Citi Group Assistant Vice President Fixed Income Pricing Java Developer 

Japan, Chiyoda 

898515429

Job Purpose:

Job Background/context:

In this role, you’re expected to:

• Design and develop high performance, low-latency real time risk / pricing applications that deliver to client expectations as well as improve stability and scalability of the trading platform.

• Partner with multiple technology and business/quant to capture requirements and deliver timely solutions for new real time risk / pricing functionality and market upgrades.
• Coordinate testing of new functionality including business/quant signoff.
• Liaise with global support teams to manage application upgrades and provide third-line support for existing trading platform.
• Develop common, reusable components and services that execute against Citi’s technical strategy and drive future improvements.
• Partner with business/quant teams to evolve architecture roadmap and drive future direction of the real time risk / pricing platform.
• Participate in agile/scrum development lifecycle and drive engineering excellence.

As a successful candidate, you’d ideally have the following skills and exposure:

Essential

• Experience in design and development of high performance, low-latency, multi-threaded applications.

• Extensive hands-on development experience in Java.

• Demonstrated ability to learn new business concepts and technologies.

Desirable

• Familiarity with quantitative methods used in rates curve construction and risk measures generation.

• Basic knowledge of Fixed Income products such as Interest Rate swaps, Government bonds

• Skills:

  (technical skills)

  Essential

• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals including data structures, design patterns and object-orientated programming.
• Proficiency in core Java (5-8 years of relevantexperience) with demonstrable success in developing multi-threaded applications.
• Proven ability to develop clean, testable code.
• Understanding of relational database concepts and knowledge in SQL.
• Experience with Jira, Git/Bitbucket, Gradle and CI/CD tools, e.g. TeamCity and UrbanCode Deploy.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.

Desirable

• Knowledge on cloud technologies desirable, e.g. Artifactory, Docker and OpenShift.
• Knowledge of fixed income products, customer and broker market platforms and trading protocols desirable.

• Qualifications:

Essential

• Bachelor’s degree with a relevant major (Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering, or similar)

• Competencies

• Excellent communication skills (there is a requirement to be business/quant facing).
• Strong passion for technology, especially Java, with a keen interest in driving adoption of new technologies and tools.
• Self-motivated individual and with ability to manage own workslate.
• Excellent collaborative skills; ability to work with others and contribute to global projects.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-pace environment; flexible and able to deliver results in the required timeframe

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