Reliability Engineer - Application Developer jobs at Citi Group in Canada

Responsibilities:

• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
• 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
• 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
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or junior analysts
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Technology Skills:

• Must have expert level (hands-on) knowledge and understanding Front-End development using Angular, TypeScript, React
• Must have deep understanding of Front-End development best practices, patterns
• Ability to develop and integrate Micro-Front ends (MFEs)
• Deep understanding of APIs and integration with Front-End
• Should have Hands-on MongoDB/MSSQL/Oracle experience
• Service oriented architecture, and data standards like JSON, Avro, Parquet
• Must have experience in SCMs like GitHub, GIT, BitBucket and tools like JIRA
• Good understanding of Kafka is highly desirable
• Agile/Scrum methodology experience is required.
• Strong systems analysis, design and architecture fundamentals, Unit Testing and other SDLC activities
• Ability to contribute in high- and low-level system design (Sequence diagram, class diagrams)
• Strong communication skills, should be able to communicate effectively with business and other stakeholders
• Ability to use co-pilot effectively will be an added advantage

Qualifications:

• 5 –8 yrs years of relevant experience in Applications Development and systems analysis role
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

This job description provides a high-level review of the types of work performed. Other job-related duties may be assigned as required.

Other Relevant Skills

• We will act as a gatekeeper for remediation requests from IS teams – and ensure:
  • the accuracy of tracking,
  • the timely closure of false positives,
  • pushing back against the unnecessary proliferation of CAPs
• We will make sure that Checkmarx issues and Blackduck issues are appropriately prioritised according to the actual risk presented to the firm, and do not jump the queue
• We will help developers to onboard to lightweight, effective security tooling both pre-commit and in the CI pipeline
• We will ensure that response times and reliability for security systems and data are of an acceptable standard

• We will take care of Firewall requests and make sure that they are managed in a predictable fashion
• We will be ready to work with unix and wintel SAs, DBAs and other infrastructure teams to implement individual requests, and to improve the quality of service overall
• We will establish SLAs with infrastructure teams, and ensure that they are tracked
• We will challenge processes that make developers unproductive without compromising security – for example restricted access to UAT, awkward workflow and multiple requests for powerbroker in production
• We will make it easier to order servers, and easier to go to cloud

• We will help our colleagues in CTI, developer tools and GIDA to improve and automate their own internal processes
• We will participate in automation of painful manual processes (for example, raising WAIS tickets)
• We will monitor the uptime of key services such as bitbucket, artifactory, JRA, Confluence, uDeploy, and we will be empowered to drive improvements
• We will help our partners in CTI to provide performant tools including but not limited to:
  • Confluence
  • ServiceNow
  • JIRA
  • Artifactory
  • Bitbucket

• We will take care of safe, consistent onboarding to Citi approved identity management solutions, and teach developers how to work with these systems

• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Experience in systems analysis, software development and development pipeline.
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

Other Relevant Skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead all phases of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from feasibility studies and cost estimation to deployment, maintenance, and user support. This includes analysis, design, coding, testing, and implementation.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance to business users, stakeholders, and other technology teams.
• Analyze complex business and system processes, evaluate industry best practices, and recommend innovative programming solutions.
• Design and implement robust security measures throughout the SDLC, ensuring system integrity and data protection.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines, coordinating deployments, releases, and associated documentation.
• Collaborate with users, clients, and other technical groups to address issues, propose solutions, and implement systems.
• Define and maintain operating standards and procedures, ensuring adherence to best practices.
• Mentor and coach junior team members, fostering their professional development.
• Operate with a high degree of autonomy and sound judgment, making informed decisions that consider business risks and align with company policies and regulations.
• Act as a subject matter expert (SME) for stakeholders and team members.
• Prioritize the firm's reputation and safeguard its assets by adhering to applicable laws, regulations, and ethical guidelines.
• Participate actively in building and maintaining a strong engineering culture.

Required Skills/Experience:

• 7+ years of hands-on professional software development experience.
• Proficiency in Java, Python, JavaScript, or React.
• Experience building RESTful APIs using frameworks like Spring.
• Experience working with event-driven systems, microservices, and micro-frontend UIs.
• Proven ability to follow TDD and clean code principles.
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and SQL.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment.

