Murex Datamart Consultant

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Job Description & Requirements

• Responsibilities:

Murex Application Responsibility

• Understand the Murex system setup at the client, organization 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
• Analyze Datamart setup and the table structures for the purpose of identifying redundant objects, to minimize 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 data model 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
• Analyze 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

Requirements

• Mandatory Skills Description:

• 7+ 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) - FX, IRD, FI, EQD, CRD

Technical skills

• Very good knowledge of SQL (Sybase and Oracle), at least one reporting tool (Actuate, Crystal Reports, MicroStrategy), basic Unix commands
• Understanding of Trade Life Cycle
• Should possess an understanding of financial markets
• Basic knowledge on financial instruments such as Interest Rate Derivatives

• Nice-to-Have Skills Description: