Murex Datamart Consultant

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Project Description

Project Description

A large Indian Bank has engaged Luxoft for providing Murex Datamart & reporting enhancement & development services.
We are looking to onboard a consultant who should be able to cover Murex Datamart reports.
The consultant would be working with Banks Internal teams to develop enhancements, change requests and provide support for Production issues around datamart reporting.

Responsibilities

General Responsibility:


• Self driven and able to delegate work to team members
• Able to review work from team members
• Strong analytic and technical skills
• Gone through at least 2 full cycles of SDLC
• Good understanding of usage of various dynamic tables
• Good knowledge of one or more development tools
• Able to configure, execute and troubleshoot batch report in MXG
• Able to design and optimize usage of dynamic tables
• Able to guide team members
• Ensure all deliverables are good and timely
• Able to escalate issues/risks in a timely manner to supervisor
• Good communication skills
  
  
Murex Application Responsibility


• Understand the Murex system setup at the client, organisation 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
• Analyse datamart setup and the table structures for the purpose of identifying redundant objects, to minimise 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 datamodel 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
• Analyse 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
• Coordinate with development and infrastructure team for availability of Mx environments and database
• Create and maintain report delivery plan with relevant traceability
• Have excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Try to increase team’s domain and application knowledge through formal / informal sessions or discussion
  
  

Skills

Must have

• At least 3-5 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.
• Experience with Simulation Viewer, Risk and Liquidation based reports build
• Experience with RDBMS, e.g. Oracle, Sybase
• Excellent SQL programming skills
• Basic Unix skills
• Other programming experience a plus, esp MS Excel VBA
  
Product knowledge: FX, MM, FI. Equities
Technical skills - Very good knowledge of SQL (Oracle),
Basic unix commands
Understanding of Trade Life Cycle (Pricing>>Booking>>Validation>>Confirmation>>Settlements>>Accounting>>Reporting>>Events>>Market Risk>>Credit Risk>>Market Data etc)
Should possess an understanding of financial markets

Nice to have

Other Programming Experience a Plus, Esp MS Excel VBA

Product knowledge: FX, MM, FI. Equities
Languages
English: A2 Elementary