Java Software Engineer

Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking (Crédit Agricole CIB) is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, world's 12th largest bank by total assets.

• Our Singapore center (ISAP or Information Systems Asia Pacific) 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. We seek innovative and agile people sharing our mindset to support ambitious and forthcoming technological challenge

Department and Team

Capital Market IT (CMI) is the IT department within the bank focused on solutions related to Capital Markets. This includes Front Office (FO) booking platforms, Risk Management (RM) control and regulatory reporting systems, financial product and contract valuation systems, and much more. It is the department most directly exposed to the bank's financial operations.

CARMA is an ambitious project to revamp the bank's existing counterparty risk system, CCC, and move it onto the cloud. The application and its uses are extremely complex, comprising a grid computing component (with containerized workers orchestrated using ArmoniK as grid computing middleware), an electronic trading component, a live credit check component (on the critical path for trading), and much more.

Position

CCC currently runs on an on-premises cluster, but various constraints (flexibility, infrastructure costs, etc.) are pushing the move to a cloud-native implementation, referred to as CARMA internally.

You are an ambitious and motivated intermediate Java developer with some experience with Docker/Kubernetes, who is interested in building large, distributed cloud-native applications. Your core Java knowledge should be strong. Experience with modern cross-platform .NET (because ArmoniK is written in C#) would be useful, especially for deployment. Experience with Go (because Docker/Kubernetes are written in Go) would also be useful. Experience with C++ (because the quant library is written in C++) would be helpful. Experience with ArgoCD, cloud ops (especially on AWS but any relevant experience on competing platforms would be helpful), Terraform, and other cloud-focused DevOps skills would be useful, although this is not a DevOps role.

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

The successful candidate will definitely have:

• At least 4 years of software development experience
• At least 3 years experience working with Java
• An understanding of recent Java language features, such as lambdas, streams, and futures
• Knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with fundamentals in complexity analysis
• Good ability to analyze code – understand execution flow & debug even without access to a debugger
• Experience with Maven, Git, writing and maintaining integration tests
• Familiarity with Linux and bash
• Good knowledge of SQL

An ideal candidate will also have some or all of the following:

• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience working with cloud providers, especially AWS
• Git and a Git-portal like Gitlab or GitHub
• Jira or a similar issue-tracking system
• The Spring framework and IoC, and particularly Spring Boot and Swagger for restful web services
• Experience with Spark

Additionally, knowledge of the following would be helpful although it is not required:

• Familiarity with languages some important components used by the system are written in: C#, Go, C++
• Understanding of and interest in finance & financial markets, and in particular counterparty risk systems

We offer a competitive remuneration package, consistent with your qualifications and experience.

For fair employment practices, we are keen on Singaporeans and SPR. We offer a competitive remuneration package, consistent with qualifications and experience.

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Visit us on: http://www.ca-cib.com/