Calypso Engineer | Circa €90,000 | Permanent | Amsterdam

Relocation offered

Our client is looking for a Calypso expert to join their team. Your role will be to develop complex new functionalities and coordinate implementations on the Calypso Production environment.
Calypso is the system responsible mainly for the Back Office & Collateral operations that enables crucial commercial activities of our client.
Together with your team you will work on strategic projects that are keeping our client up to date with the latest Financial Market Standards while constantly improving the system.

Calypso current technology stack

• Calypso v16, Java 1.8+, Spring
• Oracle

Responsibilities:

• Work with Product Owner to understand and refine functional specifications and how they translate into application features.
• Use Calypso, Java and other supporting tools to build the requested features.
• Work on strategic projects and coordinate with other IT teams. Be able to take a leading role when needed.
• Be part of a DevOps teams in global Calypso and interact, support business users and stakeholders within different geographic locations.
• Provide recommendations and help improve development tools and processes
• Apply Agile methodology and work in bi-weekly sprints to achieve efficient results in projects.
• You bring seniority to the team and share your knowledge and best practices with the calypso community.

Required Skills:

• Solid Calypso experience.
• Strong knowledge of the Calypso Back Office (message setups, trades, transfers, workflows, accounting).
• Java hands-on programming knowledge. - Experience with Java 8 (or higher versions).
• Ability to use IDE and debug custom code/calypso API's for troubleshooting issues.
• Experience of working in Agile/Scrum and with CD/CI pipelines.
• Ability to write complex SQL's.
• Basic knowledge of payments processing.
• Functional Product Experience with Financial Markets like Money Market, FX and Securities products.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to design end to end solutions.
• Eagerness to learn new things and getting involved in complex projects.
• Ability to communicate well with business users and stakeholders.

Nice to have skills:

• Experience with calypso collateral Module.
• Knowledge of Collateral processing & bank Treasury main activities.
• Experience in multi-location teams.
• Project coordination skills.
• Experience in Agile Way of working, Scrum etc.
• Experience with opensource testing tools (eg - concordion, Junit, cucumber)