Global Market - Murex Datamart Developer

• At least 5+ 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), 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.

• Having MRA/MRE or MLC module knowledge is desirable;
• Desired Experience: Murex knowledge around - Pricing, Trade repository, Trade validation, MDCS, MxML exchange and workflows;
• Technical skills - PL/SQL, Shell scripting, Java, Excel VBA.

• Understand the Murex system setup at the client, organisation 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;
• Analyse datamart setup and the table structures for the purpose of identifying redundant objects, to minimise 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 datamodel 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;
• Analyse 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;
• Coordinate with development and infrastructure team for availability of Mx environments and database;
• Create and maintain report delivery plan with relevant traceability;
• Have excellent communication skills, both written and oral.

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