Description

Do you want to build a career that is truly worthwhile? Working at the World Bank Group provides a unique opportunity for you to help our clients solve their greatest development challenges. The World Bank Group is one of the largest sources of funding and knowledge for developing countries; a unique global partnership of five institutions dedicated to ending extreme poverty, increasing shared prosperity and promoting sustainable development. With 189 member countries and more than 120 offices worldwide, we work with public and private sector partners, investing in groundbreaking projects and using data, research, and technology to develop solutions to the most urgent global challenges. For more information, visit www.worldbank.org  

ITS Vice Presidency Context:

The Information and Technology Solutions (ITS) Vice Presidential Unit (VPU) enables the World Bank Group to achieve its mission of ending extreme poverty and boost shared prosperity on a livable planet by delivering transformative information and technologies to its staff working in over 150+ locations. For more information on ITS, see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=VTFGffa1Y7w

WBG Finance ITS Unit Context

WBG Finance (ITSFI) is responsible for providing high quality, streamlined information and technology solutions for the World Bank’s Financial services, which include Corporate Finance, Risk Management, Controls, Treasury, Loans, Accounting, and Concessional finance (managing donor contributions from inception to the point of final disbursement, including IDA, Financial Intermediary Funds and Trust Funds). ITSFI is additionally responsible for building its IT services using a shared platform that provides scale, leverage, reliability, and control while at the same time improving responsiveness to emerging business needs.  The above position will be under Treasury Information Technology (ITSRA), one of the divisions under ITSFI.  ITSRA handles the support of financial applications in the areas of Risk and Analytics that also includes Data Management and Reporting.

Job Opportunity

ITSRA is seeking an experienced, motivated, and ambitious MX.3 Tech Lead/Expert in Washington, DC with excellent technical and system architecture skills to contribute to the ongoing multi-tenant MX.3 platform implementation within the World Bank.

Responsibilities/Tasks:

•Act as Technical Lead/Solutions Architect for the integration of MX.3 into the World Bank’s application landscape of its Capital Markets LoB.  Specifically, this includes the integration of MX.3 with neighboring applications that perform trade capture, front and back office workflow, market data capture and dissemination, call monitoring, SWIFT messaging, collateral management, accounting, and reporting.

•Properly document technical analyses, designs, and specifications.

•Assist with the development and execution of test plans.

•Coordinate with vendors and oversee their deliverables.  (This includes reviewing proposed solutions and delivered code.)

•Coordinate with project team members (BA’s, PM’s, Tech Leads, Developers, etc.) to meet project milestones.

•Train existing technical staff on MX.3.

•Uphold established processes and controls for Application Development and Maintenance.

•Work with Enterprise Architects to ensure compliance with standards.

•Work with the Information Security Team to satisfy its requirements/recommendations and support related security testing.

•Work with infrastructure/Cloud Teams to oversee deployment, technical configuration, performance testing, etc.

Selection Criteria

•Master’s degree with 8 years relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and experience.

•High-Level Communication Skills (Verbal & Written)

•Ability to Work Under Aggressive Deadlines with Minimal Supervision

Business Domain Knowledge:

•Treasury & Capital Markets (Fixed-Income)

•Trade Lifecycle

o Trade Capture (Bloomberg, MarkitWire, Pega)

o Settlement & Settlement Messaging (SWIFT)

o Accounting (In-House Subledger)

•Plain Vanilla & Structured Instruments (Bonds & Swaps with Complex Payouts/Optionality)

•Valuation

•Liquidity Management

•Market Data

•Call Monitoring

•Reporting & Downstream Datamarts (SDR & EDM)

•Front & Back Office Business Processes

Technical Knowledge:

•Middleware: JMS, MQ

•Operating Systems: RHEL, Solaris, Windows

•Web Servers/Technology: REST, JBOSS, SOAP

•Cloud technologies: Azure, AWS

•Databases: Oracle 19c

•Languages: SQL, PL/SQL, XML/XSLT, Python, Java, Shell Scripting

•Version Control: Git, Branching Strategies

•Issue Tracking: TFS, JIRA

Murex-Specific Knowledge:

•Murex Integration Technologies

o Event-Driven/STP, MxMLExchange

o OTB Interfaces (SWIFT, Markitwire, MDIT, BSMT, Swapsmonitor etc.)

o MX Native Formats: MxML, MdML

o Datamart (Reporting, Extracts to Downstream Systems)

o Web MX (Murex Web Services)

o Murex Extension Framework (API’s)

•MX.3 Workflow Manager /STP Workflows, Pre-trade, Post-trade Workflows

•MX.3 ERM Risk technologies: MRA, MRB

•Market Data Management, Static Data Management

•Grid Technologies (Murex Platform Computing, Platform Symphony, Tibco Grid Server)

•Integration with External Authentication Service (LDAP, MSAL, etc.)

•MX.3 Architecture, Performance, Test Automation (MXTEST, CICD)

Project Methodologies:

•Agile, MX.3 Agile-Like (MXpress)

What will be considered as an advantage:

Proven track record of several major MX.3 implementations as a technical lead/expert.

World Bank Group Core Competencies

We are proud to be an equal opportunity and inclusive employer with a dedicated and committed workforce, and do not discriminate based on gender, gender identity, religion, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or disability.

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