Senior JAVA Developer

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 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 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.

The department is responsible for development and maintenance of Capital Market IT applications (in-house and package) used worldwide, covering Front Office (Murex, Apex, Orchestrade…), Back Office (Summit, Calypso…), Market data referential (Asset Control..), Market Risk (in-house application on big data technologies).

The Static and Market Data team works across the full value chain to feed FO, BO and Risk department with Static Market Data to sustain business activities.

This role aims to develop on Static and Market Data application, in project mode as well as maintenance, and to support the “run the bank” function. It requires a deep understanding of the nature of business operations, timing of activities & data flowing through internal and external systems. The build and support team continuously works with business users, infrastructure engineers and system managers.

Main Responsibilities

Build & change management

• Able to lead in terms of technology and conceptualize, propose design and architectural evolution, along with operational model.
• Contributing to development of high quality fully tested source code complying with deadlines, schedule and coding standards.
• Liaise with business analysts for clarification and understanding of requirements.
• Provide deployment and change management of the solution/platform.
• Develop tests strategy in coordination with project manager / Business Analysts.
• Provide technical assistance during user acceptance test.

Incidents and Requests management (business users and other IT teams)

• Communicate effectively.
• Analyse enhancement requests and bug-fixes.
• Document deliveries.
• Support applications in production - analyze and resolve issues as they arise as well as propose optimizations for future.
• Monitor the results and quality of the different software solutions and projects implemented in the organization.

Change management

• Apply monthly release strategy, following the team’s milestones for analysis, coding and testing.
• Support the release roadmap in production.
• Operations management
• Application support, level 3 (expert).
• Troubleshoot and fix issues.

Continuous improvement

• Process improvements.
• Technology, tools and infrastructure upgrade
• Automation of manual work
• Delivery efficiency and quality improvement

Qualifications and Profile

• At least 8 years of software development experience
• At least 5 years’ experience working with Java
• Strong understanding and experience in SOLID patterns, unit testing and integration tests
• Strong knowledge and experience with latest and advanced Java language features as well as Spring Boot framework
• Well experienced in RESTful APIs design & development with Swagger and OpenAPI standard
• Good knowledge and experience in AWS Cloud Fundamentals (Microservice architecture, Docker & Kubernetes, S3 storage, Redshift etc.)
• Experienced with Java OpenTelemetry and ElasticSearch to build the observability for applications
• Experienced with front-end development with either Angular or React
• Good knowledge and experience of SQL or similar
• Experienced with Maven, Git, Gitlab and JIRA
• Good knowledge of algorithms and data structures, with strong fundamentals in complexity analysis
• Strong ability to analyze code – understand execution flow & debug even without access to a debugger

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

• Apache Kafka, Spark and Iceberg
• Exposure to devops culture

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

• Understanding or interest in finance & financial markets, particularly the general knowledge of different types of financial assests, like bonds, equity, interest rate derivates and CDSetc.
• Willing to do L3 Support if required.

The candidate should have analytical and problem solving skills, a pro-active mind-set in security, proven ability to work individually under pressure. Team player with good interpersonal skills. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Besides having great development experience, a senior developer will be expected to make complex architectural decisions that balance difficult trade-offs, and defend those decisions to management and clients within the bank; He or she will be expected to take a leadership role sometimes in the team, mentoring less experienced colleagues and helping them progress.

All candidates, but particularly seniors, will be held to high a standard when it comes to communication, both oral and written. You should have good expository style, be able to explain yourself clearly and concisely, especially when the subject is technical and complex. It goes without saying that your English must be extremely fluent.