Roles & Responsibilities
Project Description :
- One of our client (a leading bank of Singapore) is undertaking a strategic upgrade of its Murex MX.3 platform to enhance system resilience, support new product capabilities, and align with evolving regulatory and operational requirements.
This initiative includes upgrading from version 3.1.42.48b to 3.1.6x.x, onboarding the EQA and OSP Excess modules, and implementing comprehensive reconciliation, testing automation, and governance frameworks.
Responsibilities :
Understand the Murex system setup at the client, organization of the support teams, end of day procedures and the report delivery processCollect and provide detailed technical specifications / business requirement specificationsParticipates in peer review of requirements elicitation, technical and / or testing documentation and assists mentor’s junior members with sameAnalyze DataMart setup and the table structures for the purpose of identifying redundant objects, to minimize execution time of batches, and to seek possibility of reuse of objectsSegregate reports by users, products, creation classes, fields needed, complexity and frequency of executionDevelop a generic data model and then create DataMart objects as required for the reportsExecute processing scripts and batches manually or through the use of a scheduling tool like Control-MAnalyze differences caused by adding or removing some filter conditions / dynamic table flags / launcher flagsCreate and suggest processes, templates and tools to streamline the development, testing and implementation phasesAnalyses issues during planning and test execution phasesProvide relevant and accurate information about defects and help the business reproduce errorsPrepare and send effective periodic and timely status reportsTrack the testing progress and escalate the issue well in advanceAssist in the preparation and execution of test plansIdentifies the conditions that create errors to occur and escalate outstanding issues for clarification and resolutionEscalates identified issues / risks in a timely fashion to the PMAssist PM with effort estimation related to the development and UATCoordinate with development and infrastructure team for availability of Mx environments and databaseCreate and maintain report delivery plan with relevant traceabilityMandatory Skills Description :
At least 10+ years of experience on MX3.1 DatamartUnderstanding of the Murex system as a wholeGood understanding of capital market productsIn-depth understanding of MX reporting architecture, MX data model, and MX Datamart configurationFamiliarity with mxres configuration files, and launcher flagsThorough knowledge of Datamart objects - dynamic tables, feeders, batch of feeders, scanner templates etc.Experience with Simulation and Risk MatricesExperience with Market risk and credit risk report developmentExperience with RDBMS, e.g. Oracle, SybaseExcellent SQL programming skillsUnix experience necessary; shell programming experience highly desirable; awk, sed, and Perl scripting experience would be a bonusExperience with at least one reporting tool, preferably Actuate eRD ProOther programming experience a plus, esp MS Excel VBAProduct knowledge (Any one or more, FX mandatory) - FX, IRD, FI, EQD, CRDVery good knowledge of SQL (Sybase and Oracle), Atleast one reporting tool (Actuate, Crystal reports, Micro Strategy), Basic unix commandsUnderstanding of Trade Life CycleShould possess an understanding of financial marketsBasic knowledge on financial instruments such as Interest Rate Derivatives, Credit Derivatives, Currency Derivatives, Swaps, Futures, Options, FRA, etc.Murex upgrade related report development & reconciliation experience.Nice-to-Have Skills Description :
Any reconciliation tools experienceTell employers what skills you have
UAT
Interest Rate Derivatives
Market Risk
Oracle
Currency
Scripting
VBA
Financial Transactions
Traceability
Credit Derivatives
SQL
Crystal Reports
Excess
Test Execution
Excel VBA
Retirement