Spark Java 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

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.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience as a hands-on technologist with people management background

• 10 + years experience in application development using Java as the primary programming language

• Experience in applications development utilizing Spring Boot, Apache Spark, and Microservices based architecture

• Experience building & managing ETL pipelines

• Data Storage –HBASE, Hadoop, SQL, Oracle, Redis

• Experience managing global technology teams

• Cloud experience and Financial Services background is a plus

• Expertise operating within an Agile / Scrum Project Management methodology

• Working knowledge of industry practices and standards

• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Master’s degree preferred

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

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:

Time Type:

• 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.
• 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.

• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• 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

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience

• Proficient in industry standard best practices such as Design Patterns, Coding Standards, Coding modularity, Prototypes, Object oriented programming etc.
• Thorough in-depth understanding of usage of the fundamental concepts of Java and J2EE
• Knowledge and application of Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring Boot, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, JSP, Servlets, JDBC, Struts framework
• Experience with any SQL/No SQL databases (Oracle, Sybase, Mongo etc.)
• Strong knowledge of unit testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito
• Experience in debugging, tuning and optimizing Java micro service components
• Expertise in technologies like JMS, Solace is a plus
• Experience working in a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment and familiar with Teamcity, Jenkins, Code Quality/Style Tools -SonarLint, Blackduck etc.
• Knowledge of application servers / webservers (weblogic, Tomcat)
• Proficiency with Git for managing code versions and collaborating with other developers.
• Work experience on the transactional applications for low latency, high availability uses is a plus
• Experience with Single page application development like Angular or React is an added advantage

Time Type:

• 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 behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

• 6+ years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role
• Hands on full stack JAVA development experience
• Hands on RDBMS experience
• Hands on experience in Spring Boot and Microservices
• Angular experience is a plus
• 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

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

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