Lead Murex Datamart Consultant

Lead Murex Datamart Consultant in Singapore

Our client, a prominent bank in Singapore, is seeking a Lead Datamart reporting consultant for an ongoing project. The project scope includes development and enhancements such as account automation, futures price correction, and prime brokerage.

Responsibilities

• 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 elicitation, 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
• 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 PM
• Assist PM with effort estimation related to the development and UAT
• Coordinate with development and infrastructure team for availability of Mx environments and database
• Create and maintain report delivery plan with relevant traceability

Skills

• Must have

• At least 10+ 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 data model, 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.

• 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

• Very good knowledge of SQL (Sybase and Oracle), Atleast one reporting tool (Actuate, Crystal reports, Micro Strategy), 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, Credit Derivatives, Currency Derivatives, Swaps, Futures, Options, FRA, etc.

• Murex upgrade related report development & reconciliation experience.

• Nice to have

• Any reconciliation tools experience

• Murex MxML experience

• Other

• Languages

• English: C1 Advanced

• Seniority

• Senior

Location

• Singapore, Singapore

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