Murex Technical Consultant

Murex Technical Consultant

12 Month Contract (Initial)

London

Hybrid Working

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We are happy to be recruiting for one of our high-profile Financial Services clients. They are currently looking for a Murex Technical Consultant to join them for an initial 12-month contract. However, there may be scope for extension.

Overview of the Role:

We are looking for an experienced Murex Technical Consultant who will be a key contributor in a Murex upgrade. The role will also have scope for delivering enhancements to the current Murex Enterprise Risk Management implementation. The role will revolve around delivery of the Murex upgrade project along with contributing to on-going development of the live instance. The consultant is expected to interface with multiple traders and Credit\Market Risk Managers. This is a demanding role with an opportunity to collaborate with the experts in the capital market space.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct gap analysis between current and target Murex versions and collaboratively address findings with upstream and downstream development teams.
• Help define overall regression testing strategy between current and target versions. Lead junior team members in the testing and triage of defects.
• Contribute to overall implementation strategy of the upgrade.
• Work with SME, Business Analyst to develop new market and credit risk solutions in Murex
• Deliver on-going enhancements to the production instance across, MLC, Market Risk, and Trade Pricing capabilities.
• Work with vendor and tech teams to define and deliver data migration to cloud.
• Reporting of project progress and impediments to management and stakeholders during project lifecycle.
• Operational reporting on issues and root cause, as well as follow up actions as required from dev team and/or vendors.
• Ensure runbooks are fully up-to date and unlock efficiency derived from automation.
• Hands-on experience with unix scripting and SQL
• Hands-on experience with Control-m, ADO, ServiceNow, and Confluence

Skills & Experience:

• A College or University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or similar.
• Solid technical background with a demonstrated track record in end-to-end software development life cycle and successful delivery of technical solutions using Murex.
• Previous experience of a Murex upgrade for a risk platform leveraging MLC and Market Risk modules.
• Expertise in Murex, particularly Credit & Market Risk configurations (PFE, CVA, VaR), Trade interface development (TDS, LTS), Market Data interface development (mdit), static data interfaces, workflow configuration, datamart reporting.
• Experience with project feasibility, requirements gathering, design and/or project leadership.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Murex Technical Knowledge:
• Credit risk configuration.
• Market risk configuration.
• Workflow configuration and development.
• Datamart configurations
• Interface development (TDS, LTS, MDIT)
• Additional Technical Knowledge
• Linux bash scripting
• SQL
• Domain knowledge:
• Market Risk - VaR, DV01, NOP
• Credit Risk - PFE, CVA, SIMM
• Trade pricing.
• IRD, FXD, SCF

Location:

This is a hybrid working role, with a requirement to work from the clients London office at least 3 days a week.

Working hours:

Standard working hours with some flex where required.

If you feel that this is a role that would suit you then please apply today.

If you do not hear from us within 48 hours of your application, please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

Pontoon Solutions are an equal opportunities company

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