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Job Description & Requirements
- Responsibilities:
Murex Application Responsibility: - Understand the Murex system setup at the client, organization of the support teams, end of day procedures and the report delivery process - Collect and provide detailed technical specifications/business requirement specifications - Participates in peer review of requirements, technical, and/or testing documentation and assists mentors junior members with same - Analyze 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 objects - Segregate reports by users, products, creation classes, fields needed, complexity and frequency of execution - Develop a generic data model and then create Datamart objects as required for the reports - Execute processing scripts and batches manually or through the use of a scheduling tool like Control-M - Reconcile report extraction output with the onscreen / mreport output - Analyze differences caused by adding or removing some filter conditions / dynamic table flags/launcher flags - Create and suggest processes, templates and tools to streamline the development, testing and implementation phases - Analyses issues during planning and test execution phases - Provide relevant and accurate information about defects and help the business reproduce errors - Prepare and send effective periodic and timely status reports - Track the testing progress and escalate the issue well in advance - Assists in the preparation and execution of test plans - Identifies the conditions that create errors to occur and escalates outstanding issues for clarification and resolution - Escalates identified issues/risks in a timely fashion to the team lead. - Assist team lead with effort estimation related to the development and UAT - Ensures test documentation and deliverables are consistent with defined standards
- Mandatory Skills Description:
- 7+ years of experience on MX3.1 Datamart - Understanding of the Murex system as a whole - Good understanding of capital market products - In-depth understanding of MX reporting architecture, MX datamodel, and MX Datamart configuration - Familiarity with MXRes configuration files, and launcher flags - Thorough knowledge of Datamart objects - dynamic tables, feeders, batch of feeders, scanner templates etc. - Exposed to Mreports; Mreport to Datamart migration experience is desirable - Experience with Simulation and Risk Matrices - Experience with Market risk and credit risk report development - Experience with RDBMS, e.g., Oracle, Sybase - Excellent SQL programming skills - Unix experience necessary; shell programming experience highly desirable; awk, sed, and Perl scripting experience would be a bonus - Experience with at least one reporting tool, preferably Actuate eRD Pro - Other programming experience a plus, esp MS Excel VBA Product knowledge (Any one or more, FX mandatory) - FX, IRD, FI, EQD, CRD
Technical skills
- Very good knowledge of SQL (Sybase and Oracle), at least one reporting tool (Actuate, Crystal Reports, MicroStrategy), basic Unix commands - Understanding of Trade Life Cycle - Should possess an understanding of financial markets - Basic knowledge on financial instruments such as Interest Rate Derivatives
- Nice-to-Have Skills Description:



