Software Engineer

About the Company: DXC Luxoft has one of the world's leading Murex practices. We are a top-tier Murex Alliance Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration. We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered over 200 successful Murex projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance. Whether you possess a background in finance, technology, or Mathematics, your experience in the capital markets industry would be of high interest to us.

About the Role: This role involves advising on Murex best practices, contributing to client-site implementations, providing client support, and communicating development needs to the Murex product development team.

Responsibilities:

- Junior:
- Advising on Murex best practices in the P&L processes, position management, accounting, hedge accounting and financial reporting.
- Contributing to client-site MX.3 implementations during the requirements gathering, design, build, test, and deployment phases by participating in workshops, preparing documentation, configuring client requirements and performing quality assurance tests.
- Providing client support including managing open issues and supporting upgrade activities.
- Communicating development needs to the Murex product development team.
- Providing internal and external training.

- Senior:
- Advising on Best Practices: Provide guidance on Murex best practices in P&L processes, accounting, hedge accounting, position management, and financial reporting.
- Client-Site Implementations: Lead all trading designers during an implementation or upgrade;
gathering, design, build, test, and deployment phases by participating in workshops, preparing documentation, configuring client requirements, and performing quality assurance tests.
- Client Support: Manage open issues and support upgrade activities.
- Communication: Handle the relationship with the product team in one area of expertise and assist in building the product roadmap for the region.
- Documentation and Training: Provide internal and external documentation and training.

Qualifications:

- Junior: Ideal candidate is someone with 2-3 years' experience in capital markets technology. The candidate should have a good understanding of accounting principles under IFRS or US GAAP. Knowledge of hedge accounting is a plus. Preferable experience includes supporting either trading, treasury or accounting at banks or other financial institutions or has experience with other fintech vendors. Strong academic background in accounting, engineering or a math-based discipline (math, operations research, statistics etc.). Knowledge of Unix/Linux operating system, SQL, and basic programming is a plus.

- Senior: The ideal candidate has more than 5 years of experience in capital markets technology. Proven client-facing experience in a support or project implementation role, preferably in trading or risk management solutions in financial institutions. Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a master's in financial engineering, Applied Finance/Statistics/Mathematics, or Computational Finance. Systematic problem solver with critical thinking abilities. Strong presenter and effective communicator. Knowledge of Unix/Linux operating systems, SQL, and basic programming.

Required Skills:

- Good product knowledge/understanding in IRD, CRD, COM, EQD, FXD, FXMM.
- Good understanding of accounting principles, accounting rules, ledger, and account balances.
- Good working knowledge of Murex Accounting knowledge.
- Strong understanding of Back Office functions as well as processing.
- Strong functional and technical understanding on the settlement instructions.
- Good knowledge of the different post-trade interactions between the various actors of capital markets including service providers.
- Good understanding of OSP (open settlement protocol).

Preferred Skills:

- BS or higher degree in Finance, Mathematics or equivalent.
- Implementations and upgrades.
- Test management.
- Trade life cycle management.
- Market Data management.
- Knowledge in SQL (Oracle and/or Sybase) and Unix commands is a plus.
- Good understanding of Market Risk Management (including VaR, stress-tests, back-testing).
- Client focus: understands clients' businesses;
identifies and understands the needs and objectives of clients, both on an individual and corporate basis;
builds strong relationships to aid Luxoft aim of being a trusted partner to the clients.
- Communication skills: expresses ideas effectively, both verbally and in writing;
adjusts language, terminology and non-verbal communication as appropriate.
- Teamwork: works effectively with others;
helps to build strong teams and networks.
- Personal leadership: realistically identifies own skills, experience, knowledge and other personal attributes;
displays confidence andresilience.
- Planning and organizing: identifies and meets milestones;
understands and articulates deliverables;
assesses and mitigates risks;
sticks to the scope of work and manages any changes.
- Analytical decision-making: identifies and solves problems using insight and experience to make good decisions;
gathers relevant information, identifying important issues and drawing conclusions.