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Familiarity with cloud services like AWS and distributed systems such as Kafka, Kubernetes, S3, DynamoDB, MongoDB, or other NoSQL databases.
• Experience working in the investment banking or financial services industry.
• Experience with Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and RESTful web services (XML, JSON).
• Extensive experience with Core Java, including multi-threading and collections framework.
• Deep understanding of persistent storage technologies (RDBMS like Oracle, SQL Server).
• Experience in the payments domain.
• Experience working in Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and distributed teams.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field involving software programming or systems engineering.

Other Relevant Skills

The Lead Data Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimizing distributed data processing jobs to handle large-scale data in Hadoop Distributed File System(HDFS) and S3 Storage using Apache Kafka, Flink Java and Flink SQL, Apache Spark and Python. This role requires deep understanding of data engineering principles, proficiency in Java, Python and hands-on experience with Kafka and S3 ecosystems. Developer will collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders to process, transform and drive insights and data driven decisions.Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Finance and Risk data with experience in data processing jobs to handle large-scale data in Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), S3 Storage using Apache Spark, Apache Kafka Streaming, Apache Flink Java, Flink SQL and Python.
• Good programming skills in Java, SQL and Python
• Distribute data to downstream systems by generating feeds or publishing to Kafka topics
• Required to support situations in which end user consultation is required to identify system function specifications and incorporate them into overall system design and delivery. Additionally, utilize comprehensive knowledge of multiple areas within technology to achieve technological objectives.
• Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.
• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
• 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
• 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
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of relevant experience in Hadoop Distributed File System(HDFS) using Apache Spark, Python, Java and SQL
• 2+ years of relevant experience in S3 Storage using Apache Kafka, Flink Java and Flink SQL with minimal latency, monitor and optimize the performance of Kafka clusters, troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Kafka and data processing, implement best practices for Kafka architecture and operations
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Working knowledge of consulting/project management techniques/methods
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements
• Strong communication skills and attention to detail and accuracy.
• Demonstrated leadership skills.
• Basic knowledge of industry practices and standards
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Prior Financial industry experience will be 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.

Additional Responsibilities:

Data Processing and Transformation:

• Design and implement big data warehouse application to process and transform large datasets
• Develop ETL Pipelines with Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark, Python for data Ingestion, cleaning, aggregation, and transformations.

Data Distribution:

• Send data to downstream systems by generating feeds or publishing to Kafka topics

Performance Optimization:

• Optimize ETL jobs for efficiency, reducing run time and resource usage.
• Finetune memory management, caching, and partitioning strategies for Optimal performance

Data Engineering with Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Flink:

• Load data from different sources into S3 Storage, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Testing and debugging:

• Troubleshoot and debug Kafka Job failures, monitor job logs, and Kaka UI Manager to Identify Issues.

Coding standard adherence:

• Coding vulnerabilities identification and addressing. Enforcement of the coding standard to eliminate code vulnerabilities.
• Bigdata best practice adherence including small files elimination, Hive SRE scan success and archival implementation for ideal architecture utilizations.

Time Type:

Responsibilities:

Provide and implement technology solutions for the Mortgage Trading and Finance business including Pricing, Structuring, Risk, Data, Analytics and Reporting.

• Develop high quality software following the Citi Standard Development Life Cycle to achieve a high level of maintainability, scalability, flexibility and fast delivery.
• Work directly with Traders, Salespeople, Quants, and Business Analysts to understand business requirements and to ensure software solutions are addressing business needs.
• Partner with multiple stakeholders across the organization to achieve deliveries.
• 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Work closely with L1 and L2 Production Support and to provide L3 Support to quickly resolve production issues

