Equities Cash, Trading Gui Lead - Senior Vice President – Jersey

Overview

Equities Technology organization is looking for a senior technologist to lead the delivery of the strategic Trading/Coverage/Monitoring GUI. This is a senior vice president level role located in Jersey City.

The target platform will support Trading, algo monitoring, and core order management functions for Equities. This multi‑year initiative aims to replace legacy and vendor trading systems and to deliver a comprehensive, robust Trading and Algo monitoring GUI with competitive cost of ownership and low “price per feature” to support the growth of the business.

• Delivering on a multi-year technology roadmap in alignment with budget constraints and business value proposition.
• Close partnership with the business to maximize the value of the platform and ensure the right sequence of delivery.
• Management of a global team of developers.
• Oversight of system architecture, design of key modules, SDLC, and adherence to technology standards.
• Rapid adoption of AI toolkits in line with the firm’s modernization strategy.
• Highly automated low-cost quality assurance.
• Close collaboration with production support to ensure successful delivery and operation of the system.
• Hiring new talent.
• Partnership with other technology teams including Client Connectivity, Execution Services, and Risk.
• Close partnership with regulatory, compliance, and audit.
• Compute and estate management including hygiene, security, and vulnerability items.
• Contribute to overall application architecture and provide inputs on front end frameworks, design patterns, and best practices.
• Perform code reviews and contribute to overall quality, maintainability and testability of software developed.
• Be a self-starter and plan/schedule own work for tasks and projects, implement functionality without direct supervision.
• Work closely with teams to form good working culture and continuously adapt to different working environment.

• Past record of successful delivery of trading systems on a global scale.
• 10+ years of experience in GUI development.
• Strong understanding of Equities, GUIs, and existing vendor offerings in this space.
• Command of the latest AI productivity tools.
• Strong engineering background and command of modern architectures and frameworks (GUI, middleware, server, document and relational databases).
• Strong command of modern Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) best practices.
• Solid understanding of Equities products and services.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Hands on HTML5, CSS3/SASS/CSS in JS, Core JavaScript, Typescript.
• Hands on React, React hooks.
• Unit Testing with Jest, React-testing-library.
• Application State Management with Redux, Recoil, React Context.
• Reactive Apps with RxJS, Web Sockets, Web workers.
• Debugging skills, Code performance, Bench Marking.

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Primary location:
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Full time salary range: $ - $. In addition to salary, Citi’s offerings may also include discretionary and formulaic incentive and retention awards. Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including medical, dental and vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including vacation, sick leave and paid holidays.

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