Apps Dev Tech Lead Analyst - C13 - CHENNAI

Job Purpose:

Citigroup Markets and Banking’s FX Technology team is a high-intensity product development unit that defines, designs and develops critical front-office applications for the Global FX and Local Markets business.
The Developer/Senior Developer will be part of the Development team that is responsible to deliver projects within the space of front-office Foreign Exchange (FX), Money Markets (MM), Derivatives, Fixed Incomes (FI) applications including models and Risk Management tools.

Job Background/Context:

Global FX Technology is a dynamic and high-performing division of Citi’s Technology division. The FX Tech spread across the globe manages mission-critical applications that drive pricing, deal booking, risk management, eCommerce and analytical applications for the FX trading desk. The team also provides production support for the various applications and the Platform Management that they run on. 

We work on business critical high availability application solutions for the FX business that are deployed across 80+ countries and power our Global FX business. Our applications are considered amongst the best-in-class within the industry, with our eCommerce and analytical products continuing to win industry awards year after year.

As part of strengthening the team, we are looking to hire top-performing Developers/Senior Developers with proven track record, reporting to the Development Project Lead.

Key Responsibilities:

• Take ownership for delivering the development task assigned.
• Ability to understand and deliver compliance and regulatory projects
• Ability to create manage teams by creating a culture of meritocracy, transparency, initiative and courage
• Act as a trusted partner to clients
• Work collaboratively across the firm and achieve best results for Citi and our clients
• Achieves performance objectives by creating a clear path towards ethical and sustainable results
• Ensure delivery within tight timelines and meeting the team’s expectation.
• Get involved in the entire lifecycle of the development project
• Understand the requirement from the business stakeholders and ensure quality deliverables
• Ensure quality and optimized coding with proper documentation
• Do peer code reviews
• Develop testing plan and perform unit testing and provide continuously improving product experience
• Actively assist Support team wherever required
• Coordinate with business analysts and user communities to define requirements
• Participate in the technical design
• Actively assist Project Lead to deliver quality output
• Together with the team contribute to innovative and best-in-class solutions for our business

Development Value:

This position gives an excellent opportunity for the selected candidate to play a significant role in an exciting and critical business within Citi. As a member of our highly acclaimed Technology team, this role provides the opportunity to participate in and shape the expansion and pre-eminence of our Business working together with our team of highly skilled technologists. The opportunity to work in front-office application space spanning multiple asset classes in a high-velocity and high availability environment is, of itself, an exciting proposition. We believe it is even more special to do this as part of Citi, a premier financial institution that is one of the biggest and best in the market, and as a part of our team that has a high visibility for our work both inside our larger organization as well as in the global Capital Markets world. The position will enable you to leverage Citi’s incomparable geographical reach, product richness, and engineering expertise and to translate these into a successful and top-of-the-class product offering for our customers.

Knowledge/Experience:

• 10+ years hands on experience in pure technical roles in development of various software applications.

Technology:

• Hands-on with technology
• In-depth knowledge of core Java
• High proficiency in understanding middlware like Tibco RV, EMS, Solace, etc.,
• Expertise in multithreading, ultra low latency environments
• Understanding of databases and caching technologies
• Expertise in gc tuning, single thread programming, zero gc designs
• Understanding of KDB database
• Experience in designing ultra low latency / high throughput applications
• Experience in handling seamless failover/resiliency patterns
• Basic understanding of testing frameworks like cucumber, Junit
• Basic understanding of CI/CD technologies like gradle

Domain:

• Knowledge of various treasury products, viz. FX, Money Markets, Fixed Income and Derivatives is a plus

Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and articulation skills (spoken and written)
• Ability to partner with non-technical and technical peers; ability to work effectively with remote colleagues; participate technical discussions
• Strong team orientation and commitment to overall team success; willing to go above and beyond to ensure team success; intense customer focus and commitment to driving quality
• Effective time management skills in order to manage multiple priorities with flexibility on time zones and timelines
• Logical thinking, High analytical and problem solving skills; innovative and solutions oriented

Qualifications:

• Graduation/Post Graduation qualifications in Engineering stream with a very good academic record throughout from premier institutions.
• A high degree of Analytical ability and Quantitative skills is desirable
• Competencies:
• Innovative and Positive ‘Can Do’ attitude
• Planning and Organising – Ability to identify the steps to be taken to achieve objectives
• Resilience – Used to working towards tight deadlines, under pressure and using appropriate coping methods to stay focused
• Accountability –self start on goals and achieve targets

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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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