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Description

Build the foundation of a brilliant future and get hands-on experience on highly sought after technical and financial skills and open the door to a rewarding career in the Fintech Industry. At Elenjical Solutions, your mentor will guide you in your professional and personal development, accelerating your learning and growth.

One Year Program – Exposure to real projects. Your program will be complemented with on the job, classroom and e-learning.

Domain Knowledge – Learn in-depth about the team you are selected by.

Mentored by the Best – Have the opportunity to be mentored by the best in the industry as you carve a foothold in the Fintech world.

Requirements

• Bachelors, Masters or PhD in: Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Financial Risk Management
• 0-2 years working experience

Elenjical Solutions is a Fintech start-up that has recently entered into a partnership with Amazon Web Services to migrate Enterprise clients to the cloud in the EMEA region. We specialise in large financial risk management systems and have various positions open.

Our culture

• We value collaboration and innovation
• Open and honest feedback encouraged from everyone
• Technical prowess and endless appetite to learn
• Your growth and success are critical for the organization’s growth and success
• Continual learning and training are encouraged and supported
• Flexibility in work-life balance

Responsibilities

Your initial focus will be on learning our main financial system and how it operates on-premises and in the cloud, while you obtain certifications in relevant technologies. Understanding each unique client’s requirements and developing proof of concepts followed by developing and implementing platform solutions with an automate-first approach. The role requires some development mainly used for automation, housekeeping and maintenance of systems and is not a full-time developer role.

Troubleshoot infrastructure, architect solutions and systems.

Regularly engage with clients and work with various vendors

Current tech stack

• Murex MX.3,
• A plethora of AWS services,
• Docker,
• Atlassian tools – Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence,
• Git,
• Linux,
• Bash,
• Python,
• Jenkins,
• Apache Airflow

Core Competencies

• AWS
• Python
• Bash
• Knowledge of broader IT field. Networks, storage, security
• General software development experience

Advantageous competencies

• DevOps experience or training

Preferred certifications

• Relevant B.Sc. or B.Eng. university degree, or
• AWS certifications, or
• Two or more of the following:
  • RHCE,
  • Red Hat certified specialist in ansible automation,
  • DevOps Institute – DevOps Foundation Certification,
  • DevOps Institute – Continuous Delivery Ecosystem Foundation,
  • Docker certified associate,
  • Kubernetes administrator certification,
  • Puppet certified professional,
  • Other certs related to the above (please motivate)

Ideal candidate

An ambitious person with a can-do attitude. Being part of a fast-growing start-up, someone willing to do things that might not have been done before. The ideal candidate needs to be autonomous and be able to adapt to changes quickly and efficiently.

More about our company

Elenjical solutions started as a risk management company focusing on one specific software tool called Murex (MX.3). After successfully migrating this system to the cloud and providing it to our customers as a service, we were recognised by Amazon Web Services as only one of three companies globally to provide this service.

In 2020, Elenjical Solutions won the National Fintech Award at the South African Small business awards.

Elenjical Solutions also fosters a culture of continuous innovation and learning. Our incubator program allows employees to present ideas for products or improvements or simply to learn new technology and receive support in various forms from the company.

Job Description

Elenjical Solutions (ES) is looking for a Senior Murex Integration Consultant with experience in Datamart, Workflows. The candidates should have experience in both project work and production support.

Consulting Skills

• Requirements Gathering – ability to extract and understand client requirements
• Solution Design – ability to create solutions given requirements
• Scoping – contribute to scoping and effort estimations
• System Configuration – the ability to configure systems and/or develop system software to deliver functional solutions to client system requirements
• Planning – the ability to plan task execution and deliver accordingly
• Documentation – the ability to document requirements, solutions and configuration in a clear and concise way
• Testing – the ability to define test cases for Unit tests, System Integration Tests, User Acceptance Tests and Regression Tests
• System Training – the ability to train system developers and end-users
• Post Implementation Support – the ability to support client queries post-implementation
• Stakeholder Engagement – the ability to engage relevant stakeholders and manage expectations
• Prioritisation – the ability to identify the object of the highest importance and executing accordingly
• Communication – the ability to convey relevant information in the written and verbal form
• Interpersonal Skills – the ability to interact with other people, individually and in groups through listening, effective speaking and the ability to control and manage emotions
• Collaboration – the ability to work as a team to achieve a common goal

Responsibility

• Work closely with analysts to ensure what is written down in requirements, and technical design documents are accurate and meet Murex standards
• Create detailed unit testing plans and test cases
• Mentor integration analysts at ES
• Provide training to relevant ES employees
• Coordinate and collaborate with other teams during initiation, design, and implementation stages of workstreams

