talented .Net Software Developer to join our dynamic Capital Market IT (CMI) department!

CMI 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.

We are starting the decommissioning of our Kondor Plus trading platform for our Treasury business to transfer this activity to our main front office target platform (Orchestrade or OT). Orchestrade is already implemented for other asset classes.

This DeKOT project (decommissioning of Kondor+ to migrate into Orchestrade) will migrate our worldwide cross asset treasury platform (all products) booked in several instances of Kondor Plus. The team in Singapore takes charge of some parts of the project (e.g. Inbound and outbound flows of the platform for various systems or modules, OT API and format such as Json, Protobuf, CIBML, etc.). Performance and latency of those interfaces will be key for the success of the project.

Main Responsibilities

• Research, design, and develop computer software or specialized utility programs.
• Develop and maintain automation tools for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment and quality assurance.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment as well as test processes.
• Work on the industrialization of test management.
• Work on the management of OT DeKOT environments.
• Work on the preparation/industrialization of the transition to Run mode of Orchestrade for Treasury.
• Monitor and troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues.
• Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of our DevOps culture and processes.
• Implement automated testing systems to ensure reusability and efficiency.
• Promote and implement testing methodologies, aiming to identify and address defects early in the development lifecycle.
• Provide technical support to other teams, assisting with problems encountered internally, such as system malfunctions. Propose solutions, suggest improvements, and contribute to data analysis.
• Stay up to date with the latest DevOps technologies and trends.

This position will be an important pillar of Support Orchestrade for Treasury. Gradually, this position will perform application support for users’ level 3 (Front to BO).

Profile and Qualifications

Candidates should have minimum 5 years’ experience in relevant activities.

Technical

• Good knowledge in UNIX platform and database management systems such as SQL, Oracle, Sybase.
• Strong Development background in C# .Net a must have
• Strong exposure to Data Structures, Algorithms, collections, multi-threading and OO design patterns (Must Have).
• Good knowledge on web APIs, HTTP/HTTPS, REST, SOAP etc.
• Good to have automation frameworks and libraries knowledge.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Shell script and PowerShell.
• Good exposure to DevOps tools & technologies like Gitlab, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, Elastic Search, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Control-M, KAFKA, Confluence, Jira, and MQ Series and test automation tools like Selenium (and other test automation frameworks), cucumber etc.
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes is a plus
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms and services is a plus
• .Net and Azure DevOps

Functional

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

Nice to Have

• Experience in supporting banking applications and trading systems
• Domain-Driven design and Microservices: Spring Boot

Other Professional Skills and Mindset

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with diverse teams.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Appetite to follow technology trend and participate to communities.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management
• Passion for sharing expertise and grow team members’ skills.
• Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player
• Ability and flexibility to work with cross-geographical teams operating in different time zones.