Sr. Calypso Consultant

Job Title

Responsibilities:

Application support and maintenance in a Dev Ops/Agile delivery model

Implement, test, and support derivative accounting configurations and integrations based on business requirements

Responsible for documentation of the technical design based on the non-functional requirements

Contribute to best practices and standards for advanced derivative configurations and business processes

Perform impact analysis on various proposed technical solutions

Contribute to and review test strategy and test plans

Participate in complex derivative accounting testing

Participate in design review sessions

Clarify and resolve design related issues with developers

Highlight potential and actual issues effectively and work through to the appropriate resolution

Requirements:

Required:

Experience supporting and configuring a derivative accounting system

Calypso experience strongly preferred including a strong understanding of:

Business functionality and workflows by derivatives product type through a trade lifecycle including collateral management and UMR/SIMM calculations

Calypso task station and scheduled tasks

Reporting framework

Counter parties, custodians, and tri-party agent processes and configurations

Regulatory UMR/SIMM calculations, tax, accounting and compliance rules and processes and configurations

SWIFT messages processing and configurations

Data-uploader and CDUF data file mapping and configurations

Calypso API functionality/capabilities and the ability to develop to use the API

Market and static data (reference data loads) processing and configuration

Bloomberg and IHSMarkit knowledge

User provisioning / role management set up and management

Ability to support integrations with third party systems (SWIFT, Markit Wire, FXAll, Tri Optima, Acadia Soft, etc.)

Calypso's Grid mapper development/updates (XML mapping) and support

Testing to support calypso and third-party vendors monthly releases and/or new features

Daily L3&4 production support and incident management

Bachelor's degree or higher in computer or business-related field

2 or more years of experience with designing and implementing complex solutions

Demonstrated experience in solution design

Strong collaboration skills with the ability to work in a team-based environment including employees, vendors, including awareness of Agile work/collaboration concepts

Proven ability to provide technical leadership and guidance to less experienced team members

Strong understanding and adherence to IT SDLC and operational best practices

Preferred:

Cloud certifications

Calypso v16

CDUF file format

SQL, XML, .NET, TWS, SFTP, MFT, JIRA

Knowledge of the SDLC, development patterns, and best practices

Knowledge of data governance and data management technologies and methodologies

Competencies:

Ability to apply technical and business knowledge across multiple business functions

Ability to work in close collaboration with project/program managers, architects, developers, and testers to optimize the quality of the developed product

Ability to effectively estimate time to complete technology tasks

Influence design & architecture inclusive of technical (non-functional) requirements

Ability to communicate clearly and to simplify complex topics for a wide range of audiences (both written and verbal)

Ability to work through complex issues, identify themes, and develop solutions, in time-critical situations.

Ability to develop a strong understanding of business processes and functional requirements and skill to be able to translate business requirements into succinct functional / technical specifications

Ability to quickly learn new technologies and platforms

Ability to adhere to schedules and meet deadlines in the execution of job responsibilities