Senior Murex Datamart Developer

at  Luxoft

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

A leading bank of Singapore is continuing on its Mx.3 migration journey and incorporating Bank’s report development requirement to cover various user streams such as Front Office, Back Office, Market Risk, Finance and credit risk related end user or interfaces reports.

SKILLS

Must have
6-9 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)

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