Overview
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.
What We do / The Team
- Finance Desk Technology is part of Fixed Income organization within Citi’s Markets Technology.
- The Team works closely with the Citi Global Finance Desk and focused on FI and Repo trading activity.
- The suite of Finance Desk applications provides position management, trade capture, electronic trading, market risk processing and reporting.
- This is supported by a mixed technology environment consisting of client-server applications, developed in Java, Angular and C#, with services running on Linux servers and Cloud Containers.
- This provides unique opportunity to work closely with the business stakeholders while building towards the strategic technology roadmap.
- We are looking for technically strong candidates who can work as team players and capable of taking ownership and leading the initiatives when needed.
Role Overview/What will you do:
- Responsible for developing and maintaining suite of Finance Desk application as a part of global development team.
- Production of high-quality software, emphasizing simplicity, maintainability and reuse, using standard development process.
- Understands business priorities, documents requirements and determines solutions in partnership with other internal teams.
- Accountable for all phases of development process—analysis, design, construction, testing and implementation; provides user and operational support on applications to business users.
- Ensures essential procedures are followed and helps to define operating standards and processes.
- Participating in key business initiatives primarily focused on Market Risk and Position/Inventory Management.
- Coordinate global testing and schedule application rollouts.
- Contribute towards improving the Dev Ops CI/CD Pipelines and Strategic Architecture.
- Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users.
- Provide L3 support for production flows.
- Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
- Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
Key Skills and Experience required - This section is about the candidate.
- Strong core Java skills.
- Experience with Spring boot/Microservice-style application development.
- Strong experience with Relational Databases like Oracle, MSSQL.
- Experience with cloud based architectures on OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Testing experience with distributed software applications.
- Strong experience with Unix or Linux.
Non-Technical Skills Required:
- Experience in working with distributed teams situated globally in different time-zones is a plus.
- Flexible and adaptive, team player.
- Excellent analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work independently.
- Ability to take ownership, drive strategy and well organized.
Any Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:
- Experience with Messaging and Caching frameworks such as Kafka and Gemfire/Ignite is a plus.
- Financial services experience is advantageous but not essential
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
What we’ll provide you
By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- A discretional annual performance related bonus
- Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pension Plan
- Paid Parental Leave
- Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
- Access to an array of learning and development resources
Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.
Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
