Role Overview/What will you do:
- As a Senior Java Engineer, your mission is to help shape our team of innovators and technologists toward creating next-level solutions that improve the way our business is run.
- Engineer data and analytics pipelines using modern, cloud-native technologies and CI/CD workflows, focusing on consolidation, automation, and scalability.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across sales and trading to understand data needs, translate them into impactful data-driven solutions, and deliver these in partnership with technology.
- Develop and integrate functionality to ensure adherence with best-practices in terms of data management, need-to-know (NTK), and data governance.
- Contribute to shaping and executing the overall data strategy for FX in collaboration with the existing team and senior stakeholders.
- Closely work with FX desks in understanding the requirements and translating into simple and efficient design.
- Close interaction with Traders and Quants to understand new requirements for applications across the platform
- Design, Development, Testing of new features in the applications.
- Continual improvement of the software development lifecycle and quality of the product.
- Help deliver large scale projects through hands-on development and technical leadership.
- 3rd line support of the production system (dedicated 24h support teams handle 1st / 2nd line).
- Mentoring junior members of the team.
Key Skills and Experience required
- Master’s degree or above (or equivalent education) in a STEM discipline.
- Proven experience in software engineering and development, and a strong understanding of computer systems and how they operate.
- Hands on Experience in Java , Spark , Scala ( or Java)
- Production scale hands-on Experience to write Data pipelines using Spark / any other distributed real time / batch processing.
- Strong skill set in SQL / Databases
- Strong understanding of Messaging tech like Kafka, Solace , MQ etc.
- Writing production scale applications to use the Caching technologies.
- Understanding of Data virtualization
- Production management (L3 support) experience
Any Beneficial / Nice to have skills and experience:
- Understanding of Trino / Starburst / Presto
- KDB knowledge
What we’ll provide you
By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:
- 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- A discretional annual performance related bonus
- Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pension Plan
- Paid Parental Leave
- Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
- Access to an array of learning and development resources
Applications Development
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