Citi Group Applications Development Senior Programmer Analyst - FI Data 

Canada, Ontario 

575356829

• Design and develop high performance green-field data analytics products for a Tier 1 bank.
• Collaborate with business partners on the trading floor to create technical solutions with a competitive advantage.
• Part of an innovative team pushing boundaries to create cutting edge data visualization solutions.
• Promote and follow engineering best practices
• Apply an engineering mind-set to development work: understand use-cases in details, develop metrics to build good estimates of volume and compute velocity requirements, understand and discuss openly any implementation limitations or workaround
• Evaluate and build POCs for new strategic initiatives and work to convert to enterprise solutions
• Ability to take initiative to research, learn and recommend emerging technologies.
• Provide post release assistance to business, development and support groups
• Develop application as per best practice and remain compliant with prescribed best practices (TDD, maintain high unit test coverage, CI…)

• 5-8 years demonstrable and relevant experience.
• Strong understanding of Python 3.6 or above.
• Knowledge of python frameworks and libraries, including Pytest, Pandas, Flask, and Kafka
• Solid understanding of REST API development.
• Demonstrable experience in writing reusable, testable and efficient code with proper error and exception handling
• Experience with design and implementation of cloud-ready applications and deployment via Kubernetes / Openshift
• Experience with big data computation platforms (Flink, Spark, Apache Beam) or big data distribution platforms (Hadoop, Druid, Pinot, Trino, Ignite)
• Hands-on experience in handling various data structures.
• Understanding of threading model of Python, and multi-processor architecture.
• Knowledge of python microservice development using FAST API and streaming technology Faust is big plus.

• Experience working on a Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environment. Familiarity with TeamCity, Sonarqube and Jenkins
• Experience with the SDLC lifecycle and in working within an Agile environment
• Demonstrable understanding and experience of engineering best practices: design patterns, coding standard, code review, unit testing via Mockito and Junit
• Understanding of Agile software development methodology and strong experience with standard CI tools (Jenkins, TeamCity, Sonarqube, git).

• Strong communication skills, oral and written.
• Ability to apply sound technical skills and knowledge of the Rates business to develop creative solutions to meet client and business needs.
• Responsible, agile and collaborative team worker.
• Ability to develop strong relationships with others, effectively influencing peers and business partners.
• Self-motivated and organised, with determination to achieve goals; ability to work autonomously when required.
• Ability to face off to all business users (traders, financial controllers, risk managers, etc.)
• Flexible and able to deliver quality results in the required timeframe
• Flexibility to work with a global team, across geographies and time zones

• Strong academic record, ideally with a Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, or related technical/quantitative discipline. Demonstrable success in designing and delivering multi-tiered applications
• Ideally, an understanding of financial derivatives (rates or other) or willing to learn about this area.

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