About CLS:
CLS is the trusted party at the centre of the global FX ecosystem. Utilized by thousands of counterparties, CLS makes FX safer, smoother and more cost effective. Trillions of dollars’ worth of currency flows through our systems each day.
Created by the market for the market, our unrivalled global settlement infrastructure reduces systemic risk and provides standardization for participants in many of the world’s most actively traded currencies. We deliver huge efficiencies and savings for our clients: in fact, our approach to multilateral netting shrinks funding requirements by over 96% on average, so clients can put their capital and resources to better use.
CLS products are designed to enable clients to manage risk most effectively across the full FX lifecycle – whether through more efficient processing tools or market intelligence derived from the largest single source of FX executed data available to the market.
Our ambition to make a positive difference starts with our people. Our values underpin everything that we do at CLS and define our working environment:
- Pivotal purpose
- Trusted guardian
- Targeted innovation
- Facilitate connections
- Delivering excellence
- Inclusive culture
Application Development Senior Software Engineer (C++) (CLS US Services Inc., Iselin, NJ)
Provide day-to-day support for the development and testing of the USP (Unified Services Platform) Settlement Service applications. Collaborate with the Business Analyst, Infrastructure, Engineering, P&C, and IT Security teams in various key areas, such as environment requirements analysis, design, capacity planning, and provisioning. Ensure the functional and non-functional correctness, adequacy, and integrity of the non-production USP Settlement Services applications. Provide support for the release, deployment, and monitoring, of the USP Settlement Service applications. Help remediate issues with the USP Settlement Service applications in non-production environments. Collaborate, guide and mentor onsite and offsite teams. Use strong communication skills (written and verbal) to improve business processes and support critical business strategies. Provide Level-3 support for the USP Settlement Service applications. Provide training and application knowledge transfer to Level-2 support teams. Participate in, contribute to, and assimilate changes, enhancements, requirements (both functional and non-functional) and requirements traceability. Continually acquire and apply industry standards, best practices, and trends to improve in-house services and practices. Telecommuting may be permitted as per organization’s hybrid working guidelines. When not telecommuting, must report to CLS US Services, Inc., 101 Wood Ave South, 2nd Floor, Iselin, NJ 08830. Salary: $189,592-$204,300 per year.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's degree, or U.S. equivalent, in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Computer Applications, Computer Information Systems, Electronic Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of professional experience as a Software Engineer, Software Developer, or any occupation/job title/position providing end-to-end pre-production application platform & service support for largescale enterprise-level financial domain applications.
Must also have experience in the following: 5 years of professional experience providing pre-production support for large-scale enterprise-level financial domain software applications, ensuring environment integrity, functionality, and continuous delivery readiness. 3 years of professional experience developing and executing release and deployment plans, including monitoring, issue remediation, and environment support in a multi-tiered system architecture. 3 years of professional experience utilizing Python or Perl, and Unix shell scripting, SQL, and DBMS, including IBM DB2. 3 years of professional experience utilizing messaging middleware (including IBM MQ or TIBCO EMS) and application servers (including WebSphere or WebLogic). 3 years of professional experience utilizing CI/CD practices and DevOps toolsets (including JIRA, GIT, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Bamboo, Confluence, or ServiceNow). 3 years of professional experience in application software delivery and maintenance within the Financial Services domain. 3 years of professional experience providing level-3 support for production systems, including technical training, knowledge transfer, and escalation support for level-2 teams. 1 year of professional experience proactively identifying and resolving system deficiencies, implementing strategic remediation solutions to enhance operational performance and reliability.
CONTACT: Please email resume to: [email protected]. Must specify Ad Code VSAM
Our commitment to employees:
At CLS, we celebrate inclusion and consider this to be one of our strongest assets. We are committed to fostering an environment in which everyone feels comfortable to be who they are, and inclusion is valued. All employees have access to our inclusive benefits, including:
- Holiday - UK/Asia: 25 holiday days and 3 ‘life days’ (in addition to bank holidays). US: 23 holiday days.
- 2 paid volunteer days so that you can actively support causes within your community that are important to you.
- Generous parental leave policies to ensure you can enjoy valuable time with your family.
- Parental transition coaching programmes and support services.
- Wellbeing and mental health support resources to ensure you are looking after yourself, and able to support others.
- Employee Networks (including our Women’s Forum, Black Employee Network and Pride Network) in support of our organisational commitment to embrace and always be learning more about inclusivity.
- Hybrid working to promote a healthy work/life balance, enabling employees to work collaboratively in the office when needed and work from home when they don’t.
- Active support of flexible working for all employees where possible.
- Monthly ‘Heads Down Days’ with no meetings across the whole company.
- Generous non-contributory pension provision for UK/Asia employees, and 401K match from CLS for US employees.
- Private medical insurance and dental coverage.
- Social events that give you opportunities to meet new people and broaden your network across the organisation.
- Annual flu vaccinations.
- Discounts and savings and cashback across a wide range of categories including health and retail for UK employees.
- Discounted Gym membership – Complete Body Gym Discount/Sweat equity program for US employees.
- All employees have access to Discover – our comprehensive learning platform with 1000+ courses from LinkedIn Learning.
- Access to frequent development sessions on a number of topics to help you be successful and develop your career at CLS.