Education

• BSc degree/Engineering/Equivalent

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communications skills
• Desire to work in a collaborative, multicultural, and international environment
• Good knowledge and understanding of various asset classes such as EQD, IRD, MM, FX, Commodities, and Credit & Credit derivatives
• Understanding of financial markets systems architecture
• Sizeable involvement in project work – preferably as a lead involved in concept to implementation phase of workflows
• Sizeable involvement in project work – preferably as a lead involved in concept to implementation phase of interfaces
• Sizeable involvement in project work – preferably as a lead involved in concept to implementation phase of datamart reports
• Demonstrate excellent understanding of Murex best practices when it comes to developing interfaces and datamart reports
• Great understanding of MxML Exchange architecture and datamodel
• Great understanding of MxML Data Dictionary formula types
• Good understanding of services used by the MxML Exchange and its tasks
• Good understand of different business workflows and their interactions with the exchange
• Great understanding of Murex reporting architecture
• Experience in dealing with Risk, Front Office, and Middle Office in both project setting and production environment
• Good understanding of the Murex GOM model
• Experience in trade capture, trade validation
• Good understanding of Murex connectivity 2.0 interfaces such as MarkitWire, MarginSphere, IM Exposure Management, Euroclear, Clearstream, TDS, BSMT, DTCC/Univista
• Python, Java, XSLT, SQL, Unix shell scripting
• Murex CICD
• Nice to have:
  • Murex 3T certified
  • Either one or all FRM, CFA, CQF certification

Languages

• English: C2 Proficiency

Description

An excellent opportunity for personal development in a dynamic environment. You will join a highly skilled and dynamic team specializing in Murex in South Africa. There are good opportunities to develop in different areas. The team is highly skilled and will provide a great opportunity to expand your knowledge.

Requirements

• Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Financial Risk Management
• Exposure to any: Murex, Front Arena, Calypso
• Strong knowledge (three or more): Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives, Money Markets, FX, Commodities
• Strong knowledge of product pricing and sensitivities calculation
• 4-6 years working experience

Consulting Skills

• Requirements Gathering – ability to extract and understand client requirements
• Solution Design – ability to create solutions given requirements
• Scoping – contribute to scoping and effort estimations
• System Configuration – the ability to configure systems and/or develop system software to deliver functional solutions to client system requirements
• Planning – the ability to plan task execution and deliver accordingly
• Documentation – the ability to document requirements, solutions and configuration in a clear and concise way
• Testing – the ability to define test cases for Unit tests, System Integration Tests, User Acceptance Tests and Regression Tests
• System Training – the ability to train system developers and end-users
• Post Implementation Support – the ability to support client queries post-implementation
• Stakeholder Engagement – the ability to engage relevant stakeholders and manage expectations
• Prioritisation – the ability to identify the object of the highest importance and executing accordingly
• Communication – the ability to convey relevant information in the written and verbal form
• Interpersonal Skills – the ability to interact with other people, individually and in groups through listening, effective speaking and the ability to control and manage emotions
• Collaboration – the ability to work as a team to achieve a common goal

Added strengths

• Strong skills in Python, SQL, XML

Description

An excellent opportunity for personal development in a dynamic environment. You will join a highly skilled and dynamic DevOps team specializing in Murex in South Africa. There are good opportunities to develop in different areas. The team is highly skilled and will provide a great opportunity to expand your knowledge.

Requirements

• Excellent knowledge of Git, Jenkins, Ansible, Terraform etc.
• Outstanding Linux, SQL and Shell scripting skills
• Experience with CMS and Cloud (AWS/Azure)
• Experience in Team city/Jenkins
• Good exposure to Monitoring tools/Dashboards
• Experience of working with Jira
• Agile SDLC experience

Added strengths

• Murex technical background
• Capital Markets Knowledge
• Strong skills in Python, Flask, Celery, Quantlib, Docker, Redis, MongoDB, Typescript, React, Plotly, Blueprint-js, Dataframe-js

Description

Expertise is multiple programing languages and exposure to Capital Markets/Treasury.

Requirements

• Bachelors, Masters or PhD in Sciences, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Financial Risk Management
• Exposure to any: Murex, Front Arena, Calypso
• Strong knowledge (three or more): Fixed Income, Interest Rate Derivatives, Money Markets, FX, Commodities
• Strong knowledge of product pricing and sensitivities calculation
• 4-6 years working experience

Consulting Skills

• Requirements Gathering – ability to extract and understand client requirements
• Solution Design – ability to create solutions given requirements
• Scoping – contribute to scoping and effort estimations
• System Configuration – the ability to configure systems and/or develop system software to deliver functional solutions to client system requirements
• Planning – the ability to plan task execution and deliver accordingly
• Documentation – the ability to document requirements, solutions and configuration in a clear and concise way
• Testing – the ability to define test cases for Unit tests, System Integration Tests, User Acceptance Tests and Regression Tests
• System Training – the ability to train system developers and end-users
• Post Implementation Support – the ability to support client queries post-implementation
• Stakeholder Engagement – the ability to engage relevant stakeholders and manage expectations
• Prioritisation – the ability to identify the object of the highest importance and executing accordingly
• Communication – the ability to convey relevant information in the written and verbal form
• Interpersonal Skills – the ability to interact with other people, individually and in groups through listening, effective speaking and the ability to control and manage emotions
• Collaboration – the ability to work as a team to achieve a common goal