Luxoft has one of the world's leading Calypso practice.

We are a top-tier Calypso Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration.

We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered Calypso projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.

Project Description:

Support and additional build out (projects) for a greenfield Calypso instance.

Salary for New York - 95000-200000 USD dependent on knowledge, experience, and skillset

Responsibilities

• Establish a comprehensive and integrated approach to defining, setting up, or trouble shooting issues arising from day-to-day activities on greenfield Calypso instance

• Bloomberg AIM feed trades feed & security definitions download, if reprocessing of trades needed or reprocessing of events

• SOD/ EOD Scheduled Tasks

• Create and monitor them. If failed, need to troubleshoot.

• Calypso reports will be scheduled via scheduled task. Configure the reports that are not out of the box.

• MSFTA files will be FTP'd from Guardian to Calypso if they failed to load or generate

• Files that are sent to SFTP for Recon and Grid Mapper -if there's a missing file or a process failed; need to troubleshoot the root cause SWIFT connection related issues if the messages are not coming in or going out, need to troubleshoot

• Monitor if market quotes fail to update nightly Calypso system error messages, exception window how to troubleshoot If a new account needs to be added, book or broker what are the new background configurations that are required, or which ones need to be updated: internal configurations; scheduled tasks; filters; transfers (ex: there are ETD transfers; clearing transfers)

• Develop necessary technical solutions for Calypso instance on the cloud as per requirements

• Create and deliver assigned projects / tasks and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements

• Competent in managing and establishing methodology and best practice for Calypso technical requirements

• Ensures supporting documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored

• Works closely with relevant business and technology stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the project(s)

• Submits status reports to stakeholders; coordinates and provides updates to steering committees

• Collaboration with key functional or business stakeholders to achieve clear outcomes/deliverables in relation to the strategic and transformational book of work

• Manage deliverables ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional / business owners You might be acting also as a business analyst as well in order to help the team gathering and writing requirements, acceptance criteria.

Skills

Must have

• 5+ years of experience working in Capital Markets and Calypso

• Good knowledge of Financial products cross assets

• Proven track record of delivery of implementation / migration projects

• Proven experience in the development of Calypso integrations, reporting, and other technical aspects

• Experience of adherence to governance frameworks / implementation and handover to BAU

• Comprehensive knowledge of trade flow, trading systems and related concepts and technology, including valuation and client/market risk management

Leadership skills

• Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.

• Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills

• Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources

• Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

• Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment

Nice to have

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment is essential.

• Have a willingness to learn new skills

• Must have attention to detail

• Must have the ability to work independently and also as part of a group

• Experience of Agile practices and processes (e.g. SCRUM, KANBAN)

• Any technical knowledge (Writing simple sql query, be able to read code )

• Conflict management ensuring collaborative outcomes

• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy