Organization Overview:

Citi Market Operations Technology is currently at a pivotal point in its evolution and journey to implement a target operating model. We take pride and are passionate about our People and our culture.  We are invested in people and their development. We are transforming and simplifying our operating model and creating an exciting environment which encourages diversity of thought and inclusion. 

We are a dynamic, global, and diverse Organization, supporting operations areas that have a presence in over 60 Countries.  Our Technology groups develop and implement a wide range of applications that support the Operations groups which are core to the success of the Markets business and has significant impact across the lifecycle of a Trade by providing innovative products and solutions. We partner extensively with a range of internal stakeholders including product aligned Middle Office groups, Settlements, Margin, Asset Servicing, Listed Derivative & Commodities Operations. We support an extensive range of Capital Markets products and services including Fixed Income (FX, Rates, Credit, Muni, Cash and Derivatives) where Citi is consistently a dominant top 3 player in the market, Equity (Cash, Derivatives, Prime Brokerage, Futures, Listed Derivatives, FXPB) where Citi has a significant growth program to continue to build out its capabilities and services; and Syndicates where we support both FI and EQ new issues and IPOs. We play a key role in supporting our global clients to ensure they have a first-class experience in service performance and strategic partnership.

We have re-imagined how to provide technology and service in our domain through the alignment of our team vision, culture, and aggressive retirement plan for legacy applications and adoption of a micro-based containerized cloud environment. We encourage our people to create, explore and be adventurous whilst taking measured risk, adopting safe practices to protect the firm. Data lineage and optimization is core to how we develop our eco system. We are growing our capabilities using artificial intelligence, natural language processing and machine learning. 

Our roles entail ensuring we operate in a robust control environment, whilst in a fast-paced workplace.  We comply with global regulations and internal policies and adopt a proactive approach to identifying opportunities to reduce risk through the continuous evaluation of our controls; to protect our clients, the firm, and our reputation.

We work closely with our external global peers, partners, and regulators, and play an integral part in leading an agenda at the forefront to optimize and streamline processes and drive strategy across our industry. 

Job Purpose:

The Applications Development Technology Lead Analyst is a senior level position responsible for

establishing and implementing new or revised application systems and programs in coordination with the

Technology team. The overall objective of this role is to lead applications systems analysis and

programming activities

Responsibilities:

• Partner with multiple management teams to ensure appropriate integration of functions to

meet goals as well as identify and define necessary system enhancements to deploy new

products and process improvements

• Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex

business processes, system processes, and industry standards

• Provide expertise in area and advanced knowledge of applications programming and ensure

application design adheres to the overall architecture blueprint

• Utilize advanced knowledge of system flow and develop standards for coding, testing,

debugging, and implementation

• Develop comprehensive knowledge of how areas of business, such as architecture and

infrastructure, integrate to accomplish business goals

• Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative

solutions

• Serve as advisor or coach to mid-level developers and analysts, allocating work as

necessary

• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular

consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients, and assets, by

driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying

sound ethical judgment regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and

escalating, managing, and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 10-14 years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role
• Strong technology background with working knowledge of evolving technologies.
• Extensive experience system analysis and in programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in at least one area of Applications Development
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree (Added advantage)

Technical Skills:

Technical Skills:

• Core Java, Advance Java, REST web service, Spring boot micro service, API Gateway, Kafka, Flink, Storm, Cache Technology Hazel cast, Ignite Grid Grain, Open API Standards, Exchange web service
• Developer IDE (Eclipse), Sonar, Fiddler, MS-Visio, VSS, SVN, Jenkins and Maven build, Complete CI CD Pipeline,
• Expertise in Secure Service Design
• ECS Openshift, Docker, Container, Kubernetes.
• Expertise in Scalable Search Engine using Elastic, SOLR.
• Expertise in one of the database Mongo Db, Oracle Server, SQL
• Tomcat 8X & above, Web sphere, Web Logic
• Unix (Red hat Linux) and Windows (Windows Server, 7, 2000)
• Banking & financial domain, Markets.

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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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Most Relevant Skills

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Other Relevant Skills

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