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
The Equity Finance Technology team are seeking a technical lead position as a highly skilled engineer, located in Pune. This role requires strong expertise in Java, messaging frameworks, caching and low latency systems to build business solutions through agile delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Develop platform vision and strategy to support Prime Growth, working closely with the global technology leads.
- Deliver on an aggressive agenda whilst providing technical oversight of a team of developers locally
- Resolve variety of high impact problems/projects through in-depth evaluation of complex business processes, system processes, and industry standards
- Ensure change is managed with appropriate controls, documentation, and approvals including implementation of new and revised regulatory reporting requirements
- Solve the highest-impact, highest-profile problems with significant business impact 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
- Utilise 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
- Contribute to technical direction and strategic decisions as a technical expert in all development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions
- Provide in-depth analysis with interpretive thinking to define issues and develop innovative solutions
- Serve as adviser or coach to mid-level developers and analysts
- 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 judgement regarding personal behaviour, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.
Key Skills and Experience required
- 10+ years of relevant experience in Applications Development and previous leadership of developers
- Awareness of building event based systems with low latency trading requirements
- Comprehensive experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle, including Agile delivery
- Demonstrated ability to work under pressure managing multiple activities and changing priorities
- Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones
Technical Skills
- Technical skills in Java, Kafka, Distributed Caching, SQL, Git
- Experience in performing QA, TDD and BDD practices
- Experience with building containerised solutions that horizontally scale
- Exposure to AI solutions to accelerate development
- Proven ability to work in high pressure environment
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically
Any Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:
- React and full stack development
- Knowledge of Prime Services is a plus
This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.
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What We Do
Citi's mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress. Our core activities are safeguarding assets, lending money, making payments and accessing the capital markets on behalf of our clients. We have 200 years of experience helping our clients meet the world's toughest challenges and embrace its greatest opportunities. We are Citi, the global bank – an institution connecting millions of people across hundreds of countries and cities.
