Career Opportunities at Luxoft

Project Description
The candidate will be expected to join a newly created Luxoft practice which is experiencing significant growth and be assigned to work with well known banks and brokerage houses to carry out a front to back review of how FX trades feed in from brokers and institutional clients via emarkets platforms and industry liquidity providers including Bloomberg and Reuters together with understanding all systems the current implementation connects to (limit management, pre trade checks, good to trade and KYC) as well as downstream consumers with a view to replace and update the FX trading system by integration of a new liquidity trading system provider.

Responsibilities
Integrate fx trading platform into client infrastructure

This role will be client based role working in a small group of business and technologists and the candidate will have a chance to shape the evolution and integration of a major new platform into the bank. The candidate will be provided with mentoring and initial training but is expected to hit the ground running and navigate large corporates to make an impact from day 1

Skills
Must have

• Systems analysis and project management
• A good understanding of fx spot pricing and risk management (not from a quant point of view) but from a trading, execution, liquidity aggregation and risk management point of view
• More specifically from a technology integration point of view and working with vendors to replace an existing FX trading system and introduce a new one and dealing with stakeholders and sponsors to alert them with areas of complexity and where decisions and optionality exists

Nice to have

• Experience of working in a front office demanding environment where perseverance and determination is valued
• Someone with a resilient attitude who is flexible in how projects are approached
• Knowledge of working with technology vendors and outsourced teams as well would be of interest

Languages
English: C2 Proficient

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Project Description
Luxoft has been engaged by a leading South African Financial Services organisation to provide Murex support services within their trading and risk operations.

We require an experienced support person with strong knowledge of the Murex collateral module and broad exposure to financial markets. You will be working in a high performing team of Luxoft and client staff.

sThe role is to drive, develop and support the trading platform for the business. This will involve liaising with colleagues in a number of geographies but with a key focus on the business activities taking place in London and South Africa.

The role is not based in South Africa, but you will be expected to support during their core working hours.

Responsibilities
• To be responsible for the day to day running of the trading systems
• Lead on trading technology focused initiatives and projects
• Providing and facilitating support as required
• Building and managing effective relationships with vendors
• Building and managing effective relationships with key internal stakeholders
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the bank in a structured and constructive manner
• Understanding, managing and communicating relevant market structure and regulatory change

Skills
Must have

• Murex Collateral Module 2+ years experience
• Excellent communication
• 2+ years experience in a BAU support role
• Proactive approach

Nice to have

• Datamart experience

Languages
English: C2 Proficient

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Project Description
Luxoft has been engaged by a leading South African Financial Services organisation to provide Murex support services within their trading and risk operations.

We require an experienced support person with strong knowledge of the Murex collateral module and broad exposure to financial markets. You will be working in a high performing team of Luxoft and client staff.

The role is to drive, develop and support the trading platform for the business. This will involve liaising with colleagues in a number of geographies but with a key focus on the business activities taking place in London and South Africa.

The role is not based in South Africa, but you will be expected to support during their core working hours.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the day to day running of the trading systems
• Lead on trading technology focused initiatives and projects
• Providing and facilitating support as required
• Building and managing effective relationships with vendors
• Building and managing effective relationships with key internal stakeholders
• Working collaboratively with colleagues across the bank in a structured and constructive manner
• Understanding, managing and communicating relevant market structure and regulatory change

Skills
Must have

• Murex Collateral Module 2+ years experience
• Excellent communication
• 2+ years experience in a BAU support role
• Proactive approach

Nice to have

• Datamart experience
• Experience in a financial institution

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Project Description
Luxoft have been engaged on this multi-year Murex upgrade and Treasury transformation program for one of our reputed client in South Africa and will require multi-skilled experienced developers across all modules of Murex covering front to back to risk. Candidates with technical expertise and domain knowledge in Murex modules are key to success of this project and to help our client with their aim of upgrading their existing murex version.

Responsibilities

• Part of the Integration team, candidates will perform the following responsibilities:
• Creation of FpML templates across all products
• Assess the impact of reference benchmarks across all integrations, provide changes, and prepare test cases.
• Contribute to overall solutions as per Integration deliverables
• Define overall testing strategy for the stream and perform various levels of testing for assigned deliverables as well as participate in formal release cycles (SIT/UAT)

Skills
Must have

• Strong understanding of XML/XSLT, Workflows, Integration concepts, Trade Repository and Trade Life Cycle
• Good knowledge of the different post-trade interactions between the various actors of capital markets including service providers

Must:

• 6+ years' experience with Murex BO and/or Accounting Module
• Must have a strong personality, logical and analytical skills
• Be detailed-oriented, a quick learner, and a self-starter
• Possess good verbal and written communication skills
• Must have strong organization skills
• Strong SQL, Unix, Scripting, Sybase, and Oracle skills

Nice to have

• BS or higher degree in Finance, Mathematics or equivalent
• Test management
• Trade life cycle management
• Market Data management
• 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 Excelian's 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 and resilience.
• 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.

Languages
English: C2 Proficient

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Project Description

The candidate will be expected to join a newly created Luxoft practice which is experiencing significant growth and be assigned to work with well known banks and brokerage houses to carry out a front to back review of how FX trades feed in from brokers and institutional clients via emarkets platforms and industry liquidity providers including Bloomberg and Reuters together with understanding all systems the current implementation connects to (limit management, pre trade checks, good to trade and KYC) as well as downstream consumers with a view to replace and update the FX trading system by integration of a new liquidity trading system provider.

Responsibilities

• Draft and maintain relevant test plans
• Monitor progress against plans and effect mitigation actions
• Evaluate emerging defects and recommend solutions
• Ensure compliance to governance processes
• Design relevant test scripts/ test cases to best determine system readiness and usability

Skills
Must have

In depth knowledge of:

• Relevant product/applications/service
• Test methodologies including quality assurance
• Documentation and requirement gathering
• Agile/DevOps principles and applications
• Knowledge of Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange would be advantageous
• Good understanding of Test Management Tool ie. Quality Center

Experience

• Systemic and integrated approach to testing so that up-stream and down-stream impacts are considered
•  Testing automation (preferred)

Nice to have

• Experience of working in a front office demanding environment where perseverance and determination is valued
• Someone with a resilient attitude who is flexible in how projects are approached
• Knowledge of working with technology vendors and outsourced teams as well would be of interest

Languages
English: C2 Proficient