Full stack developer

• Overview of Citi:

  Citi is a world-leading global bank. We have approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. We provide consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. We enable clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

  Citi Belfast is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with a diverse and talented team of over 3000 people from over 40 different nationalities across our four Belfast offices.

  We are the only global investment bank operating in Northern Ireland. Every day, our local experts interact with global teams in over 100 countries developing and supporting next-generation technology solutions for the enterprise and delivering critical services to the bank and its customers, to make sure we are a stronger and safer organization for our clients.

  You will have a truly global reach, which will provide you with new experiences and development opportunities right here in Belfast’s iconic Titanic Quarter.

  The role:

  As a major participant in the world’s financial markets, Citi has responsibilities to financial regulators, clients and us to identify and prevent fraudulent, malicious or erroneous behavior relating to its trades and financial services on the world financial markets.  Citi’s Belfast has a global centre to meet this financial regulation need with the creation of feature-based surveillance algorithms using cutting edge technologies and techniques, presenting investigative data and analysis to Compliance users in tabular and graphical format.  To assist in this area, we in the Trade Surveillance CUNO Ux (User Experience) Team are onward developing an in-house Case Management Application (CUNO) for the investigation of alerts raised by suspicious or inappropriate activity, derived upstream by the other Citi developed Big Data systems from the analysis of various trading data sources on a distributed data platform.  

  We have Software Development vacancies within the CUNO Ux technology team based in Belfast (the global team also has team members in New York, Poland, Pune and Noida - India) to deliver the functionality for Citi’s CUNO Application, allowing end-users to investigate and manage the disposition of alerted trade data using structured, tabular and graphical representation of the alerted data.  The main technologies used are Oracle, Java Spring Boot and Angular UI.

  Responsibilities will include:

  • Deliver trade surveillance Spring Boot Java and Angular software components which follow data driven configurations so they can be widely re-used and scaled
  • Write reusable, testable, and efficient Oracle SQL queries and procedures
  • Implement new Oracle and java functions with the ability to handle large data volumes and good performance around data marshalling or reading of JSON structures.
  • Work with business partners and Business Analysts (BA’s) to understand requirements, providing task breakdown and effort/time estimates, and then deliver efficient software solutions to the time agreed.
  • Provide production support that includes evaluate efforts, investigate cause and come up with solutions to address defects
  • Lead by example in integrity, commitment, being customer and results focused, and being a valuable contributor in technical and performance problem solving
  • Provide technical coaching for other more junior/graduate developers working on the same project
  • Contribute to the enhancement of department application development/delivery standards, tools and processes

  Required Skills and experience:

  • In-depth understanding and experience with Java Web Technologies and Web frameworks (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, or similar), UI and backend Database
  • Prior professional experience working with Angular/AngularJS and Bootstrap, or experience with one or more other JavaScript frameworks e.g. JQuery
  • Experienced in build tools Jenkins/Maven and of Source Repository Systems such as GIT/Bit Bucket
  • Working knowledge of Linux and Regex
  • Working knowledge of data serialization formats JSON / XML and marshalling these
  • Good experience of software development lifecycle and methodologies (Scrum, Waterfall)
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Flexible attitude and a motivated self-starter, proactive, takes responsibility and initiative

  What We Offer:

  We work hard to have a positive financial and social impact on the communities we serve. In turn, we put our employees first and provide the best-in-class benefits they need to be well, live well and save well.

  We’ll provide you with the resources to meet your unique needs, empower you to make healthy decisions, and allow you to choose which benefits suit you and your personal life best.

  Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.

  Highlights to our core benefits include:

  • Award winning pension
  • On-site health services
  • Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances
  • Paid parental leave
  • Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 Days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure

  Citi Belfast also champions diversity within our workforce, which helps us be well and live well together. We have over 40 different nationalities in our Northern Ireland offices, are a vocal supporter of LGBTQ+ rights, and are proud to have 47% of our leadership team made up of individuals who identify as women.

  We encourage and lead inclusivity through our Pride, Disability, Multicultural, Families Matter, and Women affinity networks that are run by and for, Citi Belfast colleagues; providing them with the support they need in their personal and professional journeys and supplying them with the tools to help educate colleagues on all things related to each network to help us work better together.