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
The Department
Capital Markets IT (CMI) is the IT department within the bank focused on solutions related to Capital Markets. 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 cloud and artificial intelligence is also becoming increasingly prevalent in capital markets to enhance efficiency and decision-making processes.
Team and Position
We are seeking a talented Front Office RAD Developer (Commando) with a strong aptitude for programming to join our dynamic Capital Market Department!
This Singapore-based position is within the Capital Markets IT (CMI) division, which manages information systems for capital markets activities, which includes Front Office (FO) booking platforms, Risk Management (RM) control and regulatory reporting systems, financial product and contract valuation systems, and much more.
The Senior Front office RAD developer sits in the Dealing Room directly with Front-office functions. The position involves a significant exposure to Financial Markets and requires a sense of independence and ability to work within a challenging environment.
The Senior FO Application Developer will join the Asia RAD team in Singapore. The role of this team is to efficiently and quickly bring technical solution to our Global Market trading desks and help them to achieve short to medium-term business goals. The successful candidate will therefore contribute to the broader digital transformation agenda while building or enhancing innovative and resilient tools for the Non-Linear Front Office.
Main Responsibilities
- Maintaining a strong working relationship with the trading. As a Capital Market Technical SME, the Senior FO RAD Developer will closely engage with Non-Linear Traders in Singapore to understand their day-to-day needs and business development plans.
- Proactively and interactively define automation solution and existing tools/processes enhancements to increase business efficiency.
- Agile Developer, manage the full IT delivery lifecycle from requirement gathering to production live support including solution design and implementation following IT best practices and guidelines for safe and reliable systems.
- FO first line of support: Answer business urgent support requests in a timely manner supporting trading tools (mainly in Excel/VBA and python).
- Strategic Thinker: Work closely with Asia peers and the central team in Europe to further consolidate the FO technical environment in a simple, cohesive and efficient platform.
- Technology Adoption: Integrate AI-assisted tools like GitHub Copilot in every aspect of your daily work to enhance development speed, business safety and deliveries quality.
- Understanding key business requirements of Rate Vanilla and Exotic Products desks.
- Taking part in the development of new tools and industrialization/enhancement of the current ones, following commando standards. Using mainly python for the backend and Excel for the front end.
- Working with a team of 2-3 commandos based in Hong Kong and Tokyo
Legal and Regulatory Responsibilities
- Comply with all applicable legal, regulatory and internal Compliance requirements, including, but not limited to, the London Compliance manual and Compliance policies and procedures as issued from time to time; Financial Security requirements, including, but not limited to, the prevention of Financial Crime and Fraud including reporting obligations to the Money Laundering Reporting Officer.
- Maintain appropriate knowledge to ensure to be fully qualified to undertake the role. Complete all mandatory training as required to attain and maintain competence.
Qualifications and Profile
- 10 years’ experience of IT development for the financial industry but we can accept a very good profile with less years of experience
- Good understanding of Capital Markets Domain and market activities.
- Sound Knowledge on Regulatory Reporting (MAS,HKMA,EMIR,JFSA,CFTC,MIFID)
- Functional Experience on Non-linear Rates, FX, Credit, Repo with proficiency in trading lifecycle and market data.
- Expertise in pricing and modelling derivatives like SGD SOR swaptions, USD SOFR-linked products, caps/floors, and callable bonds, with an emphasis on Asia-Pacific yield curves, regional rate dynamics, and callable product structures.
- Knowledge of credit risk and derivatives such as credit default swaps (CDS) on APAC corporate bonds, credit-linked notes (CLN), auto callable structured products and USD-denominated as well as Emerging Market bond pricing.
- Proficiency in repo markets, collateral management with Asian government securities (e.g., Singapore Government Securities), and short-term funding mechanisms prevalent in Asia and US’ money markets.
- Strong grasp of long-term FX modelling, cross-currency products involving JPY, financial mathematics, and risk metrics (e.g., VaR, Greeks), tailored to SGD, USD, AUD and JPY-based products, with familiarity of Singapore’s trading conventions and benchmarks.
- Relevant experience with working with external source like Bloomberg, reuters .
- Manage SLA & KPI management, client communication & interaction, Predictive analysis, consulting, escalation management, Risk analysis and project execution.
- Skills & Knowledge Requirements
- Proven experience in technical proficiency with strong skills in SQL
- Basic Understanding on NO-SQL DB .
- C#, Python, React.js
- CICD tools (Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible)
- Understanding of kubernetes and docker and any cloud platform: Container and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes), public IaaS providers (Azure, AWS - preferred, Google Cloud),
- ELK
- Github Copilot
- High level of proficiency in unix/linux,PowerShell scripting.
- Jira
- Appetite for continuous improvement and automation.
- Self-Motivated & Autonomous
- Team player
- Good and synthetical communication
- Ability to work under pressure
- Meticulous and rigorous
- Fast Learner
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and able to support Front Office users.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to juggle multiple requests at the same time from demanding users.
- Ability to articulate technical concepts succinctly to a non-technical audience.
- Autonomous, self-motivated and excellent team player.
- Strong perseverance and diligence towards attaining goals and effective time management.
- English required.to articulate technical concepts succinctly to a non-technical audience.
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.
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.
We offer a competitive remuneration package, consistent with your qualifications and experience.
For fair employment practices, we are keen on Singaporeans. We offer a competitive remuneration package, consistent with qualifications and experience.
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