Senior Murex Datamart Reporting Consultant

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, 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 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

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 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

Skills -Must have

4-8 years of experience on MX3.1 Datamart

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

Technical skills

Very good knowledge of SQL (Sybase and Oracle), at least one reporting tool (Actuate, Crystal Reports, MicroStrategy), 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