Calypso Team Lead

1 Month ago • 10-5 Years • Operations

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Job Description

This Senior Calypso Team Lead role in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia focuses on providing first-line technical and functional support for Calypso applications (front to back). Responsibilities include investigating and resolving issues, documenting support tickets, collaborating with stakeholders, supporting software releases, driving continuous improvements, and participating in on-call support. The ideal candidate will possess 10+ years of relevant Calypso experience, knowledge of FX, Listed products, and Derivatives, and experience with agile methodologies. The role involves working closely with project teams and ensuring the 'always-on' status of critical applications.
Must have:
  • 10+ years Calypso experience (front-to-back)
  • Knowledge of FX, Listed products, Derivatives
  • Agile experience (Scrum, Jira)
  • Incident & problem management
  • Strong communication & collaboration skills
  • Technical maintenance of Calypso application
Good to have:
  • Experience on other financial markets platforms (e.g., Murex)
Project description

We are looking for an experienced Senior Calypso Team Lead to strengthen our team in Riyadh running maintenance project for a large customer in KSA. You will be responsible for first-line technical and functional support of the Calypso applications (front to back) and associated technical services. The role involves user support across the front and back offices, technical maintenance of the application and involvement in the delivery of key change initiatives for the bank.

Responsibilities

Investigate issues as and when they occur, participate in root cause analysis, and suggest and implement resolutions in a timely manner to prevent future occurrences of similar issues through incident and problem management best practices.

Complete necessary documentation to track and close support tickets and ensure timely updates to business users and management.

Develop an overall understanding of the business operating environment, business goals and objectives for the prevailing period.

Collaborate with business partners, third party vendors, and technology groups to facilitate the support process and work toward issue resolution.

Work closely with project teams, provide analysis, support and assist with software releases and rollouts in the production environment according to Change Management best practices.

Drive continuous improvement opportunities i.e. event monitoring and alerting, automate manual activities whenever possible

Participate in an on-call support roster to ensure our most critical applications are Always On for our colleagues and customers and work overtime as required to fix service impacting incidents, maintain our technology services, participate in Disaster Recovery activities and assist with change delivery.

Proactively manage risk; meet all policy and compliance requirements; perform controls; adhere to Process and Procedures pertinent to role; and escalate events, issues or breaches as they are identified (risk accountability forms part of all roles, as everyone is responsible for managing risk and compliance).

Assist in the induction of new team members and provide coaching and mentoring to peers and colleagues as requested and/or agreed providing constructive and effective feedback on an on-going basis

Demonstrate professional and ethical behavior in your actions by ensuring compliance with external legislation, bank standards and internal operating policies and procedures.

Proactively participate in Performance Review processes including development and assessment of scorecard objectives, values and individual development plans.

Fully participate in 1:1 meetings on a monthly basis and document outcomes of performance conversations on a regular basis as well as providing feedback on the performance and values demonstrated by colleagues and peers.

Skills

Must have

10++ Years of relevant Calypso (and/or other Trading System) Front to back office.

Knowledge of FX, Listed products, Derivatives and related trade lifecycle events

Experienced in agile, iterative project techniques including Scrum; experience with Jira is required

Collaborate with the rest of internal team using a servant leadership style and leading by example, supporting in coordination role on technical side.

Follow internally evolution of technical team developments, assuring quality and efficiency of the processes.

Lead the collaboration with external technical teams, designing and validating integrated solutions.

Demonstrated ability to understand how tasks and milestones collaborate and connect together across related projects.

Strong organizational and time management skills

Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively using verbal and written methods with stakeholders at different levels

Nice to have

Any experience on other financial markets platforms (e.g Murex)

Other

Languages

English: B2 Upper Intermediate

Seniority

Senior

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About The Company

Luxoft, a DXC Technology Company (NYSE: DXC), is a digital strategy and software engineering firm providing bespoke technology solutions that drive business change for customers the world over. Acquired by U.S. company DXC Technology in 2019, Luxoft is a global operation in 44 cities and 21 countries with an international, agile workforce of nearly 18,000 people. It combines a unique blend of engineering excellence and deep industry expertise, helping over 425 global clients innovate in the areas of automotive, financial services, travel and hospitality, healthcare, life sciences, media and telecommunications.

DXC Technology is a leading Fortune 500 IT services company which helps global companies run their mission critical systems. Together, DXC and Luxoft offer a differentiated customer-value proposition for digital transformation by combining Luxoft’s front-end digital capabilities with DXC’s expertise in IT modernization and integration. Follow our profile for regular updates and insights into technology and business needs.

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