Citi Group Senior Full-Stack Lead Application Engineer 

United States, New Jersey, Jersey City 

708841081

About Citi

Citi Futures and Derivatives Clearing Technology supports a rapidly growing business that uses technological innovation to maintain competitive advantage in a constantly evolving market. Working closely with the business, external vendors and internal technology teams, you would build-out and maintain our next generation clearing platforms. You would manage complex projects that will involve everything from incorporating a new functionality within the existing ecosystem, to analyzing new requirements, documenting solutions, managing implementation and testing systems, ensuring that they are fit for purpose. You would regularly work with a range of Business Analysts and high-profile stakeholders.

The Data and Reporting team develops and supports a platform that provides client reporting and feeds other downstream applications within Citi. It provides reporting such as real-time trades, positions, initial and variation margin, positions and balances for external clients and internal users such as traders, operations and sales. A major ongoing initiative is to modernize the existing platform in order to provide scale and to enhance product offerings and new business requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design and development of technical solutions for the data and reporting application utilizing best engineering practices
• Contribute to technical direction and enhancement as a technical expert in development and implementation phases, providing in-depth and sophisticated analyses to define problems and develop innovative solutions
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.
• Design and develop software applications using microservices cloud-native architecture to be resilient, stateless, scalable, and testable with automation and reusability as key objectives.
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation using DevOps best practices based on industry and Citi standards and work to implement them.
• Work with key business SMEs to develop an in-depth understanding of their critical data and reporting needs and business impact of existing data quality and data integrity issues on a detailed level
• 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
• Demonstrate a data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making, utilising metrics, and performance indicators to assess team efficiency and identify improvement opportunities.
• Partner with QA team to ensure robust testing framework is utilized for functional and nonfunctional testing for the release cycles.
• Partner with Support team to ensure stability of production environment with proactive monitoring and health checks.
• Partner with other Citi development teams to build APIs, integrations and share components that are critical to our platform’s success.
• Contribute to CI/CD implementation using DevOps best practices based on industry and Citi standards and work to implement them.
• Exhibit strong leadership qualities, fostering a positive and collaborative work environment, providing guidance and mentorship to team members, and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
• Work closely with business users, stakeholders, BAs, product managers and other development teams to understand problem space, brainstorm ideas, approaches, and solutions.

Qualifications:

• Strong hands-on experience in leading solution architecture and development including front-end web development and back-end application development with scalable data architecture
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills
• Strong experience in designing and building best in class enterprise application and data architecture with site engineering excellence
• Strong hands-on experience with front-end, back-end and infrastructure technologies including Angular/React, Spring Boot/Cloud, API
• Strong hands-on experience with modern software paradigms including cloud-native (AWS, Docker) and microservices
• Experience with application security best practises (secret management, Oauth/PKI)
• Experience in implementation of DevOps such as CI/CD and modern best practises such as testing frameworks and the SOLID principles; CI/CD tooling, automation of testing tools
• Experience in Business Intelligence reporting tools (e.g. Tableau and Power BI) and Integration with web application using APIs is a plus
• Hands-on development experience with traditional and modern data systems (relational/non-relational databases, cloud/big data platform, data catalogue and governance tools)
• Passion and commitment for adopting new technologies with exploratory mind-set
• Experience as a technical lead for software development and implementation
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum work environment
• Innovative ideas and can-do attitude to work under pressure
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Experience working in the financial services is a plus but not required
• Experience in GenAI and machine learning in application is a plus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, enabling effective collaboration with cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and management.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience in computer sciences, engineering, math/statistics

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