Calypso consultant

- Project

Description:

- Luxoft has one of the world's leading Calypso practice.
- We are a top-tier Calypso Partner and a market leader in implementation, integration, upgrade, and migration.
- We provide end-to-end project services and have delivered Calypso projects across all major asset classes and sectors including investment banking, asset management, corporate treasury, and insurance.

- Project

Description:

- Support and additional build out for a greenfield Calypso instance.
- Responsibilities:
- Establish a comprehensive and integrated project plan for implementation of FX Cash, FX Derivatives, and some Fixed Income trading desk on existing Calypso instance
- Full lifecycle Project management for Change projects and supporting the Program Sponsor for project delivery
- Create and deliver project work plans and revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- Competent in managing and establishing project methodology and best practice
- Ensures project documents are complete, current, and appropriately stored
- Works closely with relevant business and technology stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the project(s)
- Submits project status reports to stakeholders; coordinates and provides updates to steering committees
- Collaboration with key functional or business stakeholders to achieve clear outcomes/deliverables in relation to the strategic and transformational book of work
- Manage implementation deliveries ensuring transparency of risks, issues and dependencies that are fully aligned to functional / business owners

- • Manage the team to achieve a common goal

- You could also be acting as a scrum master in order to ensure the agile methodology is followed and the team is working efficiently.

- You might be acting also as a business analyst as well in order to help the team gathering and writing requirements, acceptance criteria.
- Mandatory Skills

Description:

- 5+ years of experience working in Capital Markets and on Calypso
- Deep knowledge of Financial products cross assets
- Proven track record of delivery of implementation / migration projects

- Experience of adherence to governance frameworks / implementation and handover to BAU
- Front Office proven experience in the development of FO related solutions and processes
- Comprehensive knowledge of trade flow, trading systems and related concepts and technology, including valuation and client/market risk management
- Leadership skills
- Excellent analytical skills, understanding of project life cycles, and ability to act in an entrepreneurial manner to ensure the requirements from the business are gathered in the appropriate manner.
- Proven analytical, planning, problem solving and decision-making skills
- Comfortable with direct communication with all levels of technical and business resources
- Excellent organizational and time management skills with the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously

- Experience with working in a highly collaborative and dynamic multi-team environment

- Nice-to-Have Skills

Description:

- Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment is essential.
- Have a willingness to learn new skills
- Must have attention to detail
- Must have the ability to work independently and also as part of a group

- Experience of Agile practices and processes (e.g. SCRUM, KANBAN)
- Any technical knowledge (Writing simple sql query, be able to read code )
- Conflict management ensuring collaborative outcomes
- Excellent attention to detail and accuracy