Key Responsibilities
Engineering Leadership: Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of software engineers, fostering a culture of strong engineering principles, product ownership, and continuous improvement. Provide technical guidance, perform code reviews, and drive best practices.
Strategic Transformation: Drive the modernization of a large legacy securities processing stack into a modern, high-volume, low-latency, and scalable technology platform. Formulate and execute technology strategy for brown-field and green-field efforts.
Architecture & Design: Own the architecture and design of enterprise applications, focusing on microservices, distributed systems, and scalable solutions that adapt to changing market conditions. Ensure adherence to technical design, application development standards, and quality processes.
Project & Product Delivery: Manage complex technology projects from conception to delivery, ensuring alignment with business requirements, deadlines, and quality standards. Oversee CI/CD automation and improve overall development team efficiency.
Stakeholder & Risk Management: Collaborate extensively with business users, operations teams, project managers, and other technology groups to gather requirements, manage expectations, and deliver effective solutions. Identify and mitigate potential risks related to systems, processes, and regulatory compliance.
System Optimization: Identify system bottlenecks and deficiencies, devising and implementing robust solutions to enhance resiliency, performance, and scalability. Provide technical consultation for performance testing and tuning.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Education: BS/MS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent.
Experience
Experience in Capital Markets technology, with a strong focus on Securities Processing (Equities and/or Fixed Income settlements).
Experience as a Senior Developer, with hands-on experience building end-to-end solutions.
Direct management experience leading development staff in a mid to large-scale bank, providing engineering leadership and guidance.
Proven record of managing and delivering large-scale, complex platforms in a high-growth environment.
Technical Expertise
Languages & Frameworks: Expert proficiency in Java (Core, Multi-threaded, J2EE), Spring Framework (Boot, Cloud, MVC, Data, Security, JMS), JavaScript (Angular, React.js, jQuery).
Architecture: Strong emphasis on Microservice architecture and design patterns, with a proven track record of legacy modernization. Experience with distributed environments and anti-patterns.
Databases: Expert knowledge of Oracle RDBMS design (PL/SQL, stored procedures, triggers, performance tuning) and experience with NoSQL (MongoDB, Cassandra). Experience migrating RDBMS to cloud/NoSQL is a significant plus.
Middleware: Hands-on experience with Tibco EMS, Kafka, MQ, JMS.
Cloud & DevOps: Developing/deploying applications to cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, PCF). Strong experience with Agile/SCRUM, CI/CD automation (Jenkins, Bamboo, UrbanCode), and code versioning tools (Github, Bitbucket, Perforce).
Other: High-volume/low-latency application development, transaction management (JTA), network infrastructure understanding (HTTP/S, TCP/IP, TLS, DNS), shell scripting (Unix/Linux/Windows).
Domain Knowledge: Deep understanding of trade processing, allocations, DTC/Fedwire/SWIFT settlements, payments, securities settlement lifecycle, segregation, margin, collateral optimization, and product knowledge across Equities, OTC Listed Options, Fixed Income (UST, Mortgages, Corporates), Repos, and Stock Borrow Loans.
Regulatory Awareness: Knowledge of relevant industry regulations and compliance requirements.
Soft Skills: Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills. Proven ability to lead, motivate, and manage diverse teams in a high-pressure, global environment. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
What we’ll provide you
By joining Citi, 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
Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more.
Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.
Job Family Group
Technology
Job Family
Applications Development
Time Type
Full time
- Most Relevant Skills
- Please see the requirements listed above.
- Other Relevant Skills
- For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.
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