Job Description

Citi, the leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients.



Citi's Mission and Value Proposition explain what we do and Strategy explain how we do it. Our mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. We strive to earn and maintain our clients' and the public's trust by constantly adhering to the highest ethical standards and making a positive impact on the communities we serve.


The Rates Data Services Technology Team is responsible for the management and efficient delivery of trade and market data to front office users (e.g. trading) and Risk and Pricing applications. In order to achieve our mission, we maintain and enhance a data stack built around data streaming and distribution technologies as well as microservices. We handle large data volumes on a daily basis and work closely with the business.


We are looking to on-board a Lead Applications Development Programmer Analyst to join our team to extend our platform. The right candidate should have a good understanding of the following technologies: a strong understanding of the Java/JVM internals, a good understanding of dot net, a good understanding of microservice design and protocols, Containerization (Openshift, Kubernetes), Gemfire/Ignite, Messaging Technologies (Tibco EMS / Kafka), Oracle.


This challenging role offers an excellent opportunity to work on complex technical problems while also gaining an understanding of the Rates business. This role would suit well a Developer who would like to augment and diversify their skillset with additional business knowledge.

Responsibilities:

Design and develop critical data applications to support trading and risk management for a Tier 1 bank. Collaborate with business partners and other technology teams in the Rates and wider Markets businesses. Promote and follow engineering best practices. Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in detail, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround. Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to enterprise solutions. Ability to take initiative to research, learn and recommend emerging technologies. Provide post release assistance to business, development, and support groups. Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI...).

Qualifications:

At least 8 years' demonstrable and relevant SLDC experience. Necessary: Solid understanding of Java / Spring stack development. Beneficial: Solid understanding of C#, .Net Core 3. + (VS 2017 or above)
Useful: Strong understanding of Python 3.6 or above, python frameworks and libraries, including Pytest, Pandas, Flask, and Kafka Solid understanding of REST API development. Demonstrable experience in writing reusable, testable and efficient code with proper error and exception handling. Experience with design and implementation of cloud-ready applications and deployment via Kubernetes / Openshift. Experience with big data computation platforms (Flink, Spark, Apache Beam) or big data distribution platforms (Hadoop, Gemfire, Ignite) Hands-on experience in handling various data structures. Good understanding of Data modeling, partitioning and sharing of huge data sets.

Software engineering skills:

Experience working on a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment. Familiarity with TeamCity, Sonarqube and Jenkins Experience with the SDLC lifecycle and in working within an Agile environment Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit Understanding of Agile software development methodology and strong experience with standard CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Sonarqube, git).

Business facing and interpersonal skills:

Strong communication skills, oral and written. Ability to apply sound technical skills and knowledge of the Rates business to develop creative solutions to meet client and business needs. Responsible, agile and collaborative team worker. Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners. Self-motivated and organized, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required. Ability to face off to all business users (traders, financial controllers, risk managers, etc.) Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones.

Education:

Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, or related technical and quantitative discipline. Demonstrable success in designing and delivering multi-tiered applications. Ideally, an understanding of financial derivatives (rates or other) or willing to learn about this area.

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Job Family Group:

Technology
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Job Family:

Applications Development
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Time Type:

Full time
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