Lead Murex Software Engineer

The Investment Reporting Technology team partners closely with Finance, Accounting, Investment Operations, and other Technology teams to deliver enterprise applications that support investment accounting, regulatory reporting, management reporting, data governance, and financial controls. Our solutions integrate investment data from multiple platforms and provide automated, scalable, and compliant applications and reporting capabilities for critical business functions.

The Lead Software Engineer will serve as a hands-on Murex Developer and integration specialist responsible for designing, developing, enhancing, and supporting solutions across the Murex ecosystem and related internal and third-party peripheral applications. The ideal candidate has strong Murex development experience, understands derivatives trade lifecycle processes, and can integrate Murex with downstream and upstream applications built using multiple technology stacks, including SQL Server, Oracle, SSIS, SSRS, .NET/C#, Java, Python, APIs, batch scheduling, test automation, and cloud or modern data platforms. Provides lead support for design and development to one or more application development teams and leads a team of local or outsourced software engineers to build and support business application solutions.

This role requires a blend of Murex platform expertise, data engineering, integration design, reporting knowledge, production support discipline, and leadership skills. Responsibilities include Murex workflow and interface development, Datamart/reporting support, data pipelines, process automation, regulatory and accounting reporting support, production troubleshooting, and modernization of investment reporting and derivatives systems. 

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, enhance, and support Murex-based solutions across Front Office, Risk, Back Office, Accounting, and Datamart/reporting functions.
• Develop and maintain integrations between Murex and internal peripheral applications, including downstream reporting platforms, accounting systems, data warehouses, operational tools, and other company-developed applications built across varied technology stacks.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions using Murex components, MxML, APIs, SQL, ETL pipelines, reporting frameworks, and integration services.
• Build and support Murex Datamart reporting solutions, including schemas, feeders, batches, extraction processes, reconciliation routines, and reporting data layers.
• Develop and optimize data pipelines and ETL processes using SQL Server, SSIS, AWS Glue, Oracle, or equivalent technologies to move and transform trade, position, valuation, and accounting data.
• Design, develop, and support operational, regulatory, valuation, accounting, and management reports using SSRS, SQL, BI tools, Excel VBA/macros, and other enterprise reporting platforms.
• Support trade lifecycle data flows, including deal capture, static data, valuation, accounting, reconciliation, reporting, EOD/EOM processing, and downstream data distribution.
• Perform root-cause analysis and resolve complex production issues involving Murex workflows, Datamart loads, market data interfaces, reporting discrepancies, batch failures, and integration breaks.
• Collaborate with Finance, Accounting, Investment Operations, Risk, business product owners, infrastructure teams, vendors, and offshore/contract development teams in an agile or hybrid delivery model.
• Lead design sessions and architecture discussions for end-to-end Murex and derivatives platform solutions, considering business needs, cost, operational risk, maintainability, scalability, and system impacts.
• Support SIT, UAT, regression testing, production releases, Murex upgrades, platform migrations, and modernization initiatives.
• Contribute to automation and process optimization initiatives to improve STP, reduce manual work, strengthen controls, and improve operational efficiency.
• Mentor developers and analysts on Murex development practices, integration design, coding standards, troubleshooting, documentation, and release readiness.
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools, including Kiro, to accelerate delivery, improve code quality, automate repetitive development tasks, and enhance engineering productivity across the software development lifecycle.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Murex upgrade, migration, or large-scale enhancement programs.
• Experience with test automation tools, including test case design, automation development, regression testing, and integration with enterprise testing and release management processes.
• Technology or platform certifications, such as AWS, Microsoft, Murex-related training, or equivalent technical certifications.
• Knowledge of financial services, insurance, asset management, capital markets, or derivatives reporting domain.
  
  

What We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive health package
• Cafeteria
• All You Can Move
• Brand new office at an excellent location
• Hybrid working
• Opportunities for growth and advancement
• A highly people-centric, positive, and supportive work environment
  
  

Aegon is an international financial service holding company headquartered in Schiphol, the Netherlands. Our ambition is to build leading businesses that offer their customers investment, protection, and retirement solutions. Our purpose is to help people live their best lives, a goal that runs through all of our activities. The company has multiple locations across the globe, with core markets in the UK and the US, partnerships in Spain & Portugal, Brazil, and China, and an Asset Management organization with locations in the UK, US, NL, and Hungary. In the Netherlands, Aegon generates value via strategic shareholding in a market-leading insurance and pensions company.

Aegon Global Business Solutions Center is supporting these businesses with IT, Finance, Risk, Model Validation, Actuarial, Audit, and Asset management services with a growing team of approx. 300 people, based in Budapest, Hungary.