Required Skills /Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of hands-on development experience inApps Development, Server Side Development
• 6-10 years of Java development experience with Kafka and Spring Frameworks.
• Familiarity with Python.
• Must have demonstrated experience in delivering systems from inception to adoption.
• Must have demonstrated experience in working with end users to solve business problems.
• Strong knowledge and practical experience in distributed system architectures, especially involving streaming services, micro services, distributed caches, Restful APIs and cloud-based deployment.
• Strong knowledge and experience in modern frameworks and tools in Java development including Spring, Sprint Boot, Maven and Gradle.
• Good understanding of DevOps best practices and CI/CD pipelines. Must have experience with JIRA, Bitbucket or GitHub, Sonar Cube, Jenkins/TeamCity/Harness
• Experience in RDBMS such as MS SQL Server or Oracle. Able to write effective SQL queries and tune queries for performance.
• Experience in or knowledge of streaming systems (Kafka is preferred) and event-based architectures.
• Experience in Cloud Computing technology such as Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, ECS
• Experience in Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Knowledge of Behavior Driven Testing (BDD) and Testing Tools such Cucumber
• Ability to adjust priorities quickly as circumstances dictate.
• Ability to multi-task, collaborate with multiple stakeholders, and be a team player with a sense of urgency in a dynamic trading environment.
• Able to think on their feet to solve problems collaboratively and in real time.
• Able to work with non-technical users e.g. Business Analysts, to refine, question and
• A strong communicator, in both verbal and written forms. Able to express ideas in concise, clear and direct terms.

Preferred but not Required:

• Financial Industry experience or Financial Product knowledge.
• Understanding of Mortgage Backed Securities or other Fixed Income products.

Bachelor's or University Degree or equivalent experrience

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Responsibilities:

• Develop framework for portfolio risk assessment including evaluation of credit and financial performance across varied lending products and industry segments
• Understand applicable credit policies, industry regulations and the requisite impact of those governance items to prospective new partners or product initiatives
• Establish and leverage cross-functional partnerships and network with key internal and external constituencies
• Utilize Statistical Analysis System (SAS) in a UNIX environment to perform risk, financial and data analyses including profiling, sampling, forecasting and new program due diligence
• Prepare risk management presentations for senior management that include analytics on expected portfolio performance and areas of potential risk and/or opportunity
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and /or other team members.
• 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 6-10 years of experience in mortgage servicing risk management or equivalent training and experience preferably in the financial services industry
• Proven ability to apply credit and risk principles toward business goals
• Demonstrated ability to synthesize and prioritize
• Proven ability to remain organized in a fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated interpersonal, organizational and analytic skills

Education:

• Bachelor's degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master's degree preferred

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple teams of professionals to accomplish established goals and conduct personnel duties for team (e.g. performance evaluations, hiring and disciplinary actions)
• Provide strategic influence and exercise control over resources, budget management and planning while monitoring end results
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of concepts and procedures within own area and basic knowledge of other areas to resolve issues
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and contribute to defining standards
• Integrate in-depth knowledge of applications development with overall technology function to achieve established goals
• Provide evaluative judgement based on analysis of facts in complicated, unique, and dynamic situations including drawing from internal and external sources
• Influence and negotiate with senior leaders across functions, as well as communicate with external parties 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency, as well as effectively supervise the activity of others and create accountability with those who fail to maintain these standards.
• Executes the architectural vision for all IT systems through major, complex IT architecture projects; ensures that architecture conforms to enterprise blueprints.
• Develops technology road maps, while keeping up to date with emerging technologies, and recommends business directions based on these technologies.
• Provides technical leadership and is responsible for developing components of, or the overall systems design.
• Translates complex business problems into sound technical solutions.
• Applies hardware engineering and software design theories and principles in researching, designing, and developing product hardware and software interfaces.
• Provides integrated systems planning and recommends innovative technologies that will enhance the current system.
• Recommends appropriate desktop, computer platform, and communication links required to support IT goals and strategy.
• Exhibits good knowledge of how own specialism contributes to the business and good understanding of competitors products and services.
• Acts as an advisor or mentor to junior team members.
• Requires sophisticated analytical thought to resolve issues in a variety of complex situations.
• Impacts the architecture function by influencing decisions through advice, counsel or facilitating services.
• Guides, influences and persuades others with developed communication and diplomacy skills.
• Performs other job duties and functions as assigned
• 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Qualifications:

• 10-15 years of experience in Consulting / Business Analysis / Application Development
• Experience in Finance/Billing Domain
• Experience in Standard billing product like ORMB is a plus
• Experience with all phases of Software Development Life Cycle
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of business analysis
• Comprehensive knowledge of the principles of Application Development
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Management and prioritization skills
• Ability to develop working relationships
• Ability to manage multiple activities and changing priorities
• Ability to work under pressure and to meet tight deadlines
• Self-starter with ability to take the initiative and master new tasks quickly
• Methodical, attention to detail

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience
• Master’s degree preferred

Time Type: