Applications Development - Java Spark jobs at Citi Group in India, Chennai

Responsibilities:

• Test Automation Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive test automation strategy for data pipelines, data warehouses, and data-driven applications.

• Test Case Design: Design, develop, and maintain automated test cases to validate data quality, data integrity, and data transformations.

• Test Script Development: Write and maintain robust and reusable test scripts using Python and relevant testing frameworks.

• Data Validation: Develop automated data validation techniques to compare data sets, identify discrepancies, and ensure data accuracy.

• Performance Testing: Design and execute performance tests to assess the scalability and performance of data pipelines and data processing systems.

• Big Data Technologies: Utilize Apache Spark and Python to develop test automation solutions for big data environments.

• CI/CD Integration: Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline to enable continuous testing and faster feedback loops.

• Collaboration: Work closely with data engineers, data experts, and software developers to understand testing requirements and ensure test coverage.

• Defect Management: Identify, track, and manage defects using a bug tracking system.

• Reporting: Generate test reports and metrics to communicate test results and identify areas for improvement.

• Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and technologies in data testing and test automation and recommend best practices.

Qualifications/Experience:

• 6+ years experience in an IT Quality role. Ability to work independently or within groups on projects assigned

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in Data test automation.

• Proven experience in testing data pipelines, data warehouses, and data-intensive applications.

• Strong proficiency in Python programming language.

• Hands-on experience with Apache Spark and Big Data Ecosystem.

• Experience with Enterprise test automation frameworks

• Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar.

• Experience with SQL and data validation techniques.

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Skills:

• Strong understanding of data testing methodologies and best practices.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Anticipated Posting Close Date:

Responsibilities:

• Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements
• Identify and analyze issues, make recommendations, and implement solutions
• Utilize knowledge of business processes, system processes, and industry standards to solve complex issues
• Analyze information and make evaluative judgements to recommend solutions and improvements
• Conduct testing and debugging, utilize script tools, and write basic code for design specifications
• Assess applicability of similar experiences and evaluate options under circumstances not covered by procedures
• Develop working knowledge of Citi’s information systems, procedures, standards, client server application development, network operations, database administration, systems administration, data center operations, and PC-based applications
• 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:

• 2-5 years of relevant experience
• Strong expertise on ReactJS, Java and SQL
• Experience in programming/debugging used in business applications
• Working knowledge of industry practice and standards
• Comprehensive knowledge of specific business area for application development
• Working knowledge of program languages
• 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.

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Pega Senior Programmer Analyst is lead development position responsible for driving strategic business process management initiatives using Pega technologies. Will be a key member of a dynamic team with responsibility below:

• Drive all aspects of project lifecycle. Partner with IT vendors and business to define requirements and develop functional specifications. Design, estimate, build and deploy Pega PRPC application as well as perform project oversight.
• Utilize in-depth knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues and recommend / install programming solutions
• develop solutions for updating or improving existing applications and infrastructure to meet IT commitments to the business
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts

Technical Skills:

• 10+ years of hands-on experience working on Business Process Management (BPM) solutions demonstrating expertise on Pega Infinity
• Proficient in application design and development using Pega Infinity 8.3 or higher
• Proficient in SQL with working knowledge of designing relational databases in Oracle
• Should have at-least CSSA certification; LSA highly preferred.
• Hands on experience on Cosmos, Survey and DX APIs will be a big plus
• Knowledge of Rest Web Services, Micro Services and CI/CD is a plus
• Knowledge of cloud technology or Pega deployment on containers is a plus
• Experience in Agile methodology and CI/CD is a plus

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.

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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 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.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Deep expertise building web applications using Java, Spring Boot, Hibernate, , Microservices is required.
• Deep expertise in enterprise integrations through RESTful APIs, Kafka messaging etc. is required
• Deep expertise in Elastic Search, NoSQL databases, and Caching solutions is required.
• Familiarity with Bpm tools like JBPM and rule engines like drools and relevant experience in workflow tool is preferred
• Expertise with Angular/React, and Oracle/PostgreSQL technology stack is required.
• Expertise in designing and optimizing the software solutions for performance and stability is preferred.
• Expertise in handling data related projects is preferred.
• Expertise in troubleshooting and problem solving is preferred.
• Expertise in site reliability engineering is preferred.
• Expertise in Test driven development is preferred.
• Expertise in Authentication, Authorization, and Security is preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership and project management skills
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• 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

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.

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Responsibilities:

• Utilize knowledge of applications development procedures and concepts, and basic knowledge of other technical areas to identify and define necessary system enhancements
• Identify and analyze issues, make recommendations, and implement solutions
• Utilize knowledge of business processes, system processes, and industry standards to solve complex issues
• Analyze information and make evaluative judgements to recommend solutions and improvements
• Conduct testing and debugging, utilize script tools, and write basic code for design specifications
• Assess applicability of similar experiences and evaluate options under circumstances not covered by procedures
• Develop working knowledge of Citi’s information systems, procedures, standards, client server application development, network operations, database administration, systems administration, data center operations, and PC-based applications
• 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:

• 0-2 years of relevant experience
• Experience in programming/debugging used in business applications
• Working knowledge of industry practice and standards
• Comprehensive knowledge of specific business area for application development
• Working knowledge of program languages
• 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.

Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and test audit functionalities with Java
• Collaborate with team members in the implementation of solutions
• Communicate with business and technology stakeholders
• Work in a Scrum team
• Work closely with other team members, onsite and remote to ensure consistent approach to development is used within the application.
• Engage in architecture definition of new processes and review existing processes for improvements.
• Support all products within functional area, from design to implementation and ongoing performance according to business need.
• Provide technical leadership in the design of highly complex systems.
• Develop and advocate for new solutions to undefined system needs, where no solution is available within the technical community.
• Impact the engineering function by contributing to technical direction and strategic decisions.
• Mentor junior team members and allocate work. Able to direct teams on how to develop and deliver systems that are efficient with resource usage such as hardware, runtime, performance, load, and memory requirements.
• 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.
• Have a comprehensive understanding of the business domain, the systems, and the products in your space. Understand their accountabilities, boundaries, limitations, scale factors and the reasons behind architectural decisions.
• Provide a long-term perspective for business and technology choices; using technical judgment to vet architecture as required.
• Assist in the planning and managing of application development assignments generally involving large budgets, cross functional projects or multiple projects. This includes effectively understanding and analyzing both technical and business risks and impact.
• Expected to effectively communicate those risks to the business owners, so that they can make informed decisions.
• Accountable for providing guidance on architecturally significant efforts during the preplanning phase, and ensuring principles and best practices are followed prior to initiation of work. In doing so, closely watch and evaluate Digital roadmaps, including impacts to support upcoming journeys.
• Accountable for the overall strategy and for driving the teams inside and outside of your organization to deliver expected results. Drive mindful discussion with business and technical stakeholders that lead to timely decisions. Participate in discussions to drive smart trade-off decisions that balance efforts, delivery timelines, features, and technical constraints. Identify and remove blockers and always find the path forward in challenging situations.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating 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:

• 2-5 Years of relevant experience in the Banking Industry
• Strong / Intermediate level experience in Applications Development role - Full stack (e.g. Java, J2EE, Angular JS, SQL, Spring, Hibernate, ReactJS, NodeJs, Oracle, CICD Pipelines(Docker/Containers))
• Strong fundamentals of OOPS (Object Oriented Programming Standards) Concepts, Data Structures, and Algorithms
• Ability to write "Clean code" using Core Java, JEE, Collections, Multithreading
• Should be familiar of developing and architecting integrated solution with non-functional requirements like scalability, high availability, consistency
• Experience with Spring Framework - Spring Boot, Microservices at the minimum, plus experience with additional tools/frameworks/components from the Spring tech stack is highly desirable
• Strong experience with API and Web Services development using REST protocols
• Must have a good understanding of Unit testing, test coverage
• Ability and willingness to work across multiple tools, frameworks, and technology stacks
• Good working knowledge of source code control tools and technologies is a must
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication
• Demonstrated problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Ability to work under pressure and manage deadlines or unexpected changes in expectations or requirements

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.

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

Qualifications:

• 13+ years of relevant experience in Apps Development or systems analysis role and in Java Technologies along with SpringBoot & Microservices.
• Hands on Experience in React JS.
• 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 preferred

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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He/she requires exceptional communication skills across both technology and the business and will have a high degree of visibility. The candidate will be a rigorous technical lead with a strong understanding of how to buildscalable, enterprise level global applications.

The ideal candidate will be dependable and resourceful software professional who can comfortably work in a large development team in a globally distributed, dynamic work environment that fosters diversity, teamwork and collaboration. The ability to work in high pressured environment is essential.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of large-scale data processing pipelines using Apache Spark on BigData Hadoop Platform.
• Develop and optimize Spark applications for performance and scalability.
• Responsible for providing technical leadership of multiple large scale/complex global software solutions.
• Integrate data from various sources, including Couchbase, Snowflake, and HBase, ensuring data quality and consistency.
• Experience of developing teams of permanent employees and vendors from 5 – 15 developers in size
• Build and sustain strong relationships with the senior business leaders associated with the platform
• Design, code, test, document and implement application release projects as part of development team.
• Work with onsite development partners to ensure design and coding best practices.
• Work closely with Program Management and Quality Control teams to deliver quality software to agreed project schedules.
• Proactively notify Development Project Manager of risks, bottlenecks, problems, issues, and concerns.
• Compliance with Citi's System Development Lifecycle and Information Security requirements.
• Oversee development scope, budgets, time line documents
• Monitor, update and communicate project timelines and milestones; obtain senior management feedback; understand potential speed bumps and client’s true concerns/needs.
• Stay updated with the latest trends and technologies in big data and cloud computing.
• Mentor and guide junior developers, providing technical leadership and expertise.

Key Challenges:

• Managing time and changing priorities in a dynamic environment
• Ability to provide quick turnaround to software issues and management requests
• Ability to assimilate key issues and concepts and come up to speed quickly

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years of Proven experience in developing and managing big data solutions using Apache Spark . Having strong hold on Spark-core, Spark-SQL & Spark Streaming
• Minimum6 years of experience in leading globally distributed teams successfully.
• Strong programming skills inScala, Java, or Python.
• Hands on experience on Technologies likeApache Hive, Apache Kafka, HBase, Couchbase, Sqoop, Flumeetc.
• Proficiency in SQL and experience with relational( Oracle/PL-SQL )and NoSQL databases likemongoDB.
• Demonstrated people and technical management skills.
• Demonstrated excellent software development skills. Strong experiences in implementation of complex file transformations like positional, xmls.
• Experience in building enterprise system with focus on recovery, stability, reliability, scalability and performance.
• Experience in working on Kafka, JMS / MQ applications.
• Experience in working multiple OS (Unix, Linux, Win)
• Familiarity with data warehousing concepts and ETL processes.
• Experience in performance tuning of large technical solutions with significant volumes
• Knowledge of data modeling, data architecture, and data integration techniques.
• Knowledge on best practices for data security, privacy, and compliance.

Key Competencies:

• Excellent organization skills, attention to detail, and ability to multi-task
• Demonstrated sense of responsibility and capability to deliver quickly
• Excellent communication skills. Clearly articulating and documenting technical and functional specifications is a key requirement.
• Proactive problem-solver
• Relationship builder and team player
• Negotiation, difficult conversation management and prioritization skills
• Flexibility to handle multiple complex projects and changing priorities
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Good analytical and business skills
• Promotes teamwork and builds strong relationships within and across global teams
• Promotes continuous process improvement especially in code quality, testability & reliability

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in Java, Spring, ETL Tools like Talend, Ab Initio is a plus.
• Experience of migrating functionality from ETL tools to Spark.
• Experience/knowledge on Cloud technologies AWS, GCP.
• Experience in Financial industry
• ETL Certification, Project Management Certification
• Experience with Commercial Cards applications and processes would be advantageous
• Experience with Agile methodology

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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