Senior Programmer, Fixed Income, Assistant Vice President

Senior Programmer, Fixed Income, Assistant Vice President

The Global Fixed Income Trade Processing (FiTP) Team is seeking a Senior Programmer Analyst with a proven track record of designing and developing large, complex and distributed systems.

This role is within the FiTP team in New York. The successful individual will ideally have a good knowledge of Fixed Income products and experience in building software systems to handle the capture and processing of high volume of such trades.

The senior developer will have the following characteristics:

• Proven background in developing large distributed systems to address complex business problems.
• Ability to perform thorough requirement analysis and create comprehensive design for business features.
• Keen to produce well-crafted software living up to highest quality standards.
• Enthusiastic in learning and adopting industry-leading technologies into work.
• Ability to work independently with ownership to estimation and timeline
• Self-motivated and with determination to achieve goals
• Good team working skills and ability to work in a virtual team environment.
• Ability to think critically, identify improvement opportunities within application and team, come up with solutions and drive the execution.
• Well-organized and able to prioritize multiple tasks to achieve maximum output.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct tasks related to feasibility studies, time and cost estimates, IT planning, risk technology, applications development, model development, and establish and implement new or revised applications systems and programs to meet specific business needs or user areas
• Monitor and control all phases of development process and analysis, design, construction, testing, and implementation as well as provide user and operational support on applications to business users
• Utilize in-depth specialty knowledge of applications development to analyze complex problems/issues, provide evaluation of business process, system process, and industry standards, and make evaluative judgement
• Recommend and develop security measures in post implementation analysis of business usage to ensure successful system design and functionality
• Consult with users/clients and other technology groups on issues, recommend advanced programming solutions, and install and assist customer exposure systems
• Ensure essential procedures are followed and help define operating standards and processes
• Serve as advisor or coach to new or lower level analysts
• Has the ability to operate with a limited level of direct supervision.
• Can exercise independence of judgement and autonomy.
• Acts as SME to senior stakeholders and/or other team members.
• Appropriately assess risk when business decisions are made, demonstrating particular consideration for the firm's reputation and safeguarding Citigroup, its clients and assets, by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, adhering to Policy, applying sound ethical judgment regarding personal behavior, conduct and business practices, and escalating, managing and reporting control issues with transparency.

Technical:

• Solid understanding of software development fundamentals including data structures, design patterns and object-orientated programming.
• Proficiency in core Java (5+ years of experience) with demonstrable success in developing multi-threaded applications and expert level knowledge in data structures, algorithms, collections, and error handling.
• Spring Framework (and Spring Boot):
  This is almost non-negotiable for enterprise Java development. Expertise in Spring Boot for rapid application development, Spring MVC for web applications, Spring Data JPA for persistence, and Spring Security for authentication / authorization.
• Microservices Architecture:
  Understanding how to design, develop, and deploy independent, loosely coupled services, which is a common pattern for applications running on ECS.
• RESTful APIs:
  Designing, developing, and consuming RESTful web services using Java and Spring Boot.
• Build Tools:
  Maven or Gradle for project management and build automation.
• 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. Team City and Urban Code Deploy.
• Experience with Linux/Unix.
• Knowledge on cloud technologies e.g. Artifactory, Docker and Open Shift.
• Knowledge of fixed income products, customer and broker market platforms and trading protocols desirable.

Qualifications:

• 5-8 years of relevant experience
• Bachelor's degree with a relevant major (Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering, or similar)
• 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.
• Experience in systems analysis and programming of software applications
• Experience in managing and implementing successful projects
• Working knowledge…